Twelve years old in ‘14?
Absolute. Baby.
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time for bed auntie, that baby is 23 now
That’s auntie to you!
oh god my back, I’m forty and everything hurts
fixed! :)
I'll grab us a nice cup of tea and a blanket, and we can reminisce about the days we could get up from the sofa without pulling one muscle or other.
Get off my lawn.
No. This feels like homework.
I was going to yap about all my different OCs
But then I realised there were people aged 12 in 2014, who are full adults now.
And now my arthritis is flaring up.
My brain just went "What do you mean I was 12 in 2014, I had graduated high school awhile ago" then sighed.
Right? In 2014 I was dropping out of my first college due to mental health issues.
I would then start another in 2017
How are people so young.
The inevitable passage of time consumes us all.
I hate it. Want to help me try and stop entropy?
I've got a plan, it involves giving little girls magical powers and then traumatising the shit out of them.
I'm all for it! I totally didn't daydream about being a Sailor Scout as a little girl! I have trauma anyway, so let's add magical powers!
12 years old, 2014
Man I can't get over that part.
But I was bullying people with long pronoun lists if I'm being honest. In 2015 it was Hamilton OCs I was bullying.
I wanted to make it young enough that the OC would be obviously terrible but recent enough that thinking about what was popular at the time wouldnt involve too much research.
Hmmmm... when I was 12... Nixon resigned, Lucy and the Terracotta Warriors were unearthed (in Ethiopia and China respectively but it sounds like a band this way) Ali KO'd Foreman and Aaron outhit Ruth, my dad hated driving 55, my mood ring was always black... No Chinatown or Godfather for me, but I was allowed to see Blazing Saddles! Oh and I heard some of the older teens talk about a new game called D&D that was supposedly getting kids into drugs...
Nice to know I'm not the oldest one here. When I was 12 someone failed his shot at Reagan and a Russian sub ran aground in Swedish waters. The marine kind, get your mind out of the gutter. 😉
Umm when I was 12 Kurt Cobain killed himself.
I'm still partially convinced Courtney Love did it...
They were wrong. D&D IS the drug.
I write about a generic hardboiled detective with a deathwish and no need for romantic relationships.
And yet a clear desire for one as they meet an ever increasingly toxic list of hotties in trouble.
nah, homie would actually be ace bc I had no idea how to write romantic relationships
Judging by how long I just spent trying to remember what I liked when I was twelve, and then how long I spent trying to remember what I liked in 2014, and then trying to figure out what an alternate version of me who uses Tumblr would have liked... I feel like I'd have to reply because I thought so much about the question already, but also I think you would not get a very good answer! Although maybe knowing that someone finds this question difficult already tells you a lot about them.
So far only 1 person has replied and they said they would make an Elden Ring character...
Elden Ring didnt exist in 2014...
We arent going to make it...
Oh nooooooooo! I think your dating pool might be cooked.
I finally came up with a good answer. I'd have posted about my D&D character for sure. I got into D&D when I was 11 or 12 because a friend taught me to play with his hand-me-down AD&D 2e books, and then I liked it so much he handed them down to me. In 2014 D&D 5e released, and there was a ton of hype around it because many fans really hated 4e and refused to play it (although I liked it, I appreciated that it gave an option to play a different kind of game).
So if I had a similar learning-to-play story, I'd have existed at the nexus of at least three different editions, all of which I would have liked for the way they emphasize different parts of the game. So because I was 12 my online D&Dsona would definitely have been a wizard who was an involuntary time traveler, who kept getting transported to different eras where magic worked differently. I imagine he'd have the same name that I use in video games, Ryven Toli, and that I would have roleplayed actually being him, during a point in his life where he was magically transported to 21st century Earth and none of his spells work.
If I had been exposed to the 3e rules there is about a 50% chance he would have been a gnome, because my favorite item on any equipment list is 3e's Gnomish Riding Dog. Regardless of whether he's actually a gnome, he has a dog and their name is Sherbert (or possibly Sherbet, but still pronounced with the r for mysterious reasons). His familiar is a cat, and their name may have been Belphegor because I was a fiend for stealing names from characters I liked and Belphegor is Miho's cat from MegaTokyo.
In terms of personality, I imagine that he's mostly a self-insert, but that I'm imagining myself at least 20% cooler.
So uhh... you single?
I like the sentiment, but on a first approach might be too wordy
Im a hard-core yapper so if thats too wordy then we probably wouldnt work anyway.
Yeah needs more green text
I mostly wrote at that time. Wasn't at all visual. Didn't do fanfic-not that my quality was better.
My ancient deviantart from like '05 still exists, its now a time capsule into 11 year old me's psyche
Sonic inflation fanfic /s
OCs are usually based on some fandom, it's considerably harder if you have no point of reference. So, which fandom?
Also, in 2012 I was into Homestuck. Even back then, I wasn't particularly motivated to make a Homestuck OC ...
I was 14 in 2014. So I would end with a stupid ass edgy history with some edgy oc.. its not like I'm talking from experience or smt
Hmm well yes that was me; and the answer is magically furries and elves, ro via steam chat and teamspeak between games of warthunder and tf2. Bow sniper ftw.
TFC with Roger Wilco, but that was another 15 years earlier
What is TFC?
Team Fortress Classic, a popular (at the time) mod for Half Life, and based on the Team Fortress mod for Quake.
Every. Time.
Make it 25 and a brooding were-spider pharmacist into shibari.
I never watched The OC, so dunno.
Well when I was 12 I did actually make an OC and post it on DeviantArt so I don’t have to imagine lmao..
It was an MLP pegasus who was family of the royal sisters and had the power to change the weather, of course. He was called Clear Skies ;)
I would engage with it, but it wouldn't make me feel attracted.
I also think I'm an odd one out.
I make a sperms