(This is part 1 bc I have a lot of pics and, if I remember correctly, there's a pic limit)

Soooo
I've been meaning to do this since I bought a new sketchbook, which was back in April. I procrastinated it so much that these actually filled up the very LAST pages of the sketchbook. 19 of them, to be exact (yes, 19 pages, there are 20 OCs, but two of them belong on the same page, also there's one extra not really an OC, more of a creature, so I just didn't draw it, but it's like a robot, but made out of rocks and powered by dark magic or something like that).

First of all, I think I should give a bit of backstory of these OCs, bc it's a lot to unpack...

Basically, when I was little, I really wanted to be a professional writer, so I kept writing stories, mostly fantasy ones. There was this big one, which these OCs belong to, that sort of expanded into a 4-volume franchise kinda telling the story of this magical land, called Topaja (pronounced to-pa-ia), from it's very creation to present times. All of these OCs belong to the original story, which follows the creation of the land and a big conflict, so I'm gonna briefly tell the plot of it (as much as I can recall, bc there's two full notebooks of that and some additional content, that I forgot to put in but that is totally canon and I don't have enough time to read all of that. Also, it was never actually finished.

(btw, this was written in 2017-2018 so 7th and 8th grade)

So, there are these two girls, who meet in school, who look alike, have similar hobbies and the same birthday. They become friends and one of them suggest that they create an imaginary fantasy world (my friend and I used to do this all the time in grade school). So they are working, drawing these designs and everything and chanting made-up spells and stuff and so they do it and it's Topaja. Like, it's imaginary. One day at school on of them overhears two older students talking about Topaja and demands an explanation, to which they respond, that the land is real. So the girls then ask them to take them there and they do.

The problem is, it's not the land they have created anymore. In fact, it's been centuries. The races/species that they originally created (there were 6 og races, all of which have their own powers and traditions and stuff) have all mixed together and there are new powers they have never even heard of. And there's also an evil queen, who's destroying everything with her warriors.

So then they go on a quest to find out what happened to the queen, because, according to the natives, she used to be kind and no one knows what happened.

So that's the tale, I'll tell more details, when I'll get into the characters more which I will now do.

Also, the order is kind of random, because I let a randomizer pick the order in which I draw them, so that's the same order I'm putting them here in.

So here we go:
(Also, I'll try my best to provide pronunciation guides for the OCs that need them because, although the names are mostly made-up, I was writing in Lithuanian, so there might be weird letters and also stuff pronounced differently than in English)

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Miranda
Race: (mix) Melogija / Melogijus ("g" like "gay" (hehe ;D))
Actually, I don't remember much about her, she was one of the newer ones who got added to the story just because I thought it would be cool, not for any better reason. She was some kind of a singer, I think

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Vivian
Race: (og) Vivė (F) / Vivaras (M) ("i" as in "ink", "ė" sort of like "eh" but long, "a" like "ah", "r" is rolled) (boiii this is hard)
One of the main cast, kinda inspired by my friend, who also chose the name for her. Her power as a vivė meant that she could change her body color, draw with her fingers and, if she wanted, she could make anything, what she drew, become real. She took part in the ongoing rebellion.
She also had a role in my other story, which takes the last place in the chronological order, which is happening in the queen's castle, that's been converted into this magical school kinda thing, which is for kids from all of the different worlds to learn to use their unique powers and she was one of the teachers.

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Rozalė (same rules as the last one)
A classmate of the two protagonists back on Earth. A bully, with not much of a personality otherwise.

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Hemas ("He-" like "Helen", "mas" like "mass" but "a" is shorter)
Race: (mix) Telypė (F) / Telypūnas (M) ("y" like "ee", "ū" like "ooh")
Can teleport. Was the leader of the rebellion.

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Enamė (all the old rules apply to all of them, if there's new weird letters, I'll add them)
Race: (og) Uncė (F) / Uncėjus (M) ("c" as "ts")
First meets the main group in a dungeon of the castle, when the group is captured and imprisoned there. I think she knows Hemas and is part of his group, but I'm not sure.

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Revanegė (I think she later had a different name but I can't find it. Also, since I'm on the topic, I had to go on a full quest to find out more than a half of the OCs names, because I had forgotten them and I really wasn't expecting that to happen lol)
Race: (mix) Giela (F) / Gielonas (M) ("ie" is a separate sound but I can't think of a similar one in English... Just mic the two letters together, I suppose...)
I really can't remember much about her, except that she was able to turn into a water lily

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Fedricha ("ch" is same as "h" but softer)
Race: (og) Vėjūtė (F) / Vėnas (M) (this one's what I would be, if I ended up in my story :Dd)
Controls the wind, is able to fly. She was one of the main squad, but I'm not sure what her input was. She has a younger sister Ūnė (will be posted at some point too)

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Sajaža ("ž" is like "sh" but you have to make a vocal sound (idk how to explain it better...))
Race: one of her kind
The queen aka the main antagonist. Controls darkness and the night. The ruby necklace is cursed and was gifted by someone to make her evil (something like that)

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Raktininkas (not really a name, just means "key-maker" or "key-holder")
Race: no idea
I don't think he ever made it into the story... Or maybe had a minor role, I really don't remember...

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Bubė ("u" is short)
Race: (mix) Bublė (F) / Bublis (M) (very creative, good job, me)
Can produce bubbles out of thin air, was living with this other OC, Rina, after her parents were captured by the queen. Best friends with Ūnė.

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I've hit the limit of pics in this part, so part two coming up, after I finish typing it, because this takes time lol