A woman sits in a Starbucks, somewhere in her mid-twenties, typing away at a laptop. "This is the background of Amadeus Deckard. I'll be using it as a reference for my psychological thesis on underachievement. I spent the entire of what they're calling the Great Storm, learning everything I could about his history, trying to extrapolate his motivations."
Amadeus' life begins on June 16th, 1986. He was born to a single mother, Lucy Valentine (Valenteen). His father, Flint Deckard, was no where to be found. Strangely, though he didn't say how he knew this, his mother gave him the last name Deckard out of complete spite for the man not being there, not wanting the man to forget he has a son somewhere. She married a man named Jack Valentine a few years later, and according to Amadeus, they spoiled him rotten.
Throughout his childhood, he tried to contact his biological father. Growing up, he'd often get mad at his stepfather and angrily run away, looking for Flint, though he usually came back when he realized it was a futile effort and calmed down a bit. He was also quite the moron, for lack of a better term. There are more polite terms than moron, but some words simply… fit.
He's never had good grades, though according to him, and a few trophies he showed me from his van later on, he's an amazing baseball player, especially when he's batting. He had a large number of friends through his childhood, but he was the kind of person who'd always try to steal the other children's things. He always felt entitled, and it's my personal opinion that he was very lazy and unwilling to work for things.
During high school, things predictably went downhill. He started smoking pot at 13 and hanging out with a lot of unsavory older crowds, he stole money from his parents and was often kicked out through his teenaged years. He started selling drugs at around 15, but he says he only did hard stuff a few times, to experiment, and mostly stuck to pot. He stresses that he's never done heroin, and only tried coke and acid once, and not at the same time. He also did LSD and said he never even thought about doing it again.
With age, his crimes seemed to get bolder, and while he is a moron, he's at the very least a little savvy when it comes to being a criminal. He didn't give up any names, but he says he's worked for a long of people in the criminal underworld. He's smashed up stores with a bat, extorted people, and before the flu took his Evolved ability, he'd actually infest businesses with cats and get paid by other businesses for the service.
From everything he's told me, he seems to try to find his biological father a lot, and when I met him he'd just gotten out of jail for possession. He's been in and out of juvie, sometimes only getting community service, but the fifth time was the last chance he could, quote "Give the law the finger". The judge wanted to make an example of him, and he did. Now Amadeus is in the city to find his father again, and a place to live. He still smokes pot and lives in a van, but I'm not sure on his current status as a criminal. He left my house a few weeks after the storm and I haven't heard from him since, but God help the people who decide to take him in.
All my goddamned Godiva…
