So. Some of you may have been wondering, why the questions about a pirate character with a bionic part?

Well. Now you'll know! To put it simply, the superhero genre wasn't working out for me. There were several key things about the genre that I disliked; mainly, the omnipresent mentality of 'our powers make us different, and so people must hate us, and we're all emo about that'. Trying to write the story with that element absent was nigh impossible, but I refused to put it in -- and that obviously caused problems.

So, a few days ago, I simply gave it up. Amadeus, Sepia, Inkwell and all the others are no longer supervillains. Oh no. They are now in a world where strange powers/abilities are perfectly normal. They're space pirates!

Amadeus will become Captain Amadeus, Sepia Rex the bumbling little naturalist, and Inkwell the scribe and cartographer. And of course, there will be more crew members, like the master gunner, and Dr. Folius... but I think I'll be mean and hold off on introducing him further just yet.

I'm sorry if this makes any of you unhappy, but, truth be told, it's my story, they're my characters, and this idea has got me so excited that it's leaking out my ears. So deal.

--Nate