User blog comment:TheShapeofThings/Hey OC-makers! Tell me what inspires you!/@comment-12236859-20150101152047/@comment-12236859-20150103162850

Observing people is actually very effective since they are only human, so they tend to have negative traits as well, not just "I'm perfection!". My friends say that I'm creepy when I stare at them, but that's just when I'm trying to get inspiration XD

Autumn does tend to have a very good horror-ish effect, I have to agree on that. :3

Oh the background process X_x So slow, so tiring, so time-consuming, so mind-numbing....etc. I guess that sums it up :D Although some of my characters' backgrounds are very easy and quick for me to do, since it happened to some of my friends in real life. My friend's younger brother is supposed to have a twin, but the twin was born stillborn, so I kinda took that idea of childbirth and death, and in came the circumstance of Kotori's death. This was also to make Anzu's story flow a bit more. So..yeah, backgrounds for some characters are easy to think of and make up, while other characters are more complex. From me, it's all about observing the right person and taking the most prominent features.