Apr18
Thanks for your patience on this page as I adjusted to my new job! Hopefully the next one will be on time, but I’m not gonna promise anything just yet. (The job has been going very well, by the way! I just have to adjust my body to a new schedule and new demands.)
Frond actually didn’t have that much interesting going for him originally, and his name and “gimmick” are the result of Victor urging me to push the zombie designs further. You’ve met the whole zombie crew now! They’re all my special dead pirate children, just as Goldie’s crew are my special living pirate children.
Oooh, I adore Frond’s design!
Now I’m wondering, does he have to change out his leaf when the seasons change?
His leaf will wither and crumble over time, so he used to change it out whenever it got too old. For a while now the crew has spent most of their time sleeping for very long stretches, so each time he wakes up it’s going to be complete dust by then. This is why Ribs wanted someone else to go find him instead of leading Goldgills to him. Frond doesn’t like to be seen without his namesake, and would be especially mortified if an outsider were to do so. He and Teeth went to go fetch and sew on a fresh one!
As a side note, the zombies are all still decaying themselves, but being magically enhanced corpses, it’s at a drastically slower rate than a normal dead body. But the leaf isn’t affected by that. It’s just a leaf.
He is Frond-shaped…shaped like a Frond…I want to give him a hug…