I see now. You don’t want “realistic,” or rather a grounded, reality based world, you want a high SiFi fantasy setting. To each there own.
In Ki being grounded is the thing thats sticks out lol
I dont need to talk the cast though do i? Haha
Nothing ive mentioned is radically different to whats already there. My problem is that orchid is now COD DLC and not what she should be… intresting.
AI’s, Werewulf’s, undead, mummy sorcerers, dinosaurs, cyborgs…yes, that is all SiFi fantasy, but it can all be grounded as well. MK has cyborgs, sorcerers, gods, and whatnot…but that too has it’s share of “realistic,” grounded stuff in it as well.
But you mentioned…
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Orchid being raised by robots designed by her parents…
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Orchid herself becoming sort of a cyborg by grafting UT tech into herself for her Firecat move…
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Jago and Orchid’s parents being scientists and them being the product of experiments… (which is kind of what happened, but I digress)
You also mentioned…
Which is almost the OG story in a nutshell (lol), but you wanted it to be even crazier somehow…
Most of the issues you seem to have deal with personal gripes rather than legit issues (IMO)…which is fine. But this current KI story is plenty SiFi crazy, even though it does pull back a bit into the “real world” in order to ground itself. I mean, you calling Orchid “CoD” is whatever, but she is “CoD”…and always has been.
She is the spy who works for a shadow organization, who is bent on the take down of a mega corporation. She fights robots, and experimental defense products. She uses secret tech for all her missions. Everything she was, she still is, now we just know more about her.
But you seem to want…
Orchid…is an alien, or at least a human with partial alien DNA, who is also part Cyborg, where in the past her parents did experiments on her while in the womb, in order to allow her to tap into mystical energies to give her more power so that she save the world/universe from a mysterious force they felt during there galactic journeys…
Orchid was never trained in martial arts and military tactics per say, it was all just downloaded into her brain via mind transference from an ancient, astral consciousness who willed itself into existence at the beginning of time, and after experiencing the future (“she” is omniscient, and has experience the past, present, and future). This ancient consciousness though, is ACTUALLY… Orchid.
Orchid…is actually one of the Astral Trinity…Eyedol and Gargos being the other 2, and like Gargos and Eyedol, Orchid is a paradox in itself as “she” was never “born”, rather back at the beginning of time it willed itself into existence, and set things in motion for where when its “parents” came together, they would create Orchid’s mortal form through DNA manipulation, and cybernetics, and now in that mortal form, she is Black Orchid…the perfect being. ARIA found out however, before Orchid’s mortal mind could “come of age” and be able to handle all the knowledge of her astral self, and as such wanted her killed in her vulnerable state.
This is why Orchid’s “parents” were killed, and subsequently why Orchid has pit herself against UT and ARIA. Though she is an astral being, he “human” side compels her to care for, and want revenge for, her parents.
…Currently Orchid is bidding her time and meditating in order to unlock her latent potential, all while developing a new hybrid body by cloning and grafting new organs and body parts from her twin astral self…who now goes by the name “Jay-go”…
SMH… (I’m embarrassed I wrote that…)
But yeah, when you start to just tack stuff on for the sake of tacking stuff on, you run the risk of ridiculousness, which is why you NEED to be grounded.
I get that you just don’t like it how it was written, but IDK, you are somewhat acting like it is bad what we’ve got…but objectively, I just don’t think it is, or even approaches it… But yeah, everyone can have their own opinion.
This thread is so focused on one character that I’ve moved it to Orchid’s forum and changed the title.
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Orchid’s story became A focus in the thread, but the thread WAS about all characters. You changing the title, and moving the thread entirely to the Orchid forum, has changed the focus of the thread…which was overboard IMO.
Feel free to start threads on the various characters in each of their forums if you’d like to discuss the backstories specifically (there’s also a thread just for this purpose attached to each update). If you want to discuss them all together at a higher level, concentrating more on the structure and discussions on “how much of the world should be real in KI?” is great if you can keep it at that level.
This thread is so far down into specifics on Orchid that a switch back to high level would feel like it’s derailing the current discussion, which is why I moved it. Or I could just merge this into the thread on her backstory, but again, it felt that giving y’all more room to dive into this felt like the better option.
/carry on
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It dont matter where it is we will still argue hahah.
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I never said they were perfect; I just said that they tick all of my boxes (meaning that they’re good enough). 
I thought Orchid’s was fine, though I was disappointed they didn’t straight say: SHE IS A WITCH!
I was really anticipating to read something like “militarized tactical witchcraft program”.
I have to admit they have a good explanation for why her brother is from the opposite end of the planet with completely different ethnic background.
Otherwise all I can think of is that I wish they kept the bit from the comics where Jago(urged by the fake Tiger spirit) cut off Saberwulf’s arms in the previous KI tournament. Gives Wulf a bit of a real motive to fight Jago.
And I really hope Spinal isn’t just a ghost Pirate, after his theme refers to him being of Swedish background. I don’t want him to avenge his pirate crew, he’s always been a goofy happy go lucky skeleton that just does whatever he feels like doing at the time. Save some village Sweeds one day, become a movie star the next.
im writing mine guys ITS SUPER LONG but its got images so hopefully it wont be boring…
shes not a witch but shes not a bone head either 
Writing 101 trailing off