alt Hacker NewsThis went completely off the rails, it's actually kind of funny.
Kind of reminds me of JK Rowling backfilling all of that stuff in the Harry Potter books (now there's Luna Love good!.) Or Nintendo retconning Bowser's sons and replacing them with Bowser Jr.
Sometimes there just isn't that much thought behind a character.
Sometimes? I’m no expert, but I’m pretty sure these games were generally not built with a hefty bible full of inviolable lore. Plot and continuity errors are common enough to show that.
Some people are very invested in making sense of things that just don’t have a ton of intention and meaning behind them.