#possibly not

Humble certainly looks a bit like me - although I don't have a black stripe on my nose and I'm not quite as large - which wasn't a conscious intention when creating him, but has been pointed out since.

He probably represents some of my struggles with understanding things and feeling less smart than other people - although my challenges tend to be more around processes and practical issues, rather than general knowledge or reading. We are both viewed as being a bit slow on the uptake by a lot of people I think.

He also has the westcountry accent that I would have had, if I hadn't had received pronounciation knocked into me from an early age (Mimble very much gets the RP version of my voice).

His shyness and lack of self-confidence is very me - Mimble gets my exhibitionist love of peforming for an audience, Humble gets my anxiety and struggles over things that other people find easy, and my sensitivity to rejection and crippling fear of letting others down.

Whilst I am a bit more experienced than Humble, I suspect his virginity and anxiety around sex and relationships is a pretty clear projection of my own issues in that area (and over which we shall draw a modest veil). Plus feeling like you look very different to the accepted beauty standard is something to which we can both relate.

I have been described as a gentle sort of person, although it hasn't always been meant as a compliment, so perhaps there's something of that in Humble. Conversely, I don't have an Inner Beast to unleash, but on the rare occasions I get angry, I do get very very angry and I have certainly had a few fights in my time (although sadly I do not have a giant axe).

So perhaps Humble is my power fantasy of being confused, shy and uncertain a lot of the time, but still being respected and changing the world anyway (this is, again, trickier to achieve in real life...)