You're average everyday bookworm for the most part. Miles was born into an incomplete family. He parents never even married, his mother had full custody of him since he were born, his father never getting to be able to sign his birthing papers to legally become his father. Although his parents lived together for quite some time, his father was in an out of jails for the first half a decade of his life and his mother constantly moving around from place to place, from shelter to shelter. His mother was a bipolar drug addict who would pass him off to complete strangers for hours, even days at a time without any regard for his safety, nor any care it would seem.
His father, whom actually tried to take care of Miles was in and out of trouble with the law for petty, criminal activities every few months and then he'd be gone for weeks, months at a time. Because of this, Miles' father took him to live with his grandfather — hoping that they could protect and provide the life that the child needed. His grandfather, around the time was in his late 40s and Miles around the age of 5 at the time he went to live with them. He had only met his grandfather like three times prior to this. His grandfather was living with a woman whom he had been seeing for a while.
Together, his grandfather and his grandfather's lover took over the responsibility to raise Miles, providing the care and nurturing that the child needed. Although they too had their own lives to live, Miles spent most of his time in child day care and in school in his youth from that point. His father at this point had been arrested for a few felonies and was incarcerated in prison for 5 to 10 years. His grandfather, with his father's permission, had DNA tests done and through several legal paths, he acquired full gaurdianship of Miles from here on.
Miles started grammar school, over the years they became the major focus of his life until he graduated high school. Miles went to a public school, he was considered the "nerd" of his generation, where as he was ridiculed and made fun of for his looks and other childish things. Miles just did his best to ignore this through his academic pursuits, he never really had any friends other than his grandfather and his grandfather's girlfriend, whom around the time that he was in high school became his grandmother by law as his grandfather married her.
After high school, Miles went on to a local community college where he majored in business management and accounting. He spent 2 years at the community college going full time 20+ hours a week, and from there he went on to the University of New York, moving to living in the dorms. Jason Scott, a popular jock with a wealthy family shared his room with him.
Jason and Miles never really became friends, they went on with their own social lives, or lack there of in Miles' case. Miles was always secretively jealous of his roommate's popularity, especially with the female student body. It seemed like almost every night Miles' roommate had another female 'study buddy' in their room for nefarious activities. Miles was secretly envious and jealous of Jason's charismatic charm and popularity. One night, while sitting on the edge of his bed, Jason approached Miles while he was having an alcoholic drink, a beer, Jason informed Miles that he was having some company over that evening. Miles thought to himself, "Man, I wish I could be in his shoes, just for one night…" And then he blacked out. Miles then awoke to the sound of the door knocking, so he rose to his feet and moved to the door to answer it. It was a pretty young woman standing on the otherside, she had smiled at him playfully and rushed in to him, practically leaping into his arms. Miles not sure how to react, he embraced the girl nervously. The young woman then began to kiss all over him, forcing him back to his roommate's bed where she began to make sexual advances.
Miles was confused, he was enjoying it but something just didn't seem right. Miles just happened to take a glance off to the side as the girl kissed his neck and started to uncloth him, as he looked he noticed his body laying in the bed across the room. Miles hesitated for a moment, then he remembered what he thought of earlier and realized that his wish was coming true, oddly enough. So Miles played along, it was the best night of his life. That next day, he awoke, still in his roommate's body, he thought to himself, "What if I could do this everyday? What if I could live Jason's life instead of my own?" So, Miles went on about his day, in his roommate's body, he went to his scheduled classes just as he normally would but in his first class the teacher realized that he was not meant to be there so he was asked to leave. Miles realized that he couldn't go to HIS classes, he had to go to Jason's classes, if he were going to be Jason, then he would have to do what Jason would do, go where Jason would go, and act how Jason would act.
So Miles then went on to find Jason's schedule of classes and then he went to each class, and while he was in Jason's body, he was approached by numerous others who believed he were Jason, a large portion of them being female students, as well as some faculty. All of them wanting Jason's company later that evening. So Miles took one of the female student's offers and met with them at their dorm room later that evening for some more scandalous after dark activities.
