What elevates KOS-MOS to not be a character of absolutely middling chance?
I frankly don't know and I don't care; when people like me who like her bring up her unique and peculiar circumstances, we are not doing so out of a desire to make her to be some sort of worldwide heavy hitter, we are doing it so people can see potential avenues of inclusion exist AT ALL instead of being instantly mocked and conversation shut down. We try to show people that, in fact, Monolith's history didn't begin the moment Nintendo bought them. Reminder, this whole conversation was started because someone basically asked if she had something going for her. That's all it was (with a derail of someone spreading misinfo about an unrelated series supposedly performing better)
I don't care how tired people were of fake leaks during December of last year.
I don't care how annoying conspiracy theorists were during that month.
I don't care about the imaginary chance scores people like to dream up and that almost never lead to a correct answer in the first place.
I don't care to provide proof of how many Nintendobux developer favoritism is worth when it comes to Nintendo developers.
Yeah, I like Kosmos. I like Monolith Soft as a whole actually. If you ask how I think she's possible, I'll give you a potential reasoning, even if you think it's faulty. If you spread misinfo, I'll correct you. If you tell me she's just a fad bandwagon that will fade away, I'll think you are a fool, because not only is Monolith Soft an important part of Nintendo now, but because they continue to use Kosmos in their works,
because her popularity endures in spite of everything, and because Nintendo obviously sees no problem with it. For better or worse, the smash fanbase is stuck with us monosimps now, so to speak. I mean you yourself pointed that within the Smash fanbase she places within the 40s which may not sound good, but where was she placing before? Was she even registering? No, I don't think she was. I think it would be more beneficial to everyone if they just accepted that yes, Monolith (not just Xenoblade) is in fact part of Nintendo now, and thus it will naturally attract fans to Smash with their own dreams of never evers and that they're part of the conversation now, instead of repeating this same song and dance where we try to drag each other into the mud because we don't have enough cult popularity points or whatever.
By this legacy logic we should get Xenogears, not Xenosaga.
It's hard enough to bat for Kosmos in here, you want me to also do it for Fei? Give me a break. People have enough trouble separating Monolith from their parent company, imagine separating the individuals from the legal entity.