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As many have said he's a nerdy awkward loser with a bit of a crush on Taylor and more enthusiasm than sense, or empathy, or intelligence.
Which describes most spacebattlers.
Like he has little in the way of chararization beyond being like that so he's easy to project on, and easy to write for (write what you know and all that).
In a cast of people who atleast have refernece to haveing deeper problems and personalities, his greatest struggle is that he's bad at social shit. So he makes for a good everyman protag to throw in the deep end.
Like, I am a spacebattler, I got my start in the worm fandom on spacebattles and its offshoots, but there's so much on those sites that just baffle me to no end.
we need to take greg veder away from spacebattles and anyone who writes fanfic