Keeper's Krew Productions

Real Name: Opalin Hubay Pickens

Online Personas and Aliases: The Keeper, TheKeeper, TheKeeper81, TheKeeper1981, KeeperS Karu (Keeper S. Karu), Oryara Kenna Kanja, Oryoro Kenna Kanja, and some others she's likely forgotten

Species: Human

Race: Black/Filipina

Ethnicity: American/Filipino

Height: Exactly 5' 0" (She's very proud of this.)

Weight: 264 lbs (She's doing her best to bring this down to something healthier.)

Natural Eye Color: Brown

Natural Hair Color: Black

Gender: Nonbinary

Pronouns: He/She/They (No Preference)

Date of Birth: March 23, 1981

Marital Status: She's married to Doug Glendower of Cavalier Cavalry Productions

Location: Hopefully on Earth

Powers and/or Abilities:

Opalin's most remarkable ability is her lack of a sense of direction, to the point where she's frequently gotten lost while going down straight corridors. Yes, straight corridors. The second most remarkable quality about her is her ability to be so absorbed in a task or action, she notices very little else. Indeed, when she was thirteen, she apparently walked through a fist fight between gang members, one of them allegedly throwing a large rock that landed inches from her feet, but she didn't notice, absorbed as she was in the nacho cheesy goodness of her Doritos. She has many other talents, as well, but they tend to be overshadowed by the two already mentioned.

Background As Comic Book Artist and Writer:

Opalin had always loved drawing and comic books, and she dreamed about being an actual comic book artist and writer, one day. Sometime in 2003, her wish came true in the form of an opportunity to do artwork for a story written by her friend, Enrique Acosta of Action Folksinger Comics, called "Bobby the Quarter God," which would be featured in a comic anthology featuring the work of Bakersfield's comic book artists. It was also printed as part of the standalone Action Folksinger Comics book, issue number three, as part of a collection of stories by Enrique Acosta and his wife, Helen Acosta (the Action Folkwife). Because it was a published piece of work, Opalin was able to legitimately claim professional status at the 2003 San Diego Comic-Con.

The following year, Opalin worked on another piece for Action Folksinger Comics, issue number 4, in the story called "Action Folktales: Commander Photon vs. Macabre," which was published online. This allowed her to continue going to the San Diego Comic-Con as a professional for some time. However, being a university student, she had only been able to work on a few more pieces between then and 2009. Namely, a couple of issues for Cavalier Life, an online comic her husband published as a fictional recounting of life in the Cavalier Cavalry. While she had intended to do more work on Cavalier Life, and begin work on her own story, Keeper's Krew,the demands on her time, once again, prevented her from doing so.

For a brief period in 2010, Opalin experimented with trying her hand in making a photo comic called Spirit, Guide Me, featuring her newly-purchased ball-jointed dolls, which she posted on the Den of Angels forum as a means of recording the arrival of her second doll. She was rather delighted at this new manner of comic book storytelling, and she wanted to do more. Unfortunately, between both her own obligations in other areas of life and the obligations of her husband (who wrote the code for both of their web sites), she was unable to publish the comic on her own site until April of 2012. (This was especially frustrating, as her dolls had also inspired another story, titled Familiar Magic, which she wanted to draw by hand.) While further events kept her away from the project for a few more months, she was finally able to focus on writing another issue of Spirit, Guide Me, as well as outline another comic that tied into it, called The School of All Trades.

Once again, however, obligations kept Opalin from pursuing her comic projects. Briefly, in 2020, she formed Rainbow Window with two other friends and associates and helped start a couple of comics which she hosted on her site, but due to creative differences, Rainbow Window was disbanded. 

Meanwhile, Opalin decided to complete Amped Up, a novel she had been working on since 2018, and she successfully did so in 2023. While looking for help with editing her novel, Opalin dabbled in making a The Sims 4 comic called Aeryth. She enjoyed the experience, and she still hopes to make further issues at some point, but between life and the pursuit of other projects, she has yet to be able to return to Aeryth.

In late 2023, Opalin decided, with a few other associates and friends, to found the publishing company known as Phosphor Press, LLC. This company became official on February 13, 2024, and Opalin has since been working on getting the founders' books published by the end of 2024. To date, she has helped co-edit three books that have gone to print, and is currently working on revising her own book, Amped Up, slated to be released on December 31, 2024. Whether she'll meet that deadline remains to be seen...