Miles went on about this for a few days before he finally grew tired of pretending to be Jason so he went back to the dorm room to his body to try and figure out how to get himself back into his original body. When Miles came back to the dorm to his body he discovered that his body was rapidly decaying, the awful stench of death filled the air. Miles was a bit worried as he tried everything, saying out loud "I wish I were myself again", and trying to believe that he could be himself. But nothing he tried worked. Obviously his body were dead now, it was deteriorating rapidly, there was nothing he could do to bring it back now.
Then Miles started to freak out, he didn't know what to do with the body, or how he could go back to the way it was. He seemed to be stuck with no other options at this point. Miles then decided that he would get rid of his body. So Miles took a few blankets and wrapped his body up inside and carried it out to the dumpster and there he tossed it inside and left it.
Miles went on to try to live his life as Jason now with no other choice but to, unfortunately, his own body was discovered and the authorities were immediately notified. Before he knew it, Miles was being questioned and interrogated in a small windowless room with two steel chairs and a table by a couple of rather intimidating officers. Miles didn't know what to say to them, Jason's finger prints were all over the body and he couldn't tell them the truth about what he was doing, they probably wouldn't even believe him. So, as the cops arrested Miles, what was running through his mind the entire time as one of the cops put handcuffs on him was that he wanted to get away, he wished that he could escape and then it happened again, but this time he didn't black out, this time he was aware of the transfer from Jason's body to the arresting police officer's body. He was now in the police officer's body looking at Jason, who was completely lost and confused, not knowing what was going on or what to do.
Miles just tried his best to pretend to be the officer and escorted Jason to a cell. From there, he walked out of the police station, he began to think to himself, what if he can be who ever he wants to be? So Miles then thought about being someone famous, but that didn't work. Miles then looked around, maybe it's only someone that he can actually see? So he tried that, but that failed as well. Miles tried to think of how this worked the last two times, both times it was somebody near him… Then he figured it out, he had to be touching them in order to possess their body. So Miles went up to the first person walking by him on the street, which happened to be David Berry, whom was dressed in a rather fancy tailored suit, talking on his cell phone when Miles brushed up against him and possessed his body.
That's how it all began for Miles, after he figured out how to use his ability to possess others, Miles then went on for the next couple years taking over other people's lives for weeks at a time, never staying the same person for very long. While possessing these people, Miles made numerous ghost bank accounts over seas for himself to accumulate some wealth over time. Although Miles is not exactly filthy rich, he is capable of supporting himself as needed, when needed. Just by discreetly doing what he is doing, he makes anywhere between 4 to 6 grand in a month that he stores in these bank accounts over time, always withdrawing cash, trying to cover his tracks and be as careful as he can be so that it won't be tracked back to any of the victims that he had possessed.
When the bomb went off in New York, Miles was caught in the blast, possessing a Wall Street broker. Miles' possessed body was pinned beneath some rubble that he could not escape from. The body was growing cold and numb very quickly and Miles knew that it was near death and dying. He started to panic again, not knowing what to do. It got black, and then Miles' felt his presence be forced out of the body that he was in and into the open. IT felt like Miles was suffocating, kind like a fish out of water. So Miles had to act quickly, it seemed like the longest minute of his life when his presence floated away, rapidly in search of someone else to possess, but Miles could not find another person within the immediately and he just knew that he had to do something but what he did not know. That's when Miles came across a stray dog and without hesitation, Miles attempted to possess the dog's body in hopes to save himself from what seemed to be a looming, horrid fate. Miles' possession of the dog was successful, Miles was relieved to escape that momentary nightmare.
Despite being shaken up, Miles then went on about his life, sort to speak. For the next coming years, Miles would accumulate a little more wealth, having acquired approximately half a million in assets, and it continues to grow. He's gradually taking more and more, aiming to possess wealthier targets each time.
Miles still resides in New York in an apartment under the name Miles Wilheister, although he is possessing a homeless man called Robert Gruman whom he has deemed as his 'dedicated' body for the time being, until it is necessary to drop it.
