A simple little drawing of a thinking Macaw character sitting on a rocking chair that took me three weeks to finally finish, because I kept getting distracted with other crap whether it was writing stories, fiddling with some JG-scale digital paper soldiers I had in the works, delving into miscellaneous alternate history crap, or playing Tom Clancy games. This guy is supposed to be loosely based off of Blu from the animated movie Rio, who I thought of as basically "Blu but Chad" and he originally hails from northern Bahia State in northeastern Brazil (which is where the Spix's Macaw lived and not the Amazon jungle as the Rio movies depicted). After the Empire enters the war in August 1940, a 19 year old bookworm from a rural village in western Sergipe Province was among the many young sars and wosars who joined the Imperial military in the hopes of avenging the deaths inflicted by Comintern submarines, his name being Bruno Vargas who enlisted in the Air Force due to his vested interest in machinery and avionics. After training, he was assigned to 2º grupo de Bombardeiro based at Natal Air Force Base, flying Bristol Blenheims and Spartan S.23 Uktenas at first against subs in the Mid-Atlantic but later flew in support of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force in West Africa from October 1942 onwards.

Bruno would later transfer to 12 Grupo de E where he flew an AM.43 Pescadora over Iberia, battling the air forces of the various Communist states on the peninsula while escorting bombers or, later, supporting ground troops after they landed in Portugal during Operation Husky in July 1943. He even flew escort missions over France with bombers, which included his old squadron and crew; in the meantime, he had met and formed a relationship with Julianha Figueiredo, a combat medic with the 1st Infantry Division whom he writes letters to as her unit fights the Republican Spanish in Portugal. Ultimately, Bruno would rack up a score of seventeen confirmed aerial victories, one of the top-scoring Brazilian aces of the war.