Wil Pierce (Earth-3)

**Wil Pierce** is a senior at Fayetteville High School-North Campus in Fayetteville Arkansas. He is one of the principal protagonists of the Symphony of the Sword series.

## **Early Life:**

David William "Wil" Pierce was born on the thirty first of October, 1979 in Astoria Oregon. The eldest of what would later be three sons, Wil had a solid childhood growing up in what was nicknamed by the locals as the "Goon Docks" which was the corner of Duane and 37th streets of Astoria with two of his closest friends in the entire world being Ridley Hale and John McIntyre.

In 1985, Wil's parents got job offers that would require them to move their family from Astoria to Fayetteville Arkansas where he was lucky enough also to have his two best friends move to the same city as him when Ridley and John's parents also got job better job offers in that city as well and Wil started his next year of school at the Butterfield Trail Elementary School under the guidance of Mister Braddock, a teacher that would not only be a long time sufferer of Wil and his circle of friends but also be a kind of mentor to the young boy.

It was here that Wil would also meet several other people that would become important to him later on in life Curtis Zane, J.A. Lannister, Brian Cameron, Tommy Slayton, Sam Gunthire, Dani Moonstar, Dylan McEvedy, Spring Davion and a few others. One person in particular would be Kelly DeWitt-Kane, a young girl from near-by Briarwood Arkansas who acted strangely but Wil understood that he would've been in the same state had it not been for his friends moving with him and he brought her into his "den of thieves" (Mister Braddock's words for his group from time to time since they were usually as "thick as a den of thieves").

While a very personable and outgoing person, Wil was in reality a shy and quiet person with only those closest to him understanding this. This was made even more obvious when he had trouble asking fellow student Josie McCoy out prior to the start of their seventh grade year at Ramey Junior High-however Josie accepted and the two started a relationship without any kind of problems whatsoever-aside from one moment when Wil accidentally kissed his friend Kelly. During this time Wil's talent with music was discovered and he would often help Josie during her band's various gigs and even helped the band out with a song or two and slowly but surely everything in Wil's life was turning out great.

Until the start of High School.

For reasons that either one of them have really gone into, the two of them broke up after a long discussion and Wil simply threw himself into everything \*but\* the dating scene, despite several interested parties. Wil would even continue to wear a special bracelet given to him by Josie for quite some time afterwards but for the most part, he would simply be there more for his friends and family than anything.

But this was only in part to hide something else that was going on in Wil's life, something that he had chosen to keep quiet about and fought hard to do so.

## **Senior Year:**

The summer leading into Wil's senior year of high school was spent partially with his few friends that had stayed in Fayetteville over that summer but for the most part he spent it doing his own thing and preparing for what was to come-but what he wasn't prepared for was some of the major changes that happened in those first few days alone.