All of my current OC’s have pretty silly origin stories lmao. It’s not really that weird in general to be inspired by music, but my character Donnie originated as a literal personification of a song (Dr. Feelgood, Mötley Crüe) and over the course of like ten years he evolved into something nearly unrecognizable

I think his brother/my character Wiley was inspired by Gamzee Homestuck’s design without even having read Homestuck when I created him askdhfjfhfhf

Other than that, sometimes just a persons general face/vibe or even random Pinterest aesthetic images can spark entire OC ideas for me.