Continuing with the whole “Roland is a Pilot” and “Roland’s player doesn’t know his left eye blindness means it’s illegal for him to fly” shtick, in 2004ish I was hanging out in some forums for the webcomic “Fifine” (a furry comic by a French-Canadian named Henbe, heavily influenced by TinTin) and got into the vibe so much I wrote a fanfiction where Fifine went to Russia and ended up being helped by an American (Roland) volunteering in the Soviet Air Force against the Nazis. Basically an excuse to put the two of them in a bunch of Soviet WWII airplanes I was just beginning to learn about thanks to the IL-2 simulator games.

How I never ended up in a Gulag I presume is more luck than skill, but hey, Henbe liked my (now lost) story so much he did an illustration to go with it!

Roland is (tm) me, Fifine is (tm) Henbe, art by Henbe, work for hire is (c) me.