So I don’t think I explained what the whole thing with Baby Turn is. I wanted to keep the meaning only for people who wanted to search for terminology like an ARG. But then again, I’m not trying to get on Game Theory. Baby Turn is a professional wrestling term for becoming a Face wrestler… in the Japanese ring.
As for the main character, it’s supposed to be a meditation on what brought her there. As I was developing her I had a pretty flat outline so I thought about giving her more layers by making her relate to characters who share traits. Think of it like a fan finding what they enjoyed about their favorite characters from any mediums. That is until moving on from them to grow as people.
This applies to the protagonist here as well since she’s based on a specific character. If people who know their mythology, she is obviously a Ki-su-nay. What? People always mispronounce the word when it’s written like this: Kitsune.
But which one? Well the Osaki form she takes with the sulfuric body odor is one clue. Another is that I plan on making her pelt resemble a gold tabby tiger’s coloring. She also has a different name than the characters from different myths in China and Japan. So even if you figure out who she’s supposed to be in relation to mythology, she’s got layers.
Especially since her characterization takes influence from a few more contemporary figures. Partly because I originally envisioned this character with the Mad Love trope in mind. But the more I built her up, the more I realized how much potential she had. So I decided to make her more like Cruella DeVil, someone who wants to do as she wants without anything holding back. Yet she still wants to share her life with the few people that she can love, but she struggles to have it.
Honestly, those traits of wanting more out of your life including someone to go home to makes a remarkable figure. It’s at odds with some of the designs built in, but the journey to make it worth it is just so enthralling. I wanted to share that experience with all of you. Even if some of you don’t like the way I express it.
Besides, the protagonist channels the will to challenge some of people’s favorite narratives. At times it’s not even in the ways that people like at all. Two of them end abruptly and with basically no explanations on why that was the case.
Honestly it’s a two-way reason. One I don’t have the strength to put effort into changing cheesy/cringey content from the 2000s. I grew up in those times and I’d rather not go back into those disillusionments. I barely understand any way someone else would approach it with respect. But also in regards to the protagonist, she wants to be an idea that pushes people to be more than just extensions of herself. She doesn’t want to expend the effort into making people she connects with more like her because she respects them too much. She wants her meme to enhance their already considerable influence on their worlds. It’s also possible things didn’t work out and it just made things marginally different.
But while the protagonist loathes what she feels like is a parasitic maneuver, she doesn’t have the power to make a big difference. These exercises are meant to give her a new perspective on how she handles herself.
Without giving away too much, before she ended up like this she was extremely vain as a result of abuse. But also because she fell in love with her muse. They were people who fell between the cracks of their old society by neglect. She was driven to prove everyone wrong about them, but struggled to be on even ground with her boyfriend. That and she was plenty aggressive and manipulative with how she did things. She’s trying to change and to a number of people, it might not be for the better. Because despite the title, she’s trying to be more efficient in her approach than actually trying to be good.
Just thought I’d give an explanation for things.