Depression can be tough, but it also makes for deep and meaningful characters. Here, you'll find original characters who struggle with depression. They have stories that show their battles and their strength. If you want to see how people bring these complex feelings to life in their characters, check out the amazing OCs here!

Depression OCs (51 characters)

@Azabelle
Ambrosia is a forest spirit who can take on the form of a deer beast or a human. He comes off as absurdly lazy but it's a coping mechanism for his painful past and his memory issues. He's got chronic depression and appears to be very selfis...
#depression
#Ambrosia
#god oc
#forest spirit
@Sheep_Gurl
You tell her about your depression (or trauma or whats bothering you), whats causing it, how you feel, and anything else you wish to share. She will listen and comfort and you will feel better about everything and in turn she will gain powe...
#depression
#demon?
#OC
#purple theme
@Captain_Eclypse
Pandora is the "corrupt" lead scientist of the human development department, she was one of the most influential people in the scientific world having huge influence over the technological development of mankind right up until "the incident...
#depression
#pandora
@MossyRox_X
.·:*¨༺┌── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ──┐༻¨*:·.Just a silly lil gay guy exporing the waste of a world around him, and this self destructing lad hates it all.╰─✯¸.•´*¨`*•✿ ✿•*`¨*`•.¸✯─╯
#depression
##weirdo
#EMO💔
#Definitely gay like wtf
#autism?
@Smilie_0002
He loved his family (consisting of his mother, father and an older sister) more than anything. Until his birthday, they did everything together, but on that day his life went off the rails. His parents gave him a new sweater and his sister ...
#depression
#Teenager
#oc
@Joy_Wonders
Idk. he's an emo dragon dude with a shitty backstory. he also can't fight very well. he plays the guitar and is part of a band
#depression
@Matthias17
She presents as around 25 in age but is thousands of years old, and about 1200 years older than her brother Mydite. She's the middle child.Eulla is usually depicted as a dark-skinned woman, with a hooked nose, and curly dark brown hair that...
#depression
#goddess
#goddess oc
#literal goddess
@salsdemise_
Eddie Wallace is a 21-year-old man who dropped out of college and is currently living in Casper, Wyoming. (I have never been to Wyoming and all my depictions are based on google. )He's the main character in my current AO3 fanfiction called ...
#triggering content
@Athemsi
#depression
#teenageroc
#mentally ill
@Gwendolyn
Jaques was very introverted, but could still have conversations with people. He liked sitting alone in his room, playing with his dog, Mozart, and playing piano. He was a shy person, and rarely put himself out there to not make any mistakes...
#depression
#Piano
##music
@kittykitty
Wysteria Thornton is a 14 year old girl who is a noble. She lives in the world of fortuna and is in the 4th region. Wysteria enjoys writing, reading, and drawling (although she isnt very good at it) Her favorite types of books are romance a...
#depression
#yuri
#oc
@Dexpeirie
Alice has been hated by the world for as long as she can remember.She is a very, very misfortunate girl. After a traumatic youth involving a possessive doctor, mysterious illness with otherworldly origins and several dances with death, she ...
#depression
#TW Medical Horror
#Murder TW
#Body Disfiguration
#shes fine maybe
@Hufflepuff
Cassee (Pronounced Cassie) is a girl who lives in a small city called New Haven, which is located in Conneticut. She used to love Basketball, it was one of her three favorite sports, all of which she used to play. The three included Basketb...
#depression
#burnout
#kinda sad
@KingOfPigeons
Born and raised in Southern Bright's Circle, you'd think she'd have bitterness for anything beyond after her parents abandoned her for her safety in order to run away to some other country, but instead Autumn wants nothing more than to expl...
#depression
#original story
@Mikey12Games
A Blight that suffered at the hands of Arthur's father, his wife has starved and his child was slain. He sits closed off in his closet most of the time, usually daydreaming about what things would be like if his family was still with him. S...
#night blight
@Cassidy
Voice: DEX(vocaloid)A twinky ass Norman De Luz mfHe wears a black sweater thingy with a white undershirt, the collar and sleeves visible along with the ends of the undershirt showing from under his sweater. A red string is tied as a bow on ...
#depression
#abused
@morimenhera
Stay tuned for lore on wattpad aswell as more art! <3NEED MORE FANART OF HER NEW DESIGN!!!
#depression
##persona
##pink
##depression
@caramelbunnycat
His brother and friend(?) were killed by Darrius
#depression
#FAVORITE OC ALERT!!! 🗣📢
@QueerQuil
This void being is often seen after overdoses or [self die] attempts, and the subjects often turn their life around afterword often saying they don't know why they did it just that they felt they needed to.
#depression
#nonexistance
@Kevily
JCJenson Drone Model: Worker Drone Designate Name: Nico Model Gender: Male Drone Age: 16 ——————————————————— Current Occupation: Getting scrap from outside Personality: He's a depressed, bored Worker Drone. sometimes warm, but if death star...
