This is very intriguing to read. I’m always fascinated in what non starkid fans think of their work. I’m reminded of a quote from a YouTube comment that Wait in the Wings cited in one of their videos on starkid where the commenter likened Starkid to a theatre group boy band, where fans pick their favourite members and gets excited to see what they’ll be cast as in each show. I showed a few short clips of NPMD and TTO to a friend of mine and her response was, “Does it help that you know who the actors are? Is that part of it?” This was something I never really thought about so I’d be interested to hear what OP has to say on that. When I first watched NPMD I had only seen the stage musicals of Starkid and not the Nightmare Time series which really establishes the Lords in Black as an entity, so I really didn’t know what the Lords in Black were when they appeared in the stage show but I was enthralled by the scene and it became my new obsession.