>>528720769
project yes, people project onto characters that aren't literally them all the time. we do it onto people we meet in real life, you see someone that you dont know something about and you begin to project your own thoughts and feelings of what they must be like onto them. Kris is his own person but they clearly are designed to evoke that feeling in players, the desire to say "this is kris look at this art, story, fanfiction, comic etc that i have drawn showing what kris would do (and maybe its what I would do in that situation)."
relating and projecting, kris is designed so that people can do both of these to draw you into the story in the way that toby wants just like the feelings he probably got with some of his favorite games growing up.