a couple of them basically ARE me. I am not creative enough to design a protagonist that would react in a way I cannot understand.
The rest are all personalities I have known, even if their circumstances and appearances are different.
Yes, even the bad guys. Jail sucks, but it's a good place to learn how the criminal mind works in a way that I would have never guessed otherwise. And yes, the phrase 'criminals are a cowardly, stupid, and superstitious lot' is absolutely true. Let's just say that most of the worst are convinced that they are the next Einstein, and that nobody is human except them.