Talk:Hydroid/@comment-32501626-20170914161342/@comment-24820404-20170917005259

INSPIRED by does not make it his main theme. It was somewhere around devstream 28 that they actively said he's a WATER frame with pirate aspects. He's so meant to be a water frame, that Steve said himself that he had to tell them to pull back on the pirate stuff they were going for becase they began to go overboard. Then on the prime time with skillup, when asked if he was a piate frame, Megan responded "well, not 'canon' a pirate, but he has pirate esque stuff"

But yes, his visual design was based off of PoC's davy jones character, who in turn, was based off of ocean creatures and the sea. Its all full circle.