In my nine years of being a manga and anime-fan, I've created an enormous legion of characters. In the beginning, they belonged to a Dragonball Z fan-story I made, and most of them were created because I'd thought of a new hairstyle or something. Personality-wise, they were rather much carbon copies of either the Dragonball characters or were full-out Mary-Sues/Gary-Stus :) The majority is just a memory, only old, old drawings attesting to their existence.

There were a few that stood out to me, that began 'living' their own lifes, who developed further and further. Among them, for example, Falex and Rixar. They are my main characters right now, with a fully constructed backstory and all that. Rocco, Ronix, Ramon and Tek also developed along, although they are in the process of being renamed.

When I joined OpenMinded, I first used existing characters from, for example, Naruto. Later, I made another few 'sets'; Renai and Ishou were used solely for a few illustrations and yonkomas (Chocolate Lime and the Summerspecial 2007). After that came Lucca and Kyodi, with Lucca's sisters Kimi and Reza, and the girls Nadija and Seraz. Lucca and Kyodi made their first appearance in Strawberry Shake, and later in Crème Brûlée and the Summerspecials of 2007 and 2009.

Sem and Cinder were specifically developed for Bedtime Stories. They also appeared in the Summerspecial 2009 and After Eight 1. After Eight 2 is in production at the moment, and once more they will be there! Falex and Rixar have been (are?) in quite a bit of danger of becoming second choice, my poor babies. It's rather funny to see (in Bedtime Stories) Sem's hair going from soft and wavy to springy curly, as if his gel stops working slowly. Likewise, Cinder gets more and more freckles everytime I draw him!