I have quite the funny story actually about how I got my only real OC character, though admittedly I don't use them much.
It all started when I joined some PonyRP Server on Gmod (DarkRP but with ponies as well, if you don't play GMod its a game mod used to roleplay, there is a whole system and its pretty cool).
This is the story of Harvey the Fan Salespony
- Appearance
Harvey was randomly generated from the pony creator in-game, he was a brown earth pony with a black mane and blue eyes. He also took to wearing a brown hat. His cutie mark was a fan, thus meaning was meant to sell fans, it was his destiny.
-Abilities
He is really good at selling fans? That's about it. That was just taken from the cutie mark.
-Personallity
Harvey is a really quirky pony, people tend to laugh at him and call him weird due to his methods of trying to sell fans... if you can even call them that. He simply runs up to people and begs them to buy his fans, yet somehow this works. He also tends to be very unlucky and gets sidetracked easily.
This was taken simply from how I acted in the game and how people reacted to him, and people really thought he was weird.
-Other Things
Alright, this is where the real story starts, how Harvey came to be and what happened to him. All other characters besides Harvey were played by real people on the game, who I sadly don't have the names of. The only exception to this was Frank McSmooth, another character I played.
It all started when he moved to a new town. Harvey was eager to get started and immediately ran up to two ponies, begging them to buy his fans. To which they responded with a quick and angry "Get away from me".
Defeated, Harvey pressed on to his house where he ran into another pony, just as strange as him. This pony offered to help him move in, which he gladly accepted.
Working hard, they manage to get the place set up, when the other pony notices Harvey's back room. He appears to be working on some sort of secret project, which Harvey refuses to tell her.
After this, they part ways for now, as Harvey needs to get to work. But right as the other pony was leaving the house, a pumpkin appeared in front of her. Suddenly, in seconds, the house was filled to the brim with pumpkins! An infestation!
To Harvey's dismay he could barely even make it out of his own has to get help, squeezing through one of the windows, only to see a terrible site before him, the Pumpkin King! The Pumpkin King had taken over the town while he was moving in and was kicking every single pony out of town by over-running their houses with pumpkins.
Harvey wouldn't stand for this and worked with the other pony to stop this pumpkin king. In the end, they managed to prevail, destroying the Pumpkin king and his base.
A few days pass, as Harvey continues his business he is ready to start his new project! This secret project has been in the works for years and it was finally time to show it! He was going to film a documentary on the local gang "The Shadow Fiends".
Surprisingly enough, he managed to convince the insane leader to let him film their antics and even took him along on some crazy missions. Hours of film and glorious interviews resulted but soon enough the gang was driven insane by Harvey and his weird personality. So they staged a plan.
They had gone on a kidnapping spree! The captured the Mayor's daughter, a random filly, and an innocent bystander, as well as Harvey. They threw them all into a room together and started to sell them off to buyers as slaves. Eventually only Harvey was left, as nobody dared to by him. And thanks to this, the gang still had to listen to Harvey's constant inane chatter.
They finally had enough and decided to kick him out... of a window of a huge tower. Harvey went falling down and amazingly survived thanks to being able to land in some nearby water near the sewers.
Unable to go back up, as he'd surely be attacked by the gang, he decided to head in and build his new home there. While down there, he encountered a horrifying sewer monster, who, with the help of the local police and a mysterious human simply known as "Frank McSmooth", was put to an end and a country called The Underground was built from the sewers. Harvey still lives there today and works hard to sell his fans to residents of The Underground.
And that ends how I probably made the stupidest OC ever. :V