Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26184563-20130421015649/@comment-995426-20160430003702

I don't really think in terms of "what mutant do I want to be?", and was in fact uncomfortable when Yoshimickster asked me that question before.

Really, we're all mutants, as we're all very slightly genetically different from our parents even beyond the random pairings of genes our parents have contributed to us. We're surrounded by natural mutagens, most obviously the sun's ultraviolet rays.

I've always preferred the social dimension of characters, and who they are to one another and to themselves. And when people are sentient, they are all simply people, and their differences in shape, color or appearances need not have any further meaning. However, differences in appearance can make life more interesting and colorful, as such contrasts can be beautiful in their own right.

My character, Dermot, is a demi-human. Gilgamesh is just an additional alias I have occasionally used for programming and for wiki maintenance. Of course, the demi-humans from Xenogears were created over the years in a similar way as a lot of the mutants in TMNT&mdash;they were originally humans (or perhaps some of them originally animals), but were covertly experimented on and mutated into anthropomorphic/therianthropic forms. But rather than the story playing up their exoticness as mutants, they are established enough in global society that most demi-humans had demi-human parents, demi-human grandparents, demi-human great-grandparents, etc., and they (try to) live their lives as ordinary people like anyone else. During the time Xenogears takes place in, demi-humans live scattered around the world in random population distribution, but their highest concentrations live in the countries of Thames (where they are the majority of the population that also includes humans) and Kislev (where they struggle in a human-dominated regime that discriminates against them). Most demi-humans don't have anything you could describe as "superhero powers"&mdash;they really are more like ordinary people, more like 2K12's Jason and his lack of fighting skills.