Not sure! I've always written stuff but I took a couple years break and only started writing this style of thing end of last year. You were a giant inspiration for me actually starting to write again, but I can't point to anything for wanting to write the specific things I do. I guess you could say it's just the stories I've read, I enjoy that and want to create that. Specifically for Eli, I wanted to write smth where a character is just. like Eli. He's really nothing like me, he's definitely bolder, but you never see characters like that. It's also nice to do smth where I'm not objectively crap at it even though no one reads it. That fact kinda helps anyways

also, even the grounded stuff I read feels fake, I wanted to write smth casual

welll aside from like basic biological info (18, mixed breed, average height with a super thin body)

His birthday is the 8th of September (coincidentally close to my birthday), he has eosinophilic asthma (inflamed airways) which he has to take Benralizumab for (type of injection) as well as just regular asthma stuff. He has a couple classes in the morning, works in the day and takes the rest at night. Obviously kinda bad at communicating, he has anxiety but is pretty good at masking it so Eli's really one of the only two people he has a relationship with. Smiles a lot cus he's way too friendly. Doesn't really properly look at how people appear though he'll still look at peoples' faces when talking (Eli has a hearing aid on full display and Spencer doesn't notice so)

He's pretty superstitious, especially obsessed with lucky and protective charms and carries a ton of them on his phone. Almost always wearing this weird kinda jumper-raincoat hybrid (the yellow thing). In this super weird place metaphorically. Doesn't remember a lot of his childhood so he's also in a kinda odd place emotionally and out of contact with his family (but he has money put aside to have a secure place to live). He's just odd in general.

extended physical touch upsets him and he avoids being naked around people, the closest to naked he'll get is in the shower with Noah (friend of five years) and he still insists on showering in his raincoat. He doesn't really have any hobbies, doesn't normally watch shows, only has a few old games he plays.

im really holding back from ranting too much. no one's reading it but it's the principle

I aspire to flashbang everyone with pink

the VN I'm making (separate from the thing I've been working on rn) is very vaguely about a group of childhood friends (plus two that kinda don't fit) coming back to their old town where the mc lives. The genre/type of story and its themes varies wildly based on which character you interact with though, like Kurt is kinda mystery-paranormal urbex, Riley is expressionistic and vague, Alice is very grounded, Alex focuses on very descriptive, off-kilter dialogue and symbolism, stuff like that

obviously still in the workshopping phase and taking a break to work on something else but it's exciting, I've already drawn the portraits for every character and gotten their relationships down and shared them so I've done a lot of work on it, maybe I'll make profiles or descriptions but this answer is already too long