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So, I've been plugging on a Galaxy Quest-style work where characters based on the Japanese, 4kids, TPCi, and writing/development crew are being hunted down by Rainbow Rocket, because Rainbow Giovanni found out that the "real" world serves as a nexus into every Pokemon universe, and if he takes it over, he'll be God-Emperor for Life. He's already conquered multiple worlds, but he's being stalled.
Even before I found out that Ikue Ohtani and Rica (iRika?) Matsumoto hate each other, I had been basing this on Andrew Rannell saying he would have rather done porn or snuff than Pokemon Live as James, while secretly wanting to be Ash, TPCi screwing 4Kids out of their roles (while 4Kids secretly helped), the fact 4kids legit tried to start a pop band for Pokemon, and Eric Stuart apparently refusing to talk about Pokemon for a while.
I know the premise is tacky by default, so I'm trying to make it so the characters are merely based on positions and should be nothing like the actual people, but there's stuff like the fact Rica/Rika, Sarah Natochenny, and Veronica Taylor are upbeat people, or the fact Takeshi Shudo was a cynical and depressed alcoholic. Is there any way to really divorce them of their archetypes so they don't resemble the actual people so much, while still evoking real events?
How far can someone go into "Le Meta"? I'm aware that's subjective, but I'm pondering how based it should be on actual events. And if anyone's written characters based on real-life events, how do you divorce them from the actual people, if you do that at all?
