Topic on Talk:Malik Destiny

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Like I said earlier, I don't mind if this is an alternate interpretation. The Garages that have spoken up in our discord have also indicated that this would be more than welcome as an IRM. However, it feels somewhat disrespectful to try and erase the previous work done on Meowlik in the past.

Anti-monarchist sentiment is important to all of the Garages. We're a punk, anti-capitalist, anarchist team. Almost every player has some stripe of this mentality, and Malik being anti-monarchist is fairly important to his character, and has been for a long time. No kings, no gods, only cats. It's sorta his motto, has been for a long time. While the Garages as a team has been re-evaluating their "kill all gods" stance, we've never questioned the anti-monarchist sentiment. Just because one of his parents may come from a place with a monarchy, does not mean he can't be anti-monarchist. In fact, it may give him even more of a reason to be such, as he has direct experience in what it actually means to be living under monarchist rule. I don't know if any Garage would really support such a change, but I can't speak for anyone other than myself.

The Garages in the past have always been a very wiki-hesitant team. It's taken a long time for us to start utilizing the wiki to its fullest extent, and that's perhaps why some of our oral tradition for why we've shaped certain characters certain ways hasn't made it to the wiki. Also, it's just something that doesn't always have a place on the wiki. It's a story that gets passed from Garage to Garage. That being said, it's why we're pushing to utilize IRM more often now, particularly because we have these historic interpretations that many fans love and hold dear. Being able to keep these historic interpretations while also creating more representative interpretations is important to many of the Garages. Again, I mentioned this earlier. We have other characters where we strove to create more representative interpretations, but we thought it important to keep the historic ones. Thus, the IRM. I still feel as though this would be a wonderful use of the IRM, especially with the way that this alternative interpretation strips any literal JRPG-Protagonist away from Malik. I simply don't see a way to reconcile a mundane catboy voice actor with the historic interpretation of a catboy JRPG character without minimizing or brushing aside one or the other.