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Someone, I can't remember who, once mentioned that Desmond would make the most chill hobbit ever.
Most of my Desmond ideas have him reincarnating into a new version of his own body, but in past fandoms I have very commonly enjoyed writing my characters possessing or merging with others in different bodies. Even with Desmond, there's his Bleeding Effect, and also Blacklight re: Alex Mercer. And just plain reincarnating as Ezio, of course.
But this particular inspiration was about Bilbo Baggins.
Imagine that, for a moment. This Desmond would be from a world where J.R.R. Tolkien never wrote the world of the Lord of the Rings, including the Hobbit. Instead, he wrote an entirely different epic fantasy saga that still included dwarves and elves and goblins and dragons and wizards and other fairytale-inspired creations. Just... different versions of them. All those tropes would need to still exist in Desmond's world to spawn the Dungeon&Dragons tabletop gaming revolution, which directly led to the existence of digital gaming as his generation knew it. Kind of important from a world-building perspective. It just wasn't Middle Earth that he wrote of in Desmond's reality, that was all. And there were no Hobbits in his books.
So when Desmond woke up in the body of a newborn Hobbit fauntling, he had no idea what was going on. Other than the whole not dead reincarnation deal, that part was kind of obvious. But the not human part? That came out of the blue.