1) What's your character's name?

Cecil Overfordddd. Nobody calls him Cecil anymore though. Except possibly his editor.

2) How old is he/she?
Right now he's like, 29. When I first made him up around summer 2005 he was 27, he ages pretty much realtime except I lopped the last six months to a year off his continuum since I didn't work with him for a long time.

tl;dr I'm too into developing my characters and have a creepily symbiotic relationship with them

3) Is your OC a boy or girl?
He's a dude. He sometimes wears women's clothing that gets mixed in with his wardrobe. It's pretty noticeable since he has a bunch of, like, sleeveless floral singlets and skinny trousers that his grandma used to wear in the 60s. He also has super long hair that's only been cut at random for, like, ten years, so I guess that's kind of feminine. Except for the part where his hair is disgusting and ratty and unwashed.

4) What's his/her race?
Whitey. His family is your typical Scots-Irish-German American hybrid nonsense.

APPEARANCE

1) If this character were to suddenly become part of the real world, and ended up in a heavily-populated area, how many stares would he/she get?
Depends if it was a swanky area. Probably a couple just because his hair is long and disgusting and he looks like a filthy hobo.

2) Is your character considered normal in his/her own world?
He's not abnormal.

3) What would be his/her most recognizable feature(s)?
Long filthy hair. He's going to cut it soon though. Next recognizable is probably his mouth, which is really wide and bitten to shit.

4) Would you consider your OC as attractive?
Maybe after a bath and a shave. And another bath. Blech.

PERSONALITY

1) Temper?
He's kind of terminally mellow. Charlie (boyfriend) pulls all sorts of bullshit on him and Overford just kind of grins and bears it. When he was a kid/teenager he was pissy at everyone and everything, but after his brother Felix died and he went nuts as a result he kind of lost the anger thing.

2) Does your character ever get depressed?
Usually while wandering aimlessly around his family home and going through paraphernalia from his childhood/adolescence. He's too mired in the past, and the past is depressing.

3) Leader or Follower?
He's always been kind of a follower, especially around his brother. Later on he doesn't have that many strong role models to follow, but he definitely is the type to just go with whatever gets decided.

4) What is the main aspect(s) of his/her personality?
Crazypants. It's subtle but pervasive! He can function in society and isn't a threat to others, but he's slowly losing his mind.

HISTORY

1) Did your OC have a family of any sort? If so, are they still alive?
He and his brother were orphaned when Cecil was three and Felix was nine. Their grandma took them in, she died of natural causes when Cecil was fourteen. After that he was a ward of his grandmother's lawyer until college. During his first year of med school his brother died due to a medical condition. And about a year after that his brother's wife died too, in a car accident.

He has a niece and a nephew, but he's never met them and is totally uninterested in doing so. Other than that he has extended family--cousins, etc--but doesn't keep up with them.

For a while he has a "made family" of undead who are kind of substitute children/friends/lovers. One of them dies in the same accident that his sister-in-law died in; the other two run off into the woods to be together and never contact him again.

2) Is your character out on his/her own? If so, why?
After his made family leaves him, yeah basically. He has a boyfriend (Charlie) but he doesn't keep in contact with anyone from school or his early life.

3) Has he/she encountered any traumatizing events?
Uh well EVERYONE DIES (not really but close enough). His older brother molested him periodically for a few months before his grandma died and they didn't live together anymore. Then when his brother died he kind of went nuts and dug up dead bodies to reanimate them and stuff. Although I guess he didn't find that traumatic since at that point he was CRAZY.

4) What was probably the best time in his/her life so far?
Recent years with Charlie. It's the only serious relationship he's had that doesn't involve incest, dubious consent, or pedophilia, so hey! MOVIN' ON UP.

ROMANCE

1) Single?
Not currently

2) Has your OC developed any romantic relationships?
He thought he was in love with his older brother for basically the first 20 years of his life. Whether that is actually true is debatable given that his older brother was a slimy pedo. He dated sporadically through his late teens, men and women in about equal ratio.

Currently he's sleeping with ~StaleBiscuit's Charlie Grant. Which started out as a "HAHA WOULDN'T IT BE FUNNY IF THESE TWO CHARACTERS MET" but then turned into a serious thing. They've been together for a couple of years now and are doing a sort of casual long-term relationship thing. Pretty soon Overford's going to force himself to sell his house and at that point they might move in together somewhere. Charlie's apartment is crappy anyway, and cohabitation would allow Overford to eat 100% more of Charlie's Fruit Loops, so why not.

3) Virgin?
lolwut

4) Does your character like flirting?
He habitually flirts with all women above the age of 16. That's more due to his upbringing than any genuine interest--it's an old-guard chivalry thing. Other than that he'll casually hit on anyone who seems interested.

He also enjoys hitting on Charlie, especially in public, because Charlie is easily flustered and Overford is sometimes kind of a dick.

SYMBOLISM

1) What animal would you associate your OC with?
I asked ~StaleBiscuit about this and he was like, a bird! A bird of captivity who escaped and became all scraggly and malnourished! So I guess he would be a finch. Probably a lesser goldfinch or something, just because I like the symbolism of the word "lesser" in conjunction with his giant inferiority complex.

2) Musical Instrument?
He took piano lessons as a kid but eh. He likes listening to Charlie sing.

3) Element?
Air.

4) Planet?
lolSaturn. GASEOUS.

SHOWING THE LOVE

1) Do you draw your character?
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2) Do you write about him/her?
I have several thousand words banged out in bits and pieces

3) Do you use him/her in any rpgs?
Done some RP with ~Cyanide-dreams and~StaleBiscuit but that's it

4) What other ways have you appreciated your OC?
lolwhat

RANDOMIZE!

1) Is your character wanted for anything?
His ass would be in jail if his sister-in-law didn't conveniently drive her car off a bridge.

2) What are three weaknesses in him/her?
a) has a hard time taking stuff seriously sometimes
b) Felix is his kryptonite
c) CRAZYPANTS

3) Strengths?
a) mellow and capable of dealing with crises without freaking
b) knowledge of etiquette and manners
c) ???buttsex

4) Does your OC drink or smoke (etc.)?
Drinks a little, doesn't smoke. He might have dabbled in speed or cocaine during med school.

5) What's one quirk about your him/her?
He won't cut his disgusting uncombed hair

6) Does your character have any phobias?
Paralyzing fear of death lol

7) What could you do to get him/her into a blind rage?
Probably you'd have to say something terrible about his deceased brother. Overford KNOWS he was an asshole but there's a difference between knowing that and hearing it out of someone else's mouth. Not much else makes him ragey these days.

8) Does your OC like chickens?
lol sure why not

The Final Question

What would you consider your relationship with your character to be like?

I like him a lot. I admire his temperament and in a lot of ways I wish I were more like him. We're a lot alike in terms of our motivations and what makes us happy.

He's my most fully developed character, kind of through a series of accidents, and although I didn't plan him this way I think he turned out well.

Incidentally, he is also my only character who is fully in love with and committed to his partner. He's also been in the most fucked up and the most well-adjusted relationships, with his brother and Charlie respectively, out of any of my characters.



TL;DR I LEIK MAKE-BELIEVE