My Wander Over Yonder OC

Okay, so this is Ursa (obviously the name came from Ursa Major and Ursa Minor) These are really old pictures I have of her, like when I first thought her up which was way back when season 1 was still airing. Now that we have two full seasons, and I’ve rewatched most episodes, I’m considering changes to her so she’s not fully fleshed out as a character yet but uh, anyway.

Wander and Sylvia found her abandoned by her biological parents when she was no more than a month old. At first, they tried to find her home, but when they couldn’t seem to find her a home they just kinda kept her and raised her as there own daughter (I just wanna clarify that her presence is not meant to be a Sylander thing, I have nothing against the ship, on the contrary, I think Sylander is an adorable ship, but personally I’ve always been more of a fan of their platonic relationship, and I thought platonic parents was a cool idea. So again, nothing against Sylander, but that’s not what I was getting at with creating Ursa. Moving on) And how exactly they came upon her is one of the things I’m still on the fence about. Originally, I had a story written up where Wander woke up in the middle of the night and saw a person setting down a picnic basket, and then ran off, and he ran after them to return it to them. When Sylvia caught up with him, and he explained what he saw, she told him it sounded like they meant to leave it there, and they were about to abandon the picnic basket when they heard a whine coming from it and they opened it and there was Ursa. The next day they traveled to a planet that was specifically dedicated to housing orphans, and they were gonna drop her off there, but when they got there they learned the planet’s inhabitants treated the kids poorly, and they decided to keep Ursa instead (and by “they” I really mean Wander.) Now that we have a season two though and are patiently awaiting Disney to come to their senses and green light a season 3, I’ve kinda been using her as a way to get me through the lack of season 3, so I started to consider what if instead Wander and Sylvia found her while trying to return everyone to their recovering homes after The End of the Galaxy. Like they find her and assume someone accidentally left her behind and try to return her, but they have no idea what species she even is (more on that in a minute) so instead they see if they can get someone to adopt her, but no one is really willing to take a child, or another child, after there home has just been destroyed and they’re trying to pick up the pieces and start over. And by this point, both Wander and Sylvia, but especially Wander, has become very attached to Ursa, and they know even if they were to find someone who could and would take her in, it would be nearly impossible on an emotional level to give her up, and they end up keeping her. I like both ideas, so I’m not sure, but I will say my second idea seems more plausible simply because of the emotional attachment things, whereas the first they haven’t even had her a day and basically go “welp, I guess we have a kid now!”

Her design was based on what I imagined Martians to look like when I was a kid. As you may have guessed from that sentence, she’s a Martian, but no one in the Wander Over Yonder universe knows that. I imagine the Milky Way galaxy is not anywhere near the one in the show, so they have probably never seen a Martian or a human and have no idea what they look like, hence they have no idea where to even return her too. Wander and Sylvia do suspect that Ursa’s kind was from another galaxy, but they don’t know this for a fact and they have no idea which one. The only clue they have is that with the picnic basket they found her in, a necklace that said “Ursa” was attached to it. Wander found that necklace and decided to name her that, and gave the necklace to her when she was five.

You can likely tell from the pictures above that she has green hair and red skin, but it’s a little harder to see she has lavender eyes. The ends of the antennas on her head have little toughs of hair on them, and as of recently, I thought it would be interesting if she grew retractable wings when she hit puberty, I’m picturing butterfly wings that match her eyes. She loves the color pink and wears it a lot (intentionally done to contrast Sylvia hating pink which was revealed in The Hero). Because I was obsessed with fashion when I first thought of her, she is very passionate about fashion and loves designing clothes. But for the life of her she can’t seem to learn how to sew, so Wander often ends up making the clothes she designs. She adores learning and reading and on her family’s travels, she always loves to visit museums and read about the locations before and after visiting. She is extremely curious about everything and will go to great lengths to find answers to questions she has. Partly because of this, she has a habit of walking off to go see something, and not telling her parents where she’s going or that she’s even walking away. This has been stressful for both Wander and Sylvia. Sylvia feels like she’s been chasing after Ursa from the day she learned to walk. When Ursa was a toddler, her wandering off would send Wander into an extreme panic, however, he lightened up about it as she got older, after all, she just wants to explore the universe like him! By the time she’s in her teens, Wander’s main rule is that she has to be within an earshot, any farther and she has to ask for permission (and Wander is pretty generous with what he classifies as an “earshot”). Sylvia doesn’t like this rule, she never lightened up about the problem like Wander did. From when she was about 9 or 10, Ursa started getting up early in the mornings to watch the sunrises, and soon after started looking around for the perfect place to watch. It drives Sylvia crazy to wake up every grop darn morning to see that Ursa isn’t at the campsite, and know that Ursa left the campsite before it was light out. Wander and Sylvia have many conversations about this problem throughout Ursa’s childhood. Unfortunately, because of the family constantly traveling, Ursa has struggled greatly to make friends. She has completely mastered small talk though.

