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THEIR BACKSTORY

The world of this character is like a punk dystopia, with the amount of poor being entirely overwhelming, and every person is essentially owned by those at the top through contracts or debt. Cities become sectors, and the sectors are ruled with propaganda and pollution by a far away hand. Announcement speakers blare advertisements and rules and criminal warnings at every corner, and the infrastructure was left to rot years and years ago. Tak's sector is long abandoned by any government or rulers. People wander there. No one is from there, and nobody is truly home there. If a person lives there, it's because something pretty bad happened to them at some point or another. Despite all of this, people do connect with each other and some do thrive. It's as they say: something always grows, even in the bottom of a dark, damp pit. The world is completely hopeless, but my characters are not empty of hope themselves! They, like many others, have some wacky insaneo goals and funtime happenings! Perhaps this dismal world is a haven for the morally corrupt? 1:BEGINNINGS -Tak didn't grow up in one of these hopeless cities. They were probably from one of the more cared-for ones, where people have families and attend school and own dogs. They definitely had a family-- and friends, maybe not a dog but a cat. They lived a nice life till around age 12, when things took a turn and Tak was plunged into the hell they would grow to know as normal :( . 2:THE YEAR BETWEEN -They were kidnapped by some people off the street and whisked away into a totally different world. These people were part of a known human trafficking group, with horrible intentions. To put it bluntly, they had been looking for girls, and found that they made a mistake picking up Tak. They just sold Tak from there on, and that kicked off the next year of their life, where they would find themselves being passed from buyer to buyer, place to place. They found themselves left completely alone most of the time, unwanted for the most part and kept hidden away. For weeks and weeks on end, there would be nothing. Complete solitude. It would sometimes come to the point where they wished that anything at all would happen, just to break the stillness of unending, unchanging time. At some point, age 13, a new buyer came around and bought Tak. This was when they reached their next world. Or hell. Or whatever. 3:THE WEB -These new buyers were the current hottest group distributing quality online content! Except the quality online content was visceral torture videos livestreamed across the web to eager people (with enough money for a ticket, of course!). Tak was (involuntarily) made a member of this hot hot steaming hot new livestream group, as the entire janitorial crew. Their new life was cleaning up the horrible messes the groups' star torturers would make, and following directions like a dog as soon as orders are barked. After all, they owned Tak, how could Tak disobey? The group all wore masks that obscured their identities, including Tak, at all times. There was always so much blood and guts and gore, Tak did not like it. It was the cleanup duties for a while, until they were promoted and then got to have many jobs, like lighting crew, camera operator, and quality assurance (if Tak threw up, the ppl running the scene knew it was a good one!). This was the best time for Tak, when they reflect upon the whole experience of being kidnapped. The group was rather tight knit, lots of jokes and sillness (despite an undertone of terror), the ppl even gave Tak their nickname! They eventually became one of the torturers themselves, and were known by the ravenous audience for their total unwillingness to harm people. The audience LOVED Tak for this. They just couldn't get enough of Tak's reactions! They wanted to see Tak break. This flung Tak into actual stardom, and it brought the organization to the heights of torture video fame! Audiences were paying so much money to make Tak do what they wanted them to do. This time in the torture web group lasted for three long years. They became incredibly skilled in the art of torture by the end, and were known for their knack for bringing ppl as close to death as possible while not actually ending the fun (taking their life). Tak was beloved by the audience, but after those three years, Tak had grown older, and less squeamish, and eventually the audience grew bored of whatever charm they had fallen in love with. Unfortunately, the audience demanded something new now. And the group complied. That next stream opened with Tak on the blue tarp--instead of the normal anonymous victim--splayed out on the floor. This would be Tak's final stream, and Tak's biggest hit yet! The ratings that day were the highest they had ever been in the stream's entire history, and the amount of money that came in was unheard of. They reveal Tak's face to the audience, and, in a fantastic closeup, they give Tak those scars. Tak wasn't supposed to have to live with those scars--they were meant to die on that tarp. The audience, after all, paid for it! But, outside of the audience's knowledge, they made it out alive. There were a few individuals in the group that believed in karma, (and reaaaally believed in the money Tak earned them), so they snuck Tak out and left them in a dumpster far, far away. This begins the next play of Tak's bad deck of cards. 