Azu asked Josh Lanyon:

I have read a number of your works, including AoM, and find them very attractive, especially the bottom. By the way, this is a feeling that I, as a Japanese, can't quite grasp, but do you have any moe combinations of fascinating eye color, hair combination, height difference, age difference, occupation, etc.?

Josh Lanyon Well, I try to change it up a bit with every book, but sometimes a character just looks a certain way in my mind, and if I try to change his hair color or build (for example) because I feel like he's liable to sound too much like the last main character, it always feels "off." Almost as if he's wearing a fake mustache through the story. 😉

I'm not sure why some characters *feel* like they have to have chestnut hair and green eyes versus characters who *feel* blond and slight and hazel-eyed. It's just one of those things you don't want to try to analyze too much lest it get in the way of believing the world you're building for the reader.

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