I had to think long and hard about this, since I also have a lot of Original Fiction characters I never shared, but Oc/Fancharacter wise, I'd have to say it's a tie between SkekAth (the Linguist), and Gloria (Hallelujah). They both got a lot of story that I wrote from the ground up. It's been really fun for me especially to get back to my roots with Gloria especially, as she's one of my oldest characters I ever posted publicly. On November 15th she's gonna be 6! Dang! What I like best about them is that they're really fun to draw and write. With SkekAth I get to explore themes like morality, and how would a skekling impact things on Thra. As well as that being an entire gateway of new concepts such as Thraborne, Skeksis rights of passage, how titles are earned etc. It's funny to look back on him when he was initially made as a crack-ship fanchild oc. Now he's one of my most well known characters! Even though I'm hesitant to return to TDC since I just got back into Undertale and it's anniversary is just around the corner, I'm most likely still gonna make the occasional content since he, and some of the other characters I made for TDC that I haven't posted are still very special to me. Gloria on the other hand is super fun because of just how much I did with her. Multiple drafts, Re-Writes, finding her niche in the Underground, and trying to tie everything together in a neat way to make her feel as canon as possible. Even to the point of making up an entire supporting cast just for her hypothetical job and area. I wanted her to feel like... Kinda like a secret character. Like if you were able to go through the city part of New Home, you might just be able to bump into her. I made her with the intent on making Dadster content when I was 14. Because: "Hey! They have a Dad, so why not give them a Mom too?" The rest is history. I won't bore you here by rambling about her here, and I have to log off to go to college in just a few minutes, but I hope you liked this sort-of insight to my favorite original fan characters. ♡

To be honest I don’t really see him as the romantic type. For him, it’s the hunt that comes first and foremost! He kind of just does his own thing for the most part. And for me personally, I just don’t ship him with anyone really. I perfer him being single for my own little stories and art. But @darkskek‘s MalSa/SeaHunter art is really cute even though I don’t ship it! 

     I agree. I initially wasn’t too thrilled with the Arduff’s redesign. Especially comparing it to the other manga exclusive animals such as the Mounders and Rakkida who have gone unchanged. Just drawn in a more realistic style to fit the universe better. My friends and I ( @juliejewel24 specifically ) have come up with a theory that they may have combined, or misinterpreted Whouf with the Arduff that SkekLach has. Since it’s body shape and face look very similar to Whouf’s! But in a feircer style to reflect the Arduff’s nature. But I agree it is weird how they made an entirely new design when the old one is solid, and again, the Mounder and Rakkida were left unchanged.

     Good news for folks like us who have liked these guys since the begging, the bestiary Arduff are said to come from the Crystal desert, and the Manga ones are native to The Endless Forest and the Spriton plains (Or at least the manga’s equivalent of it.) So our antlered moose-doggos are still completely valid to have in Thra! These are animals after all, and they’re is so much variety within the real world that I think that it’s 100% okay to have both! Heck, when I was working on my species sheet for these guys back in april, I was thinking of the possibility of regional variants! So that’s how I’m viewing them.

     In my opinion, the bestiary is hit and miss. There’s a lot of really good content in there!! But there’s some other things that are both major and minor retcons and contradictions that I’m not too thrilled about. Ultimately this is supplemental material. It’s not 100% canon but it does help us get a broader sense of the world of Thra. So with that, it’s completely fair to pick and choose whatever bits you want to view as canon. Although I may dissagree or critique the bestiary a little, it’s a fantastic book!

With the Arduff situation, I was initially kinda sad and angry about it. I thought I would have to throw all of my creature design and character vulding out the window. Like I thought I had to do with my version of UrSen once the canon one came out. That’s my own problem I have since I’m much too critical on myself. But think of it this way, we now have two Arduff Subspecies like you said earlier!

My best friend @kaijukian put it in a funny way. Using a meme about worrying who’s cake was made better. We don’t need to fret about who’s cake is better, There’s two cakes!! More content to enjoy! And just because you don’t like a certain direction things went doesn’t mean your opinion is invalid!

I’m also a huge Manga!Arduff fan, and Lach’s main Arduff pack will still be of that kind for me. I’m gonna incorporate some of the new ones in there for variety, but ultimately the originals will always be the true ones in my heart.