As I'm sure has been said a few times, all of the characters sans myself and the Meteors are based on current or former gym leaders of the Reborn Server's online league.
The plot was just a matter of... how do I combine these ~35 characters into a singular storyline? There's actually way too much going on in the plot for my liking as a writer but if others are enjoying it, then so be it; I guess I've succeeded.
The environment was actually the result of some late night shenanigans when the PO server first started. Back in the day when we were just borrowing other servers and were about three days old, I was the only auth, because there were like ten regulars and we didn't need any other auth. But, like many humans, I needed to sleep so one night after I signed off, something or other happened- and others can probably tell you better than I can- and one of our members, Will, decided that as a result of my absence the Armageddon had occurred and people would be forced to eat Pokemon for sustenance and Reborn would become a ruined city. That night he conceived the story of Infinitas, a webcomic he draws based around Reborn and its members, which takes place in the post-apocalyptic city.
A solid year or two later, someone on the forums made a topic about drawing maps of Reborn, and being the show off I am, I decided to be a jerk and one-up everyone with this (because it gave me something to do in class >>; ). So I worked on that on and off as a matter of fun for some number of months and talked about what some of the places might be like as I drew and thought of it.
Then after I posted it, another member posted a forum topic and was like, "Imma make a game based on the map" and mentioned some software, RMXP, that now had Pokemon scripts created for it- and it just so happened it was the software that I had stopped using several years ago, but practiced with since I was 11 and ran a website based on using since I was 13.
So I was like "yo dawg imma let u finish but" and then i made some stuff up based on the map and put out the first episode two weeks later and was like yo.
My favorite character is obvs Amy, just because she's one of my best friends IRL
Besides her, I rather like Anna and Titania.