Five years ago from Thursday, I made a D&D character for a 4e campaign. I wanted to be the fanservicey character, I wanted to base her on a dream about Natia from Bomberman Hero I'd had earlier that year, and I was in a very Castlevania kick.
Thus, after her backstory was sorted out, and her design was tweaked, Natalia Belmund was born.
Since then, she's been in many adventures and accomplished a whole lot of things. She's changed quite a bit over the years too, and truly grown to be her own character.
I had no idea back then that Natalia would become who she is now, and I'm glad I could see it happening all the way.