Questions on existing original characters

[tulpa001]

The idea is you stop forcing them to respond. And if they keep talking anyway, they are autonomous. But the point is, it is trivially simple to introduce yourself. "Hi, I'm bob."

[solarchariot]

So, I have been following this, and thinking about my response, and rethinking as I see the contributions, and would like to say, first: you created a coping OC. Yay you. Just the term 'coping OC' suggest to me that the OC, regardless of assigned 'functional' history, probably recognizes its purpose within the core part of it and may actually surprise you. The history you ascribed to it was helpful for you, as it existence was designed to be helpful for you. I would be surprised if this intent was not transmitted, whether it was direct or subconscious. (I don't know why I am getting this image of wire monkey cloth monkey, but I am wanting to laugh and cry.)

 

Second, and I am sure there is a thread that deal with this, though I can't specifically find it, and I am echoing my previous position on the matter: existentially, I find it irrelevant, in terms of need to know, if any character is endowed with sentience. I had been struggling with this, to some degree, before tulpamancy, and what helped resolve it was the book "Lucid Dreaming: Gateways to inner self" by Robert Waggoner, in which there is chapter devoted to 'dream characters' and the suspicion that though many can be two dimensional, as if props, there are many who defy 'character' and seem to come with a will all their own. That resonated so well with my experience that I have decided, whether 'dream characters' are characters, myself playing me, or other, I will treat all beings, real or perceived real, as true beings. In doing so, I am practicing kindness, and if it turns out to be me being nice to me, then, philosophically, one has to love themselves before they can truly love others. (This is actually an important tenant of Buddhism: everyone suffers, and that thing you hate in others is in you, and everything you love in others, is in you; you can't treat others without treating yourself.)

 

thirdly: you clearly express you are close to OC. That is so significant that to me, there's seems to be no need for further dialogue. I would march straight up and say, you were important to me and helped me tremendously, or whatever it is you feel you must say, and I suspect, you will find the sentiment shared. (So many times in helping others we help ourselves, and vice versa.) However, you posed the question, which suggests to me an underlying fear, or dread, as if to say 'what if this important OC also rejects me because of the pain I gave him or because of the pain I was feeling at the time I created him...' which is an important thing to explore, too. Because that is meaningful. And if you dig deeper, I think it reveals that you love, and you care. And that is what I find most meaningful in your question. "No OC left behind" might become your motto.

[Notactiveuser3301]

So, I don't believe that this specific question has been answered---

 

I have an OC that I keep very close to me. I created him when I was rather young and dealing with mental issues such as self-mutilation (which I got help for eventually).

 

He is a coping OC. But, the thing is, his backstory is very grotesque, extremely angsty, and troubled. I want to make him a tulpa. But--... will these things change about him?

 

 

hello! so i had the same issue like you and  i made my oc a tulpa. i´m having this oc for 4 years and i´m very close to him. he had terrible past ( from being abused  to becoming a junkie ). but i created him ( a tulpa ) in his period of life when everything got better. so now he´s living a normal life.

 

 what´s funny is that he told me that i didn´t made up his past , those are the things that really happened in his life ( so that means he´s always been sentient ) and that those fragments from his life are coming up to my mind. when i made him ( a tulpa ) i was scared how´s he going to blame me for making his life so hard. instead he just said : it´s okay it wasn´t you who made my life like that so don´t blame yourself. those things happened to me and because i existed in your wonderland you could easily see my past.

 

that suprised me.

 i still use my oc for creating a story.  i know that i changed some aspects of his life just for my story to be better, but that isn´t affecting his life at all ( it´s just like acting in real life, where the actor is a oc and a tulpa is a real person ) 

maybe all of this is  a little chaotic and my english is bad but i hope this´ll help you :)