Samara: I was playing Diablo 2 when I named my new Fire sorceress "Breastfondler". I thought the name was cool and let it stick. Later I had been just randomly doodling while watching the Ring and thus Samara the Breastfondler was born (I later cut the latter part out). I based her appearance somewhat on that of Garbage's lead singer Shirley Manson, who I think is hot.
Shirley, as it so happens, is a red-headed green-eyed Irish girl.
Ernest: I figured if I did Samara I needed a big dork. I remembered a flash film by an artist on Newgrounds where the lead character was a muscle-bound dork. Since this is a fantasy setting, I made Ernest into a Barbarian Librarian, which not only gives him reason to meet Samara, but also gives him a future story plot. Then I gave him a pet chicken named after Megatokyo's creator for comical effect.
Eve: I used to attend a forum with an oekaki. Me, I can't work an oekaki for shit, but I liked to watch. There was a lot of cool art - a little yaoi, but mostly cool ass art of chicks or badass guys. Then the yaoi girls found the oekaki and collectively glomped it - overrunning it completely. Being a redblooded man I promptly punched myself in the cock and left. Evelyn is my vengeance - a female character who pretends to be a bishounen.
Lord Evil Boner: I was playing Diablo 2 and entered an area called Dark Wood. Being the jackass I always am while playing games I decided to joke about it - "Hey," I typed "Dark Wood? Why don't they just call it 'Evil Boner'?" The character came later.
On the outside, weaker people perceive him as a bastard. I dimmed down that factor because that could have made Rika less likable. She's still spoiled (what 14 year old ruins a cell phone, and doesn't care?), her temper goes through the roof like a typical anime girl ( 
), and...stuff.
