Wyatt

A person is a product of her many years of experience.  She is 25, 15 and 5.  I am 24, 14 and 4.  Like it or not, your past is you.  It is not the only thing that is you, but you do not exist without your past.  

What about fictional characters?  We find them at a certain point in their life; all we know of them is what the author tells us about them; maybe that's all there is to them.  That one period of life that fits between the pages of a book.  But I would be willing to bet that our favorite characters have pasts as well.  Pasts lived by actual people in this world who inspired the authors.  Maybe the author writes this persons history, pages of material that never make it to the final cut but still shape the characters.  The author will some times let us in on the past, but in other occasions we are left guessing of the past of these characters.  How much of the author is expressed in his characters?  Assuming they are characters devoid of connection to reality (which seems terribly unlikely) where do they come from?

What about the horrendous acts they commit?  What about the acts displaying noble character?  What about their fears? Hopes? 

Where did Wyatt come from?