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Graph student- Grade: A, and he checks it twice
- Front row, center, every class
- Counts the floor tiles to math
Free Fundamental Paper Education OC generator
FPE OC Maker & Creator
This free FPE OC creator draws your own Fundamental Paper Education character in the flat paper-cutout look of the Paper School. Pick a student, teacher, principal, prankster or janitor, choose the paper, a grade mark and a school-supply part, and get your OC inked in thick black lines.
- No drawing skills needed
- 10 free credits on sign-up
- No watermarks
- Grade: B-minus, barely
- Tool: stapler
- Fears pop quizzes
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Ideas
FPE OC ideas: students, teachers and more
Stuck on a design? Load one of these students, teachers and staff into the generator, then change the paper, the grade or the school supply until the character feels like yours.
Miss Margin
Strict teacher- Teaches spelling, grades in red
- Checks hall passes for typos
- Smiles wider when you get it wrong
Scrunch
Prankster- Grade: D, and weirdly proud of it
- Draws mustaches on every poster
- Rolls into a paper ball to escape
Pleats
Origami kid- Folds herself smaller when called on
- Her hat tells fortunes, mostly wrong
- Grade: C+, working on it
Mister Meridian
Map teacher- Teaches geography in the far wing
- Head spins when he thinks too hard
- Gives gold stars for neat maps
Mister Hourly
Principal- Has never been late in his life
- Ticks louder when you are late
- Rings the school bell by hand
Know the rules
Paper School roles and grades, explained
The role decides where your OC stands in the Paper School, and the grade decides what they are afraid of. Pick one of each, add a school supply, and the rest of the design falls into place.
- Basics in Behavior premieres on YouTube
- 2024
- Basics in Behavior premieres on YouTube
- views in its first three weeks
- 2.1M
- views in its first three weeks
- official video; YouTube called it a one-off
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- official video; YouTube called it a one-off
- strict teachers: Circle, Thavel and Bloomie
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- strict teachers: Circle, Thavel and Bloomie
Sources: Fundamental Paper Education (Know Your Meme); Set in Motion: The New Wave of Indie Animation (YouTube Blog); Characters (Fundamental Paper Education Wiki)
Students
Most of the cast are Paper School students. Kaaatie introduced Claire, Engel, Bubble, Lana and Abbie as good students who love their studies, even if Lana and Abbie hardly understand anything. Students dress in simple black and white, and many have small black horns, a tail or a head that floats with no neck.
biggest groupblack and whitehorns and tails
Teachers
Each teacher has one subject and one school supply worked into the body: Miss Circle teaches math with a giant drawing compass for a forearm, Miss Thavel teaches language with letter blocks along her head, and Mister Demi teaches music with a fringe shaped like piano keys. Kaaatie introduced them in two groups, a strict trio and a kind group who just want quiet in the library.
one subjectsupply built instrict or kind
Principal
Kaaatie confirmed Miss Grace as the principal: white ponytail, monocle, green suit and one snapped-off horn. She is on screen for a single moment near the end of the video, so how the school is run is still a blank page. A principal OC can set the rules everyone else follows; skip the monocle and the green suit and pick a signature of your own.
sets the rulestallest in schoolbarely seen
Pranksters
Kaaatie introduced Oliver, Zip and Edward as the bullies. In the video they pelt Claire with paper airplanes and crumpled paper, send Edward's drone to drop her into the library pit, and put a fake exit sign on the one door everyone is warned never to open. A prankster OC fits right in; just give them a prank the trio hasn't already pulled.
mischiefthe trioown prank
Janitors and staff
Kaaatie's cast has teachers and a principal but no janitor, librarian, nurse or lunch staff, so a staff OC fills a real gap. Someone has to mop the pool deck, shelve the library and lock up after dark. Pick Janitor here and write librarian, nurse or cook in Extra details for the other jobs.
open roleknows every roomafter hours
Grades
Grades are what everyone at Paper School fears. The video turns on two failed tests: Abbie's in Miss Circle's math class and Claire's in Miss Bloomie's science class. Marks also show up as design: Oliver wears a red A+ in his hair and Zip has the wrong sum 2 + 2 = 8 written in hers. A grade on your OC tells fans their story at a glance.
red inkworn as designthe stakes
Paper and ink
The whole cast is drawn as flat white paper and thick black ink, and many have solid black hands with pointed fingers. Some are built from supplies outright, like Cubbie, a black cat with a pencil sharpener for a torso. Lined, graph or origami paper is a fan twist rather than canon, and one of the quickest ways to make an OC stand out.
flat paperblack inkfan twists welcome
The Paper School
The school is a white three-floor building with four trees out front. The video visits Miss Circle's math room, a library several floors tall with a pit in the middle, the pool, the gym and the cafeteria, plus one door every student is told never to open: ∆lice's room. When it opens, the paper school turns colorful and 3D.
three floorslibrary pitone locked door
Names and supplies
Name your paper OC, pick a school supply
Students at Paper School go by one short name, like Zip, Skell or Cubbie, and teachers add Miss or Mister, like Miss Circle and Mister Demi. Mix a name from a school word and an ending, add Miss or Mister for a teacher, then pick a school-supply part. Every click goes straight onto your OC in the generator.
