Talk:The Abhorrence/@comment-28071061-20141015014314/@comment-9340689-20141016155828

He's only visually similar. His personality is nothing like Kruegar.

The claws are part of reason for it, but I wanted to add more personality. If you think about it, The Rake rarely is given a personality.

At the time, madness was considered one of the things The Rake could be a fear of (as his servants were people who ended up losing their sanity) and so I played with that some.

I always had this long-haired Krueger knock-off idea in my head that was bound to be used for something eventually, as well.

I also wanted to take something familiar and turn it into something else. I've always kind of had this thing for doing that with bad guys.

....and I don't even remember the full reason.

Heck, my liking of fedoras might have been part of it!