FUNNY YOU SAY THAT ACTUALLY Itzi came from a desire to make an object head, but since I like concepts that have some sort of 'grounding' I made him a robot whose head is a magnetic core. He'd developed A Lot since I made him, namely going from a straightforward grumpy ball to a grumpy ball with Oh God he has so much depth he makes me feel so normal oh no

Forte, however, WAS a literal vision from god because Itzi used to be alone, see. He was a misunderstood weapon that was cornered by the government's defense forces but when he told his story, they sympathized (I could go on about the gov in this verse bc it's basically a 'what if the government actually cared about people' hahaha anyway)

But then I was like... what if they sent out a 'negotiator'. Someone who attempted to speak with him in an attempt at a nonviolent conclusion (who was originally male in concept, but I don't have enough female characters). Which then turned into Forte, a gov't engineer convinced that the weapon they were chasing was sentient despite being told it was nonsense, and set out to prove it despite the obvious risks to her life and the fact she tried it prior with another weapon and lost her arm for it. (She also used to have pink hair worn down, but it was too similar to Karma, another oc I had.)

I could literally talk SO much about these two AAHGHHH I'd literally go on for days i'm so normal. im normal

But anyway that's how they went from 'haha they exist' to characters within a world with full and fleshed out backstories with a reason for everything they do and oh i'm normal.