If I’m to be perfectly honest, a lot of it is character archetypes from media I like!! For Amir, it’s characters like guts, fenris, and fran. Stoic warriors with a hidden tenderness underneath. I also drew heavily from the themes of the drk questline.

Amir was the first OC I wrote, so I wrote Sébastien as a foil, contrasting with her personality and drawing out hidden sides that wouldn’t be immediately obvious. In that way, he’s the complete opposite: on the surface, he’s outgoing, witty, sarcastic, charming, and doesn’t take life too seriously. Deeper inside, he’s sardonic, cynical, selfish, which contrasts with her quiet tenderness and hope for humanity.

I like playing with these opposing themes a lot, Amir’s selflessness as the wol contrasted with her selfishness in her personal relationships. Sébastien’s individualistic nature contrasted with how uncharacteristically selfless he can be with the select few he loves. There’s a lot of ways I’ve made them exact opposites of each other. In a way what inspires my OCs personality the most is each other, since I write them around the character dynamics I personally find appealing.

Orwen is still a WIP, but he started as a foil for Sébastien, a hyper rational, cold, almost irredeemably callous person, a wall seb can’t charm or joke himself around. A “straight man” to his laid back personality, if you will.