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spiffy-the-wonderkid — Guide to Making a Naruto OC
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If you’re reading this I assume you want to make a Naruto OC. This guide was created to help people come up with well thought out characters that are /not/ Mary-sues. This guide will tell you how to create and develop a character while telling you what to avoid and what not to do. This will be the basic outline.1. Gender and Personality
2. Appearance and Name
3. Age and Birthday
4. Ninjutsu and abilities
5. History and Clan
6. Village and Rank
7. Family
8. Likes and Dislikes
9. Friends and Enemies
10. What to Avoid AKA What Not To Do
This guide will be full of examples using some of my OCs and giving you practical advice and links to websites that will help you out. If you have any questions feel free to ask me. Now on with the guide!
Part One: Gender and Personality
Gender:
The first thing you need to determine is whether your OC is a female or a male. This is probably the easiest step and also the simplest. Once you have decided whether they’re male or female you can move on to the personality section.
Personality:
This is one of the more difficult steps. First off decide if your character is an introvert or an extrovert, then move on to the specifics. Is your character kind or cruel? Are they shy or social? What are their good points? What are their bad points? Be sure to balance out their bad traits with their good traits. Some other questions you should answer are:
1. Are they immature or mature?
2. Do they have a temper?
3. Are they easily annoyed?
4. Are they naïve?
5. Are they sensitive?
6. Are they obnoxious?
7. Are they stubborn?
8. Are they good friends?
9. Are they loyal?
10. Are they selfish?
11. Can they be childish?
12. Do they care about other people?
13. Are they annoying?
14. Are they spontaneous?
15. Do they show their emotions?
16. Are they brave?
17. Do they speak their mind?
18. Can they be rude?
19. Are they seen as a mean person?
20. Do they share their thoughts or do they keep them to themselves?
21. Are they manipulative?
22. Are they a good leader?
23. Are they intelligent?
24. Are they rebellious?
25. Are they calm a lot of the time?
26. Are they lazy?
27. Are they creative?
28. Are they optimistic or pessimistic?
29. Are they overdramatic?
30. Are they hotheaded?
31. Are they arrogant?
32. Are friendly?
33. Are they trustworthy?
34. Do they support their loved ones?
35. Do they tend to lie a lot?
36. Are they imaginative?
37. Are they sarcastic?
38. Are they respectful?
39. Are they conformists?
40. Are they harsh at times?
41. Are they curious?
42. Are they judgemental?
In order to give your OC actual personality you should spend a long time on your OC’s personality. Be thorough and don’t leave anything out. Remember you can change their personality at anytime.
Part Two: Appearance and Name
These are two of the most difficult steps of creating an OC. Their appearance can be difficult to design so feel free to make draw or describe them until you finally get a design you like. These are some things you need to decide on:
1. Hair style and hair color:
Is their hair long or short? Is it curly or straight? Do they wear it up or down? Does it cover part of their face? Do they have bangs? Do they wear hair accessories? What is their hair color? Is it a natural (black, brown, blonde, red) hair color or an unusual hair color (pink, green, purple, white, blue, etc.)?
Eye color:
What is their eye color? Is it a normal color (blue, brown, green, grey, hazel) or is it an unusual eye color (purple, silver, gold, black, red, pink, orange, yellow, etc.)? Is it a specific shade of the color? Do they have flecked eyes? Are their eyes different colors?
Weight and Height:
How tall are they? Are they short, tall, or are they medium height? What is there weight? Are they chubby, thin, skinny, or fat?
Hitai-ate (Head band):
Where do they wear their hitai-ate? Do they wear it around their neck, or over their forehead? Is it around their waist? Is it on a leg? Is it on an arm? Choose whatever appeals to you.
Clothes: What do they wear? Do they have long sleeves, short sleeves, or no sleeves? Do they wear fishnet? There’s not much I can say here because it’s all up to you.
Accessories and Markings: What accessories does your OC wear? Do they have any markings on them?
Name:
The naming part is one of the hardest parts mainly because there are so many choices. In order to create an acceptable Naruto OC you must, I repeat, must give them a JAPANESE name. Naruto is a Japanese series and all the characters have Japanese names therefore your OC needs a Japanese name. Avoid names taken by the canon characters. Give them a name that makes sense. Here is a link with many Japanese names to choose from: babynamesworld.parentsconnect.…
Part Three: Age and Birthday
Age: How old is your character?
Birthday: What is your character’s birthday?
