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Franz K. Faust: I like Franz. I like Franz because he's a stressed person with so much pressure and I can relate. I can also relate to liking too many things and not knowing what I'm doing with my life so I drown my thoughts with tea. Except in the case of Franz, he drowns his thoughts with alcohol and I'm not the sort to get drunk. Anyway, I think Franz means a lot to me because Faust means a lot to me. Academia is my life, it's also the bane of existence but also I genuinely can't envision myself on a path other than discovery and pushing the edges of knowledge. I hope Franz finds his vision on what he wants to do one day. I don't know. He's just an emo mess marinating in his confusion and whatnot. I hope it's somewhat engaging or relatable.

Johann Wagner: I love found families. That's not even a secret. I think Wagner is great because father figures are great, and I'm projecting my own desire to be a father figure onto him. That's it, that's all.

Corona Hua: Frankly, I'm not a huge fan of Corona, but that's mostly because people keep misreading her as a character which put me off writing her. But I did like writing her dialogue and her ideals, I think that was a lot of fun. Designing for her is also a lot of fun because military uniforms are so?? damn. Hot damn.

Lian Tian-e: Hey, guess what, I'm not actually a huge fan of Lian either. She's rude and a bitch and is self-destructive and actually based off two people who I severely dislike, so I guess that's a reason why she's far from being a favourite. But Lian is fun to write. She's a mess and messy and I think it was important to portray. Maybe it was because I was sick of demure asian girls when I first put her out. And now I'm going in the complete opposite direction. What I do know is that all the (east) asian OCs I've made for EAH is not the kind of asian I've ever been - with my science and my mad bants and my general bro-ness - but it's perhaps a source of escapism and fun and I respect that. I wish I could respect Lian, too.

Shelley Keaton: I love the aesthetic of romanticism. I think it's beautiful, I think it's all too human to feel so much and want to roll around in the elements and live with deep emotions in your soul. I'm glad. I like feeling things. I like being alive. I like writing Shelley because I can write a love letter in this sort of fashion and project my love of romanticism. I also like Shelley's choice of story because it's so carthartic and good. Shelley is a mess. Shelley is such a mess. Shelley is a drug-doing, self-destructive mess as well but at least they're fun.

Gun Fawkes: I like Guy Fawkes. I like kickass revolutionaries who fight for what they like. I like sweeping statements about the revolution and revolt and I like Gun Fawkes. Not much to that, I swear.

Kristan Tell: See above. Kristan was also intended as a love letter to opera, and a love letter to my good friend Swiss White Guy, but platonically of course because I'm not into that. I think Kristan was intended as a "fun character". Because look - EAH used to be my way of projecting onto OCs and venting out my emotions, which is generally a summary of 12309123098 years of literature. But I also realise that EAHF was meant to be fun. And dammit, I want some fun after a goddamn semester of impostor syndrome and feeling down. So I made an OC whose sole purpose was to make bad puns and jokes about revolution. I'm glad he exists. I genuinely need some happiness up here.

Finch Webster: I made him because I love America. I'm not kidding. I made him because I've been having second thoughts on my interpretation of patriotism, and Faust has been on the back of my mind, and my old love for The Devil and Daniel Webster resurfaced and I was like. ''Look. I'm getting on this boat and you can all fight me''. Finch is all of that. Finch, much like Turnus, is a guy in a new environment. But instead of moping, instead of escaping, he's fighting. Also - I think there's so much to be said about willing to be critical of what you love. I hope that comes across, too.

Ablative Charming: Ablative is fun. I want fun characters, so I made fun characters. She's fun because she's reckless and rude and irresponsible and never braces for impact. She's fun because I get to make references to things that I like - Latin and Rome and Shakespeare. And she's fun because she's filled with such childlish reckless energy with no thought to her future and I wish I had that again. Now I'm sad. Look, I swear she's a fun character, okay.

Absolute Charming: As with Ablative, Absolute was made as a love letter to Latin grammar, Roman civilisation and Shakespeare references. I think Absolute is fun to write because I want to write more arrogance. I want to write more god complexes because I'm so desperately trying to fake it until I make it again - and I want self-confidence and belief in one's abilities. I like Absolute because she's so certain. She may be a bit of an asshole, but at least she's inspiring.