He states in his autobiography that he modelled the character after his own grandmother, with whom he was very close and who raised him in his early childhood, especially during his blindness.
ويذكر في سيرته الذاتية أنه صمم الشخصية على جدته، التي كانت قريبة جدًّا له وقامت بتربيته في طفولته المبكرة، وخاصةً أثناء عماه.