DekuKurohi
What would a combination of ZUN and Nasu be like?
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Expy: Characters that are stand-in/clearly based on existing characters.
We all have inspiration somewhere and probably read a story or two at least. Chances are at least one of the character you created are more transparently inspired by characters from different story from your own. Maybe most of your characters are clearly inspired by others but there's that one that seem painfully obvious that maybe you put in some tongue in cheek lampshades into the story itself.
Mine is Belphi first introduced in Re:Maou (And not the og/prototype story T&F) who is obviously meant to be similar Byleth from Fire Emblem: Three Houses on the Nintendo Switch. Similar design, introduced in an academy, was a professor teaching there at one point, use whip-sword as a weapon of choice, on the calmer side, was a mercenary once. Writing the prequel with her as the P.O.V. character actually made me put in more Byleth-like backstory with a horse-riding mercenary father and a green-haired mother who worked in the church once, legendary whip-sword, lost bloodline, and a head gremlin (Though in Belphi's case she's mostly quiet).
That's a lot of similarity I can admit to. I try to muddied it a little by giving her (not) Master Spark and liking sunflower (or just flower in general) as a nod to Yuuka Kazami from Touhou. Belphi not being much of a blank-slate, and actually have a beating heart.
There's actually a reason why I included her in the rewrite as a rather blatant Byleth expy since during planning of T&F I was originally gonna make it a Three Houses-esque story so I put her in there as a nod to what it could have been.
Hopefully I'm not pushing my luck too much with her.
Anyone else wanna fess up?
We all have inspiration somewhere and probably read a story or two at least. Chances are at least one of the character you created are more transparently inspired by characters from different story from your own. Maybe most of your characters are clearly inspired by others but there's that one that seem painfully obvious that maybe you put in some tongue in cheek lampshades into the story itself.
Mine is Belphi first introduced in Re:Maou (And not the og/prototype story T&F) who is obviously meant to be similar Byleth from Fire Emblem: Three Houses on the Nintendo Switch. Similar design, introduced in an academy, was a professor teaching there at one point, use whip-sword as a weapon of choice, on the calmer side, was a mercenary once. Writing the prequel with her as the P.O.V. character actually made me put in more Byleth-like backstory with a horse-riding mercenary father and a green-haired mother who worked in the church once, legendary whip-sword, lost bloodline, and a head gremlin (Though in Belphi's case she's mostly quiet).
That's a lot of similarity I can admit to. I try to muddied it a little by giving her (not) Master Spark and liking sunflower (or just flower in general) as a nod to Yuuka Kazami from Touhou. Belphi not being much of a blank-slate, and actually have a beating heart.
There's actually a reason why I included her in the rewrite as a rather blatant Byleth expy since during planning of T&F I was originally gonna make it a Three Houses-esque story so I put her in there as a nod to what it could have been.
Hopefully I'm not pushing my luck too much with her.
Anyone else wanna fess up?