As mentioned, choosing your favourite characters is perfectly fine, and youll still have a functional deck even if youre picking one-off heroes and villains you just really, really like
Well, how about a character that looks like theyre wearing an outfit that belongs on an woodland/jungle elf, and a dipped beak on their hood
The Wind CrystalThe Wind Crystal's activated ability is absolutely absurd, and allows this to not only fit into any life gain deck, but any style of beatdown deck in general
Most of your characters have good stats for banishing their rivals in challenges, and if they don't there are easy ways to pump them up, either with a song, or as the side effect of a song
As long as Sephiroth is in play, Broodscale cannot win by comboing and, should he flip, they can never combo to win the game