This is an author's note. I had a review that asked why John having an Australian accent is bad. And no offense to any Aussies if that's what they thought because I don't think it's bad.

So here's a little background story on John that I've picked up and used in my story. This should explain why. But I'm not exactly sure how it all went down, but this is the basic idea:

John originally was born in Australian, so he had an Australian accent. He used to have a mom and a dad. I don't know much about the middle part, but I guess John got his fire powers, and his father wasn't exactly very fond of mutants. I'm pretty sure he burned his house down in the process of receiving his powers. I think that in that fire, John's mom died. The other story is that his dad, finding out that his son was a mutant, disowned him. But his mother still loved John and took care of him until her early death.

Poor John.

Anyway, he was discovered by Professor Xavier later on and asked if he wanted to live in the school. And he said yes. So he moved to America, and thinking of his dad, who abandoned his family, wanted to get rid of all trace of what may remind him of his dad. So he took speech therapy to get rid of the accent. But that accent resurfaces when he gets really mad.

So that's why I wrote the accent in John's point of view as a bad thing, but really I sort of like the accent. So there's my very short author's note!