How did you come up with your character(s)?

[Steele]

Well large things have small beginnings, and it's amazing what can happen when you throw together a few ideas to come up with a character that turns out to develop further than what was originally planned. Everyone gets their ideas from MANY places and I wanted to know, where did you get YOUR ideas from or what inspired you to create your own original character.
I'll go first for an example.

Seth (My first character) - Seth was originally supposed to be the reluctant and shy shapeshifter, but the more I roleplayed with him, drawing inspiration from How To Train Your Dragon (Hiccup) and Scott Pilgrim vs The World. I made him a shapeshifter because I wanted someone who could literally fit into any scene. He was supposed to be one of the characters where you couldn't tell if he was a genius or stupid. Eventually he'll become more like Tony Stark (Iron Man 1 2 and 3) the more he gets pissed off.

Steele- This was back when I watched "The Penguins of Madagascar" RELIGIOUSLY on Nickelodeon, and I always loved the name Rico. I really had the urge to make a werewolf I could role play as since I gained a bit of confidence. His accent comes from the movie "Plague Dogs" (Which will leave you in tears)

The Fox is what he's inspired from. Originally he was supposed to be a con artist, a bully, but his character has changed dramatically since then to now where he's a bit lost.

Balius-From 3rd grade all the way until the end of spring this year I had run track and field. I ran with pride for my summer track club Excalibur, and our Rivals were called Track Iowa. Now every track meet during 7th grade I kept hearing of a person named "Balla" (Bal-ah) Eventually at the end of the season I finally got in a race with Balla, and he was the buffest 7th grader I've ever seen and he got all kinds of respect from his team. (I later claimed that respect after I beat him ) So now everytime I think of someone, a brute in command, I thought of Balla, and eventually altered it to Balius.

Ryn- Goku from Dragonball Z. I wanted an adventurer character but I didn't want a human. And his pic was too badass to pass up.

Drawing inspiration form Mortal Kombat really helped me flesh out the story of the Crux clan.

Lianne- Before Avaleur, Roland and I used to RP ALL the time with legos. (He had a very diverse expansion of warriors and starwars.) Through the years we had created this EPIC universe, and one of the characters happened to be Lianne. I wanted Lianne to be the savior of that universe, its number one hero, but....things happened and I grew frustrated with the character. One day I basically said to myself, "F this, if I can't make her the number one hero, I'm going to make her batshit insane!" And she quickly became my favorite character. If any of you are daring enough to RP with her, good luck. Ask Roland for details about that.

Ranulf-Skyrim.

Dax- Daemon Salvatore from Vampire Diaries.

Most unique character I've ever seen. Drew some of his backstory from Scorpion from Mortal Kombat.

Ethan- An original character. I created him out of scratch. Orignally he was supposed to be the town punk, the one who causes trouble.

That's it, how about you guys?

[Analisia Moonbright]

Well whilst my list of characters on this site isn't extensive quite yet, I do have a multitude of them (39 at last count) and I plan to bring in a few more eventually.

As for now, I created Analisia for my very first pbp roleplay ever on neopets about 5 years back. I sort of modeled her after myself (all of my characters have a small portion of my personality that they lay claim to), she was me exaggerated (especially my lack of social apptitude and my slight tendency to be blunt when I shouldn't be). She started out in a basic tavern setting, except the original her had a much much darker background, though she has always suffered from amnesia. She has never remembered what her life was like before being changed into a werewolf.

If I end up posting more characters. I will add their creation stories as well

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Hrmmm... alright let's see here.

Namesiwa: I wanted a man to connect the old ruined Avaleur to the current Avaleur. I wanted the site to have a "grandfather" a lovable old man who told stories of the old days. When Kavanah and Ryn explored the ruins and uncovered new truths, the old man become something much more and his history became a big deal in several ways. His picture is fairly good at matching his character I think. He is sort of like Athos from fire emblem. But the only reason that he truly received that pic was because of the lack of good old man pictures that I could find... seriously, its pretty bad.

Kavanah: My first character. Dubbed as "overpowered" by some people *cough*cough*Seth*cough*. I thought the character idea was good... but I must admit I began to hate him. He was boring. His character developed slightly but his death was necessary for the story I think... poor guy.

Roland: I would have to say there is quite a bit of Eurphram (probably spelled that wrong) from fire emblem sacred stones. I loved the spearman hero concept. I also sort of based him of of Link. This hero who goes blindly into adventure. He was caring and young. He became much more than I thought he would. At first I thought he would be a guard, encouraging those up fighting in the front but I must say that it seemed to me that everyone began to like him and he was forced to become more than I thought he would be.

