Special was the first story I wrote for the Legacies collection. At the time of writing it, I had the idea for Tien: Origins, but I wasn't certain that I wanted to write it; I thought it might have been too risky. As such, I decided to write a shortened version and gauge the community's reaction to the story. It worked cleanly into the Legacies mythos and was pretty fun to write. It's one of my shorter stories, mostly because it was intentionally supposed to be short.