This may seem silly to most...
How do you feel about your OCs? Do you care at all about them or are they just a fun hobby? Something to draw or an inside joke with your friends?
Well, mine are very dear to me. Even the ones I don't draw as often. Nearly every character that goes to paper has a story, a history, a psyche and a life of their own. This is even more true for those I draw a lot.
Brea, Rianna, and Keegan are three of my oldest and most dear characters. Especially Keegan and Brea. They formed from Neopets where I role played them, spent hours on pages and artwork for them, toiled over trades, contests, and games to make them look on the site how I saw them in my head. They really helped me with my art and character developing techniques. If you go onto my old account-
[link] you'll see that my gallery was littered with their images. I truly loved my silly little pixel pets.
I found out tonight that somehow, my account has been ransacked and my pets stolen. Brea has gone to someone with no avatars, no activity, and will no doubt rot, this goes double for his 'sister' Rianna. Keegan has been frozen (after I just painted him pirate). They are still MY characters and they can't steal that but I feel somehow... violated. I have no idea how this may have happened since I only log in at my house and my password was a random series of numbers. I logged into my account often to put them in the lodge so it couldn't have been frozen due to inactivity.
I apologize to those I knew on Neo or promised items/neopoints to. I'm not going to try to get my account back. I just don't care anymore.
I feel very sad now. Silly, huh?