serria: (Kari and Gatomon)
[personal profile] serria posting in [community profile] write_away
Are any of your characters inspired by real people? Or is everyone (to the best of your knowledge!) made from scratch?

Date: 2014-03-26 10:35 pm (UTC)
splinteredstar: (Default)
From: [personal profile] splinteredstar
Honestly, it's more likely for me to draw on other fictional characters. I don't always notice it's happening at the time, but sometimes I'll look back and notice it. Usually it's just traits - Eira holds herself the way AC!Cloud does, and is even worse at dealing with her emotions; Estair is basically a less malicious Count D; Ice and Li were originally in a KH fanfiction that went so AU that I decided that I may as well just go whole hog and make it original. I think when I was in high school I had a universe where I took all the characters I thought hadn't been done justice in their original universes and shoved them into gang warfare with each other.

Of course, all of these characters have gone in ways that the original has not, and developed into unique characters. I don't know if that's better or worse than basing them off of real people. But 'made from scratch' is probably a misinterpretation.

Inspiration is a lot like compost, I think. You get interesting things out by having poured interesting things in.

Profile

write_away: (Default)
Write Away: A Writers Community

About Us

Welcome to Write Away!

We are a discussion-based writing community. Every member should feel free to post about anything they want to discuss or want to ask for advice about. Though this is not a place to post your fic, anything related to writing is absolutely welcome! Our regular features include:

Writing Prompts
Consultations
Friday Rants and Raves
Writing Buddies
What We're Writing

If you have any ideas on how to make this community more useful or fun for you as a writer, always feel free to PM the mods!

Most Popular Tags

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags

Style Credit

Page generated Mar. 19th, 2026 02:38 am
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios