Characters based on real people?

Posted 5 years, 10 months ago (Edited 5 years, 6 months ago) by hedgemaze

Are any of your characters based on people in real life? Not necessarily the whole character, but maybe they share speech patterns with your friend, or personality quirks with your brother, or you gave them the same haircut as a girl in your class-- I'm just curious about the little ways we put our own lives into our characters!

Tell us what your character shares with a real person!

  • It should go without saying, but please be careful not to put actual identifying personal information about any real people here.
  • Thinking about people in our immediate lives is what prompted this thread, but real people whom you don't know are also ok if they served as inspirations!
  • And if your characters are based on you in some ways, that's fine too!

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mordice

https://toyhou.se/10142504.joe

he and his twin are based off of my older sister

 https://toyhou.se/10579934.yohan and he's based off my brother! execpt a bit meaner,,,,

Rocket_Man

Clement is based off of Moe Howard of three stooges fame, tho in looks and on screen anger only lmao

Richie is based off of Ringo Starr, his name  however comes from Ringo's real name of Richard Starkey

Mikey
is based off Mike Myers, tho his name pry gives that away like Richie does

I have a tendency to do with my ocs a lot of times tbh

Renegade ☀ dayblake

Oh for sure him. I know it's in his profile, but Renegade here resulted from me taking a lot of inspiration from Alex Gaskarth from the band All Time Low (mostly fashion-wise) and Awsten Knight from the band Waterparks (more personality than anything - also his voice claim! BTW a flashing warning on that link) on top of several pop punk bands in general ^^

Aspen zabobzionek

His profile is completely empty but I kind of based his personality on a certain classmate I had at university. He's a memelord, loves self-deprecating jokes, very open in a weird way. He plays Overwatch and is a Bastion main lmao

The only 'new' thing is his obsession over frogs, and the design doesn't match too!

Peggy ChristianCupcake

Peggy is based off one of my good friends. She's very assertive, loves frogs, and skateboards.

kytherat

 Mei relates to me a LOT..
actually- he literally is me lmao. He looks exactly like me. same personality, everything. The only thing that isn't real is the cat/bunny ears and tails :)

Keen-Ears/Tavey/Tamnais Scottie

Not humans, but this fella is based on my dogs. One soul, Tavey, is nearsighted, skittish, loyal, and cowardly. The other, Tamnais, is greedy, suave, and loves Tavey

Kuranga Sousblues

Warning: slight mention of harassment

Kuranga's concept was initially based off of another person's OC before I realized how disrespectful that could be to a fellow character creator, but as I branched out Kuranga into his own thing rather than a "concept copy", he became heavily based off of a manipulative, lovesick-esque friend I met online during quarantine. The two are both obsessive, extremely clingy to the point of insanity, head over heels over anyone who shows them the slightest bit of positive attention or compassion, manipulative, feeling/pleasure oriented, seggsual harassers, very loud and careless about what they say and how it could affect someone emotionally/mentally, and their constant baby talk and fake oblivious behavior whenever they are called out for something wrong or borderline illegal. Basically all of the negative things I saw in that person I took out and implemented into Kuranga so people could understand what I had to deal with all throughout quarantine. My little cry for help, you could say.

 Chrom Xen

This guy's hair and chill personality are inspired by my girlfriend's brother! He's an awesome, cool dude and I always digged his long hair. That's kinda where the similarities end though haha.

Cass swamii

Cass and Sam were created based on two of my friends from scouts (who i no longer talk to due to them moving/not going to scouts anymore). Actually the whole group is based off of a camping trip i had with these friends + some others back in october 2020, and the name "It's the moon's fault" was something the friend that inspired Cass told me that night