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Sorry if these questions comes off as unoriginal, but what mainly inspired your art style, and how did you come up with ideas for your stories (in the sense of a general outline of the plot and coming up with loose story beats)

Whenever you get a story idea, do you think of the characters first, the setting first, or the actual plot first?

Sorry if this is too much for you 💧^ ^

thank you ^_^ to be honest a lot of my stories started off as AUs of pre existing stories (children's heterotopia, crimson paradise) but then after a few weeks I turn them into their own things and give the stories a huge overhaul. while the other stories just naturally came to me (golden ichor, symphofanta, achtung baby) like.... Hey wouldnt it be messed up if you still have human-like struggles even though you're now technically dead? or for lighter ones, Hey I feel like writing a romcom between an alien and a human that's almost like a parody of cheesy YA stories and industry plant isekai animes.... something like that

I usually think of the characters first because laying out a set of characters, then creating the world they live in, then doing some writing to make them fit, makes storytelling much easier for me. the best I can say is that I like to play with parallels and cause-effect and make sure my main cast isn't one dimensional or Just There. take CH for example -- a character has a twin that works for the mafia that exchanges intel with her, another used to be cellmates with someone from a strong organization and they've been watching her for a long time, another was the childhood friend of one of the big bads of said mafia, etc etc. and they all live in 1950s california from a timeline that kind of deviates from ours. so then the actual plot comes in last because many of my stories are character-driven. the characters impact how the story goes, and they also impact each others' character development. that's why despite each story having the supposed main characters, I prefer focusing on the main cast equally because they have their own stories to tell too (this has been tons of fun considering the workplace buddies dynamic the sunset tribune of children's heterotopia has)!

as for art inspirations I've always been a big fan of works from authors such as shirahama kamome (witch hat atelier), naoki urasawa (monster, pluto, 20th century boys), and tatsuki fujimoto (chainsaw man). I think reading blue period by tsubasa yamaguchi years ago impacted the way I draw faces too. their writing styles are also very dear to me. there's also a lot of other artists I would mention but the list will be so so long!!! ultimately, I learn a little piece of something with every story I read, whether it's the writing, drawing facial expressions, angles, show-don't-tell imagery, etc.