Saw that Takaya Imamura said this about the old Star Fox team:
And that gave me ideas for what I thought what happened to them, so I decided to quote tweet him with this:
…And then this happened:
Thank you Imamura-san for making me feel seen! I feel like I can definitely continue keeping this headcanon if I got his approval.
He actually also did something similar a while back. He posted that Star Fox's emblem was designed by Pigma, and I posted this:
…And then he also liked that one:
While I don't think this applies to the Switch 2 remake of Star Fox 64 anymore since they feature different emblems for the Venom incident and the current Star Fox team (I posted that before the remake came out)…
…this can certainly be applied to the original N64 game or even the Zero timeline since they only feature one emblem for the whole game, which definitely opens up interpretations for why Peppy would keep something created by Pigma as part of the Star Fox team.
Honestly now that I think about it, I still think you could even apply that to the Switch 2 remake because both emblems look really similar to each other.
(…I personally think that despite how much he hates Pigma, especially after betraying the team, there's a very small part of Peppy that misses him and it's something that he either hates or self-denies it, but gets reflected in his choice to either keep the Star Fox emblem Pigma designed or create something similar to it.)
I don't know what it is, but there's something about how Pigma is depicted in the Star Fox remake that makes me feel a lot more interested in him and the new tidbits coming from Imamura-san are definitely helping filling in some gaps!