Protagonist Inspiration

My initial inspiration for my protagonist came from a stereotype, this being the bald character stereotype in gaming. The stereotype is that bald characters always appear to be the tough guy in videogames such as Agent 47 or Zoran Lazarevic from Uncharted 2, I had chosen this idea to give my protagonist the personality of an in-game tough guy. This is where my initial idea came from in terms of the protagonist idea.

At first felt that due to the previous behaviour of the character, he would resemble as the typical bald video game characters that tend to show no emotion and have an unfriendly look towards them. However, I felt this needed to change as a result of helping to show portrayal of emotions in my protagonist and will result avoid falling into the videogame stereotype of bald characters being the typical tough guy that shows no emotions. I have therefore taken inspiration from videogame characters that lack personal courage and shows character in a disastrous way, a primary example of this would be the character James Sunderland from Silent Hills 2 where I have taken the similar name of his and created my own ‘James’ where my version would remind me of the one in the Silent Hill second game.