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Do you have any characters whose design(s) were inspired by fictional characters? Like a cartoon character, book character, movie, etc. I'd love to see and know why you chose to make a design inspired by them!
I find that making OCs inspired by favorite fictional characters just makes me love them so much more. I have a few:
Kara, who was unintentionally inspired by Katara from Avatar: The Last Airbender (friends pointed out the color scheme and name similarity so I kind of just went with it), who prompted me to make Zakari, who was then inspired by Zuko from ATLA as well. There's also Skye and Diego, who were inspired by Star and Marco from Star Vs. The Forces of Evil. Lyam and Dalila were loosely inspired by Adrien and Marinette from Miraculous Ladybug.
I'd love to know if anyone else has fun making "inspired by" characters as well!
Io here was partially inspired by Lupin III in terms of personality/occupation, but I mainly got the idea for her from Guardians of the Galaxy because I really wanted a cocky, stupid, overly confident space character hehe :]
Despite me modeling most of his behavior off of Dio Brando and Levi Ackermann for lore purposes and character polishing, his original design was subconsciously based off of Kicker from Transformers - Energon. Â It was one of my favorite shows as a kid and apparently it affected how I created Endor.
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this dude used to be a databrawl virus if that counts?
over time i gave it mutations, messily & slowly pieced his backstory together, and now they're his own oc with its own species, which is basically just alien cats who all have triangular(ish?) heads. yeah
I think this technically counts as inspired, I had a group of characters that were originally genderbents of League of Legend's K/DA, but I wanted to strive away from the original source material and make them my own ocs with their own lore. The freedom to create my own stories for them is very liberating for me, although their personalities and such are heavily inspired by them.
The character I IC'd is inspired by Akali (I even kept the 'Aka' part of the name because it is way too fitting for me to change)Â
In a one-shot game of Critical Role where Sam was the DM, Liam O'Brien played a cleric by the name of Jayne who was a servant of this dark god Tharizdun, the Chained Oblivion. She was from a line of priestesses in her family who were, basically, zealous cultists. From that, I had the idea of playing a paladin in a vaguely similar situation, but who was trying to break those chains and stop Tharizdun. There's a lot more to it than that with Hadara now, but without that one-shot she would not be what she is today.