Cletus 'Bub' Brown

## Overview

Cletus 'Bub' Brown is a former linebacker and MVP of the Alabama State University football team, and loyal companion of Charley 'Chip' Wilson.

## Early Life

Born as the first of 5 children to a single mother in Mobile, Alabama, Bub's life would be marred by nothing but adversity from an early age.

As a child, Bub was known to have difficulties with both math and english. Well regarded by his teachers, Bub was described as being an incredibly polite, albeit quiet student. While not being known for his academic pursuits, Bub was far better known for his athletic abilities.

Even from an early age, it became evident that Bub was truly a cut above the rest, in both his size and his strength. By the age of 12, Bub stood at an impressive six feet in height, making him far larger than anyone else on the football field. To go along with this, Bub showed an impressive speed and agility for his overall size, which drew the attention of several talent scouts for college football teams.

Graduating from high school, Bub ultimately chose to attend Alabama State University, playing as a first string linebacker in his freshman year.

## MVP

In his years at Alabama State, Bub's popularity and clout within the college football culture rose dramatically. Due in large part to Bub's tremendous physicality and uncanny athletic capability, Alabama State's defense would be rated among the strongest in the league, and college football as a whole. Due to this, Alabama State would win two championships back-to-back, in both occasions the defense ultimately stopping the offense in the last precious seconds of the fourth quarter.

Being an up and coming superstar, Bub's job prospects in the NFL seemed boundless. With rumors abound of him becoming the number one draft pick of the season, it seemed as if Bub was on the straight and narrow to an equally promising career in professional football. As it would turn out, Bub would never know if he was going to be the number one draft pick, as the Yellow Flu pandemic erupted several months before the announcement.

## Collapse

During the collapse months, Bub would find both himself and his team being routinely shuttled around from location to location in search of a safe place to stay, eventually ending up in Gulfport, Mississippi. After several weeks spent in near total isolation, disputes among the group started to erupt, and Bub decided to leave of his own volition, despite the protests of his team mates.

Making his way to Mobile mostly by foot, Bub would arrive nearly a month later, only to discover that his home had been burned to the ground during a firestorm, leaving no trace as to his family's wearabouts.

With nowhere else to go, Bub soon fell in with a group of old friends from high school, who had resorted to banditry on the interstates for survival. Although morally opposed to the act, Bub had no other choice other than to remain with the group, out of both fear for his life and no other apparent means of survival.

After exhausting all available resources in the Mobile Area, and with increasing conflict with other factions, Bub's group decided to set off towards the west, aimlessly marauding and plundering as they did so.

It wouldn't be until mid 2 P.C. that the group would finally meet their match, on a highway overpass just outside of Dallas. In a brief, but overwhelmingly brutal skirmish, Bub's group would be ambushed and summarily overrun by another faction of Raiders, resulting in the loss or surrender of most of their group.

Being ones with an eye for profit, the attacking group immediately recognized the potential Bub had for a life of gladiatorial combat, and soon thereafter sold him off to one D'Andre Marcus, one of the most prominent figures in the gladiatorial sports business.

## Life as a Gladiator

Bub's life as a gladiator was hardly an enjoyable one. Although it wouldn't take him long at all to become one of the most lauded gladiators in the Corpus Christi Colosseum, he was still a slave nonetheless, and never saw so much as a cent of the proceeds.

Only being provided with enough food to maintain his massive muscle mass, and kept in what was little more than a janitorial closet, Bub's life for the next several months would be a hellish tour in boredom, gruelling physical training, and unrestrained violence against fellow gladiators and criminals condemned to the Colosseum.

This seemingly endless cycle of suffering and misery would finally be ended on one fateful day in mid 3 P.C., when one Charley 'Chip' Wilson would be thrown in his cell after their fateful match, in hopes that Bub would finish off Chip. As it turned out, both of the men were able to set aside their differences and bruised egos, finding commonality in their suffering, and eventually hatching an escape plan.

Utilizing Chip's engineering know-how, and Bub's strength, the two were able to break the lock on the door, before overpowering a guard and making their escape into the dead of the night. Over the course of the next two weeks, the two men would be forced to work together to escape Norton's Empire, forging an inseperable bond along the way.