DAMIEN

Damien grew up in a very nice apartment with his parents. His early life was rather uneventful, going to school, chatting to people, having fun. He never really found a specific interest in much, sort of just going with what most others wanted to do back then.

His parents would help pay to send him to a community college, and he couldn't exactly decide what he even wanted to do for his career. Eventually after trying a few different classes, he settled on getting an associates degree in journalism, figuring that since he found interest in listening to others talk about their lives, then maybe recollecting events and telling current events might be something he could do. When he eventually graduated though, he was unable to find a job, not even a small one. So instead he decided to get a license to drive a bus and got a job driving public transit, and managed to move out to his own apartment.

Eventually his rent would start to raise, and to keep covering it he opted to get a second job alongside bus driving, working at a liquor store just down the street. These two jobs would begin to exhaust him though, and he started feeling rather stuck in life, having no time nor the energy to go out trying to make friends, and ended up spending most days falling asleep to his TV. It also led to him starting his smoking habit

A couple years later, his mother would suddenly succumb to an unknown illness the doctors couldn't identify, and in a terrible stroke of bad luck, his father would end up having a heart attack only a few months later. Most of his savings got thrown away trying to cover funeral expenses, especially without many other family members nearby. The stress of all this would get to him, and he would end up snapping at an unruly passenger much more harshly than he'd intended to, including getting frustrated at more innocent passengers in the crossfire. He ended up fired for this, and then shortly after he would get laid off from his job at the liquor store as it went bankrupt due to a competing store. Within about 5 months, Damien's life had practically completely gone down the drain due to bad luck, and he wasn't able to find a job in time before he'd missed rent too many times, and was evicted from the apartment.

Stuck on the street now, he at least managed to sign up for unemployment before being evicted, and he keeps trying to apply for more jobs in order to keep the benefits. But job hunting in this city was becoming a nightmare even for well-off people, let alone him, who now had it marked that he was fired for behavioral issues, even if he was normally never like that before. The only place that ever seemed to be hiring actively nowadays was some shady job in space, and like hell if he was ever gonna trust that.

Eventually Damien would run into Ally and the others on the street while asking if they had any advice, having seen them around on the street often, and after chatting to Ally a bit, they offered for him to stick around with the group. Damien decided to go along and agree, it wasn't like he knew what else to do, all he could hope for was that eventually some place hired him, and, well, the company sounded nice at first.

It's been the 4 of them for some years now, and the group has generally grown closer, but not necessarily because they like eachother. The only connecting link most of them have is that they all care about Ally, and that they don't want to be on the street alone. So while the group is constantly bickering, they refuse to leave eachother and will still...generally help eachother out. Caring for Ally unfortunately means caring about what happens to the other 2 as well. Damien however has been getting increasingly frustrated with all of them. While Ally is generally nice, they're immature and sensitive. Damien tries not to blame them too much, it's almost certainly Phoenix's fault, he can tell that by now, but it still gets grating at times. Phoenix is just a prick all of the time, and Rowan keeps provoking him on purpose, then behaving like a child when treated rudely back. Then Ally gets upset that they're fighting, and the cycle loops. It's gotten to the point where even Damien can't resist joining the fighting at times, much like when he was stressed and snapped at a passenger, he's stressed once again and snapping at these 3. He hates it, he hates being an angry person, but fuck, can these 3 ever shut up? The only reason he's still here is not wanting to leave Ally behind with someone like Phoenix.