I've talked about this before in other places, but it's good to have it written down. I went through a few ideas at first, trying to figure out what I wanted to do. One of the earliest iterations involved being a wendigo, and I'd considered shark as well, because there's a part of me that's still that little kid that thinks sharks are the coolest shit. Eventually, I looked at things that meant something to me, and a game that's stuck with me since I played it the first time was S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl. And back then, my favorite faction was Duty (these days it's Loner). I thought to myself it was pretty original as ideas for vtubing go, I hadn't seen anyone with that sort of vibe to them, so I went all in on it, with the Duty inspired black tactical gear, and the sort of run-down bunker background for things. I even dug up an old Soviet propaganda poster and had the artist doing my background edit it into what's in the scene now, because I felt like in that sort of bunker you'd probably still have those sorts of things lingering. The rat part came in because I'd come to be associated with rats due to having a nitro subscription (cancelled now, obviously), and being in several servers that existed just to have every sort of rat emote imaginable. For vtuber background and backstory and whatnot, I ended up folding into Greenlow's a bit, with very minor effort being required for it. I'm even writing a bit of a thing to have background events for anyone that cares to read it. End of the day though, it's really as simple as "STALKER plus rat".