It was a wild ride for sure.

To answer your question, both. I make these OCs just because, but some are part of stories I have yet to write/I am currently writting.

Hakuno, for example. Is a character on a fic that I've been writting over the past year and half but has yet to be published.

Akane, on the other hand, is a secondary character made for an ongoing one-shot series I started halfway through october.