4:GAS STATION -Tak wakes up in that dumpster and has to get their bearings. For the first time in years of their life, they are free. This is the point in their story that their personal comic takes place in (it is unfinished). They heal up their injuries while living homeless in a bush or something, and take to wearing around a face mask. They go to rob a gas station and lowkey gets beat up by the cashier, and then they become friends. Tak and her hang out all the time, in the gas station and by the canal and sometimes at her place. Usually at night. They are both rather deranged, and have very unstable demeanors: a little too twitchy a little too unpredictable. But it's a good friendship. This lasts for a short little while, until one day outside of the gas station they decide to have a knife fight. The girl challenged Tak, begged them to try and stab her. Maybe it was after a heartfelt reveal of Tak's past, and what Tak could do in the past. They begin their fight, but as they fight, a siren super suddenly starts to wail and a police car speeds up to them. This fucking loud fucking siren fucking sends fucking tak into a fucking panic and Tak freaks out and accidentally fucking stabs their fucking friend in the wrong fucking spot. The friend was much worse at knife fighting than stated and is unable to block the knife from Tak and totally gets gutted, she falls to the ground so quickly. Cops never come to the city but when they do it is to like kill ppl. Bad stuff. Tak flips the F out and bolts out the back, the friend left limp on the ground. Tak runs and runs and runs, they probably didn't get seen. There's red blood on their hands for the first time in a long time, and their r lokee freeking out!! They have nowhere to go, so they end up at that friend's apartment building and they go to her apartment. That moment of silence and emptiness that washes over them as they step through that doorway is the mark of the next chapter of their life! 5:BUILDING -This is the chapter that the main comic that Tak was created for happens. The apartment building. The first time they stepped through the doorway to that building became one of a number of times that can be counted on a single person's hands. The cops never came. The girl had no family, so no one came to look for her. No one was looking for Tak. Tak was technically dead. They took their friend's apartment as their own, and lived their life exclusively in that building. The building was evil. It was in a different sector than Tak had ever been, one of the ones I had described at the beginning of this story. The walls were crumbling and the rooms smelled of death. The roads were empty and the building was swallowed in a slew of equally super bad buildings, one of hundreds piling on top of eachother. This one had floors that reached into the depths of the earth instead of floors that reached to the sky. It was the ground floor, and then under. The farther down you went, the more dark the lights were, the more rotted the carpet was, the stiller the air was. Tak didn't end up too far down, but they were not able to escape the poison of living there. And of having had done what they did. You may, as a loyal reader, be wondering about what Tak thought now, and how Tak thought before. I haven't totally elaborated on that. They were terrified while they were passed around, wishing to be home and being scared of what their life would turn out like after everything. In the web group, Tak was so upset at first, and was so disgusted by everything. They wanted nothing more than to go home or escape, but they were held there (after all the group owned Tak). Eventually they began to grow used to it, and began to form connections with the people, and they loved the audience attention. Attention was always a thing with them, a thing that probably began in those months spent in solitude after they were kidnapped. By the end, they didn't think about going home anymore, and they were focused on their new purpose. When Tak's audience betrayed them, it came as a completely gut-wrenching shock. Tak then understood how cruel the world was, and that everything will be torn away from them. Once they ended up free and on the outside, older Tak was not as happy as young Tak would have been. They had to grapple with the fact that they were dead to the life they once had, and they were just used space in a crumbling world. They were no one. They spent a lot of time thinking about what they want, and spent a lot of time doing exactly what they wanted. They reflected a lot on their now past. Becoming friends with that cashier was very good for them. They were linked by the hip until the unfortunate accident with the knife. Just another thing torn away. Their time in the building is really what breaks them, though. Tak doesn't know why they chose to stay at first. Maybe they were hiding from the law, maybe it was because they missed their friend, maybe it was to punish themself for what they've done. The reason doesn't really matter. That building tore Tak apart. They spent a long number of years there, alone with their thoughts. Tak doesn't know how long they'd lived there, they lived there for a long number of years before the comic with Madi begins. They'd be in their 20s now. Tak stopped thinking about the past long ago, they don't remember it anymore (by choice). All they choose to know is their life in that building. Tak isn't unhappy though, they thrive in that building. Every day they wake up and wander the halls, they look in cracks and look under doors. They try handles. There's lots to do. They think about other people all of the time, a day where anyone interacts back with them is a great day. But they spend so much time completely alone too. Think years. Sometimes, they decide they need to return to the real world, but they try to leave the building and something just pulls them back every time, they completely switch up. Their personality now is incredibly unstable, with ups and downs happening lightning quick, and morals that are fucked. They live with no past. Now and forever is the building, their apartment, their solitude. Their mental state is totally decayed! Maybe it was the mold. Or more likely all of the other stuff. That is where Tak's story comes to an end. At years and years in a building filled with the most heinous, disgusting people in the most rotting, forgotten environment. Tak's story ends where the comic begins, when Madi begins his little holy mission. Thank you for reading!