MISFIT

Chapter 1: Not So Happy Birthday

Happy birthday. For everyone else those words brought joy and happiness for that one-day of year. For Arthur those two words made him cringe. As long as he could remember he hated birthdays, it always reminded him of how different he was, especially when compared to his own family.

He never cared what people thought about him, but it still hurt to know that he couldn't fit in anywhere no matter how hard he tried.

However, this birthday though, Arthur got a gift that ruined his life. He got superpowers.

It sounds weird to think that getting super powers would be bad, but two things need to be said why for Arthur this gift sucks more than anything else he had to put up with in his life, even his autism.

Firstly, super heroes don't exist in Arthur's world. That's right no comic books, billion dollar movie franchises, over hyped fandoms or any of that shit. No, Arthur lived in a world where science ruled over the ideals of fantasy.

Wait till they see how their precious science and logic tries to explain how Arthur got the worst gift of his young life.

The other thing that needs to be mentioned is how different Arthur is from his peers and the people he cares about the most. He honestly loved his life for the most part doing the same mundane or remedial tasks and he wouldn't really want to change anything about it. Even though he lived in the background of everyone else's life watching them all have the fun he never truly knew, it didn't matter to him that he was an outsider amongst his peers as the idea of having friends never bothered him.

As said before Arthur had autism. That set him apart from other people right off the bat growing up and it didn't help matters that no one never quite understood at the time what autism really was. Hell even today people think you can get autism from injections that are given to toddlers, and those individuals are frankly stupid as fuck.

Though theories were thrown around there just wasn't enough info out there to say that autism was simply a mental illness on a wide spectrum. This though made kids avoid him as parents and teachers trained into their brains that autism was contagious and made you a retard.

Yea no joke, people thought if someone had autism they were deemed retarded. Times really have changed since then, but the damage had already been done. If kids weren't avoiding him they bullied and picked on poor little Arthur Paragon just for being who he was.

His autism also made Arthur painfully shy and stutter to the point he had to repeat things he said more then once. This gave him a nickname that ruined his favourite child hood book and made it unreadable without thinking about the other kids taunting him. And so Jacob Two Two was born tormenting him wherever he went.

Talk about kicking a guy while he's down, it seems like life really liked to knock him down and keep him there just to prove how cruel of a mistress it can be. As such, ever since Arthur's third birthday he never knew what to wish for since he had everything he could possibly want despite all the drawbacks that have come his way.

Then came his fifteenth birthday which started out just like any other day in the life of Arthur Paragon. Except without his knowledge a group of individuals who happened to be gods among men and decided to hatch a plan and have some fun by giving average Joes a taste something they didn't even knew existed or could happen.

Big fucking mistake. Should have left well enough alone and continued on living in unknown obscurity. They would have never discovered the all-mighty desire for power hidden deep beneath those plain and mundane faces of every human being on earth if they just stayed wherever the hell they came from.