"Real" Characters

[serria]

Are any of your characters inspired by real people? Or is everyone (to the best of your knowledge!) made from scratch?

Comments

[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.