Let me make it clear that this A/N is about the OCs, don't take it personally.

Now for why I made Bailey act that way in the previous chapter... she's like that.

Let me back up a bit. When people see their OC, they will respond in the comments in first-person as if they're the ones doing the actions, and expressing the emotions, themselves.

There is Chai, whose creator, SODUDESO, gave me a detailed description of how her OC reacts and operates. The key character traits are: Mean. Cold. Rude. Brave. Brutal. Hostile.

Mean and Rude: She insults Axel as "Fatty", and Bailey "A screaming pig."

Brutal and Hostile: She gutted Bailey open when asked for help, even standing up to Lisa and Petra.

Cold and Brave: She left them to die, unfazed by the undead monsters swarming to the town, and how she made Bailey's guts spill onto the ground.

Since I got nothing but positive confirmations of this, I'd say I did a good job.

Then there is Bailey, where I only had very few details, and the majority of it is about Lukas. I only had her say one or two sentences because I just didn't know her personality, and how she will react to certain scenarios.

So how can I get data on this OC, unbiased and uninfluenced while moving on with the plot?

Why would I think of trying to do something so unnecessary and complicated? The times that I do ask the OC creators directly on how their OC's will react to certain scenarios, when they don't provide it when I tell them to when they send me a request, they sometimes will add in unnecessary stuff that makes their OC look like a Mary Sue. Look it up if you don't know what it means.

So how did I avoid that, and get a solid answer? Chapter 70, that's how.

Now let me explain that chapter 70 is an impossible scenario that I purposely wrote where Bailey can't do anything, and where I made it clear she can't do anything to change it. I was testing her personality, not her strength. The results influenced how chapter 71 would play out.

I made it obvious that the main 'theme' in that chapter is the offer the cloaked man gave: One life in exchange to save many. In this case: Bailey, in exchange for Jesse's group to go free so they can get Axel medical attention, and help find Lisa.

I wanted to see how the OC creator of Bailey would comment/react since, to remind you, people are using first-person writing in response to every time their OC is mentioned.

Remember in chapter 67 when Collin is dying, and Petra uses a Potion of Healing that Bailey provided? So rosequartzTHEBAWS response is, not "Oh, this poor dying soldier", but an excited "Thank you" in caps. So while it could be assumed that OC is uncaring, it could just be that she's excited to be mentioned. So I needed more data.

But this concluded that, to remind you again, these reactions are the OC creators projecting themselves into this story as if they're in it. That way, I can use it to help tweak the OC's personality to match the ones they didn't provide.

So, how did she react in chapter 70, and the chapters later on? Did she offer herself up to the cloaked man, being noble and saving everyone else? Trying to step-up and be brave when the Jesse's group was defending her?

None of those things happened. The usual responses she commented, and later on, fall under these: "Don't abandon me!", "Bla-Bla Lukas this, Lukas that", "Thank you (Name of character) for defending me", "I want to fight", and finally "I don't know". While the last two are barely commented, they speak a thousand words.

Again, let me remind you that Bailey is in a situation where she has no control over. And I made it clear that she has no power to change it. So for her to declare that she wants to fight an immortal, who killed hundreds who are stronger than her, and also had the advantage of numbers and magic, is telling me that she's overconfident, brave, or she is arrogant.

So should I have just let Bailey stupidly charge at the cloaked man, unarmed and injured? No! No one can be that dumb... oh wait, this is people I'm talking about, so of course that can possibly happen!

But even if I did do that, Jesse's group would prevent her from doing so. So don't make excuses, or make excuses for Bailey, by saying the usual 'but she's stronger than you think' or 'has a hidden power' or even the 'you're portraying her wrong!' response.

Because in the comments the OC creator for Bailey, and other people, said that Bailey could use a potion, when I made it clear that she doesn't have any potions on her as she is still injured from Chai. Even going so far to say to use Olivia, one of the main characters of the story, as human shield for her.

So what else did I find out?

Remember in chapter 50 where she got arrested, claiming to heal Lukas? She commented on how she never claimed that, sent me hate emojis, and denying to know anything, or bragging, about potions, when it literally says in her OC request "Lucky I was a great potion expert" in the A/N after chapter 54.

So that either means she lied about being a potion expert, or Bailey is self-conscious of her work, or she's just prideful of her potions.

In the previous chapter however, she commented on how she tried to save Lukas. See the contradictory? This, to me, is portraying Bailey as a hypocrite.

To reinforce this conclusion, in the previous chapter, she responded to Jesse when he confronted her by saying, multiple times, how she would willing offer herself to die if the offer, that the cloaked man presented, appeared again (One of them mentioning Lukas, AGAIN).

Yet in chapter 70 the creator of this OC responded to the cloaked man's offer by saying how she doesn't want to be abandoned, or how she wanted the others to protect her.

So while I that Bailey has skill, she's not invincible. Did you just expect her to carry a lifetime supply of pre-made potions in her inventory? And before you say that "she could be carrying the ingredients, and brew them later" thing, think realistically.

They went on a week-long trip in this war-torn world, so that alone would take up her supplies if that was true considering she has to help, not only the five other people, and herself, but the various dangers along the way. Plus, she was arrested, so all of her stuff got confiscated.

Did you think the Templars, who act as the police, in the City would be so dumb to leave the criminal with supplies to cause potential harm and escape?

Don't act like you're the perfect person when I point out your flaws. Or make excuses, or other things, up when I call you out on it. I'm not going to write your OC's as heroes, I write them as people. People with magic, but people nonetheless with all of the flaws included.

So for all your complaining, ask yourself this: Do I, the author of this story, have a hidden agenda? This little experiment of mine proved that people are defensive, and aggressive, when confronted with their flaws while others will just make excuses for other people they like or care about.

So the answer is obvious: so never assume anything. Think about that before you spam my inbox about how you don't like this story, demanding me to change it, or demanding me to add in you Marry Sue OCs. Call me a bully, call me mean, I don't care.

I will just laugh my butt off, reattach it, only to continue to laugh it off again, just because I can. So sorry if you took this A/N personally, but don't start a forest fire in the comments just because your OC isn't god-like as they expected it to be. 

And don't get mad at me for how your OC turned out, when you can't even provide the basic details of a person. It's like you tell me to bake you any dessert, only to give me the recipe which has most of the basic ingredients missing, and when I somehow complete it, you yell at me for making the wrong dessert. -_-

I'll go and explain more in the next chapter... if I feel like typing it. Reading hate comments is funny.