Thread:YingHe/@comment-36159587-20190613052949/@comment-36159587-20191226002555

@Time - There hasn't been much detail on Run's past career. After his students being killed he kind of went full "I'm going to kill Champ". His vengeance, which basically defines him, isn't to be seen in Hitan.

Of course, one could then argue that Hitan hates Akuma with a vengeance, but...what is a character without another to hate, right? :)?

I have a bit of a different interpretation than you. I want people to be able to see their differences, knowing both of the characters. That way, they can see or possibly share my process of constructing Hitan as a character.

I wouldn't complain so much about Hitan's character development if I were letting his personality go off of Run's. Alas, I'm not. Run's personality is defined by vengeance and unwillingness to let anyone get close to him, even if he does care for them. Hitan is defined by more than that, or at least for me, since he hasn't been prominently a part of GGaD. He's defined by his loyalty to Run. This reflects how much I admired Run, even if he's twisted and 'evil', and insane to an extent even, because I valued how much he protected his teammates and stayed true to his ideals.

Hitan is more primarily based off one of my characters from two years ago, who I've named Ryo Kaori for his potential debut in GGaD. From a very young age, I've always adored characters because of a prominent fact--they are always loyal to those they care for. After questioning myself repeatedly about just why I cared for Run, who's a type of character I never would have liked before, who has killed others and done things I never would condone in real life, I came to realize that loyalty is extremely important to me as a person, more so than it just being a trait of Athena's Saints (the first characters I came to know in depth and cared about extensively), and more than it is just something that Galaxian controls. I realized that loyalty is, in fact, a reflection of one of my strongest beliefs; thus, one of my strongest wishes with Hitan's character is to implement my belief, the belief that liking Run from Akame Ga Kill! helped me realize. That's how he will reflect Run in personality, and I believe, only in that reflective way.

I enjoy this conversation a lot xD, and when I do, I type a lot. Sorry if this will bother you; I didn't mean for it to seem condescending or anything. I just don't talk about Run and Hitan, and characters and their bases, all that often, and you've given me the excuse to do just that.

I like to think that Hitan's personality is more developed than Run's. Most of his personality is inferred; I'm sure he isn't actually like what I've been envisioning him to be. Run is incredibly careful, but only for his own benefit in the end. One could say that he is selfish in that sense. He lives for fulfilling his own goals, even if those goals are oriented towards others--his deceased students, murdered due to the corruption in the Empire, and he pursued the justice that the government refused to implement by trying to force his way to the higher-ups. He's always depicted as polite, formal, and yet always mysterious. He wasn't ever meant to be a very in-depth character, I think, except for his rare sense of justice and willingness to do anything to achieve his goals.

Just because I've started to ramble again, I think Hitan's sense of justice doesn't define him, but his persistence, which I've honed off of the original Kaori Ryo, is more oriented towards describing him.

I think I'm talking too much again xD. I can't find our chat thread (MWs keep crashing =_=); I'd be really interested in discussing this with you though. (I'm mostly keeping myself from going on another device and bumping the thread in fears I'll pour Hitan's entire development story thus far on you and annoy you, but I've kinda accepted the fact I'm annoying by now xD.) Providing that I haven't bored you to death already.

@Tere - UwU Will be kept in mind. I'm not showing any improvement am I xDD

-Galaxian-