For the previous entry in this sub series, see here!

 

Ladies and Gentlemen, it's late Monday Morning as I sit on my chair listening to Queen while writing all of this. I've been busy with yet another idea, and thus haven't had much planning time for a blog.

 

So for this one, let's talk about OC's. Don't worry, I'll get some Non-Pony related ones involved, though due to most of the rights belonging to others, there's only a handful we can talk about, so it's a shorter blog.

 

And now for some eye bleeding stuff. Barf bags on standby.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Atlas wasn't going to be a Ponysona originally. No, I'm serious, he was intended as a one-shot charecter for a certain short story. In original drafts as well, his name was originally "Colossus". Given how everyone and their grandmother also has an OC named Atlas, in hindsight I should have stuck with that name, right? However, I kept Atlas around and later adopted him as a Ponysona when pressed for one.

 

Regardless, Atlas's physical design plays into his name. The reason his fur/skin is blue, eyes are brown and hair is green? Well, look at what else uses that palette. I'll give you a few moments.

 

 

SYMBOLISM!

 

Further adding to it is his Cutie Mark. While many think of it as a Mole (mostly because of an Avatar I've been using until recently where the Mark isn't shown), the whole "pony lifting heavy orb over his head" thing was an allusion to the Atlas of mythology. In other words, I like meaningful names. More news at 11.

 

Personality is where things get rather boiled over. At first glance, Atlas is a generic OC with generic OC backstory. However, these people haven't sat down for a session. Atlas isn't a whining emo who complains about how his life sucks. Nor is he intentionally grimdark. Infact, these aspects when I dig him out are downplayed on purpose - because nobody likes an Emo. If they did, Shinji Ikari would be Anime Jesus at this point in time. If anything, Atlas is handled in the same way as everyone else - an archetype with a small twist or two ontop of things.

 

Yet he forever remains unpopular with people. Not that I'm out to win a competition, but the amount of dismissal because of certain features irks me no end. I'm surprised InvisiblePinkUnicorn even came out and offered him a seat at a table.

 

But I'm getting off topic.

 

His characteristic stammer was introduced a short while after I started RP'ing with him. It was an attempt to make Atlas sound less...robotic. I'm honestly not very good at Character writing, so I tend to use Quirks to compensate. But Atlas is best pony.

 

And by character standards, Atlas is the least weird...

 

 

 

 

Neumann is pretty damned weird as characters go. He's a Pony that isn't a Pony. So what is he? Well, Neumann is a blob of sentient Nanomachines, Son!

 

Much like Atlas, Neumann also had his origins in a Fanfic that (this time) was cancelled, mainly because I lack the skill or patience to write excessively long fiction called The Pony who fell to Equestria. It soon occurred to me that there were some aspects of the story that didn't make sense - or wouldn't make sense without another fic explaining them. This gave rise to the holy grail of my Fanfiction writing, The Iron Uprising (think The Second Renaissance with Ponies in a Magipunk esque setting written in a style similar to the Iron Kingdoms background information and your not far off).

 

Neumann is at the end of the day a machine, and this lead into his personality and behaviour. Neumann would commonly address other Ponies as Units ("Unit Fluttershy likes small Organic creatures"), use excessively verbose vocabulary, even when not needed ("Medical Unit, we request that you repair Unit Twilight Sparkle with optimal efficency!"), and with virtually little to no knowledge about Equestria.

 

That said, he'd still read though your Library and remember every fact about it in a flash.

 

Neumann has even less combative ability than Atlas. Being made of Nanomachines, Neumann can copy parts of others - mimicking horns and wings for example - but gaining very little benefit from them (so if he copied a Horn, he could not use Magic for example). Neumann also cannot copy complex designs - devices with moving parts or complex components naturally. Even when taking on the shape of a Pony, Neumann does not copy Pony Biology completely - in other words, he doesn't copy their internal organs and moving parts.

 

Neumann however is a disused character at this point. Mainly because at the end of the day, he just wasn't fun to write for, like many an OC. Neumann is here essentially to represent why I can't repeatedly crank out OC's like others can. Heck, Atlas passed his first Birthday this year, and he's very much still evolving as a Character into a suitable form.

 

And now, for the non-pony related stuff. BEHOLD THE HORRORS OF MADNESS!

 

 

 

 

Warsmith Furor is the leader of my own Chaos Warband. He's a member of the Iron Warriors, and thus is automatically infinitely more badass by virtue of not being an Wardmarine.

 

However, if your average Chaos Lord is Starscream - wanting to seize power and glory for his or herself, then Furor is Shockwave - the coldly logical mad scientist who spends all his time in the lab. And we do mean almost all of his time - mundane functions like making sure the Slaves do their jobs or feeding his many (obsessively horse shaped) Demon Engines tend to fall to other members of his "Warband" - typically characters he's bribed, coerced or even pulled a few favours for in the past.

 

And it also gave us an opportunity for some crazy.

 

As an example, we have a Chosen Champion who lost his arm to a Wardmarine Sergeant in single combat. When Furor recovered him, he also recovered his arm, but in typical fashion decided not to reattach it.

 

He decided to build him a better arm. And it never looked better.

 

 

 

And other crazy, crazy stuff. While generally Shockwave in his lab while cruising around on his personal Space Hulk desiging Equipment and Demon Engines for other Chaos Warlords and experimenting with Warp Energy, occasionally he'll run out of Slaves or Metal.

 

This is where he grabs his axe, dons his Terminator Armour and goes to plunder. Not that he cares much about winning glory for the Dark Gods or anything.

 

And while your trying to unscramble all of that, I'm going to go put dinner on. Next week will be something more coherent, I promise.

 

Until then, I have been your GABEN, and I'll be collecting my Flame Shield.