Raymond: Lol I thought Roland should have a cousin.

Enoch/Xavier Dosise: One of the first bad guys I think. He was wonderful in my mind. A crazed master assassin who wanted nothing but chaos and destruction. He wanted nothing to flourish other than his master. I didn't think love would change him. I didn't want love to change him... but it did. Sometimes I miss that old Enoch, terror of the cities. The blood of your shadow. Jaffar (fire emblem) probably had much to do with his concept.

Devan: I hated the fact that I had killed Enoch as a villain, and in his place rose the part giant assassin. He was stronger and much more crazed than Enoch. At first he was a poor replacement, but he soon became his own. Feared by nearly all I think. His story became important to Enoch's past and Seth's future. What was once a replacement became a totally different villain that I'm not sure I like quiet as much as Enoch was, my heart still misses him, but he demands my respect as a character.

Gwilym: I thought we needed another animigus to spice things up and what better than a lizard man. At first I hated him and thought he was boring. Even tried killing him off... so stupid. Now he is one of my favorites, he was just supposed to introduce a new species but then Seth showed me what he could be.

Magnus: As the story of almora began to grow i thought that a secret organization would seem cool. I used a lot of the ideas of the shiekah from Zelda.

So i guess many of my characters were a huge work in progress... until finally i think they all have become something meaningful. At least to me XD

[Kitami Aklia]

Well, guess I'll toss in my story. ^.^

Kitami - She was inspired by a picture I saw online of a kitsune wearing a huge, cream colored shirt. I liked the drawing a lot for some reason, and thus Kitami was born. And yes, she had started out as a fox rather than a wolf. She had also been more of a warrior type. She was 16 when I created her, slightly naive, but good at heart. Then the rp she was made for died, but I couldn't let her go, so I changed her to a werewolf and joined Merovech, a site very much like this one. She was still 16 or so, but a lot wiser. Then THAT site crashed, so here she is now! 33 with a pup. She was about to give birth to Izzy when Merovech died, so when my friends (Julien and Coriander) moved to this site we decided to bump up their ages.

Veranda - I actually started out with a name before a character. Veranda Kingsford. I liked the way it sounded so I shaped a character around it. Ver was a thief to begin with, but her story and character grew more and more dark and she developed. So now she's the unstable, newly turned vampire you see here. She's always walked on the edge of insanity, but this time she's dabbling in the madness somewhat.

Aerin & Luella - I have always had a little fascination with twins. The bond they share, all that jazz. But whenever I rped with twins they were exactly...the...same...so I wanted to toy with having twins were were opposites. This isn't the first time I've done this, I had twins named Castor and Hemlock, but I do prefer my elf twins more. Their flaws seem more subtle and less cliche than my other pair. Though I'll always miss my crazy Castor.
Aerin is the more reserved type, the scholar, the academic. I have big plans for him. His biggest flaw would be his curiosity and his urge to learn. He'll be getting himself into lots of trouble due to that.
Elle is my fun loving, naive character who expresses herself primarily through sex. She sees nothing wrong with it and is totally open, and to me it was like a breath of fresh air. Having a character that could do anything but still be good at heart. ^.^

[Sanaki]

I only have two characters on this site but i like to think that I've put a lot of work into them.

Sanaki: Sanaki's name was a alias that i used since the start of time so it was only right that i use that name for my first character. In regards to the actual personality that was just more or less projecting my mindset and how i wanted to appear to the outside world with a few differences thrown in to mix it up figuring that i would best be able to "play the role" if the character was more like me (these days however i find myself connecting with Sanaki less and less)

Hatura: Hatura was a completely different story in the sense that i wanted to make a polar opposite to Sanaki in the aspect of having a confrontational and very aggressive girl who didn't let others berate her and was always willing to fight. Her look was stemmed from me wanting to give her another thing to be aggressive about and i figured i would put in a constant "hare trigger" that would make her fly off the wall at a moments notice and have her be mistaken for a boy despite her secret desire of wanting to be perceived as girly at times (I forgot to add that to the character sheet though)
Finally her name...honestly I've been in school so long that i wrote it backwards and just decided to roll with it...
(Also a huge thanks and credit to Namari for helping me pick and expand her out of like fifty other characters)

So yeah, those are my stories, hopefully i'll be able to add more someday. (which may be soon~ wink wink, nudge nudge)