Part Four: Ninjutsu and Abilities
Ninjutsu:
First off you should decide on your OC’s chakra type. Do they use water, fire, earth, wind, or lightning ninjutsu? With that decided you should choose whether they use mainly long-range ninjutsu or close range ninjutsu? Do they use mostly defensive ninjutsu or offensive ninjutsu? With those ideas in mind brainstorm and make a list of your ideas for their ninjutsu. This is one of the steps that is difficult and takes a long time. Remember no super unstoppable powerful ninjutsus.
Abilities:
Now you should choose your OC’s abilities or skills. You should make a list of stats telling what their strengths are. Mizu’s stats for example are:
Ninjutsu: Excellent
Taijutsu Good (Excellent when swordplay is involved)
Genjutsu: Bad
Chakra Control: Excellent
Make sure that you don’t give them an excellent in each category.
Weapons:
Does your OC use a certain weapon? Does it have any special abilities? What does it look like?
Part Five: History and Clan
History:
Before I start on the history section let me lay out some rules:
1. No tragic pasts. It’s okay if one or two people they knew died but if everyone they cared about dies then your OC will be labeled a Mary-sue/Gary-Stu.
2. Don’t make them an important part of a canon characters past. Don’t even make them a part in a canon character’s past or make a canon character part of their past.
3. No abusive family members. Not much to say here.
4. No revenge stories. We don’t need fifty million Sasuke rip-offs running around.
And with those two rules in mind let’s proceed.
Childhood:
What was their childhood like? Was it happy, sad, or normal? What are some important events that changed them or made them who they are?
Genin:
What were there years as a genin like? What important events happened? Who were some of the important people to them during this time?
Time Skip:
What happened to them during the time skip? Who were the people who were important to them?
Clan:
The Clan:
Rule time again!
1. Don’t make them a member of a canon clan that is wiped out liked the Uchiha clan or the Kaguya clan. This rule is one of the most important and necessary rules to follow when making a Naruto OC. The only exception to this rule is if the character is a next generation OC.
2. Do not make them the only member of a clan because they are the last member of their clan. This is a sign of a Mary-sue/Gary-stu.
3. No rip off clans. Be creative.
What clan are they in? Is it a canon clan or is it a made-up clan? Who are some of the members of their clan? What are some of the characteristics of the clan? What is the clan’s history?
Kekkai Genkai:
Does your character have a canon Kekkai Genkai or is it a made up one. If it is a canon Kekkai Genkai follow the number one rule.
1. They may not have the Sharingan or stuff like that unless it is a next generation OC.
If it is a made up Kekkai Genkai there are also some rules.
1. No rip offs of canon Kekkai Genkai.
2. No super unstoppable all-powerful Kekkai genkais.
3. No Kekkai genkais that can let your OC read minds it use to be original but now it’s cliché and annoying.
That’s pretty much it. Anyways you think of the answer to these questions:
1. What are the special abilities of your Kekkai genkai?
2. How do they activate the Kekkai genkai?
3. Is the Kekkai genkai offensive or defensive? Is it both?
4. How is it used?
5. What can it do?
Part Six: Village and Rank
Village:
Once again we have some rules:
1. Try to avoid made up villages unless you have thought them out really well and have culture, clan, geography, history, and alliances thought out.
2. Your OC cannot be the last person from a village.
Moving on… Is your OC from a canon village or a made up one? Is that where they were born? If not what village did they originally come from? Why did they leave that village?
Rank:
Rule time:
1. Unless your character is like forty or fifty they can’t be a sannin.
2. Unless your character is in their late twenties and up they can’t be an ANBU member, especially the ANBU captain.
3. Same with a kage.
4. Be logical. If your OC is thirteen then they can’t be a jonin.
And that pretty much covers it.
Part Seven: Family
Family:
Before I start I want to state some rules:
1. They cannot be a long, long, long lost relative of a canon character.
2. Their entire family can’t be dead either.
3. They can’t be an adopted sibling of a canon character.
Those rules shouldn’t be too hard to follow now should they?
Anyways answer these questions:
1. Do they have any siblings? If so how many?
2. What are their parents like?
3. Do they still live with their parents?
4. Do they have a large family?
Part Eight: Likes and Dislikes
Likes and Dislikes:
In order to flesh out a character you need to think about their likes and dislikes. In order to give you some inspiration for thinking about their likes and dislikes you should answer these questions:
1. What is their favorite food?
2. What are their favorite colors?
3. What is their favorite animal?
4. What are their pet peeves?
5. What are their hobbies?
6. What are some of their favorite activities?
7. What is their favorite type of weather?
8. Do they like the heat?
9. What is their favorite season?
10. Who do they dislike?
11. What is their least favorite food?
Answer these and any other questions you can think of.
