Hero

Hero's Casual Outfit

Pete (Brother, Dead)

Pette (Brother, Dead)

Hero grew up in a small, snowy town called Salta. He had 2 brothers called Pete and Pette, his dad Tim and his mother Wendy. His dad was a heavy smoker and his mom an alcoholic. His mother preferred Pete and Pette over him, and was even abusive towards him, so her and his father kept getting in fights... until one day his dad passed away due to cancer and left him alone with his mother and his brothers. He wasn't allowed to leave the house for anything except getting stuff from the market or other things that his mom didn't wanna do. He didn't even go to school, but got taught reading, writing and numeracy by his dad when he was still alive. He also managed to teach himself maths, geography and some simple physics using books, so he is at least decently smart. He was always up in the attic, which was basically his room. One day while he was just reading a book the lights broke, leaving him in the dark, but he didn't tell his mom in fear of her punishing him for annoying her. So he just constantly remained in the now dark room. Everyday he felt the situation get worse and worse as his family kept falling apart more and more. One day, after his mom almost pushed him into their fireplace, he had enough. He packed his stuff and tried leaving, but his drunk mother grabbed him and knocked him into a shelf with lit candles and his dad's old lighter on it. The candles fell down and on a bunch of paperwork, lighting it on fire. Hero tried to stop the fire but his mother pushed him yet again, burning his hand. He screamed in pain and ran out of the house, before his mother could stop him again. Soon he heard his mother's and brothers' screams as the house was engulfed in flames, leaving him sitting alone in the snow with nothing except the burning house infront of him. When the firefighters showed up it was already too late. His mother and brothers were already dead. The fire had been extinguished, when Hero walked around the ashes of his house, where he found his dad's old Lighter and a cardboard box buried underneath the remnants of the shelf it was on. He opened the box and found a bunch of presents, all with a note saying "For Hero, from your father Tim." It was then he realized, the reason he never got any birthday presents was because his mother kept hiding the ones his father was gonna give him. Hero opened the presents, but most of them were broken, due to the heavy shelf. However at the bottom of the box there was a present which seemed just fine. An empty book. An unused Journal. He picked it and the lighter up, as it was the only things to remind him of his father, and walked away, searching for a new place to call home. On his travels he came along a ship port and snuck onto one of the ships, not knowing of the destination....

## Trauma

### The Flames

After his backstory, Hero was traumatized from what happened and continued to get frequent panic attacks. In those panic attacks he finds it difficult to breath, because he gets hallucinations of fire and smoke, and also because of his immense fear. He usually writes whatever he sees in his Journal, as soon as the smoke fades away.

## Attachments

### The Cause

Hero has a flint and steel with the name "The Cause". This flint and steel was his father's cigarette lighter which Hero found in the ashes of his former home. The reasons for the name are that in Hero's eyes it's the Cause for his home burning down and also the Cause for his father's death, as he used it to light his cigarettes, which ultimately ended in him dying of lung cancer.

### Hero's Journal

Hero's Journal is, as the name states, a book, in which he notes down most things that happen to him. He started writing in this book ever since he arrived on the new continent. He found it in a box of presents for him from his father, which he never received. It was the only object in the box which wasn't destroyed by the shelf or the fire.

## Relationships

Wendy - Mother, Dead, He hated her. Ever since she died he keeps telling himself that she was a good person, and gives himself the blame for being a bad son

Tim - Father, Dead, He loved him. He never loved anyone quite as much as his father, as he always protected him and cheered him up when he was sad.

Pete and Pette - Brothers, Dead, He hated both of them. He was jealous of them because his mom always treated them good and him like trash. He also often got bullied by them.

## Nation/Town/City Affiliations

### Salta

Salta was his home town. He loved it there. He loved the snow, the cold and the people, and misses it a lot. He was and still is very positive about it.

## Likes/Dislikes

### Likes

Hero likes the ocean and cold places. They remind him of his home town. He enjoys being around nice animals or people.

### Dislikes

Hero is afraid of the dark and of fire, which should be self explanatory, considering he was kept in a dark space most of the time he was home and lost everything due to fire. He hates hot places. He hates anything which can suffocate him, such as gravel, sand, concrete powder, etc.