Interesting is a highly subjective term though.
Let’s be clear here, if the choice is between a brand new character or a shoto clone for SF or a palette swap ninja for MK or a remix character for KI, you better believe a substantial portion of any fanbase would choose a completely unique character, myself included.
But again, and I can’t stress that enough… This is not the choice we’re being given. That wasn’t the choice on the survey. I don’t think that many Shorchid enthusiasts would even prefer her over a brand new character.
Now, when I say brand new, I mean new rig, new animations, new name, story, etc. I don’t mean “take Fulgore’s body, put some new stuff on it and give it a new name and (mostly) new move set.”
When we start getting in to this area, the waters become a bit murkier. Both Kilgore and Shadow Jago are technically remix characters. They’re new takes on an existing characters. I mean, you realize that Kilgore could just have easily been named Prototype Fulgore, right? They just changed two letters of his name.
Now the counter argument is “but he’s a new character.” Okay, sure. But isn’t Shadow Jago technically a new character? He’s not Jago. At least, not completely. The lore confirms this, so let’s not get hung up on what’s new or not from a technical perspective.
Sorry, I don’t mean to be long winded here, really. All of this is just a long way of saying that of the choices presented, some people see certain ideas and like them and some don’t. What’s original to some may seem derivative to others. To some, Kilgore is original and Shorchid is not. That’s all fine. But let’s not get in to “maybe the fans don’t know best” just because we don’t like a specific idea.
I don’t like Shark TJ as a concept and I don’t see the value in ultimates. That doesn’t mean I don’t think MS / IG could come up with some ideas here that I will like or that either of those things couldn’t turn out to surprise me. Let’s just try and keep an open mind and see what we end up with before we start doubting the value of our own feedback. We’re not going to agree on everything as a community, but we should at least agree that community feedback and developers listening (but not always agreeing) is a good thing.