the pass of branching out a silly parody expy character into no longer being a silly parody expy character and instead a normal regular character is that someone who likes the character you xeroxed from at 15 can look at the new version of the expy and not have a single fucking question about why there's an expy of so and so in the story. once you've passed that test you can now be sure that in the last 8 years this character has gotten marginally normaler and a lot less like D—[OUR BROADCAST SIGNALS HAVE BEEN CUT. PLEASE STAND BY]