Matthias

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Sebastian (Son)
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Matthias is from Chronicle 2

Matthias is father to Sebastian and his younger brother Andres. He is married to Gemma.

Matthias was born to Puerto-Rican parents in southern Arizona, in 1938, three years before his brother, Marcus. He was the favorite of the two brothers, and Matthias's father frequently took him out to baseball games and bought him nice things. Marcus was often neglected from these events, and it soured their relationship. The brothers frequently got into bloody fights, especially as they grew older. Their parents didn't interfere; they viewed the fighting as a building of character. Matthias was diagnosed with ADHD as a child, and spent most of his youth on stimulants.

During high school, Marcus became part of a gang, and he offered Matthias money for his ADHD medication. This deal improved their relationship somewhat. Matthias would continue to sell his medication to his brother until Matthias graduated. His grades were good, and he made honor roll often, which only strengthened his parents' preference for him.

In 1955, when he was 17, Matthias's father was killed in a robbery of the store their family owned while he was working there. Witnessing his father's killing motivated Matthias to become a policeman. When he announced this, Marcus, who had dropped out of school, cut contact with his brother and moved upstate. At 18, Matthias entered the police academy, and he graduated two years later.

Matthias went on to be a successful cop, and rose to the rank of detective within several years. In 1961, he married Gemma, a childhood friend. On November 13th, 1963, their first son, Sebastian, was born. Marcus was invited to the birth, and he came begrudgingly. Matthias, at the time, was unaware that his brother was involved in a multi-state drug cartel operation. Marcus quickly became enamored with the baby boy, and he promised his brother to try and mend their relationship so he could spend more time with his nephew.

After the birth, Gemma suffered from severe post-partum depression, which he blamed on Sebastian, who was a difficult and unruly baby. He was often sick, cried constantly, and frequently injured himself. When he was four months old, Matthias nearly dropped his son from the balcony of his house, before his wife stopped him. His resentment towards the boy only grew, until Gemma became pregnant again, in 1965. She gave birth to Matthias's second son, Andres, on Feburary 14th of the following year. Matthias's mother died later in 1965, of pneumonia.

Matthias saw a certain hope in Andres. He was a quiet baby, unproblematic, and Gemma didn't suffer after his birth like she did for Sebastian's. Matthias soon focused entirely on his youngest son, much in the same way his parents had focused on Marcus. At that time, Matthias's behavior amounted only to neglect. Marcus began frequenting his brother's house, taking the young Sebastian to spend time with him, and the boy grew to prefer the company of his uncle to that of Matthias.

At the same time, Gemma grew to resent her life of domesticity. Matthias forbade her from getting a job, and her unhappiness slowly worsened. She began drinking excessively. Marcus was receptive to her pain, but didn't understand its cause, which resulted in him ignoring the signs of her deteriorating mental state.

On a rainy day in March of 1968, when Sebastian was four and his brother was two, Gemma took her kids and her husband's car and drove it off of a nearby bluff. The collision killed her and Andres, but Sebastian survived. Matthias blamed his son for their deaths, and he tormented the boy until Sebastian admitted to crying in the backseat and distracting Gemma. Matthias was destroyed by the deaths of his wife and favorite son, and he resultingly took an indefinite leave of absence from his detective work. His resentment towards his remaining son bloomed into hatred. Sebastian was badly tormented, physically and emotionally, by his father, until Marcus convinced his brother to send Sebastian to private school across the country,

Matthias sent his son to a boys' school in Massachusetts in 1973, when he was almost nine. His brother then went on to orchestrate his death.

Marcus spent some time at his brother's house once Sebastian was gone, and he talked Matthias into revealing the abuses he had committed against his son. Marcus then offered Matthias opioid painkillers to deal with the pain he was going through. Matthias, who was no longer a police officer, eventually accepted. Matthias bought drugs from his brother for three years, until Marcus got his brother to instate him as his next of kin, after which he had his brother tortured and poisoned.

Matthias died on December 7th, 1976, sitting at his kitchen table next to a bottle of poisoned painkillers. His cause of death was ruled as an accidental overdose. Shortly after, Marcus gained custody of Sebastian, and pulled him out of boarding school.