2, 8, 15!
2. Where did you find inspiration for your muse?
Oh this is kind of embarrassing but also kind of obvious once you realize we have the same exact name – but she started out as a self insert that was mashed with my other OC Sierra. Eventually she became VERY deviated from the source material (me) and now she’s just her own person but happens to have my name. (Thank god for that ‘cause I’d die of embarrassment from half the stuff I write with her, if she was still me)
Sierra was a character I had in my head as long as I can remember, she was always kind of an imaginary friend - and at one point, my chuunibyou phase’s alter ego (DONT JUDGE ME)
So since Sierra was me and Hima was me it just made sense that Sierra was Hima, right? And thus space princess trainer was born
tl;dr: she was a delusional self insert of mine that kind of detached and ran off on her own.
8.How did you choose the name for your muse?
Aside from her being initially a self insert, I also just could not think of a cooler name than Himashi?? Hello?? Not to toot my own horn (Totally tootin my own horn) but Himashi is a COOL ASS name. It means snow blessings in Sinhala, supposedly means mountain goddess in some Indian language (Fitting for Hima, the soil princess!) and just. Sounds cool. My parents did something right.
15. Share a random headcanon about your muse!
Her in-canon reason for being named Himashi: In Japanese, “Hima” means “free time”, which she has a lot of now that Xena’s let her have a 100 year break. And the “shi” comes from Satoshi! (The English explanation: Hima + Ash = Himashi)