Paper name mixer
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School-supply ideas
Pick the supply your OC is built around.
Guide
How to make an FPE OC
Whether you call it an FPE OC or a Fundamental Paper Education OC, a good one comes down to five choices. The generator does the drawing; these are yours.
- 1
Pick where they stand in the school
A student sits in class, a teacher towers over the desks, a principal runs the building and a janitor knows every room after dark. Pick the role first, since it sets your OC's height, outfit and the people they deal with every day.
- 2
Build them around one school supply
Canon designs hang on one supply: Miss Circle's compass forearm, Cubbie's pencil-sharpener torso, the letter blocks on Miss Thavel's head. Choose one nobody in the cast has, like an eraser hat, a paperclip ahoge or a desk-lamp head, and write it in School-supply part.
- 3
Keep it black and white, plus one accent
The cast is white paper and black ink with small touches of red and blue: Oliver's red A+, Zip's blue sum, the blue and orange-red feathers in Engel's hair. Pick one accent color and keep the rest simple. A paper type like graph or origami adds texture without clutter.
- 4
Give them a grade
A grade says a lot in this school. An A student has something to protect, a D student has something to hide, and a teacher has the grade they hand out most. Set the Grade mark, then write one line in Extra details about what your OC is afraid of failing.
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Choose a side of the hallway
Kaaatie split the school into groups: good students, the bully trio, strict teachers and kind ones. Decide which group your OC belongs to, or who they avoid, and the first scene writes itself: hiding from a pop quiz, covering for a friend, or catching the pranksters in the act.
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FAQ
FPE OC maker FAQ
Yes. A free account comes with credits, enough for several characters, and every image costs the same small number of credits after that. No card is needed to sign up.
A Picrew FPE maker is a dress-up game: you stack parts one artist drew, so every result shares the same pose and pieces. An FPE OC base is a drawing you trace over. This FPE OC creator is an AI generator that draws a new picture from your picks, so the paper, the grade and the school supply come out as your own. Think of it as an FPE character maker that does the drawing for you.
Yes. FPE is short for Fundamental Paper Education, the name Kaaatie gave the Paper School series that began with her animated video Basics in Behavior. An FPE OC, a Fundamental Paper Education OC and an OC from an FPE generator all mean the same thing, and this Fundamental Paper Education OC creator works under any of those names.
Yes, both. Pick Student or Teacher in the Role picker; Principal, Prankster and Janitor are there too. A teacher OC works best with one subject and one school supply, the way Miss Circle pairs math with her compass forearm, and teachers come out taller than students. Write the subject in Extra details, for example "teaches geography".
Whatever fits their story. The Grade mark picker writes a red A, B-, C+, D or F on your OC, or gives them a gold star instead. In the video a failed test is the scariest thing that can happen, and two canon designs wear marks: a red A+ in Oliver's hair and 2 + 2 = 8 in Zip's. A+ is left out of the picker because it reads as Oliver.
Everyone in the video is plain white paper and black ink, so Classic is the canon look. The other options are fan twists: lined notebook paper, graph paper, a sticky note, folded origami, rough construction paper or crumpled paper. Pair one with a Paper color, like a butter-yellow sticky note or lavender origami.
Skip the shortcuts nobody in the story gets: straight A+ grades in every class, a key to ∆lice's room, a free pass from the strict teachers, and a tragic past stacked on top. Give your OC one subject they are good at, one they dread, and one person in the school they avoid.
The original video is a horror story with violence, but this page keeps things to school life. The generator draws school supplies as tools, never weapons, and leaves out blood and injuries. Strict teachers come out cute-creepy at most: a too-wide smile, sharp black fingers and a stack of red-marked tests.
Yes. The Background picker has a Paper School classroom, the locker hallway, the tall library, the cafeteria and the school pool, all places the video visits. Keep Plain for a clean profile picture or reference sheet.
Full body is the default output, so your OC comes out head to shoes with horns, tail and school supply in view. Set Output to Ref sheet for front, side and back views with palette swatches, a handy FPE OC base for comics, animatics or a commission.
Keep Anime: with the FPE style built in, it gives the flat paper-cutout look with thick black outlines. Sketch looks like a doodle in a notebook margin, Chibi works for stickers and icons, and 3D echoes the end of the video, when the Paper School turns colorful and 3D.
Posting your OC in fandom spaces, as a profile picture or in roleplay is what it is made for. Fundamental Paper Education and its characters belong to their creator, the animator Kaaatie, who has since stepped away from the series, so keep your OC clearly your own and do not sell merchandise that uses her characters or the series name.
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