Winterborn

[Blighter]

[font=Palatino Linotype][color=#999999]G[color=#99AA99]ranted, bothersome might not be the most correct way of describing myself in my early years. Troublesome ought to fit better. Maybe even attracting trouble like a light in the night attracts the moths, eh? But yeah, moving on.

Thanks to my origins I ended up not being overly liked by certain groups of people around the schools I visited, what with being half a Rheinlander and half-Kusarian in the house of Rheinland, the place where many people still held grudges originating from the Rheinland Military's lost war against Kusari's Gas Miners Guild, and on the other hand being the child of two former members of the military did come with the perk of having more of an inherited fighting mentality when it came to dealing with trouble on the horizon.

I had my fair share of fights and did get kicked out of a rather expensive private school once, an occurrence which was to become the major turning point in my youth as my parents simply decided to send me to a military academy on New Berlin.

Of course that's not the only important part worth a mention when it comes to things happening in my younger years, but other than being somewhat isolated and kind of a loner - which I don't see as something bad, I might add - I had a rather normal teenager's life.

Parties, relationships, the whole "school sucks" phase, the "my parents suck" one, and so on and so forth. I even was really madly in love once, so much that I even got engaged - much to the dismay of my parents - but as you can see from the lack of a ring on my fingers it obviously didn't last. More of a childhood fairytale fantasy kind of thing, though it did end up shaping me quite a fair bit in the area of relationships.

Anyway, you can sum the rest up by saying that I just had a tendency to get myself into all kinds of trouble everywhere until that particular turning point, and even a little bit after. Though I'm guessing that when you get the word "discipline" chiseled into your forehead everyday, figuratively speaking, sooner or later you inevitably change.

I'd say I changed for the better.