As I've stated before, HFSAC is a story about Mythology, Legends, and Gods. Mythologies throughout history have lots of stories involving deserts. People getting lost in deserts, people going on spiritual quests in deserts, people being tempted by Satan in deserts. In the desert, Moses had a conversation with a burning bush. So this story kind of draws on that inspiration, the idea of a spiritual journey and hearing voices in the desert. At the same time, it's a little bit of Genie in a bottle type of story, as Tsao has obviously encountered a strange object of unknown quality that is offering him great power in exchange for freedom.
Tsao was originally supposed to be a member of the massive 40 Member HFSAC Team that I scrapped about six months ago. He was going to be part of a mini-team within HFSAC that consisted of Mad Fox, Mello Dee, Wildboy, Kaimeero, and himself. These characters were all briefly introduced in the Pulp Horrorshow vol. 5 One Shot. When I scrapped the idea for the 40 Member HFSAC, I wasn't really sure what to do with that group. Then I got this idea for the Tsao solo story. In his original incarnation, Tsao was supposed to be a silent assassin/bodyguard. He was gonna be a "sword guy" originally. Tsao, @byss, and another character would have formed a three man Infiltration and Assassination Squad as well (Team Silent, if you will). Of course, none of this happened, and now we find Tsao on a completely different path. Where will it lead? Who knows? I sure don't.
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