To make this post with as few spoilers as possible, I have a character with a lot of mystery surrounding their identity, purpose, motives, etc...
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...The character I speak of is a twist villain, Libby. A talking plush toy who seems to come more and more to life to sabotage our protagonist. In universe, the original Libby is a character from a children's TV show, and this plush tried to pretend that she was essentially the living embodiment of that very same character, personality and all, but later was revealed after the show was watched again, that the two are in fact very different in terms of personality and all that...
...They were designed from the ground up to have a lot of mystery, and "unknowingness" about them, who/what they really are, their motives, and make that the fun part. Leave it up to viewers, and our characters, to speculate. Largely, I must admit, this is because I couldn't really think of anything I liked at the time.
Now, as I consider things for a remake, I actually do have something I like, but as a remake where things will be very similar but different, clean ups to the story mostly, I've been wondering a lot about changing this about the character, and actually unraveling the mystery (to an extent). But... I wonder if that would take away from the fun? Or maybe it'd make thing more engaging? Would it ruin something special about the character, or make them even better?
Any thoughts on this, especially from my readers, would be greatly, greatly appreciated.