User blog comment:EtherealNyx/OC Rant/@comment-27226023-20150720034319/@comment-27235572-20150720175438

Basically, the story of Quinn's creation went like this.

I had two OCs that I made one day and I asked my friend to draw them. She promised to if she got a candy bar, which I supplied. My other friend wanted to draw them, but didn't want anything in exchange. The first friend is an awesome artist who will do anything for sugar, so they looked amazing. My other friend can't really draw people, but she's at coloring and colored them. I gave them names and developed their characters and it was all good.

I wanted to post them here, but then I realized the ugly truth. "No Disney OCs allowed". I freaked out, realizing that I needed to make a new one. So, I thought of a name I liked for a female and I came up with Quinn. Then, I looked at my Brothers Grimm books and found the tale "Oh, If I Could But Shiver!". I remembered finding that story scary as a kid. So, I had three things, a name, a story and a trait and worked with that, adding in all the little things I wanted in a character. Thus, Quinn came to life.

She needed a last name and I wanted her to be German because the Brothers Grimm were German. So, I translated shiver into German, came up with Schauer, thought it was a good name and that was it. That's usually what I do with my characters to be honest. Pellen means skin in German, which is Ark's last name. Arktophonos means bear killer in Greek and that fit with his story well.

While my third OC Shirley's name means bright meadow, her supplementary name is a dark one, Lilith. According to the Talmud, Lilith was Adam's first wife, but was replaced by Eve. But, since that name has dark connotations, I nicknamed Shirley/Lilith 'Lily' instead, even though Shirley is a demon anyway. Her last name means destiny in German: Schicksal.

That... was a pretty long answer. :P