If you do this, you’re going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater.

Fun fact: you can just pirate stuff.

You don’t have to make semantic arguments to justify to yourself why it’s actually moral or not technically stealing or whatever. You can just pirate stuff.

So basically:

Takano: I drew a hot big witchy gothy dommy mommy.

Fans (drooling): Step on me.

Takano: Writers, make it work.

You’re giving the devs a lot of credit, here. It’s less “this particular chimera would be most adept to combat” and more:

“I drew a super-buff zombie alien man with a weird head. He can shoot lazers. Writers, make a backstory for him.”

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Art/media is part of the world/history

And they are created by human beings, who have every right to decide what their creations are worth to them and under what terms other people can use their creations. I whittled a pretty cool dragon out of a stick once. It’s technically part of the world/history. That doesn’t mean anyone else has a right to it.

Let us pay for things and have them, it’s that simple.

Absolutely, if I am willing to sell you that thing for the price you are offering. If I am not, then the deal doesn’t go through. That is how deals work. You cannot rent a car for $60/day and then decide “actually I’m going to keep this forever.” That was not the deal you agreed upon.

Once it cannot be sold it should be publically available if someone who has it wants to make it so

Yes, I agree. In this case, though, the person who “has it” is the owner. Not the person who signed a deal saying “I myself will use this under the terms we have both agreed upon” and then proceeds to break those terms. Copyright law (in the US) is bullshit and needs a whole lot of reform, but if we’re talking about media made recently? By a still living human? Yes, they should own what they create.

but many pirates are productive members of society or couldn’t buy to begin with

Yes, I imagine this applies to both you and I as pirates. But as a productive member of society, I am fully aware that I am not entitled to anything owned by anyone else. I will not die if I don’t see that new movie I want to, and I am aware of that. I know that me pirating is both immoral and illegal, and directly hurts others. I am willing to admit that.

I have no legal option to own you. Is it moral, then, for me to turn to illegal means to own you?

Now replace “you” with “content you created”, and tell me how it’s different.