the image of a happy family, he creates the alias of psychiatrist Dr. Loid Forger, adopts a young orphan girl named Anya, and marries an Ostanian city hall clerk named Yor Briar.

Loid was first created by Endo with the idea of having a spy and a child together as the main core of the story, until he came up with the idea of Yor as the mother of the house. As a result of not being too experienced with works of fiction involving spies, Endo decided the story would