>>535374736
>Mirage serves another monster
By standouts I mean characters that are in lore pinnicles of some kind. Think about overwatch and how many characters are genuis scientists on the cutting edge, celebrities, or are nation/military leaders, or are otherwise one of a kind entities. I don't mean "normal", no one partaking in the summoning can be normal by almost definition but most of them aren't internationally significant. Even Geist (who has a demon trapped in her arm) is still just a socialite who kills in her sparetime. Not exactly adventure book protagonist material. Kelvin is the most famous of them but he's still just a guy that something happened to. Viscous isn't the leader of the deep, just an emissary of it. And Mirage is basically just a bodyguard. Vyper is literally a no-name jailbird
I'm not talking about their being, I'm talking about their characterisation; their significance in the wider world. Haze is a great example of this: of course the government wants in on the wishmaking, but they basically send a nameless gun, no legend surrounding specifically, she's just another dreamwalker employed by the government. She's elite, powerful, unhuman, yet she isn't a person of particular note or singularity. I think this normalcy makes these characters and the roster feel more human interestingly: Like, can you imagine a character from Overwatch working at a diner like Ivy does(Even the "bum" characters like Roadhog and Junkrat are internationally famous criminals)? It connects the world to ours even with all the supernatural shit. It also serves to not dilute characters with some celebrity: Krill and Bebop talking to Kelvin about his books; Vyper talking about the other criminals; the fear surrounding Seven; Vampire bat idolising Geist; or even Pocket's status as Fairfax's heir
