User blog comment:Freefalling Lilacs/February Blog Post and 10 Fun Facts/@comment-1153194-20120207033147/@comment-2021069-20120208001140

Paul is mostly based on a friend of mine who I've had for five or six years now (who's name, by the way, is not Paul). He's a good guy, the overachiever type who doesn't think he can do any wrong because really he never does. The biggest difference is that IRL Paul has a very religious family as opposed to a highly nationalist one. He was in Boy Scouts because he likes doing good and often related it to religion, and his parents always drilled church-related beliefs into his head. The religious aspect was changed to an All-American belief to avoid any religion-related storylines. He's also partially based off another person, but that part of his personality/story really hasn't come into play yet in-story.