Matthew Howard

**Matthew "Matt" Howard** is one of the agents of the Against Evil Allegiance, and he is tasked with a mission to save the world from the Wraith, known as *The Traveller* in Season 5.

## Appearance

Matthew is a 28-year-old traveller and an agent of the AEA who is tasked with the mission to carry out operations for the agency. He has short black hair under a teal hat, black eyes and a faint stubble. He wears a buttoned-up teal jean jacket with silver buttons and front pockets. He also sports a silver ring on his finger as well as black pants and black boots.

Matthew is known to be a carefree guy who did not think and concern much about any troubles, trusting in his guts more than using his brain to analyze the situations. He is also a friendly guy who cares and loves to cheer his AEA colleagues up and clear the atmosphere among them with some random sarcastic jokes. He is also famous for his bad luck in finding a boyfriend, never getting in a serious relationship with anyone before and seriously hoping for somebody to appear and save him from becoming forever alone. His hobbies are taking photos and playing the guitar with his favorite songs.

## Background

Matthew was given birth in Virginia, U.S. by a heartless couple who were not already to raise a baby. As a result, he was left in front of the city church's gate, where a kind guy named Joseph Howard decided to adopt him and gave him the name Matthew. It was the adoptive father Joseph who gave him the chances to live, everything Matthew learnt about languages, cultures, moral values and the likes, always came from Joseph. Matthew was having a decent life with his adoptive father, aware of his real parents' existence but regarding them as non-existent individuals, holding a big grudge against them for leaving him in the lurch. All the same, much to Joseph's worries, Matthew liked to quit academic classes to go on adventures during his teenage times, believing that academic knowledge was totally useless. The day before his eighteenth birthday, Matthew discovered his father Joseph's dreams of travelling all over the world, however the kind father was willing to abandon the dreams to raise and be with his adopted son Matthew. Therefore, 18-year-old Matthew, already equipped with obtained cultural and linguistic knowledge, as well as mastered survival skills, decided to take up the dreams of his dear father, who was now unable to have such strengths to embark on journeys anymore. He put on his giant backpack and travelled around the world on his bike and his father's camera, taking photos of every scenic wonders and sending them back to Joseph, somehow fulfilling Joseph's dreams and making him believe that his son is now grown up thanks to Joseph's nurture.

Now, he have been to almost every side of the world, from Boyland, Fario, Paris to Aurelia, Raxelville and Kobe, the town he probably loves the most due to the gayness there. Some days after stopping by his old hometown and reuniting with his father Joseph, Matthew met a recruiter from AEA, saying that his experience and skills would be extremely useful for the agency. Agreeing, Matthew started a new chapter of his life with AEA.