Thank you for sending some questions. It took a while to answer.
2. What’s something about your OC that people wouldn’t expect just from looking at them?
This will be hard to answer, because what I’ve observed about Dr. Jester seems normal to me. Hm, I could think of a few things. 1) He thinks he’s cute. He’s very confident. 2) He likes dinosaurs. 3) He can speak to the small animals Sonic rescued in the classic games. He took a liking to a bird called Chicky (like the Flicky.) Instant friendship.
4. When scared, does your OC fight, flee, freeze or fawn?
When I read this question, I didn’t know what it meant by fawn? I looked it up and I still don’t get it. Anyway, he usually fled when confronted directly. I don’t know if that’s true fear, or if he’s just avoiding unnecessary damage by retreating. Fighting is Saturn’s job… Why should he be scared of a dozen super-powered children?
(Send in the minions so you can escape. Predictable.)
Knuckles blasted through the windshield of his flying machine and he responded by lunging at him. He simply accepted his demise when the Egg Carrier failed catastrophically. Do you think he was scared then?
Back when I first revisited the story in August of 2022, I wanted Eggman to punish what he saw as disloyalty from Dr. Jester, and destroy him. I thought they’d fight since Dr. Jester had a chaos emerald, but that didn’t go anywhere. Now I think he would freeze. Sure, he’s used underhanded tricks when he thought Eggman had wronged him, but he’d never kill him. He had been holding on to the friendship they had long ago. I guess freeze is the answer?
He is not immune to sentimentality.
10. What’s an AU that would be interesting to explore with your OC?
He’s already from an alternate universe. My sibling suggested an alternate storyline where Dr. Jester gets to the Dark Emerald first and frees Chaos. He doesn’t like things he can’t control.
I think Dr. Jester should be in a vampire AU!
22. What character alignment would you consider your OC to be?
Neutral Evil.
23. What emotion is the hardest for your OC to process? How about express?
I think the answer is surprise, or fear.
He can express anger just fine. He’s been dejected, elated… He’s animated.
24. What is an alternative life path your OC might have gone down? How different would their life be if they’d made those decisions?
I’ve thought about this before. No matter what, he would have been interested in synthetic body parts. He could’ve been a prosthetist (one who makes and fits prosthetics), or developed very reliable pacemakers. What if he didn’t take it too far? He could’ve been a generous doctor that helped a lot of people live full lives–highly recommended! Such a shame.
25. What is your favorite thing about your OC?
He’s so funny.
13. If you met your OC, would the two of you get along?
He can be civil. That doesn’t mean he’d like me. However, he’d gain nothing from hurting me. That’s good for me, I guess.
Dr. Jester did meet a version of me in the story. He ignored me! I cared about him a lot! As a kid, I avoided writing/showing scenes in which he got hurt. Isn’t that love?
Since it’s still fresh on my mind, he would’ve offered to save my cat. Or, maybe he’d put it as “extending her life indefinitely.” No matter how good his designs are, he will never make a robot that looks, sounds, and feels like a real cat. He wouldn’t understand this. He’s so detached. He’d take it personally.
7. What’s one way your OC has changed since you first came up with them?
He used to be alive. That’s the biggest change. I had an old drawing of him that kinda felt like a “what-if?” scenario. I drew two Dr. Jesters, one of them was NOT a robot. He looked so friendly! What happened to him? I spent so much time keeping his design the same, so appearance-wise, little has changed. At least he has a bit of a background now.
