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The General FMA OC Guide.
This guide covers only the most basic stuff.
Here's the list of the tutorials we are working on:
-OCxCannon: Make it Work Out.
-Cannon - OC Interaction.
-Alchemists.
-Chimeras.
-Homunculous.
-Military Personel
-Civilians & Others
And more... feel free to suggest anything.
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The characters belong to us, group founders. Some of the pictures found in this tutorial were drawn by the other founders. See if you can tell.
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GOD THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS I LOVE THISΒ
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Very informative and well thought out! Thank you very much, I usuallyΒ try to avoid making OCs unless they're bit characters, but now I have something to reference if I decideΒ to create a more elaborate character.Β
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What if your oc is set in a future time after the canon? like in the 70s or so? Do the same principles regarding clothing still apply?Β
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Kind of. You just have to do research on 1970s clothing. For example if you write something that takes place in a closer time like the 1930s you will still have to do research on the fashion because fashion basically changes every decade.
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My fanfic is based on Brotherhood, and set in 1957 though which in FMA time is the 70s, just like how 1914 is the 30s. Does FMAB take place in the 30s or the 10s-20s?Β
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It takes place around 1914-1916 I believe so, the 10s. However FMAB's clothing typically looks more modern for it's time. I'm writing a fanfic where the clothing looks closer to the actual 1910s-1940s but in my opinion it still fits. So you can still stretch it out a few decades.
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Im entirely sure some actual humans in FMA, not homonculi had purple eyes.
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i love this it helped me make my character more 'real'! thank you!
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this actually helps a lot! but I think naming ocs with actual army ships and planes can work too right? A lot of characters (especially in the army) are named after some military ships. I thought about calling my oc Claire Nanamo. Nanamo is the name of a canadien military ship
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i love this and it helped me make my character although one thing was not to have a person who looks/dresses like i always liked the shirt that he wore that was lined with white i chose it because you see a similar design on the priests in lior and can see it pop up in the back ground sometimes other than that that's literally the only similarity
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Ah could you maybe do one for Xingese characters~?
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I have an OC villain that is Xingese and he is basically the FMA world's Zaheer. But I need to know how to make the whole anarchy thing work in FMA.Β
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this is great i have actually changed my oc to have one less automail limb because of this (replacing with a normal prosthetic) xD Though the others are staying, it is part of the story and not an accessory i promise!!!!! also her extreme pain tolerance helps
I will however keep the extra drama and crazy backstory =3= and drama =3= and murders because just like the missing bodyparts(not just limbs) are part of the story :'D
Β As for the body shape my character is backwards 
but yeah thankyou 
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what if they don't lose a body part? what if they loose their eyesight like Mustang or even their voice? would Automail be necessary?Β
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My teena specifically has a thing for reading and gardens so eyesight needs to stay, but I have seen people in rush Valley with automail eyes though, it was pretty cool, like they had a camera sticking out of their face.
Anyway
I pretty much have her design good now, I wrote that comment in 2015. And tbh I was just new and wanted senpai to notice me xD
For the story and the character she needs the limbs gone. This isn't a gate of truth OC though
And as it wasn't bringing souls back thing and was just plain murder attempt, no gate was opened
She's now developed enough to have a full story and family now and I am happy with her 
Does that answer the questions or did I get off track?
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yea because I guess an automail eye would do the trick and for the voice, look no further than Dark Knight Rises Bane for automail necessary.Β
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One of my OCs (a boy named Shay) has a father that went MIA during one of Amestris wars when [Shay] was in his mid teens. His mother is a very skilled doctor in East Amestris. Both of his parents met when they were older (late 30s) and his mother is ill. He had a fairly normal childhood, though he had to deal with some racist comments growing up, as his father was Amestris, and his mother was Xing. He is also legally blind (a congenital defect worsened by snow blindness in an accident when he was 3). He deals with it and there is no magic savant skill that lets him compensate, other than the extremely basic Alkahestry skill of sensing other people, which I assume would be exhausting to continually use. He can sense motion, light differences, and occasionally color. His vision has worsened since he was little.
^is the above too Gary-suish? THanks!
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Thank you so much this was so useful *Thank you hugs* Β
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I found this very useful, thank you!
An OC I'm developing is a girl in her mid-to-late teens who moves to Central City to pursue her career (either music or journalism, but not completely decided). Would it be far-fetched if she were living on her own at 16? Her past wasn't horrible (actually quite ordinary), but she decides to leave the nest to follow her aspirations. However, she still keeps in contact with family. She lives in a typically sub-par studio apartment close to the area in which she works. In the modern world, of course that's too young. But would it work for the time and place of the FMA universe for her to have that kind of job at that age (if at one of the very low positions)?
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Purple eyes are real... Just very rare ^.^
At least... i think so...
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Purple eyes are real (kind of) though usually only in people with albinism. And even then, it's usually just a strange blue color.
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Red and purple eyes are real, there caused by an abnormality in chromosomes in the eye :3
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Excuse me, I don't want to be rude, but it kind of bothers me that there were two grammar issues. I just wanted to point it out because I go crazy about the grammar. I do want to say though, it is a very VERY good guide. My friend got a little mad and I can see why, but then again, every thing is based on something else. Even if it is a little short bit.
