"Draft Pyro wasn't meant to be anything, she was just kind of...a blatant self-insert that I would mostly keep in my head. She had a prosthetic claw-arm, and the side of her head was filled in with metal. Inexplicably, she was every single mythical species at once, and also a dragon catch-and-release business owner. Why? I thought it was cool. She had a yellow braid instead of a blue ponytail, and a giant scuff mark on the steel part of her head."

"Oh boy. Mary Sue Pyro was present in the second and first drafts of DICORE, which I had originally planned to be a novella series. This Pyro's main passions were welding, and throwing extra-terrestrial cats at people. She was, quote-unquote, 'also a genius,' which I know, because I wrote those terrifying three words myself, at the age of nine. Mary Sue Pyro, design-wise, isn't too different from present-day Pyro, except for the fact that her orangey-red cloak is now a turtle-neck, long sleeve blazer. (?)"

"Beta Pyro was a nightmarish combination of too much confidence and a blatant lack of an idea for what to do with her character. While she kept her cyborg-esque features for pure nostalgia's sake, all of the humor and randomness was sucked out of her like I was some kind of art mosquito. She was a husk of pure edge and gore, who had an entire dimension of bodies her soul could fly to, anytime I felt edgy and killed her. At this era of Birdhouse Studios, I had a stupid crush on a boy, and so, I forced the previously lesbian Pyro into a heterosexual role, in a shameful attempt to push what I felt onto this character, like I had done successfully, time and time again. I eventually scrapped the love interest and Pyro officially moved on to the next stage of her existence."

"I felt immense confusion and melancholy when the pandemic initially began. I also discovered digital painting using FireAlpaca, Autodesk Sketchbook and the like. Pyro became less of a tool for my emotions, and more to serve an overarching story, which hadn't existed in the times where I was too busy with other things to create one. Alternative Pyro had a cloak, more fitting for her adventurous personality. She was rid of all her anger and success, and was rebuilt to fail more. She had everything going wrong for her, and her objective was clear: Get back to a normal life. I didn't have the meat of the story fleshed out completely yet, so she continued to cry over literally anything I wanted her to, for drama."

"Plastic Age Pyro is enthusiastic about a lot, but she doesn't like showing weakness, even if it means future problems. Developing this version of her was mostly casual, and it came from a phase where I felt like I was in a fandom all by myself, and treated what I developed like fanfiction. I let new friends develop gimmicks for her, the fact she's allergic to cats, how she just likes to hear Alia talk, but has no idea what she's saying half the time, and the revival of her short temper. A common complaint from within the Birdhouse/Piksu team, is that Pyro is less cool than she used to be, and I can agree with that sentiment. She has turned from someone who made bad jokes while fighting dragons, to kind of a dweeb who stayed in the desert for a while and then died. I think I personally diagnose this as the focus drifting from developing Pyro, to other characters, and she now has the problem of possibly becoming the least interesting character when reading, and I think that's scary, but, like, nobody says their favorite Harry Potter character is Harry Potter, right? Title characters just get this way, I feel like. Doomed to be a little lamer..."

"After DICORE was scrapped, Pyro no longer had to be grave and serious, at least not on the outside. It is a way of working that I have, like the periodic table, where you have a number of characters able to fit in a story without making it confusing, and you know exactly what each one of them have to be like. Pyro within Debugged! has to be rowdy, modest, and not the brightest, the muscles of the team. Like Vyvyan from The Young Ones, almost. Of course, she can have almost the same backstory, but now that she isn't the star of the show and will never be for more than thirty minutes at a time, she has to work well with the team, and can't be boring, sad, and brooding all of the time. She's been boiled-down and trope-ified, but really, this allows for an easier writing process and less garbage that the viewer has to withstand. She is readable and probably the closest to her true form she is going to get...all I know is that I'm tired of rewriting this stupid character."