I originally designed my avi (the right side) to be this cheerfully colored character to contrast the grump that I am. When I was feeling moody and I came on this site, I'd see her silly little orange/pink self and be like "aaaaahhhh but this is JOLLY, I must post with optimism cause that's who she's meant to be!"
And in some weird way it amused me.
Of course I kind of broke her character with this current sad face cause life got too cruddy to shake it off. Her smiling pink-eyed face was contrasting me too hard lmao sorryjolly
So I played around with her colors, and my silly character-creator brain is like "dude, no, this is someone else now. Make this a story"
and just like that, I'm amused again

Do you get this attached to your avis?
Like, you just cant help thinking about ways to make them into legit OCs and formulate stories for them
no matter how unintended it was from the start lol

Oh this really is fun :D i did such a thing too at other sites

I don't make OCs of my avis, but I definitely try to put together something that amuses me, and make up a story in my head to tie together all the pieces I decide to equip. However, I do have a mule that I made so I could have two separate avis for this site, even though I've never posted with her, I still had fun choosing her aesthetic to contrast with this one, initially