Ila and Idris popped up in 2017 after I made a joke about a character I had at the time (can't really remember the joke anymore). Two weeks after I made the joke, and it wasn't leaving my mind and had only sunk in deeper, I made the prototype versions of Ila and Idris. Back then, they weren't really based on my husband and I--they weren't really anything. But I latched onto them really hard, and they just, stuck.

Over the years they became what they are now, and are now based very nearly 1:1 off my husband and I. But in the beginning, they absolutely were not, and I tend to prefer not to think about them from back then lol. I was not a good storyteller and I fell into a lot of the genre trappings of writing incest fetish fiction, when what I actually wanted to write was incest romance, but knew no better on how to actually do that.