#a lot of these sound rly negative but ida is my all time favorite oc for these reasons

[hawkepockets]

YESSS PLEASE ELABORATE ON IDA…… MY BRAIN IS DRY AND UR OC CONTENT IS WHAT WATERS IT

!!! ah thank you!! ❤️

1. nobara kugisaki (jjk)

i really love kugisaki’s energy because she’s just like, so convincingly a teenage girl. she’s difficult, proud, overzealous, materialistic, and runs very hot & cold between being super affectionate and super hostile. she can get defensive and let points fly over her head that she should be smart enough to understand (like when another girl points out that young women shouldn’t have to be hyper competent and look cute just to be taken seriously, and kugisaki angrily replies that she is hyper competent and cute so it doesn’t matter).

ida can be hard to predict and put up with in the same way, and has a bad habit of being wilfully ignorant when something hurts her pride.

2. dipper pines (gravity falls)

like dipper, ida can be distrustful to the point of conspiracy theories, and tends to conflate her intense imagination with “the facts.” she’s also the serious twin to scott’s goofball mabel, and she tends to dismiss scott’s problems as silly, shallow, and short-term compared to her own. the main difference between ida and dipper is that she’s a lot harder to scare!

3. sam winchester (spn)

i used a photo of sam from supernatural season 1 because although ida has some things in common with sam personality-wise (intensity, seriousness, warmth, and suspicion again), the big thing is their relationship with an abusive father.

while scott & dean grow up as people-pleasers who keep trying to justify, cover up, or take responsibility for their dads’ behavior, ida & sam have their eyes opened at an early age, and get pissed about it. they fight, talk back, run away more than once, and rebel by trying to get themselves an education (sam goes to stanford; ida becomes an archaeology intern) when their fathers warned them not to. despite, or maybe because of, how much sam and ida push back, they end up perversely being their fathers’ favorite, and resemble them in their tendencies towards anger and obsession.

where sam usually gives up agency to dean, though, ida is the more assertive twin. it’s an active struggle for her to break the cycle of abuse and not lash out at scott like their father did.

i have a lot of feelings about this one.

4. katara (atla)

once again it’s about being a messy, wilful, sometimes too acidic young woman who can alienate people with her pride, even though it’s backed up by heart and skill. katara & ida are both really dutiful and perfectionistic, and easily upset when they feel others are being dishonorable or not taking things as seriously as they are. they have hot tempers that they actively work to control. ida can be a little preachy and controlling, like katara, but, also like katara, increases in grace and magnetism as she ages, without toning down her passion.

5. leia organa (starwars)

i don’t want to get too repetitive, but again, it’s about being the serious twin, the idealistic cynic, and capable of both harsh coldness and great warmth. ida wears a braid crown when she’s older, as a homage to leia!

6. alina starkov (s&b)

she’s mean!! >:-)

alina was one of my favorite characters as a kid, because she was honestly kind of a bitch and was allowed to be not just surface level sarcastic, but actively selfish, cruel, and hungry for power, knowledge, and love at times, and yet she was still always written as worth caring about & rooting for, and that’s the kind of heroine i see ida as!

7. mako (legend of korra)

protective! angry! self-pitying! awkward! suspicuous! loving! has unforgiveably put their foot in their mouth and pushed people away more than once! attention from a hot girl has the same effect on them as a concussion!! you get it.

8. judy robinson (lost in space 2018)

judy is a serious, ambitious, super smart, high-strung kid scientist who takes family and space exploration super seriously, and always wants to be the one with the day-saving piece of knowledge or crazy plan that Just Might Work. very often, she is the hero, but sometimes the rules of physics, misfortune, or her own limitations get in the way, and reality makes her so anxious that she snaps, either breaking down, or lashing out and making their sibling (penny for judy, scott for ida) feel dumb so they feel smart again by comparison. the combo of competence & insecurity for both of them is potent!!

#ANON ILY #oc: ida #mass effect #the outer worlds #pocket talk #answers #a lot of these sound rly negative but ida is my all time favorite oc for these reasons #long post #i’ll put this under a readmore tomorrow 🤦‍♀️ sorry its mobile