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Yea exactly, hence why your “oc” gets dumpstered at the start. You MUST engage with it through Kris first, you don’t get to choose who you are in this world. The way you play through the game is already a transformative work I’d say, your personal version of the story is different from everyone else’s and I think the game is very much a love letter to that, much like MGS2. Stuff like the weird route and the prophecy reinforces this for me, the glitch hunting tributes and the fact every “prophecy” is vague enough to apply to multiple things, like for example the “girl finds love” reads pretty clear to me like “yeah someone is gonna fall in love, but we don’t know who, you have to decide that by making choices, aka if you cuck Noelle enough you get the Krusie ending”, you can apply this to a lot of them, as evidenced by everyone claiming they all have 1 specific outcome lol. YOU get to decide which Mike is the real one lol! I don’t think he hates transformative works under this interpretation, I think he is reflecting on it, especially with Gerson, who I saw a lot of Itoi in desu. “Dragon blazers” (deltarune) is based on “lord of the hammer” (mother 3, had a troubled development, player “writes the ending” as it’s ambiguous) which in turn was based on the prophecy (representing the notebook trilogy in this case). I think he’s just critiquing the idea of forcing your own interpretation into “canon” as seen billions of times in this community. If you interpret something differently than what is typical, that is shunned, even if the work is open ended, as seen with Chara having a pretty defined fanon interpretation that slowly crept into being the “true” meaning- even the name Chara is not explicitly canon, and is against what he envisioned (naming them after yourself) yet to uphold a rigid “truth”, only 1 interpretation was allowed… he is trying to teach this lesson to people I feel