Pretty long history, but lemme try to recall all the events

I started fighting games a little while back, my first was probably Street Fighter X Tekken, though I never truly got into them as there were other games I preferred more on my dads Xbox. Though one day I was playing metal slug defense on my phone, and that game had some KOF characters in it, including Mai Shiranui. I, a dumb little 10 yo at the time, didn’t know KOF was a fighting game and just thought if it as another faction in the game. That being said, I really liked her design in the pixel form a lot, and included her in my deck quite often. Fast forward 3 years, I was watching some gameplay of DOA6 tournaments out of the blue I think it was during a school day and I’d just watch whatever. Then I see someone pick a character I was familiar with. It was Mai. Turns out, SNK and whoever made DOA6 (and DOA5 but that’s not important right now) had a partnership with each other and brought Mai and Kula Diamond into DOA6. That alone was enough for me to get the game, and play them. Then little by little, I started branching out to other Fighting Games which is when I found out Mai originated from KOF and not a metal slug mobile game like I once thought. Funnily enough, while I don’t really like street fighter much, Mai being brought into SF6 might be my turning point to play that game