Thread:CITRONtanker/@comment-26888167-20170706181043/@comment-26888167-20170725021331

Oh, that's a long story, but I'll be as brief as possible.

So I learned about My Little Pony in November 23rd, 2011. A few days later I decided to create an OC for that show, as I've always had this obsession of creating my OCs for almost every show I really liked.

My generic main OCs were always red, had a huge appetite, and had other common traits.

However, this time I wanted to create a great OC, even better than all the ones I had made for previous shows. So I began thinking. There were many ideas I discarded throughout the process.

Basically, Red Fork is a mixture: he represents my personality, but mixed up with some of my favorite characters from other franchises. Some are noticeable, others are not. Some characters I used to inspire Red Fork were: Sonic the Hedgehog, Po (from Kung-fu Panda), Dr Sheldon Cooper (The Big Bang Theory), Knuckles the Echidna, Twilight Sparkle, and others I don't remember at the moment. I took my favorite parts of each character's personalities, and combined it with my own personality, and I have different results.

My first OC idea was a tall and thin unicorn called Red Math that would be a super-genius with a high IQ. However, later I discarded the idea because I wanted something more comic. Then I had the idea, to make his huge appetite his main trait as a character, and then Red Fork was created. At first he acted almost identical to Twilight Sparkle, but as time went on I went developing his own personality.

He's probably the character I put most time into creating. It was more than a week creating him, while later on I have made several OCs per day. There were many discarded ideas, I tried one and another to see which I liked most, and at the end I ended with the red unicorn we know today.