Vigilants is a series of inspiring stories set in a world where the most popular sport is a super-human fighting competition called ‘The Global Vigilants League’. Originally this was going to be a set of audiobooks or short novels that I planned to sell, but decided to make them free on YouTube instead! This third episode revolves around Ogimaa Knight, or just Ogi for short. His story, and his friend Akeru’s, revolve around being your authentic self and doing that both for yourself and to help others feel inspired to do the same. Admittedly, this one has a bit less personal emotional weight behind it than the first two episodes. Authenticity is something I’ve been working on over the last few years, but I really just peppered in a bunch of my personal beliefs and views into this. I have a lot of respect for how indigenous people’s spiritual beliefs connect them to nature instead of the modern view that humans are separate from it. And on top of all of that, I just thought this concept was SICK! It’s inspired by both Pokemon and my original character Bio-Mech Kayla in my other series, Multiverse Tales. She has a sentient, robotic buddy named Charlie who can upgrade parts of her body and I wanted to do a more organic, monster based version of that!

See this series and many more original story and art episodes on my YouTube Channel PopCross Studios: https://www.youtube.com/c/chrpearson