Bakeneko | Quite possibly the silliest reason I've made a character, but I had a kitten that I had raised a while back who's personality has stuck with me. He was a stray and severely malnurished, so he was tiny and had terrible food aggression. He didn't know how to meow, just how to growl and purr--and he did both loudly. Theo walked around like he was some sort of tough guy, played constantly, ate everything and was prone to stalking our female cat like a lovesick puppy. The Shinto pantheon needed love and the bakeneko had not been picked up. I was granted the opportunity to bring Theo to life. Yey~
Baldr | Survivor's guilt. I had to do this huge character analysis on character's with survivor's guilt in plays. This morphed into Baldr. Though Baldr died, I created him with the same sense of "I could have done something". And, seeing as I have this huge obsession with good people capable of doing bad, I poured into Liron all of this anger and frustration so that, despite being so pleasant and accommodating, he has a shitton of potential to do cruel and unforgivable things to those of his pantheon. And, as an excuse to practice my language knowledge, I gave him a rich and eventful background. I've used google translate this whole time. I'm a horrible, lazy person. /fail.
Helen | I've always been drawn to the whole Trojan war and Helen and Paris' story. Helen always broke my heart and I felt so terribly, terribly sorry for her. She seemed like such a perpetually unhappy woman, always looking for something else to fill her need. And this whole war started up because of her infidelity and the best character of all time (Hector) was killed and his dead body disrespected and--at the end of it all, she goes back with Menelaus and it's as though nothing had happened. I always expected the Odyssey to mention that she had committed suicide or something. idk. I actually hadn't meant to use Amanda Seyfried, but I couldn't stop looking at those icons of her in In Time.