OC Backstory

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I have a backstory for Dante. It's just as miserable as my others lol So when Dante was 11 or so, his mother did horrible things to him without his consent. She thought that as his mother, she was entitled to him and his body. She also threatened that if he told anyone, he would be killed. So, he never told anyone. This made him detached from the people around him, and he hardly spoke to anyone in fear of being silenced. This made him extremely close to the only person he could talk to; his father. They were as close as they could be, and when Dante was with him, he felt safe. One day, though, he just couldn't take the stress of the secrets he was keeping, and prepared to kill himself, standing on a chair with a noose around his neck. But his father walked in on his attempt and asked Dante what he was doing. The pre-teen asked if they could go on a drive, somewhere far away, and then he would explain everything. Once they were several hours away from their house, Dante told his father about what his mom was doing to him. In shock, his father called the police, and she was promptly arrested. His parents divorced, and the two were put into witness protection. They moved to the city where they would be hard to find and started a new life. Dante felt safe. But his father was soon diagnosed with Pleural Mesothelioma, a kind of deadly cancer affecting the lungs. All Dante could do was watch his father slowly die, struggling to survive with chemotherapy sessions and medical treatments. But eventually, after a year of fighting, his father passed away. The teen felt broken. Everything he loved was gone, his home, his life, his dad. The hospital tried to help him into the foster care program, but Dante refused, unwilling to live without his father. Dante spent a few days curled up in his bed, sobbing and letting his black eyeliner run down his face. And when he finally left his room, he would spend hours sitting in the graveyard, crying at his father's gravestone. But one day at the graveyard, he met Daemon, who was sitting at the gravestone under the tree in the distance. The two shared their feelings of loss and manipulation and often met up at the graveyard to talk about their lives and how they felt. And it turns out they shared a lot of interests and personality traits, making them even closer than they once were. They remain best friends to this day, helping each other through the hardships of life. So that's his story so far. I might add a few characters because it's still in development, but I like it so far <3