Sometimes, vanilla is just what a person needs.
And like you've read, cute avatar. I like it.
Aren't they the cutest couple? *hugs them* I love cooing at them. Makes me want to write something sappy, and I don't really do sappy...
Anyways, you will not. I base my characters off a mixture of my friends. Whiskey, one of my first characters are based off of Gypsy, her fiance, we'll call him Wolf-daddy, and one of my cousins. And any information I find out, I twist and change or take apart and use parts of. It makes my stories fuller and more real for the reader.