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OC - Mio

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Whoops. I didn't realize how small I actually drew this. :P-

NOTE: I apologize in advance for the extremely long description about to follow.

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This is Mio. He's probably the most developed of my OC's. His design has come a long way in terms of his personality and his original purpose.

He was actually a Naruto OC at first; the child of Ino and Sai, meant to play the part of Sasuke and Sakura's daughter's best friend for a story I was writing for English in the eighth grade.

Slowly, the personality I had for him in my mind began to change and he became smaller and more childlike. I didn't like him as Naruto character, but I was in love with this adorable image in my head, so I didn't completely get rid of him.

His physical image began to change when I tied my little brother's hair up in this tiny little ponytail. I love how it looked so much, I wanted to have an OC with that hairstyle, though the color is different.

Neopets was the first time I used him. It was on a high school roleplay board that I finally started to develop who he actually was. Though he was meant to be serious, he ended up becoming really uke-ish, and I didn't like that.

After a discussion with :iconlivewaitdie: it was decided that he has Bipolar Disorder to a minor degree, meaning he is less likely to experience the hypomania and severe mania, though it is not impossible.

This may be changed however, if I find that his disorder will interfere too much with his progress in my storyline and/or his interaction with my other OC's.

Still influenced by his once being Sai's son and a trait that survived him being turned into a high school character, Mio loves to paint.

I liked the idea of having him dye his blond hair black then having his roots reveal it's true color. Thus, became his bad habit of not keeping up with dying his hair.

Once when drawing him, I depicted him in a shirt with one long sleeve and one short, and a fingerless glove on one hand. This outfit, though I did not intend to actually use it when I drew it, was burned into my image of him.

He stayed as a roleplay character for a very long time. It wasn't until I created my two other main OC's that I decided that he would join their universe.

On many occasions I pictured Mio painting by guiding the ink with his hands, much like a water-bender. I thought to give him this power, but controlling was such a specific, uncommon power (ignoring Sai) I couldn't place any logic behind it, something which I must do with everything not matter how far-fetched the reason sounds.

(Which is why that fact that Edward Cullen sparkles bothers me so much. There's no reason behind it. I could have been anything,

"The power gained from sucking the life of others is spread throughout our bodies and the extra strength solidifies our cells into crystal-like armor, thus reflecting light ..."

Blah, blah, blah. Even something as simple as that would have satisfied me.)

Anyway...

So, since controlling ink alone sounded too convenient, I brainstormed for something that would let him bend ink to his will, even if that wasn't what his power was meant for. It then struck me that the base for many kinds of ink is water, which flows just like ink. I wouldn't have to change any of my mental images, just what he was controlling.

I was reluctant though, to have him control water, being all too familiar Avatar: The Last Airbender, I didn't want to abuse an already fairly common skill. My desire to have him paint via bending won in the end though. I'll just have to be very careful with how I use his skill, so not to merely copy what's already out there.

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So as a recap, he is not, in any way, a Naruto OC; He's most likely bipolar; and he controls water and uses that power it to paint.


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greendesire's avatar
cute I like the pose.