User blog comment:Freefalling Lilacs/February Blog Post and 10 Fun Facts/@comment-1874924-20120208074313/@comment-2021069-20120213025139

Aaaaaggghh I should have answered this a long time ago but I had some things to take care of.

In the original draft of the story, Donna was more inspired by myself both in personality and in physical appearance. In that version she was more of an antagonist, and had a very different personality than she does now. I didn't like having one character that I defined myself with, so I split up the characteristics with some of the other characters like Victor, Allison, Ophelia, and Monique. The physical appearance partially stayed. Originally the final story version of Donna was supposed to be a redhead with pale skin and freckles, but that was changed so it was closer to the original because I didn't want her sharing the red hair and name with Donna from That 70's Show. The redhead's design will pop up eventually.

So, in short, I used to be her real life counterpart. Now she's more based off of a combination of a friend of mine and some completely made up personality traits, with a bit of myself left behind.