User blog comment:ChemicalSocialist/I need some opinions/@comment-3568435-20121129044826

Just to inject my opinion into here, I often make my OC's the children of fictional characters because that's what I'm more versed in. That isn't to say it's all I do (take Clyde Navet, a Jinmenju; and Hortense Daggett, a Hodag), but it's what I know better. If the character interests me, I may build an OC around it. For example, I grew to take a likeness to Tall Jake, the primary villian from the books Malice and ''Havoc. ''Ergo, I decided to make an OC around it, resulting in Small Eliza. This is also the case for The Terrible Trivium, Doctor Two-Brains, Vlad the Count, Doctor Neo Cortex, and so on and so forth. I just know fiction better then I know any sort of mythological monsters that haven't been done already (minotaurs, fae, banshees, ect.). Clyde and Hortense are, naturally, the exceptions to this rule.

I don't know, that's just how I see it. Besides, I'm more interested in personality quirks then where the monster came from, haha. ^^;