Akira Pixels

So, I went off and sketched Akira Pixels for you. But if prefer your headcannon version, you go right ahead and keep that 😉

Picture of young excitable man with spiky blue hair

Not that Akira is his birthname. We met his mum in Argana Zeit Rings the Other World, and she spilt the beans. He had the good fortune to appear in the first Argana Zeit story, where we discover that he’s the eccentric, wannabe entrepreneur owner of Brink Hall, a crumbling mansion outside of town. I’ve always enjoyed writing him, because he’s an easy conduit for new problems. That, and I find delusional characters inherently funny.

I wasn’t expecting him to become a mainstay – which is true of all those first-story characters. Argana Zeit and the Haunted Busker was meant to be a one-off short story. And yet, some 420,000 words later, I’m still writing her adventures. And Akira hasn’t quit yet, continuing to enthusiastically throw a spanner in the works in the name of a quick profit. Long may he carry on!

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