Talk:Hotbox Sato

To go with the update proposed here, this would involve a small edit to the infobox and Smokehouse Gang section.

Wiki mods were alerted to a lore addition that was not added according to collaboration policy. Though the content is relatively brief, it directly addresses a major change in Sato's state, and thus is classified as a "major narrative beat" for our policies. The edit has been rolled back, and is copied here for community discussion. The below line was added as a distinct paragraph in The Smokehouse Gang section. The original author is Terwox, who may choose to claim & re-add the lore should no objections be made after 24 hours.

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After Sato's incineration, Tillman Henderson was quoted as respectfully saying "Turns out the smoke could burn, who knew?"

Oh cool, thanks for clarifying the process!  :D

Hey Terwox! Thank you for submitting this. I've brought this back to the Shoe Thieves on Discord, and we have a few thoughts. Firstly, we would like to format Hotbox's page similar to other incinerated Shoe Thieves (see Prestige and Fischer as examples), with a section specifically for incineration. We would love to address how Hotbox's incineration affected the Smokehouse Gang, but we were thinking of Tillman expressing more genuine concern, maybe him saying he was not affected or sad, but showing it physically. We would like to reflect that Tillman was truly friends with members of the Smokehouse Gang, Hotbox and Snyder specifically. Finally, we aren't really done processing its incineration and coming up with the lore for that. We still need to work on its memorial in the Bat Garden, and probably make some changes to Snyder's page as well. Once again, thank you for your addition, and I can bring anything you'd like to say back to the Thieves on Discord.

I dig it. If you're good keeping the quote (I like keeping with his heel persona, of course!) -- maybe add that he's rubbing his eyes at the end of it? As in, he's still the worst person imaginable, but he's got some feelings about his friend too. Thoughts?

1. remove the beef with games bit: it doesn't mesh well with their characters as they are now, it's a little gross, and it's pretty much not been utilized as a part of the lore since its inception. we'd like to mention that hotbox was close to rubberman and took their death hard, but that's about it 2. a little more about their time with the flowers: we're currently opening a dialogue with the flowers about hotbox's dynamic with the team before the transfer. we feel like that period of its life isn't very present on the wiki, and it would just be kind of a nice thing