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Hmm... let's see here. My O.C, Cadmir, is 14 years old and her father died after working near the cliffs in Rush Valley(where she lives) and he used to be a state alchemist. He taught Alchemy to Cad at a young age and he trained with her until she was almost perfect. She was able to use electricity like Β roy can use fire, but she can't do it very well,(she's still training for that, and looks up to Roy.) She overestimated her abilities, and with her uncle(also a state alchemist) they tried human transmutation. The uncle lost his lower legs and Cad lost her right lower leg and her elbow up on her right arm. They were able to save her uncle, but he was broken, and much more quiet, kind of keeping to himself and he resigned from the military to help look after Cadmir. Cadmir had grown up with many children of automail mechanics and they helped fix her an dher uncle up, using about two years to do so. Once the repairs were done and Cad realized her new abilities, she trained more and tried the transmutation again, not telling anyone. This time, she lost her whole left leg and lower left arm. once more, she went through the repairs, for one year and a half this time. After this she had amazing skills added onto the ones she already had, due to seeing the truth twice. Many people from the state tracked her down and she polity refused each time, but she currently wanders around going to the neighboring countries, traveling around Amestris, and helping out wherever she can visiting her mother and uncle at home often. Her father was black haired and her mother had the average Amestrian blond-golden hair. So in honer of her father, she took her normally gold hair any dyed the underside of it black.
Does this seem like a reasonable O.C. to you...? I want to hear from someone who has a fma O.C. for there main, to see how realistic Cadmir is.
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Actually, I kinda figured it out. I found Order #3066. I just forgot the exact wordings.
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I'm curious, cuz I'm working on my OC, and she's Ishvalan. She's half Xingese and half Ishvalan (percentages are actually still up for debate). I'm planning to pair her up with Miles and have been trying to consider if to make her a State Alchemist or not. I figured that it probably wouldn't work out cuz Ishvalans were kicked out of the military and Miles barely made it by a hair, and he's only a soldier. Would they even consider her as a State Alchemist or if she did make it, would they have kicked her out?Β
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Maybe you could give a tutorial on how to draw like that?
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This is really helpful!
Thank you!
I wish the group was still accepting members, I would have loved to join.
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Really awesome guide and all. But I can't stop laughing at Al's face on the (3rd?) page.
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THIS WAS SO COOL!!! Now I have much more pride in my oc... for i know for a fact i have dodged every "what not to do" with her.Β
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Lol, same here x3
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Do you have a text? And I do not quite understand in English and translate all a very long time ((
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One of my characters have heterochromia hair and eyes, but it's from an incident that happened, and it basically 'stained' those two features. There's a backstory to that unlike what other people are doing and just giving the different color hair/eyes to their characters.
This is a very good tutorial
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Automail is definately NOT just for show. If you absolutely have to have it, make it in with your backstory or something realistic and meaningful. (I had to repeat this to my friends)
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Preach it bro!
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I look forward to reading the OCxCanon guide when you guys are done with that.
These tutorials are interesting to read and very helpful, not just for FMA but for fanfiction writing in general.
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yea ..... stop telling people how to make there oc, though you want logical they may just want what looks cool, let people draw what they want to draw. im shure others will think its cool, this whole thing was about what you want there oc to look like and thats not right.
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Hmmm...sorry, but where in the guide says like: your OC MUST be like this? Do you even know why was this made for? This is for an OC advice club, you know, people joined the club because they wanted advices, from us. We have OUR opinions of a good OC, the people in our club agree with us, that's why they asked for OUR advice and joined us. You dont? Fine. Just don't follow the guide like a bazillion of people do...because a lot of people don't follow them (you are not even in the club so..). And they don't comment here, because they know they can do whatever they want with their OCs.
"let people draw what they want to draw" How are we stopping people from doing what they want? Are we hunting them or something?
This comment is really rude to us, because it opposes the ideals of the group. We worked hard on this guide with the best intentions, don't insult us like that. Next time watch your words, please.
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See, your point would be valid if we were around DA and spamming all the FMA OC creators in order to make them change their OCs according to our criteria. But that's now how our group works. It's PEOPLE who come to us for advice, we don't even send invitations for the group, people usually queue themselves to join the group because we have to close admissions from time to time to be sure we will give advices and time properly to each one of our members, advices that they will or will not follow.
Creating OCs is a game, and as every game, it's more interesting when you have certain rules to follow. I guess the ppl that joined the FMAOCA realized that, and they like it. So save your time and don't come here implying we're a sorta of OCs dictators plz.
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Bro we don't go around telling people what to do. People can do whatever the fuck they want to do, but for some reason they ask us these things so we put up tutorials and guides together for them, because they want it, because THEY come to us asking. So mind your own business kay? Don't like it, don't look. Don't agree, don't use it.
Have a nice day.
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lol attitude much
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Well of course, you come here blaming us of forcing this onto people when we DO NOT, how am I supposed to take that nicely?
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the only problem i have with this is the fact that you telling people how to make there oc, for example yea it could be based of germany but haven't you heard of transfer or traveling or just in general they may just like the name while everything els is very nice and dandy thats all i have to say, an oc is from your mind, your original creation
but besides that this is cool
also its not based off germany
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