User blog comment:Sykokillah/Characterisation 101/@comment-9967354-20140810133037/@comment-1186783-20140810161808

Typically my rule (or has been so far) that I tell the readers nothing about the charcters that they don't need to know for the story (hell, while in my mind they're both male, I don't think either of my pastas make direct reference to the character's gender). What you needed to know for In the Circle was just "I'm a film buff," and what you needed to know for [http://My Encounter With the Bhttp://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/My_Encounter_With_the_Black_Eyed_Kidslack Eyed KIds My Encounter With the Black Eyed KIds] was "I live in the middle of nowhere." Anything else about those characters would have been extraneous, and my goal was to make this sound like an actual report of the supernatural.

I guess you could say, in that sense, my inspiration was watching Sightings when I was a kid on the Sci-fi Channel. All of these supposed "true stories" didn't go into detail about these people's favorite foods, or their personalities. They told us what mattered to the encounter, and nothing else.