now, if you're going with a character that isn't related to anyone, there are plenty of beautiful women, men, and more that could be a great addition to your story, especially when it comes to age gaps.

My main concern is the lack of diversity we have in these fics, but there are also so many overused face claims, so here are some wonderful and unique face claims to choose from:

warning: i might have options from the previous chapter

if your OC's is meant to be a teenager in The Vampire Diaries, The Originals, or the Legacies world where teenagers look like this:

what do i mean by this? i mean that the TVD show got actors in their middle twenties to play sixteen-year-olds, so choosing a face claim that could actually work for a sixteen-year-old (like for example: Isabella Gomez) would not pair well with the cast, it also turns out that Legacies did the same. Danielle Rose Russell is the youngest at 19 and the most right choice, just like Tom Holland was only 20 when he appeared in Civil War so these are pretty good choices to play teens. They look young enough and it's still legal for them to play a kissing scene with an actor or actress that's 25, but the rest of the cast, other than Matt Davis obviously, is well into 22-25 years old, Jenny Boyd is 28 guys, i had no idea, but let's not get into that right now. But hey, at least they chose actors that closely resemble teenagers. There's a lot of controversies there and imma not get so deep into that.

Lana Condor

Ryan Potter

Keiynan Londsdale

Sofia Carson

Sarah Jeffrey

Lyrica Okano

Amandla Stenberg

Naomi Scott

Charles Melton

Vanessa Morgan

Aubrey Joseph

Diego Tinoco

Ashleigh Murray

Booboo Stewart

if your OC's love interest is much older like Damon, the Mikaelsons, Enzo, Marcel, or Vincent, here you are:

Avan Jogia

Karla Souza

Aja Naomi King

Harry Shum Jr.

Jack Falahee

What's the difference between the first list and the second list?

For an OC that is supposed to be playing a teenager or someone in their twenties, the first list can do that easily on both.

But the second list only works for older people, you can't put them on the teenage scale anymore (for those of you that wanted to point out Avan Jogia or Harry Shum Jr. it depends on the pictures you use. You can use them when they were younger and were on Victorious, Twisted or Glee respectively, or you can use them right now that they're older. But you can't use them now to play teens)

[also, i tried to add little to none white people on this list (save for Jack Falahee, but i mean, come on, look at that face) at least the majority of people seeing him might use him for an lgbtq story so that's a win]

okay, welp, hope this helped