Thank you everyone for posting your inspirations!
I’m sorry I cannot post the pictures anymore as my TL3 was taken away.
Hopefully someone else can do it
Henri Bourassa
Yeah well, Blondie was a character that grew a bit from a frightened young undead to a madlad loudmouth. Most of what she is are exaggerated characteristics of my own.
But some inspiring characters were
- Jamie Hewlett’s Tank Girl
- A girl I met at boxing
- Daisy Domergue
- (Only Slightly) Micah Bell
- Nearly anyone in the punk/squatter scene I’ve met
- Pippi Longstocking (Who also counts as a squatter)
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https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/727890375041220651/778425770690347008/Character_sheet.png
You can see an theme of “arrogant callous snob” throughout.
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Askeladd (Vinland Saga)
World-spanning ambition wrapped up in an ambitious man, wrapped up further yet in small-time schemes and murder. A lot of Torkazi’s humanising elements were inspired here. -
Dijsktra (Witcher)
Head of Royal Intelligence turned crimelord. Eve more scheming and political ambition achieved through underhanded methods- also, temper. -
Lucius Malfoy (Harry Potter) & Jafar (Disney)
Snobbyness-- untrustworthy snakes and conspirators whom have no qualms in kissing up to higher up’s like second nature with every intention to embed a knife in their skull. -
Sir Crocodile (One Piece)
Inordinate cruelty to his enemies, bitterness and scoffing at short-sightedness, humble lives and modest idealism. Expensive tastes. -
Mogu Casters
Torkazi’s ideas on magic, The Loa as well as his main transmog.
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Just one… Korra from Avatar
A mix between want to be king of the world/ becomming humbled time and time again is reflected thrue Kwaan.
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Curtis Hoyle (Punishers friend from the TV-series)
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Boromir (Lotr)
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Bjorn Ironside (Vikings Series on netflix)
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King Harald (Vikings Series, but without the scheming part)
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Red cloud (Native american lakota chief)
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Bob Fudge (Colter Wall song about a cowboy)
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This one, I imagine, is a reluctant necromancer, who can’t let go of his family and is now proactively keeping himself (and them) animated by artificial means.
- Oedipus Rex (Conflict with his father)
- The Lich King (most famous death knight informs me on how to death knight)
- Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Does that count as 2?!)
- Frankenstein (The Dr. not the monster)
- William Foster (Keanu Reeves character in replicas)
- Karl Landsteiner ( Scientist that self experimented on himself for blood science)
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Chaveyo is inspired by a various amount but I´ll cook it down to these:
- My son, (yeah yeah filhty casual, but it´s true, my boys love for nature and animals inspired Chav)
- Captain America (Marvel)
- Gandalf (LoTR)
- Red (Shawshank redemption)
- King Theodin (LoTR)
- Johnny English (the second movie when J.E has become a monk)
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There’s a bunch - I initially created Tirei based on For Honor’s Lawbringer, and the character went on from there.
I think that if there’s a main inspiration by now though I’d have to point at Zhang Liao. As much as Tirei wishes she was a Zhao Yun (and would have preferred marrying one…) she is more Zhang Liao than anything else.
My Radnor is inspired from:
-Paul Atreides, Dune(novels).
-Alexandros Mograine, World of Warcraft.
-Taelan Fordring, World of Warcraft.
-Edmond Dantès, The Count of Monte Cristo.
-Jaime Lannister(season 5-8), Game of Thrones.
-A slight part of myself, as all my characters. And I guess everyone’s. I think that ‘to play a role’ in such a way could be compared to ‘acting on the set, or on theatre’. Every actor in this world puts a small sparkle of himself into every character he protrays.
For my character Burt Aldreign, a farmhand-turned warrior from Westfall, I had two inspirations to start the character off with.
- Larry the cable guy, primarily for the accent and way of speaking.
- Thorkell (Vinland Saga) for that inhuman strength and happy demeanor.
Besides those two existing characters, I’ve taken inspiration from concepts and ideas, no particular ones, however. Sure, there’s probably a character that embodies the same “Truly kind-hearted, wearing his heart on his sleeve” type as Burt does.
Always surprised to see character inspirations out like this. I tend to go the opposite way around, pull together a character from scratch and then notice some parallels to existing characters.
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Both characters and organisations inspired me heavily.
- William Thatcher - Knight’s Tale
- The Inquisition - 40k Warhammer
- Trazyn the Infinite - 40k Warhammer
- Aragorn - Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
- Palpatine - Star Wars
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- Jimmy Saville
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Here we go. I usually have three at max as inspirational characters.
Odd inspiration for your character but thats fine i guess
For me it was a bit 50-50. Tirei was created mostly from scratch (I went with a visual inspiration and used a train of logic from there to devise personality, background etc). As time goes on I notice similarities and draw inspiration for development - it helps determine what decisions they would make, which can sometimes be difficult to imagine in your head as a whole other person.
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https://imgur.com/a/S6Uvg5
- Bruce Banner and The Hulk (Representing the Human and Worgen form)
- Geralt’s school of the bear armour (Witcher 3)
- Ser Arthur Dayne (Game of Thrones)
- Werewolf (Gwent)
- Werewolf (Van Helsing 2004)
- Trevor Belmont (Castlevania)
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For whatever reason the link broke, so I just re-uploaded it.
https://imgur.com/ONeIvmF Try that.