Talk:Penny/@comment-6582316-20150828011428/@comment-4010415-20150831033913

Originally, Velvet wasn't going to be seen ever again after volume 1, so they hadn't come up with a battle outfit for her. When fans loved her, they decided to keep her, but then they were faced with the problem of not having a battle outfit. So, Monty decided it'd be fun to reach out to the fans and have a contest to design her outfit.

He did once say he planned to have a contest where fans designed characters, but that was likely going to be for background characters, in the same manner that ABRN is going to be a background team whose only purpose is to give the tournament more life. At the time, he likely didn't foresee the Lazer Team Indiegogo campaign having a perk for a fan and three of their friends to go there and work with him to make a team. By the way, apparently, the Indiegogo fan-made team might be called Indigo and they'll be appearing in volume 3.