The Great Wall of Text
My first file Raus, or Jack Frost is inspired off of exactly what you think. I finished his design after watching Death from puss and boots on the big screen; I love intimidating characters in fiction. After that, I continued to develop the side of him that is directly symbolic to winter, and I think I did a good job. I plan on using him in my writing sooner rather than later. My second file, Alicia, wasn’t particularly inspired in terms of their name. However, with their personality, it’s a direct rip from Susie from Deltarune. Admittedly, she is far more psychopathic, and Susie did not, in fact, decapitate people with her bare hands. My third file, Lynn, wasn’t particularly inspired by anything, I don’t believe, and he’s been through unbelievable amounts of design changes. His name is based of that of my uncle but other than that, I got nothin’. Stanley Goldhill originated from one of my alter egos while playing Jailbreak, and thus he is dubbed Explosive Barrel man. Now, admittedly, he may have a bit of Iroh from Avatar in him, and I view him as much less chaotic than his original counterpart, but still quite so. Similarly, Toph’s personality in Legend of Korra inspired the personality (And in part, appearance) of Victoria, who is currently not one of files. Also not one of my files is Fang Percy, who was my original first file from World of Magic. He was a direct inspiration rip from Fang from Maximum Ride, and in his original incarnation he wasn’t a Harpy, but now that he is he’s even more similar. Their personalities are directly contrasting though. Jeremiah Sinali was only one of my files for a bit, and he is now too complex in lore to be a file and is no longer human, similar to the situation with Fang. He was originally just based off of myself, but even before then he has been changed so much that the resemblance is not recognizable in the slightest. For Lukas, I have basically nothing, except her name is (I think) drawn from Lukas from Minecraft Storymode, even though they are not similar at all; her character is incredibly extreme and I think it derived more from my own edginess than anything. She practically existed to suffer. I also had a Bob Ross cosplay as a file for a while, which is self explanatory. Lastly, for less than 3 days, I made Violet from Rope, a novel im working on rn. Her name and her affiliation with the Reaper Curse, an aspect of that worldbuilding, had been an idea a year before I started working on it. However, her design and some of her personality was ultimately inspired by a character named Scarlet from a similarly themed webtoon, it’s a pretty funny coincidence. This ultimately drove me to start writing it in the first place instead of starting with Project 47, which generally had less opportunity.
