User blog comment:Truth™/Emilia Laurie/@comment-4867780-20151018105629/@comment-4623374-20151019130728

thanks DYBAD for the comment :)

To be honest, I didn't really intend to have her backstory include rape originally, but my collaberation partner decided that adding the rape in would add depth to the character.

I was going for realism with this character so I decided to draw on something that would easy to do.

I personally see Heromania as something that would be a mix of Hunger Games, Sword Art Online and Btooom! with a pinch Suicide Squad added to the mix.

The Romans are notorious for the gladiator matches in the Roman coliseum, so I decided that I should make somthing similar to it for realism.