Estar wasn't so bad

When I first wrote the novel VIRUS 5, before it evolved into Rome's Revolution, I knew that Estar was the villain but originally, her motives weren't that terrible. Oh sure, she wanted Rei and all the other Essessoni dead but her hatred of them seemed to stem from a heightened fear of the Erklirte rather than anything deeper.

It took me a long time to learn that Estar was just an agent of MASAL and it wasn't her fear of the Erklirte that made her so murderous. In fact, it was MASAL's fear that the Erklirte could set his eugenics program back that made her so deadly. Luckily for us she was also incompetent (she was only a half-brain, after all) and Rei was able to survive each of her murder attempts. I wasn't sad to see Estar die beneath Kilauea.



She was destined to die anyway since Rei and Rome ended up detonating the volcano in order to destroy MASAL. However, it wasn't until Rome's Evolution that I found out she was only 12 years old. The Onsiras had a nasty streak because of their genetic makeup but it also made them age at least twice as fast a normal human beings. So while she was physically about Rome's equal, she was not emotionally prepared to deal with life and this led to her undoing. I sometimes wonder if she really wasn't that bad but rather just easily manipulated. Oh well.