Gray, Kat was told Satoshi is not a self insert, he has continued to harass me with the accusation here and elsewhere. It violates the rules. End of story, he's out.
Canon is a good thing, Shinji's route is 98% canon, I'm just aware that sometimes canon needs to get in the back seat and shut up. In swords and sorcery where multiple realities and timelines are involved such is the case because otherwise it would be dull at best and a retread of F/HA at worst.
Swords and Sorcery is something that discards Canon for the sake of the characters. Going just by canon Ayako, Satsuki and many others,would have no importance, no moments of awesome. It still is grounded in the Nasuverse, there's just a lot of pothole filling done.
in any case this really isn't the thread for discussing that.