I tried to make him look like a shadow warrior, because he was created to eliminate a person (tco) so he would have to be an assassin or a warrior to fight and kill (Your personality doesn't quite match your appearance)
something i like to imagine sometimes is that alan's creations are... him, in a way. tiny little shards of a full person that broke off in creation, giving them life. breathing life into them.
and despite that, they still have individuality. they're their own people, their personalities starting out were just akin to small little facets in alan's mind.
but the little pieces taken from him were so small, that there was no change. Like dipping an empty glass into an ocean. The amount taken isn't enough to really damage the ocean.
this kind of ties into my headcanon of humans being outer eldritch gods compared to sticks, so different and vast compared to them. so distant and far that in a lot of cases, humans don't even realize that sticks are people too. alan's just a special case cause he realized. anyways thank you for listening :3