I feel like I'm the only Mother fan on earth that'd actually prefer Mother 1 remade than Mother 3 being localized. Of course I want both but I want the former a bit more.
Okay guys... We have a major break here. I think I found the missing piece to the Ninten puzzle. It's this article right here.
https://mynintendonews.com/2014/10/...saawI0s85D_K70a0iGqw6T3zwL0V7TAIir4XS_oPNw7gU
So this implies that the DLC characters were chosen and finalized over a year ago. This means that these five were planned before hand. My theory is that some got cut due to time constraints but that's not really important even if true.
Now where this comes into the Ninten theory is Vergeben's Mother 3 leak. He leaked near the end of 2017, so by this time the DLC characters should be locked in. Verge said the reason why Mother 3 was being held back was
because they didn't know what month to release it in. It's gotta be a DLC character, because in reality, the month this game comes out shouldn't require OVER A YEAR of thinking over.
And since this means that the characters were planned in advance this could explain: The new Mother victory theme, Ninten's odd spirit placement, and him being a player icon while Loid and Ana aren't.
Now that I think about it... Loid and Ana were shown on the site to the public but Ninten was nowhere to be found despite being more important.
TL;DR I'm 95% sure our new Mother rep is gonna be our boy.