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I'd love ideas for a character who appears completely normal, thinks they are normal, but isn't really what they seem at all.
I'd love ideas for a character who appears completely normal, thinks they are normal, but isn't really what they seem at all.
Okay, going to throw something strange out there.
A scientist or researcher at some facility who is, as said, average in appearance and personality. But they were actually pulled from another dimension, having lost the memory of being there during the dimensional shift. In reality, they had created a device to try and escape something that was hunting them in their home dimension. The device worked, but for some reason also left their memory scrambled. The company they work for is the same in both dimensions, but many of the details are different, such as particular people. The memory issues are explained through an injury, as their arrival made them looked as though they crashed into this plane. Any faint memory of the device, their escape, or the hunter is clouded to the point of being imagination. The person themself begins to believe that they had always been here, despite their memories of a slightly different world.
However, the entity has not given up its hunt. It can not manage a physical form between the planes, but it can influence forces on the new one. It creates signs, affects events, and otherwise directs the scientist towards dimensional studies and unknowingly getting them to recreate the device to cause the rift to reopen and allow them to continue their hunt!
It keeps the character seeming normal and thinking they're normal, when in fact they're a danger to the entire plane of existence that they are now stuck in!
Its a bit out there, but hopefully there's something interesting to pull from all of that!
A scientist or researcher at some facility who is, as said, average in appearance and personality. But they were actually pulled from another dimension, having lost the memory of being there during the dimensional shift. In reality, they had created a device to try and escape something that was hunting them in their home dimension. The device worked, but for some reason also left their memory scrambled. The company they work for is the same in both dimensions, but many of the details are different, such as particular people. The memory issues are explained through an injury, as their arrival made them looked as though they crashed into this plane. Any faint memory of the device, their escape, or the hunter is clouded to the point of being imagination. The person themself begins to believe that they had always been here, despite their memories of a slightly different world.
However, the entity has not given up its hunt. It can not manage a physical form between the planes, but it can influence forces on the new one. It creates signs, affects events, and otherwise directs the scientist towards dimensional studies and unknowingly getting them to recreate the device to cause the rift to reopen and allow them to continue their hunt!
It keeps the character seeming normal and thinking they're normal, when in fact they're a danger to the entire plane of existence that they are now stuck in!
Its a bit out there, but hopefully there's something interesting to pull from all of that!
I love your idea, EndlessSpiral!
I'd love to toss out the idea that the character is a direct descendant of a cryptid of some kind, such as Mothman being their dad or something, and they have no idea. So, when they start exhibiting traits of the cryptid, they think it's always been the way it is, since they grew up with them.
What do you mean a fascination with bright lights and eating clothes for a snack aren't normal? Every teen goes through their "lamps are super pretty" phase. Sometimes it carries into adulthood. Typical human stuff.
I'd love to toss out the idea that the character is a direct descendant of a cryptid of some kind, such as Mothman being their dad or something, and they have no idea. So, when they start exhibiting traits of the cryptid, they think it's always been the way it is, since they grew up with them.
What do you mean a fascination with bright lights and eating clothes for a snack aren't normal? Every teen goes through their "lamps are super pretty" phase. Sometimes it carries into adulthood. Typical human stuff.
Sanne wrote:
I'd love ideas for a character who appears completely normal, thinks they are normal, but isn't really what they seem at all.
How a bout a clone, the character doesn’t know that in fact it is a copy of someone living a whole different life instead. For some reason, that character’s real side has been taken and replaced by your OC, the ominous clone. He lives that totally normal family life until strange things happen, paranoia installs or all other kind of things.
Else I love Endless Spiral’s ideas 😉
Bouncing off of EndlessSpiral's idea, perhaps they are the entity (or an entity of some description) but going from one dimension to another has caused them to forget what they are.
The amnesia would enable them to learn how to integrate and blend in from more of a foundation-up approach, so then any quirks of habit or adjustment issues are taken to be the brain trying to compensate for significant lapses in memory rather than calibrating to the current situation. This, of course, is not something that they are aware of and so they do truly believe that they are Just A Human (Honest!) who was in an incident that caused them to lose a significant amount of memory.
I like the idea of amnesia not being an exclusively human condition.
The amnesia would enable them to learn how to integrate and blend in from more of a foundation-up approach, so then any quirks of habit or adjustment issues are taken to be the brain trying to compensate for significant lapses in memory rather than calibrating to the current situation. This, of course, is not something that they are aware of and so they do truly believe that they are Just A Human (Honest!) who was in an incident that caused them to lose a significant amount of memory.
I like the idea of amnesia not being an exclusively human condition.
Building on Faded Tapestry's 'dimensional change' idea, I liken it to the 'character who fell to earth' line. They wake up not remembering anything about themselves or where they came from, and are befriended by a local/some locals and learn the way of earth and they feel and seem normal. They then start having flashes of their previous existence and their backstory can be written however.
Not sure if that is what you're looking for, but thought I'd throw it out there.
Not sure if that is what you're looking for, but thought I'd throw it out there.
Sanne wrote:
Hi! This post is for the Collaborative OC Building Event!
I'd love ideas for a character who appears completely normal, thinks they are normal, but isn't really what they seem at all.
I'd love ideas for a character who appears completely normal, thinks they are normal, but isn't really what they seem at all.
Well, you do know that what you said is super general, and there can be numerous ways to achieve this. Usually, these types of characters can be in the category of the prophesied or chosen ones. Here are some ideas:
She can teleport stuff, thus she is called the ghost witch. Teleportation is a scary power for it has its toll on all kinds of beings except gods, and Vampires, for vampires are the ones that are soulless and can wander around all sorts of dimensions in the void... and later she might discover she is born as ghoul of a vampires because her mother was in love with a super powerful vampire overlord and is given to human couple to be raised...
Hmm… random thought… they have dark hair and blue eyes, and has the ability to shapeshift into a raven. They just don’t know it. To add to the ‘amnesia’ aspect, maybe the raven flew into a window or got zapped rubbing on a wire on a power pole and wakes up human.
Thought I’d toss that out here as I was communing with my friends Maw and Crowley and thought they would make a lovely human. It fits your brief of appearing (interpreted’’human’) normal, and maybe thinks they are ‘normal’, but isn’t what they seem.
Thought I’d toss that out here as I was communing with my friends Maw and Crowley and thought they would make a lovely human. It fits your brief of appearing (interpreted’’human’) normal, and maybe thinks they are ‘normal’, but isn’t what they seem.
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