They’re not important. Why would they be? They’re not heroes and they never will be. Some may call them desperate, others don’t call them anything because they can’t even remember if they exist or not, and then they die. The few who remain alive however call themselves the Pawns.

Characters from simple stories poorly told, juvenile power fantasies, jingoistic propaganda and cities of never-ending crime; they’ve all heard them before a million times over. They escaped, and really they didn’t even know how they did it, and some didn’t even want to know. Regardless, they have an opportunity now, they have an obligation, they have a chance to finally be what they never were and still never will be, heroes.

We were trapped in the background, forgotten and confused but it doesn’t matter anymore, we’ve got guns now...