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Characters are the story. It's a bit like Shakespeare's play, where you can get a radically different experience by playing characters differently, even if using the exact same script. Like depending on the directing and acting, the Merchant of Venice can either be a tragedy or comedy, either sympathetic or condemnatory to Shylock, and so on, despite using the same script and plot. And if that's just the changes you can get from acting, imagine the differences you can get from dialogue changes and omissions. I'm not saying GV = Shakespeare, but it's a good example of how components of media form a chaotic system, and thoughtlessly varying one variable can massively change how a viewer or player interprets it.