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This is one character that goes with Mysterious' son, and he had his own series—even from the very beginning, like in 2003. You know how long it’s been planned that he would have a series himself? Like 23 years back.

You know, creators often have this phase where they must create—but they also combine things that often shouldn’t be combined, because it overlooks one character without thinking that it could stand as its own idea first before combining it. And that’s something you can see Marvel does well in their properties.

So he was supposed to have his own solo series, but that never actually happened. Because *Stories in the Coffee Shop* happened—and that isn’t a bad thing, because it introduced more characters to fill out the future of the series.

Which I may say is a long gambit. A long gambit. Such a long history planned out for this thing—you may even be shocked by what I’m truly trying to reveal.

Some people might be like, “childhood, great,” but I’m literally frustrated about how I was ever creating for this work. But why create *Stories in the Coffee Shop*? That was the point—there was a chance to make this thing into reality.

However, he doesn’t actually become anything in that series. He’s kind of like an off-screen character.

His sister—Virgo—happens to be one of the main characters in *Stories in the Coffee Shop*. Did you know that? And the other children are basically the children of **Changer**, and one child is the son of the queen.

There’s also a Queen character you haven’t seen if you haven’t run into the work—but ultimately, no one read the works, so you don’t know there’s a Queen character with a descendant.

Technically, people are supposed to read the first one—*Mysterious Changer (2019)*—and I was going to make Stories in the Coffee Shop continue from that, basically around this time period. So I’m on schedule. Nothing’s wrong.

I just have to move on at this point in time.

And if people don’t give a f*** about the series, I will recreate it to a better degree than what I was able to do in that time period due to health constraints.

I actually don’t know why I was going to do what I planned with this series—other than making him like a violent, beat-’em-up, worst-of-the-worst type character. But can you even do that with something that’s supposed to be aimed at kids? As a kid, we don’t have that perspective—but still.

That’s what his purpose was supposed to be.

Becoming disillusioned with  Mysterious and Changer, who at this point in time are kind of active—but kind of retired. And he basically does not take up their role as a shaman, but instead feels devoid—until another group of people takes up the mantle.

Each version is from 2007/2008, with the bottom one being from 2007 and the top one being from 2008.

And I didn’t actually have a story for him—no comics, nothing. It was never explored what the future would truly be on a day-to-day basis. I didn’t even make an Idea Database entry for him.

I really like the idea of continuing this work and seeing the characters introduced before in a new light—but without changing them too much. You understand how easy and comparable it is to just start something new.

Well, he became part of *Stories in the Coffee Shop* as more of a mystery character.

I don’t actually have much to say about this character anymore.

But in a way, that character was saved by *Stories in the Coffee Shop*—so that one day, I could create something new when it actually commits to the true vision of the work.

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