Jackie of all Trades

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I'm sure people get tired of seeing the artistic rendition of my face all the time. Seems sort of narcissistic and stupid. So how about I just make up a character? She sure is something. Or a nothing, like most are. Does this even count as pixel art anymore? They're so small that you need to full screen to see everything. I did some weird coloring thing where I act like a 5 year old and pretend I don't know how to color within the lines. Gave her a cloak with oversized sleeves and a big hat. Drawing folds in clothing is so difficult... Looks kind of awful, but I was lazy and who honestly cares. I named her Jackie. She's a joyous and whimsical alien space witch wizard mage thing. She can do anything. Like Magic and stuff. You know, fictional stuff. It's what we make characters for. To do things that we could never do. Unless you want to be boring and have a regular human character with no real defining features. "This is my OC" but yeah, what does it even do? What's the point? To exist and do literally nothing special? What's character without any special features. An uninteresting character, that's what. So lets give her some qualities. Personality is usually a start. Give her a definition that she can follow. I barely even know enough about myself. She is joyous and whimsical. Give her qualities that I don't have haha so funny. Whatever I guess. Do those even count as personalities? They seem like emotions. She's friendly I guess. How about something else? An interesting character has lore and backstory. Hmmm.. Let's see.. Should I kill off her parents? Would that make it interesting? I feel like being an orphan is so cliche for dramatic characters.. But they have to have SOME sort of trauma, right? Or maybe the gimmick is that they don't have any? I'm not sure, I can't be coming up with stuff like this. Maybe I can traumatize her in the future. This aint even a serious character. It's not like I'm ever gonna use them for anything ever. Lets just run through simpler things then. Jackie is a magical alien from outer space who has come down to earth to settle after traveling the galaxy. She's very curious, and loves studying the whereabouts of humans and other earthly things. Having learned human language, she arrived to be shown how life is like. News flash, it sucks, but at least she gets to stir up some interesting things. She amazes people with her magical abilities and silly spell casting. She can do everything. What's the fun in being able to do everything? Makes for a boring character to be honest. Nobody likes an overpowered character. There has to be some sort of inabilities, weaknesses, character flaws.. Otherwise, who cares? Without them, they wouldn't be special. It just makes it seem like a spoiled 7 year old designed them. She has to have some negative personality traits and struggles. For relatability I assume. She can be quite careless and oblivious to the consequences of her actions. She doesn't realize how fragile humans can be. I'd like to imagine she has some sort of human ambassador or lawyer that follows her around and tries to help keep her out of trouble, while also showing and explaining simple earth things. She probably doesn't know what a vending machine is. Or anything for that matter. She probably assigns weird names to items like that one bird from the little mermaid. Weaknesses. Shall she have physical weaknesses? Should I make up a kryptonite equivalent from her home planet? Doesn't seem very practical. Would she have allergies? I mean, everything from earth would probably be seen as foreign by her immune system. In that case, disease would realistically be a huge hinderance. She'd have had zero built up immunities. And for a fun gimmick, a random spell is involuntarily cast when she sneezes. It's probably going to kill someone. How about phycological or emotional weaknesses? Would she get lonely from flying through space for so long? Does she crave the human connection? She'd probably fall for ragebait really easily tho. It's probably going to kill someone. Everyone is lucky that she's not looking for world domination. What about interests? When discovering new earth things, what things would be her favorite? Probably sweets and junk food. She jumps up and down and gets excited over watching someone bring in or cook food. Maybe she could try out baking. Probably gonna be terrible at it. She'd obliterate cakes with fireballs, and spend time teleporting bread. Weird quirks. She can find your missing ketchup bottle, being able to find it out of thin air. Protective over her favorite humans. She drinks milk with ice like a weirdo. Afraid of squirrels. Such evil beings. She doesn't need to sleep, and is active all night. Randomly begins levitating mid conversation as if it is the most normal thing in the world. I'm sure I don't need to add anything else for now. Not like anyone is gonna read this far