Naz's answer to Liiroy's Character question:
I think in my case, there is a lot of different situations/reasons behind a character's creation. In the case of Piper, Gareth, Iris and Marcel, I was inspired by characters from games or shows and wanted to test them out in a One Piece setting. (Gareth being Raven Swann from Tales of Vesperia, Iris is Levy McGarden from Fairy Tail, and Marcel is Tibarn from Fire Emblem: Path if Radiance. While Piper was inspired by a mix of King Bumi/Toph Beifong from Avatar the Last Airbender.
In the case of Anya, while I admit she is a partial homage to Law because I love him, a lot of her traits come from me indirectly. My father was never really there for me and I've always had trouble with being open and accepting of others even though I want to. So she and I relate in those aspects.
I liked the Tontatta dwarves, so Dorian was created mostly to play out what it would be like to be one.
Naomi I'm not sure of. I made her to go along with Hanbei originally, but now she kinda reminds me if a scarier/more aggressive Nami. Or maybe even Misty from Pokemon xD!
I dunno, I just like making characters. I have so many ideas for them that it's hard to decide what kind to make.^.^;;