hey everyone, I wanted to use the journal feature to make proper introduction posts for my ocs!! I'm getting probably my most elaborate and complicated one out of the way first~
(I'm gonna make proper full-body 'official' art soon!~ References of her will be further down below)
Name: Kandy Clayton
Birthday: December 5, 2006
Age: 11 but also not (I will address this in her convoluted backstory 🩷)
Height: 4'9 / 144.78 cm
Pronouns: She/her

Personality

A perpetually childish and smiley girl. She's charismatic and quick to draw people into a potential friendship, though loneliness follows her like a shadow. Though she seems bright and innocent and never seeming dour, speaking to her usually feels off. It's as if she's lived longer than her physical appearance lets on. She can have a loud personality which easily overwhelms people, including friends. She's nosy and likes to be involved with everything her friends may be doing.

Creation Process

I'm gonna get this out as it's a setup for her backstory. I originally made this character when I was 10 years old or so. She was my first OC! I made her for my Smash fanfiction since I wanted an original protagonist, and she was a rather boring and uninspired character. Maybe not Mary Sue, but I can't think of another way to describe her. She was technically a Pokémon OC (with no Pokémon of her own) who fought in Smash as the only sole human fighter from the Pokémon Universe woah. Her powers (yes she had psychic powers) were gained from shady experiments she was involved with as a child, and included the power of having her shapeshift into other characters I like so I can shove them into a fight rather than come up with ways Kandy could fight herself. She was an orphan too living with a stepfamily that hated her. Oooooh~ Yeah it's all here, and I eventually got bored of her and dropped her a couple years later.
HOWEVER! In recent years I've picked her up off the streets again and breathing a new life into her. I'm sorta embracing that Mary Sue-like quality of "Special, universally adored character plopped into a world she does not hail from". It's been fun turning her into a goofy trickster and actually writing a personality worth a damn.
With that context out of the way, I can finally explain as abridged of a version of her backstory as much as I can.

Backstory

Kandy was an extremely average girl living in the modern era. She was unremarkable in just about every way, from academics to sports. She struggled to make friends due to her fixation on niche interests, often pertaining to video games, and longed to escape to a fantasy world far away from her current life. Her parents were often disappointed in her and focused their attention on her more gifted older sister Danielle. Though she and her sister were close, Dani was starting to spend less time with her little sister as she got more busy with life.
One day, Kandy finds a broken pocket watch at an antique store, and when attempting to move its hands at home, she warps to a completely different world. Here, she gets invited to Smash to fight with her newly acquired psychic powers! During her experience, she befriended many fellow Smashers, and finally found the companionship she craved in her former life.
However, she'd come to learn that this new life had a price. Due to essentially being dumped in a world she does not hail from, and therefore not meant to exist in, the universe essentially self-corrects itself to its original state without her. By that, after a certain time has passed, the memory of her begins to fade, and she slowly regresses back to being a stranger to people she once knew as friends.
It was disappointing (read: soul-crushing) to see those bonds dissipate despite her efforts to prevent it, so she turns to her watch and tries again.
Her reattempt leads her to Crossover Island, essentially the island from Tomodachi Life. This leads into my two-in-one giant crossover story based on an apocalyptic scenario in Tomodachi Life’s setting as well as a Miitopia AU where Kandy is the Great Sage and the only original character in a sea of characters from other media. She’s also evil from the start ;)
This crossover Mii game stuff is still messy, but the ultimate point is: after losing her friends to the memory curse, she longs to be remembered in some way, which is how she ends up resorting to causing destruction and acting as a villain to attract some kind of attention on her.
Though she eventually fails and is defeated, and she tries once again and warps to a new world. She lands in Everfield, the home town of my other OCs Xane and Alice (plus others). Here, almost as punishment for the crimes she committed in the Mii stories, she is but a lowly, nobody girl. An orphan with no connections to anyone.
By this point, she had grown jaded at the thought of forging bonds with others due to the inevitability that her supernatural curse will interfere and make it null. But perhaps, could she find true companionship in this tiny nowhere town? Or will she attempt to rise in power again so she could once again be in a position where she can be remembered, adored, and/or feared by others? Ooooh

Apologies for the text wall, it’s probably incoherent and some bits are messy. But this is to explain the many designs and outfits she has!
Before I get to that, I’ll note one last thing: Though she maintains the appearance she had when she first began her world-hopping adventure, in her original world, she has been reported missing for four years (though to her it did not feel like she had been gone from her home world for that long). As such, she’s technically 15, and in the scenario where she eventually returns to her home world, she would probably catch up in age (and deal with the whiplash that comes with being a 15 year old girl).

Outfit References

Here are her main outfits! These represent the different scenarios she’s involved in. Some exact 'story' beats are unfinished so please don't worry about the details,, I just wanted to show off her fits

Her initial design (the one I made as a child). Minus the buggy eyes, this also reflects her appearance in the real world before she started world jumping. This is when she joins Smash before fading into obscurity. She’s the most genuine and optimistic in this era.

Her Crossover Island Representative look. This is based on the Import Wear item my own Tomodachi Life island has. I don’t exactly have a role figured out for her just yet, i just liked the idea of her wearing this dress… though I imagine she uses songs to get an idol-like fanbase of admirers. She’s perky and bright and cheerful, but a bit of venom hides under that child-like demeanor. With forging genuine bonds failing badly previously, she begins contemplating different methods of being remembers, and her ideas lead her to Destruction.

Later on she may or may not have launched the apocalypse on the Tomodachi Life island (this leads to the rough idea of my Tomodachi AU where my faves have guns and shoot zombies and shit). She takes up a leader role, though she probably seeks to create even more calamity (for the funny)

For my Miitopia AU/retelling, she plays the Great Sage (it's a crossover story and she's the only OC, ooh~). She's also here to play the role of a villain once again.

After being defeated in the crossover Mii stories, she turns her watch and comes to my main OC world where she's a little orphan girl with absolutely nothing to her name. After the trials and tribulations that came before, actual bitterness starts to be apparent in the way she carries herself. Out of all the designs, this one is the most appropriate to show that bitterness.

In a last-ditch effort to become remembered and idolized, she may or may not have accrued a cult following to be hailed as a god-like figure capable of solving people's problems. This is the LEAST developed of the adventures I have planned for her, but I thought this was design I came up with was cool so I'm writing a reason for it to exist in real time.

Art I've Made of Her + Tagging System

Here's some art I've made of her, both uploaded on or off Sheezy
On Sheezy: Great Sage (ok admittedly this is all I have of her here, but my goal this year is to make more big pieces with her!!!!)
Off Sheezy (May be uploaded to my persona at a later date): Ink drawing, Darkest Lord (eyestrain warning), Entropy

Like all my OCs, she's categorized in the #mayorsocs tag. Her different appearances don't get specialized tags because I don't think it's necessary (also I don't draw her nearly enough to justify that).
She's tagged with a similar convention as my others with three tags that mean the same thing but I like having the options for searchability purposes:
#mayorsocskandy, #kandy, #kandyclayton

Fanart Policy

Fanart of any of her looks is appreciated!
Please do not make any art of any sexual nature involving her - remember she is a minor so just Be Normal :)
I'd prefer to also keep her out of any kind of shipping content... but she can still be friends with your OCs. They can have a playdate.

This will see some edits in the future. But I hope this is an adequate look into my Tweested Mind