The materials are indeed materials from one's life, but, ultimately, the creation is an independent creature.
But Sarah was an independent creature and had not wanted that.
The legend was that the creature, independent and fierce, could be subdued only by a virgin, in whose lap he would lay his head.
Like independent creatures the tips of his limbs pried at the ice, seeking purchase.
The ancestors of these organelles were originally independent free-swimming creatures.
Her trunk was busy and active, like an independent creature, as it worked at the ground.
In the Eberron campaign setting, driders exist as creatures independent from the drow society.
Cats are independent creatures and enjoy doing their own thing.
It had been a solitary creature, proud and independent, in many ways like a Cardassian.
Rats are intelligent, independent creatures, and I think that if Timmy wasn't enjoying himself, he wouldn't get on to your head in the first place.