Part Nine: Friends and Enemies AKA Relationships
Friends:
Once again there are some rules to follow:
1. They cannot be best friends with canon characters.
2. They cannot have an intimate relationship with canon characters.
3. They cannot have been best friends or have had an intimate relationship with canon characters.
4. Crushes are fine but keep it discrete.
Anyways you should think about these questions:
1. Who does your character like?
2. Who are some of you OC’s friends?
3. Who do they care about?
4. Do they have a rival?
5. Do they have a crush?
6. Are they taken?
Enemies:
1. They cannot be worst enemies with a canon character.
2. They can hate a canon character.
Alright question time:
1. Who do they dislike?
2. Who do they hate?
3. Who hates them?
4. Who dislikes them?
Part Ten: What Not To Do
This is last section of the guide. Remember these rules and your OC won’t be a Mary-sue/Gary-stu.
1. Your OC cannot have a demon, bijuu, or any type of deity or spirit in them.
2. They cannot have wings or animal parts.
3. Avoid making an OC in the Akatsuki.
4. Avoid making a blind OC. It’s really cliché.
5. You’re OC can’t perform Chidori or Rasengan.
6. Avoid giving them a curse seal.
7. And all the rules I mentioned already.
And I’m done! I hope my guide helps!
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Can someone draw my oc for me? I'll give full credit
www.quotev.com/HelenofTroy/jou…
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If you're still interested I could draw her for you ^-^
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It's been a fight in the dark to create a consistent character. I think this type of fixed guide will keep me on track.
Thank you.
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The only thing I don't really agree with is the whole "you cant have any sort of past, present or future friendships/relationships with canon characters." I understand not being the best friend of every canon character or having all of the canon characters be in love with your OC, but you have to remember that you're putting your OC into this world. They /will/ run into canon characters. They /can/ develop relationships with canon characters. The /can/ have had a past with a canon character as long as it does not affect that character's personality. For example: Sasuke is not suddenly a happy camper because he's friends with your OC. If you had a past friendship with Sasuke, unless it was before his tragedy, he did /not/ suddenly have a completely happy childhood because he was friends with your character. He does not open up to your OC about personal feelings, because that's not a part of his character. Or with Naruto - maybe your OC was friends with him as children. But that CANNOT affect how alone he felt throughout his childhood. He was alone as a child. He did not have a best friend. Maybe your OC tried to be friends with him and wasn't allowed to be (parents, gossip, etc). Maybe your OC tried being friends with him but couldn't act normal because they were scared of the monster inside of him (wouldn't sit close, made excuses to not hang out, acted nervous when they talked, etc). That would keep the loneliness he suffered intact.
And I think that that should be the general rule. Relationships with canon characters are feasible... As long as they don't change anything major about that character's development.
Hope that makes sense. I loved the rest of the guide. Thank you for working so hard on it - the questions will definitely be helpful to me, as I am currently in the process of remaking my OC from years ago.
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Thank you so much! I've been trying to explain this to people for YEARS, but I haven't figured out the words to explain it! Thank you!
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I agree on mostly everything but what's wrong making an Akatsuki OC?
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I enjoyed this guide ^_^
I DID make my OC born blind, but his parents are small-time medical-nin who later replace his eyes with artificial "puppet" eyes to give him sight. Therefore kind of avoiding the blind thing. Does that sound plausible? I know puppeteers might be an overdone thing, but I'm going to try and make him unique, and avoid crazy powers.
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I think as long as it's REALISTIC and the creator thoroughly explains everything about their past that it's ok to be friends with a few canon characters and have canon kekkie genkai. Just don't make them all powerful, don't put demons in them, and don't mess with a characters background.
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this helped a lot! When I was little, I had an OC named Lazari Romanu, and she was really attached to the Akatsuki. I know, I know, so cliché! Also can you um...make a guide for making ocs for Hunter X Hunter? Pls! Cuz I have an oc named Tsuki, Yuki! And she has a furry grey wolf tail and two wolf ears because she was experimented on when she was younger.
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that doesnt sound normal for hxh
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I might break a VERY SMALL amount of rules but this is still a REALLY good guide. I made a Naruto rpc a long time ago but scraped it because it became mary-su ish. I'm not surprised about the blind part being unoriginal. I got a question through. Can a character be a mix of two EXSISTING original families? Like a someone from the hyuga (SP?) not original of course get with someone like from the star village? Does a puppet fake eye count as being partially blind?
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I will open with a statement to clear up anything that should come to your mind whilst reading this. I do not intend to offend anyone or spit on anyone's personal beliefs in this comment. I think this is all good and dandy, but who is to make rules about a series' fan-made arcs/characters? Masashi Kishimoto or you? Viz Media or you? I really think common sense should dictate what someone should put into a creative effort. In example: If I were to create a character who was friends with someone who isn't confirmed dead or inactive to the story created by Masashi Kishimoto, would I be in the right or wrong? I assume either. There is no license that dictates what is right or wrong in creating an original background for a character. deviantART users seem to think they have the right to govern things that they have no jurisdiction on. That being said, why can't we all just agree to disagree on things that people add to their story UNLESS it's in violation of copyright law?