She calls Sylvia “mama” inspired by how Sylvia referred to her mom as “ma” and she calls Wander “daddy” because I once pictured her as a toddler running up to him saying “daddy!” and it was too frickin cute. Wander is exactly what you’d expect him to be as a parent, he’s loving, encouraging, teaches her the importance of helping others and struggles to say no (but will if he has too, he’s learned that lesson before). He is usually the one she goes to when she has an emotional problem. When she was little he loved dressing her up in the cutest little dresses he could find. He also did her hair until she was about ten, and always put little bows in her hair. Even in her teen years, if it’s some sort of special occasion, Ursa will ask Wander to do her hair. Wander’s nickname for Ursa is “love-bug” (don’t know how I came up with that but it’s cute!) Sylvia is a great parent too of course, but she’s kind of awkward about it compared to Wander, especially when Ursa is younger. Sylvia struggles with the idea of herself being a mom. She never really pictured herself as ever being a parent, so it’s kinda intimidating to her. Somewhere I have a story started where Ursa is a baby and gets sick, and while Wander is off trying to figure out what medicine will make her feel better, Sylvia has to take care of her and it’s just very uncomfortable for her. But she ends up bonding with Ursa and by the end of the story, Ursa had said her first word, “mama.” (corny I know haha) Sylvia finds it a lot easier to connect with Ursa once she starts talking, Ursa is quite the conversationalist! Sylvia puts a great importance on teaching Ursa self-defense, (and makes extra sure to call it “self-defense” and not “fighting” when Wander is around because Wander won’t let his baby girl go out and pick fights! Power of love not hate!) Ursa usually goes to Sylvia if she feels unsafe. Sylvia will often call Ursa kiddo or sweetie.

Hmm, I feel like kinda rambled here, I’ve been struggling with what to say about her and how to organize it, so I’ll just end this with, if you have any questions or comments about her, let me know!

@jay-cryptid 

My Wander Over Yonder OC

Okay, so this is Ursa (obviously the name came from Ursa Major and Ursa Minor) These are really old pictures I have of her, like when I first thought her up which was way back when season 1 was still airing. Now that we have two full seasons, and I’ve rewatched most episodes, I’m considering changes to her so she’s not fully fleshed out as a character yet but uh, anyway.

Wander and Sylvia found her abandoned by her biological parents when she was no more than a month old. At first, they tried to find her home, but when they couldn’t seem to find her a home they just kinda kept her and raised her as there own daughter (I just wanna clarify that her presence is not meant to be a Sylander thing, I have nothing against the ship, on the contrary, I think Sylander is an adorable ship, but personally I’ve always been more of a fan of their platonic relationship, and I thought platonic parents was a cool idea. So again, nothing against Sylander, but that’s not what I was getting at with creating Ursa. Moving on) And how exactly they came upon her is one of the things I’m still on the fence about. Originally, I had a story written up where Wander woke up in the middle of the night and saw a person setting down a picnic basket, and then ran off, and he ran after them to return it to them. When Sylvia caught up with him, and he explained what he saw, she told him it sounded like they meant to leave it there, and they were about to abandon the picnic basket when they heard a whine coming from it and they opened it and there was Ursa. The next day they traveled to a planet that was specifically dedicated to housing orphans, and they were gonna drop her off there, but when they got there they learned the planet’s inhabitants treated the kids poorly, and they decided to keep Ursa instead (and by “they” I really mean Wander.) Now that we have a season two though and are patiently awaiting Disney to come to their senses and green light a season 3, I’ve kinda been using her as a way to get me through the lack of season 3, so I started to consider what if instead Wander and Sylvia found her while trying to return everyone to their recovering homes after The End of the Galaxy. Like they find her and assume someone accidentally left her behind and try to return her, but they have no idea what species she even is (more on that in a minute) so instead they see if they can get someone to adopt her, but no one is really willing to take a child, or another child, after there home has just been destroyed and they’re trying to pick up the pieces and start over. And by this point, both Wander and Sylvia, but especially Wander, has become very attached to Ursa, and they know even if they were to find someone who could and would take her in, it would be nearly impossible on an emotional level to give her up, and they end up keeping her. I like both ideas, so I’m not sure, but I will say my second idea seems more plausible simply because of the emotional attachment things, whereas the first they haven’t even had her a day and basically go “welp, I guess we have a kid now!”

