Topic on Talk:Malik Destiny

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Paopuleaf, I think part of the disconnect with the video game aspect is that you're proposing to also change the adventurer portion of Meowlik's backstory in favor of him being a Voice Actor, at least in your original proposal. His current interpretation of having been an adventurer is one of the primary parts that point to it being a video game past. His current page states that he was an adventurer who went on a quest to kill a king and a god. We can change that quest to "overturn a government and kill a spiteful god" or something along those lines, if we want to make it more general and less focused on killing kings. By keeping the mentions of gunblades, his past as an adventurer, and some of the other video game flavor text (I could point this out line by line in the current interpretation, if you want, but there's more there) (also I like the addition you have in your latest comment about the inventory system), and simply adding more information about his cultural heritage, it might feel less like you're re-writing and changing an interpretation completely, and more like you're trying to help Meowlik be a more sensitive and representational character.

Specific questions: -Is it possible to add some information about Meowlik's past and uplift his cultural heritage without changing his actual backstory from being a video game adventurer on a quest that got interrupted by his alternation? Add in how he valued his parents' rich culture, how he found ways to blend cultural practices from two very different lands, that they gave him a purpose and support in his quest to depose unjust governments? -Is it possible to have the interpretation of his past as a JRPG voice actor who adopted the slang and LARP'ed as an IRM entry, one that uplifts his cultural values and heritage as well? (While also threading the needle between "appreciating Japanese culture" and "someone fetishizing a culture based on video games" because that's been a long-running concern in blaseball and we don't want to be weird about Japan)