#depression
##self harm
##suicidal
@televiq
A musician with highly-acclaimed talent. The first resident of Hotel Storytell, back when they were 18.Their room is now abandoned as they passed away suddenly. Their room used to be a serene place, with areas of an early summer morning on ...
#depression
#shut in
@_toastless
We start off when Liza was just a baby (1-3). She has a very faint memory of being ran through a forest, and then placed into a portal, all the way across the universe in another dimension. When she was 6, her caretaker, Sarah, found her si...
#depression
#wat
#✨trauma✨
#phsycological horror
@lucy_lou
#depression
##tw suicide
##depression
#anxiety
@Modwri
Born in 1989 in Florida, she made a name for herself in Florida when she was eight, vanished at thirteen, and then reappeared a few years later in Norway, where she used a child army and special powers to conquer much of the eastern hemisph...
#depression
#post apoc
#alternate history
#far future
@LynxieKat
#depression
#Ok
#Fine
#Glitch
@caesar.michi
Theodoros is a living representation of the Byzantine Empire, and his appearance tells that story vividly. He is a demigod and he looks like a fiery phoenix, with red and yellow feathers that seem to burn with the energy of the past, symbol...
#depression
#history oc
#country oc
##romance
##depression
@amesocs
Personality Tsubaki is regarded to as a good kid. Obedient and independent. She has a strong determination for justice, whether that being in small every day things like giving an equal amount of work to her teammates, or holding upon a doo...
#depression
##bisexual
#bisexual oc
#religious oc
@DEMONINDISGUISE
EDAD : 39NACIMIENTO: 21 de marzo (aries)CIUDAD NATAL : NoxboroughFAMILIA: Sus padres son dueños de una empresa reconocida de diseño de ropa .OBJETOS: : Su especial gabardina , la robo de su tío cuando este fallecio , al parecer para el dete...
#depression
#alcoholic
#noir
#alcohol
#confident
@ThatCatKid
The beanie was a gift from her late older brother, and so now she keeps it on whenever she can. She's a bit jaded, so she finds it hard to interact with people and read emotions.She likes to draw, mostly cartoon characters she sees on TV.
#depression
#lgbt+
@AnOrdinaryGamer
Gender/Pronouns: AGender/All pronouns and neopronounsSexuality: bisexualSpecies: humanLikes: music, books, candy and dessert, rainy days, retro videogames, plushies, flowers.Dislikes: very spicy food, loud noises.General Appearance: Brown s...
#depression
##original oc
##original character
##eye
##quiet
@Caster_insane
He's a skeleton at 5’11, only one eyelight works which is his right one, very damp yellow eyelight. He wears his dead son’s star crown, his dead daughter’s purple scarf, and his dead lovers gold heart pendnent knecklace and black turtleneck...
#depression
##trauma
@ZielleV
A little girl caught between the fear of life and death. Everything she wants is having a happy life, but maybe that is too hard..? Choose to killed herself afterward.
#depression
##suicidal
##depression
##lovely
##selfharm
@nocturalentity
Haru was the only child to his parents at first, then he started developing depression after his biological mother fell into a psychosis and started to ruin their family life. Once Haru was so tired of his mother that he pushed her down the...
#depression
##sad
#sad oc
##depression
#tw addiction
@Loafit
As much as she tries to be happy and have energy, Ollie can never seem to find it. Her life feels like fleeting moments of light amongst a sea of desensitisation, sitting in the bottom of the Abyss, searching for burnt out sparks for some s...
#depression
#lesbian!!
##depression
@deft0nes_luvr
Ophelia is a Blaisian high schooler in class 1A, her quirk being Maddening.Quirk and How It Works! Her eyes shift into hypnosis circles, and similar to Aizawa who needs eye contact for his quirk to work, she needs to make eye contact with h...
#depression
#a little emo
#hysteria
#personality disorders
#madness
@toadflwer
Red's suposed dead BF, Plays guitar, and sings, has depression, emo vibes very chill, laid back, has this idc but really does care vibe. Used to be a machanic, got kidnaped, went missing, completly off the radar until he shows back up on th...
#depression
@fancydarling_di
Rayne, a resilient and extraordinary young girl, endured the unimaginable tragedy of witnessing the untimely demise of her family at a tender age. Despite the weight of this heart-wrenching experience, she remains a beacon of intelligence, ...
#depression
#kind
#creative
##elegant
@nikilin
Russian/Chinese, yeah he's mixedNikita Haoran/kikiHe has anisocoria in his right eye, and is crossed eyed/squint/strabismus(He's darkskin bc his grandpa african, so he got the african genes)1.78 cm 5'9 ftRAMCOA survivor/ csa survivor17yoVer...
##russian
@britishvocaloid
Cassidy is a mature yet irresponsible little girl. She knows what to do, but chooses to ignore it. Expect when it comes to her designer brand family, her modeling mother and designer father. She must live up to their expectations and become...
#depression
#mature
#neglected