So, in what has got to be the second-most-niche thing I've ever done, I've made a character for Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast (a delightful tabletop rpg that I'm fixating hard on right now) based off of one of my favorite Blaseball players (a delightful online game experience that I previously fixated on until it died). There's just something about it that felt really perfect together--specifically, Yazeba's and Blaseball have approaches to lore that mesh well, with defining a character through a few small but distinctive things, and then exploring them further over time as more is revealed/constructed through play.
It's just... there's really no audience for this other than myself, haha. I am running a Yazeba's campaign online and I don't even have plans to use this character, because I recognize that it's so based on something meaningful to me and no one else, and I don't want to shoehorn that in at the expense of my other players. Even among people who are into Blaseball, so much of this is really reflecting specifically on the Kansas City Breath Mints too, so it wouldn't be as resonant to anyone who wasn't like... one of fifty people who spent time in a particular channel of a particular discord a full year ago, or whatever.
But also it's something that didn't take me very long, and which I personally found really fun to think through and make. An interesting challenge to imagine how best to structure certain specific references to meaningful things, while leaving other aspects deliberately generalized and broadened! Makes me better appreciate what I got out of Blaseball and what I find to be compelling about Yazeba's (which are quite different).
