@Dauntless hah! I see it as building a personal mythology rather. Of course these figures have become much larger than their originals, for they are _that_ powerful--almost archetypal in their force, they accumulate meaning with time rather than fading. Undyne is as real and vital a figure to me as Artemis or Inanna--more vital, even, for she is real to me in a way that those distant entities are not.