What I've seen of your Terra thus far is fantastic and spot-on, but more than that, you have a way of just infusing life into your protagonist characters, making them unique and quirky and real in ways you can't really get with Typical Do-Gooder Hero #43566. While Mako won't be my first favorite Hilda-Archetype, she'll certainly be up in the top three.

And Hayate makes me want to try to play DQ9 again. That's always a sign of something.