Darkness [Spoiler Warning]

[Gyson]

Wow they reaaaaaaaaaaaaaally messed up there Red Line saying "derplander is you" and then "no the derplander is someone else"

If you ask me Yoshi and his team have to sit down and sort out their own story and make a big red line through it.

I don't think so. I think they're trying to give both an out-of-game and in-game answer and expecting us to be able to keep our in-game and out-of-game worlds separate. The Midlander and his party in the various CGI trailers are a group of adventures, somewhere out there, that we may or may not run into one day (just as I may or may not run into you and your party one day). That's the in-game answer.

The out-of-game answer is that, like you and I, the Midlander and his group has been through similar adventures as us. Obviously (for example) you and I both didn't have dinner with Nanamo right as she was poisoned, and yet we both did. That is the problem MMOs will always have when the player character is portrayed as the protagonist of the story. Now, neither of us is going to appear in a cinematic cutscene advertising an expansion pack, so the team turns to a non-player asset: the Midlander and his group. When watching these cutscenes we're supposed to look at them and say "hey, that's supposed to represent me" - we're expected to put our role-play down long enough to acknowledge that limitation and solution.

Now, if they show the Midlander in an in-game cutscene (as they did at the end of the current storyline).. then I believe that is probably him: the in-game version of him, the guy running around with his party having his own epic adventures. Except, for some reason (unlike us) he has become the Warrior of Darkness. "..time for you and yours to join the fray..".. that's one of the last lines in the cutscene, which I'm sure refers to the Midlander and his party - a group we've been wondering if we'll ever run into in-game.

Also, I do not believe his avatar model is being used as a stand-in model for something the developers aren't ready to show us yet. That would just be tacky and confusing.. there are plenty of clothing options out there for the artists to deck an NPC in to hide their identity until the development team is ready to reveal it.

Really, I think the bigger question is - why are people breathing on the moon? :P