Her design was based on what I imagined Martians to look like when I was a kid. As you may have guessed from that sentence, she’s a Martian, but no one in the Wander Over Yonder universe knows that. I imagine the Milky Way galaxy is not anywhere near the one in the show, so they have probably never seen a Martian or a human and have no idea what they look like, hence they have no idea where to even return her too. Wander and Sylvia do suspect that Ursa’s kind was from another galaxy, but they don’t know this for a fact and they have no idea which one. The only clue they have is that with the picnic basket they found her in, a necklace that said “Ursa” was attached to it. Wander found that necklace and decided to name her that, and gave the necklace to her when she was five.

You can likely tell from the pictures above that she has green hair and red skin, but it’s a little harder to see she has lavender eyes. The ends of the antennas on her head have little toughs of hair on them, and as of recently, I thought it would be interesting if she grew retractable wings when she hit puberty, I’m picturing butterfly wings that match her eyes. She loves the color pink and wears it a lot (intentionally done to contrast Sylvia hating pink which was revealed in The Hero). Because I was obsessed with fashion when I first thought of her, she is very passionate about fashion and loves designing clothes. But for the life of her she can’t seem to learn how to sew, so Wander often ends up making the clothes she designs. She adores learning and reading and on her family’s travels, she always loves to visit museums and read about the locations before and after visiting. She is extremely curious about everything and will go to great lengths to find answers to questions she has. Partly because of this, she has a habit of walking off to go see something, and not telling her parents where she’s going or that she’s even walking away. This has been stressful for both Wander and Sylvia. Sylvia feels like she’s been chasing after Ursa from the day she learned to walk. When Ursa was a toddler, her wandering off would send Wander into an extreme panic, however, he lightened up about it as she got older, after all, she just wants to explore the universe like him! By the time she’s in her teens, Wander’s main rule is that she has to be within an earshot, any farther and she has to ask for permission (and Wander is pretty generous with what he classifies as an “earshot”). Sylvia doesn’t like this rule, she never lightened up about the problem like Wander did. From when she was about 9 or 10, Ursa started getting up early in the mornings to watch the sunrises, and soon after started looking around for the perfect place to watch. It drives Sylvia crazy to wake up every grop darn morning to see that Ursa isn’t at the campsite, and know that Ursa left the campsite before it was light out. Wander and Sylvia have many conversations about this problem throughout Ursa’s childhood. Unfortunately, because of the family constantly traveling, Ursa has struggled greatly to make friends. She has completely mastered small talk though.

She calls Sylvia “mama” inspired by how Sylvia referred to her mom as “ma” and she calls Wander “daddy” because I once pictured her as a toddler running up to him saying “daddy!” and it was too frickin cute. Wander is exactly what you’d expect him to be as a parent, he’s loving, encouraging, teaches her the importance of helping others and struggles to say no (but will if he has too, he’s learned that lesson before). He is usually the one she goes to when she has an emotional problem. When she was little he loved dressing her up in the cutest little dresses he could find. He also did her hair until she was about ten, and always put little bows in her hair. Even in her teen years, if it’s some sort of special occasion, Ursa will ask Wander to do her hair. Wander’s nickname for Ursa is “love-bug” (don’t know how I came up with that but it’s cute!) Sylvia is a great parent too of course, but she’s kind of awkward about it compared to Wander, especially when Ursa is younger. Sylvia struggles with the idea of herself being a mom. She never really pictured herself as ever being a parent, so it’s kinda intimidating to her. Somewhere I have a story started where Ursa is a baby and gets sick, and while Wander is off trying to figure out what medicine will make her feel better, Sylvia has to take care of her and it’s just very uncomfortable for her. But she ends up bonding with Ursa and by the end of the story, Ursa had said her first word, “mama.” (corny I know haha) Sylvia finds it a lot easier to connect with Ursa once she starts talking, Ursa is quite the conversationalist! Sylvia puts a great importance on teaching Ursa self-defense, (and makes extra sure to call it “self-defense” and not “fighting” when Wander is around because Wander won’t let his baby girl go out and pick fights! Power of love not hate!) Ursa usually goes to Sylvia if she feels unsafe. Sylvia will often call Ursa kiddo or sweetie.

Hmm, I feel like kinda rambled here, I’ve been struggling with what to say about her and how to organize it, so I’ll just end this with, if you have any questions or comments about her, let me know!

@jay-cryptid