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THANK YOU. I say in a lot of my stories that I wrote, I write them for MY entertainment, not their approval! Again, THANK YOU.
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So I'm making an OC and a clan for him the clan has a summoning contract but I'm having issues with the summon creature I'm stuck on these choices Moray Eels, Crabs, Alligators, and Sharks think you could lend me a hand?
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*sigh* I wish, this would be in German....anyway it sounds helpful. nice idea^^
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Also thank you for using a translator on this...guess i could have done it by myself🙄
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Does this mean all three of the Dojutsu are off limits to using? The three being Byakugan, Sharingan, and Rinnegan?
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As long as you take their blood into consideration it's fine. There are a ton of Hyugas, so byakugan is DEFINATELY ok. Sharingan, you need a reason why they didn't get killed by itachi(He didn't even spare his parents, so he won't spare your oc) Rinnegan, you have to have Senju and Uchiha blood. AND for Tenseigan you have to have Hyuga blood and Otsatsuki blood(So from a surviver of the Kaguya clan, because I doubt that your Hyuga married someone who lived on the moon.)
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same since my character he has both sharingan and bakugan due to his kekkai genkai which can take a clans aspect since I use It to help my character advance in my story
since he can activate both 1 in each eye and has 2 jutsus 8 trigram palm deflection and counter rotation which is used to counter a hyuga ability
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Okay, just a couple questions and one gripe: "The OC can't be best friends or be in an intimate relationship with a canon character."
My character was a student under Kakashi before Naruto and them came along, and she's still close to him. She looks up to him for guidance even though she's a fairly good fighter, and their relationship sort of resembles a father-daughter bond, even though they're not related by blood. Is this okay? Because I real liked the idea.
And, the gripe about Chidori and Rasengan. I don't care about the latter, but I was planning on having her know Chidori. How come OCs can't use these? (I'm not that far into the series, so there might be a reason I don't know yet.)
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There is no reason, anyone can use it as long as Kakashi teaches them it.
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To be honest I forget I ever asked this question and I'm surprised that someone actually replied. Thanks, I guess
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this is a nice little guide you have here i was trying to see what kind of fanfics where posted here sense i normally read at fanfiction.net got to say you must of put some time into making this nice work
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I adore this guide so so much, I break only a couple of the rules with my oc, and that is my love relationship with one of the akatsuki members xD Kisame <3 Though my character is not his partner nor in the akatsuki itself.
Otherwise (even with that no oc relationship rule) it is such a helpful guide!
Thank you so much for making it!
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I must disagree with your not to dos.
they're good if you want to create an utterly utterly ORIGINAL to the max OC
but they have nothing to do with mary sues.
To prevent your naruto character from being a mary sue is just to make them NOT perfect.
Like don't make them have perfect body, perfect this and that (like you said earlier in the guide)
Don't make them so beautiful that they attract everyone etc you get the point! LOL
Just thought I get that out there... I'm just saying!! not trying to start argument or nothing. I love this thread to death((im still using it!! LOL)). I just though i'd just put that in there. >< :3 no bashing. D:
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This guide. I read the rules and my character breaks none. Im so happy. Im like shedding a tear. Unforunatly my friends OC breaks so many. Blind ninja. She has a tailed demon in her. I can't tell her that is kinda ehhhh because I dont want to hurt her feelings though. Very hard.
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I have one question. With a new Oc (I'm getting back in to Naruto again) I'm planning to make her father one of the Guardian Twelve like Sora's dad and Asuma. Is this all right or should fine tune her history a bit more?
Otherwise thank-you for the wonderful guide!
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......I love you....... :'D
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thank you! finally i got a guide to follow! i'll be honest here i'm not really creative and i actually wrote 2 fanfics where each of the ocs were related to a canon character (i'll let you guess who...) and honestly you know it's stupid when you start to hate your own character because of how unbelievable they are after a while and what's worse is that EVERYONE has done it, so I'm really happy to see a guide so I can finally make an original character that hopefully hasn't been done yet! Thanks ^w^
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I just have a question or something to clear up or... whatever. Anyways, I already started my oc's story, and she's blind, though it's only going to be temporary (it was due to something that was altered in her, umm, brain or mind or whatever). So would it be fine as long as it's not her only weakness, and isn't going on for her whole life, etcetera, etcetera?
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