Dear Followers:
Part one.
I am a straight girl and writing a story, Ignited Crown, with a main character, Aidan, who was inspired by my best friend that I knew in high school. My best friend has been there for me through rough times in life. I am writing to my best friend because I think my best friend might be having a rough time.
Roxa and Maggie inspired me to be a bit more by myself. Because I made Maggie relate to me by making fun of her being an elf when she was little, like what had happened to me when I was little. Roxa's back story was inspired by mine (if you read her PoV chapter), but her appearance was inspired by my family member.
Jax is loosely based on my elder brother. My brother likes to joke a lot, and he is a video game nerd. He is a Berserk fan. I have admitted Jax does look like Guts from Berserk. But I thought about Fullmetal Alchemist when I was thinking about giving him that dragon's arm.
Two other new characters, Markus and Judith, were inspired by other family members of mine that they don't want to be mentioned. Markus was originally a thrown-away character, and he was supposed to get killed off by the wengdio. But I decided to keep him to play a huge part in the story. I always thought it was a cool idea to do a story about a centaur detective before Ignited Crown. I decided to make a spin-off with Markus someday in the near future. When I thought about this idea, I thought about my favorite book, Necropolis (it's a paranormal mystery book about a zombie private investigator who is living in a dead city), and my TV series used to be on Carnival Row.
Kiran is inspired by my dad because I have a strong relationship with my dad, but Regis and Syvie from TBATE. Aidan's characteristics are inspired by Arthur's half-Asuran form from TBATE.