User blog comment:Blankslate/On the topic of theme songs/@comment-11500845-20131005022553

If only this was a quote... they would change the quote of the month to this ASAP. I couldn't agree more. Most of my characters have no themes because I create them first and finding a matching song is very difficult. Like analprobe said, sometimes I base my characters off of real life things, like songs, real life events, or even stories I read from.

My character, Caius Dëwytt, comes from a extremely traumatizing and abusive background that has affected his person. I would give him the theme song from Jay Z's Holy Grail but honestly, only Justin's part fits while Jay Z's rapping is something that does NOT fit Caius. And is whack.

I DID find the perfect song though, Tears Don't Fall, from the lyrics, you can infer that Caius is forced to believe all of the pain inflicted on him is his fault, how the death of others are his only possessions and those said possessions is driving him more further in to guilt and insanity and shifting him more in to a tool--something he is desperately trying to avoid. He can't ever seem to stop being manipulated and controlled, no matter how distant he forces himself to be and realizes he may never be free. The only way he can protect himself is to harden himself and keep himself free from association and connections.

At least, thats what I got from the song. :\

I would also say how Caius is based off of a real person, a close friend of mine who actually did go through that and ended up... not alive in the end. </3

So I agree with both Stylx and Probation X, inspiration and creation comes from anywhere. :P