Apocalypse: Origins

Brain

Wherever Brain went, misfortune followed.  He lived in a happy and caring home as a baby, however his first family died in a fire he supposedly caused at two years old.  This traumatic experience gave the poor child a fear of fire, or perhaps it was something more.

When he was sent to an orphanage because of the event, their bus crashed killing all fifty kids carried on it and the driver, excluding baby Brain.  After that disaster, the boy was sent to live with a foster family, a kindly old woman and her widowed daughter.  His foster home was where he got most of his education.  During this phase of the child's life he learned to read and love such art. He lived with that loving family from when he was three to when he was eleven, then disaster struck again. 

The old woman had died of a fatal heart attack and the daughter took her own life because of it.  Brian again was set to be sent to another orphanage, however because of the recent outbreaks of the Disease spreading again after years of dormancy the homes were full and Brain was denied  any entrance.  Instead he was sent to join a school for delinquent youth for no other place had space for a child. 

The boys in the school broke Brain, and there he learned to hate people.  Fortunately in the school his genius level intellect was finally recognized, and to the teachers Brian was held as the most brilliant child they'd seen, all only being twelve.  Honored by teachers, who were closer to wardens, and hated by students, Brian spent most of his time alone, hidden away from other children reading books his "superiors" supplied him.

It was this time in solitary that Brian finally came to the realization that everything bad that happened to him was caused by a someone.  Not a god, of course, Brain had studied enough about science to understand there is no such thing, but something. Someone out there hated Brain and wanted him to suffer, naturally that was just an I played thought.

In that school Brian lived in a world that was as happy as he could get, alone not talking to anyone.  He lived in his room for two years, reading and learning all that can be learned until the Disease spread to the school. 

He ran out of his tiny room to see all the blood drained from his peers, something that put a smile on Brian's face. He knew the three affects the Disease had on people, the most common of which was death.  Then Brian could feel inside him the deep feeling of death crawling up his spine, the feeling that you know you are going to die.  Die in the same meaningless way as all the blood-covered brats laying on the ground. 

Brain ran out of the school and as far away as he could.  Somehow, however, he did not die.  The second affect of the Disease was you would become a mindless, zombielike creature called the Insane, and Brian could tell that was not the case.  The final affect of the Disease was that your DNA would be altered and you would be given inhuman powers.  Again, however, Brian had none. 

For the better part of three years Brain wondered the baron country formally known as the United States in search of some meaning in his life.  That was when he stumbled into a simple compound full of idiots, one which he punched in the face multiple times.

Because of this, he was throne in jail to live out his life with a bulky ruffian who had obviously never picked up a book. Maybe, jut maybe Brain could make a happy life there. However, when that thought crossed the wrestlers wonderer's mind, misfortune showed its ugly head again.