Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25229725-20150128010644/@comment-25857155-20150207013138

Haha, sort of, but those four are only minor characters in my original world. Well, mostly minor - a couple of big impacts that will be major to my plot, but overall they play only a small part.

Jay is not based off me, no; I just use him as a penname, kind of like one of my other main characters, Joshua Argentine (who does end up playing a fairly big part in my OS). His personality differs greatly from mine - he tends to go off on his own a lot, and is usually more caring about what he says to people than I. He is also comfortable with great heights, which I am not. Also, he likes to move around the world a lot, where I prefer to settle down in one spot. I can go on, or do this with all my characters, but I think you get the idea.

Of course, a lot of my characters share certain traits with me, but I believe that is true of every writer, whether they acknowledge the fact or not.