Characters based on real people?

cries bc i have a good number.

Rea is me IRL! Only, I share part of my name online, but considering its myself, I have permission :)
Oat, Tony, and Ross, just to name a few, are EXTREMELY based off of me as well. Oat holds my childhood, Ross holds an inside joke, and Tony holds my mental issues.

Calhoun is based off of John B. Calhoun and his rat utopia experiments (creating the term behavioral sink from it.) While Calhoun more or less shares the name, he is also based solely off of the experiments and in the case of if one of the rats got mutated and fused with a human.
Jordan mostly just shares a name with the sister I could've had, though she never made it into the world. I wanted something to remember that she's still a sibling I could've had, so she's here c:
Jack is based around jacksfilms on youtube. Yknow, "Your Grammar Sucks" and "Yesterday, I Asked You" guy!! This is because when I got him, the answer for the question was jacksfilms and I thought it would be hilarious.
Martin (who isn't on the site bc I don't have a design for him) is inspired and looks like this McDonald's manager I saw once and fell in love with. He was very sweet, so Martin's looks are just like his, but that's really all. (Best inspiration honestly.)

That should be all, most other characters I have are based around other characters, so it wouldn't rlly count here.

Edvin and Mackenzie were originally inspired by Cavetown and Simi! Edvin, like Robbie, has fluffy red hair and brown eyes. Mackenzie shares Simi's fluffy dark hair and olive(?) skin. The differences?  Edvin doesn't wear glasses and has obvious freckles. Mackenzie's eyesight isn't horrible but she does need glasses sometimes. Mackenzie has poorly attempted to mimic the Farah Fawcett feathered hairstyle, and Edvin wears what is essentially a bowlcut. Their story does take place in the late 70s, after all. (I don't have any up-to-date drawings of them at the time, unfortunately, but I'll draw those eventually!)

I was inspired to make characters that take after them because of a photo Robbie posted to his Instagram ages ago; it was of him and Simi, and the caption said something about friends or best friends. I thought it was cute, and something Edvin and Mackenzie could do :)

I can only think of one character I have that's been somewhat based off a real person that I haven't mentioned before (I don't count characters that have traits inspired by my own traits because I realized I do that waaaay too often lol), and that's Melon!

Melon is missing his left arm, but he's extremely good-natured about it. Whenever he meets a new person and has time to set it up, he likes to play pranks on them, since they usually aren't aware he's missing his arm beforehand. Stuff like wearing a more realistic prosthesis and then having it not secured properly so when he shakes their hand his prosthesis comes off and he just leaves them there holding it, or pretending he cut it off by using fake blood packets or ketchup, etc. Some of his pranks are really elaborate.

The good-natured attitude and pranks were based off my great-grandpa, who I sadly never got to meet as he died just before I was born. He was missing several fingers and, being an avid April Fool's fan and a dedicated prankster, absolutely loved pulling pranks on people using his missing fingers. He used to do the 'Pull my finger off' prank quite often apparently and he got a kick out of startling people with it. I absolutely adored these stories my mom used to tell me about him, so much so that I ended up working it into one of my main characters.

this probably counts - Charlie (and the rest of the characters in his folder) are based on The Beatles and other acts in the 1960s. nothing specific (aside from some of them being from Liverpool...), but the idea behind close friends being in a band and the type of music they make are rooted in The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Donovan, etc

Clayton is based off of my 8th grade history teacher. A lot of people didn't like him, but I thought he was great. At first, he seemed like a grumpy old guy, but he was actually really nice. He liked to tell us stories and crack jokes sometimes. 

Ivan was based off my geometry classmate that shared the same name...as for the last name though, it was taken from my history teacher because she was super nice x)

Basically everyone in my HW-4 folder is based off of someone irl besides H.W.,,

Aiko- biggest offender,,I based her a lot on my friend from middle school who has since moved back to Japan- doesn't look or act much like her now but she used to be quite similar;;

Issac- based off a boy from one of my elementary classes, but only in terms of design,,personalities not at all similar (also that boy had a twin sister and I also gave Issac a twin sis heh)

Abby- kind of a self insert who has since become less like me but still shares a couple of my interests

he ' s based off of the youtuber konekokitten :D

Yukiya's personalities (some or bits of it) and fashion is based off my extroverted campus friends.

His other inspirations as an artist/Rapper includes the Rapper Nathan Feuerstein/NF as his voice claim, his rap style is similar to that of August D, while his rhymes are heavily inspired by Eminem (Using references and rhymes on his lyrics). While his rather childish, narcissistic, charms, and kind of a f***boi personality is taken from Machine Gun Kelly.

Not only a musician/artist, he also does stream games sometimes. This was also inspired from voice actors who does the same thing as a hobby. As for musician, utaites and the Rapper Logic also occasionally stream games as well.

Yukiya has more inspiration from real people, compared to the fictional ones.