The Tucker family was your average run of the mill middle class American family. Mr. Tucker worked as a manager for a factory as the breadwinner, and Mrs.Tucker was a wine mom who had 3 boys to raise. Jeremy was the middle child and in Mrs.Tucker’s opinion the one who she needed to pay attention to most. Jeremy struggled to make friends and was often made fun of for his weight when he was in elementary school. But with the reputation of his older brother and Jeremy’s can-do demeanor he never let it get to him much. His older brother was your quintessential jock, but Jeremy and his younger brother were your quintessential gamers. The age gap between the youngest and the eldest was too large for there to be a proper connection so Jeremy was the one his younger brother looked up to.

Jeremy’s gravitated to people who also shared his interests of videogames and late night cartoons from a young age. His humor was his social saving grace in most situations, always making light of situations. His years up until highschool had made him affable so that most people knew who Jeremy Tucker was and would always have a good time talking to him. This perceived social genius and fast found popularity made Jeremy confident in himself. He could talk to nerds about anime, the jocks liked sports, the teachers Jeremy was at the top of the pecking order and found himself surrounded with friends and more importantly his crush. He took this confidence to ask out the most beautiful girl in his school.

The wind was stripped from his sails as she giggled and said

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“That’s funny, but no.”

Those words would haunt Jeremy going into his highschool years. Her rejection hurt in a way that he couldn’t quite understand. In his mind, he could not think of a justifiable reason as to why he was shot down. He listened to her, made her laugh, they hung out after school all the time, and he was so sure that she was into him! That summer was filled with misery. His older brother and father did their best to console him. They told him that pretty girls will come and go easy and to not worry what a whore thinks… because that’s what that girl would become to Jeremy. A simple minded, no good whore.

It took some time for Jeremy to recover, but with consolation from his father and brother he whipped himself right back into shape. In highschool Jeremy found himself enjoying the company of his friends instead of having to challenge a new social hierarchy. His life would remain pretty static, he consumed media, ate, went to school, played video games, and went to bed. That became his life over the years and he found himself wanting drastic change, but he didn’t know how. He wanted to be like the heroes from the show’s he watched. Guys just like him who women threw themselves at… he wanted to be the hero.

And he soon would.