DEXTER

FULL BACKSTORY

Past
Dexter grew up as royalty, with 4 other siblings, one of them being his twin Danyel. Dexter never had any thoughts of ever becoming king, he knew the youngest were not next in line, and he and Danyel were the youngest. He didn't mind at all though, because Dexter frankly hated having to act royal. While he appreciated the security of shelter, food, and safety, the royal life was far too stuffy and repetitive for him. He loved music, and was very skilled in it, especially lutes. His parents initially rarely paid excessive attention to him and Danyel, especially him, and so Dexter would use that lack of eyes to frequently sneak out to the town and give out money and food to people. At first in exchange for listening to his music, but eventually he gave it out freely as he realized how much his family had to spare compared to the rest of the kingdom. Just enough to make a difference to people, but not enough to be a noticeable loss.

After awhile of doing this, Dexter in his teenage years now, he started bringing Danyel along, often ranting to him about unfair it was that so many of their subjects had to go to sleep cold, or had to go hungry some days. Danyel wasn't extremely interested at first, but as Dexter kept inviting him on outings, Danyel started to understand what Dexter meant, and the two would often talk fantasies about if they were king next and how they'd fix the kingdom

After about a year of Danyel and Dexter doing their outings, their parents suddenly revealed that for reasons they couldn't discuss, Danyel would now be next in line for king, despite being the youngest prince. Dexter thought this was great, knowing his brother was smart and had similar views to him, maybe there really was a chance to fix the kingdom for the better. Dexter also knew this meant Danyel would become much busier though, and so he went out less, feeling strange without Danyel there, and focused on music instead. Overtime though, Dexter grew bored of living in the castle, and made a plan to run away and be a travelling musician instead. Before he left though, he made sure to tell Danyel his plans. To his surprise, Danyel asked to join him, that the stress of the future was killing him, and so the two left the kingdom silently together, only leaving a note behind.

The pair travelled together for a long time, visiting various towns, both inside the parallel and outside of it on earth. Dexter made some money with his performances, while Danyel began to get very into vigilantism. At one town, the two meet a possum named Bailey, and her and Dexter quickly grew close, and later started dating.

At first, Bailey would help with Danyel's vigilante stunts, but after so many successes, Dexter began to fear the day Danyel's luck would finally make a bad roll, and feared they could both be hurt or killed. He started expressing concern for this 'justice', suggesting that Danyel should try and help towns other ways, and while he won Bailey over, who agreed and stopped accompanying Danyel's 'missions', Danyel refused to stop despite Dexter's pleas. Shortly after getting Bailey to stop the hero escapades, Dexter proposed to her, and Bailey gleefully accepted, the two planned to tell Danyel later, knowing he would go over the top with wanting a nice 'wedding'. But eventually, Dexter's fears came true, and after warning him not to, Danyel followed through anyway on a 'robin hood' attempt from well known criminals for a town. It seemed like a success at first, but in the middle of the night their camp was found, and Bailey was killed quietly in the night, leaving her body to be discovered when the brothers woke up. The message was obvious; they had finally messed with the wrong people. Dexter was completely destroyed for weeks, and still grieving months later. He refused to speak to Danyel for any of that time, other than very curt sentences when needed, and eventually the silent tension boiled over, the two brothers having an explosive argument before Dexter split ties with Danyel and left him on his own.

Current
In the current day, Dexter simply keeps travelling like he used to. He has no real home, and simply travels from motel to hotel and performs music in the street. Sometimes he lands smaller gigs at local restaurants as well. While he isn't particularly close with anyone, people still like his positivity despite his obvious sadness, and he makes lots of friendly acquaintances that also offer him places to stay when money is low. When he's not doing performances, he often goes to any community buildings in the area he's currently is and helps out however he can. Plenty of towns around the galaxy know him for all his help, but few even know his real name. He's just sort of a nice guy who shows up.