Thread:Maddog98/@comment-4842541-20150921053911/@comment-4842541-20150923063248

So for the reimagining, I was thinking along the lines of Ryu not actually calling Overlord his Avatar at the start. In fact in the first chapter he's still a bit uneasy with the game, due to his amnesia, and the Overlord deck just so happens to be something he grabbed during one of his fits.

Basically Ryu's old memories resurface from time to time to sort of create a different Ryu that interacts with the physical world. But that other Ryu only does so for like the time span it takes to do one turn of Vanguard.

Then it turns out that the whole time Ryu didn't associate himself with Overlord, he was actually a Royal Paladin player whose signature card was Majesty Lord Blaster. And he was not a nice person, to the point that he garnered a lot of enemies and pretty much alienated his own family.

But that was only during a certain point in time, because Yume and Ryou remember that Ryu used to be much nicer. And the amnesiac Ryu acts a lot like that nicer period, so they almost don't mind.