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Hepzibah Jones: A felinoid mutant, American in origin, Hepzibah was eighteen years old when she decided to travel Southeast Asia with a friend during her year off prior to college. Set up into transporting drugs to Madripoor by a fellow traveller, Hepzibah was not charged, but lost her passport, belongings and money thanks to a corrupt police officer. Wandering the streets in an effort to find the American embassy, she was kidnapped, her striking looks and mutation making her a commodity. She spent six months in a highly exclusive "establishment" catering to those with more unusual tastes before she was sold to a businessman from Madripoor who was taken by her (and happened to also be Raza and Corsair's owner). When she tried to lull him into a sense of false security and then left him with a few scars to remember her by, she was relegated to the same factory where Raza and Corsair were working, where she became part of their plot to escape and from there joined the crew.

Chod: A very large reptilian mutant of unknown origin, he was used in his owner's factories in Lowtown for his physical strength, and had apparently been there since childhood. He was treated as subhuman, a useful freak, for most of his life; Corsair and his friends changed that, and Chod quite willingly threw in his lot with them.