Tobias Eaton has always been a withdrawn kid, never having a lot of friends, always sitting in the back of class. Yet, he was a famous child, his father being the head representative of the government. He was well known; his whole family was well known. But what the public didn't know was the horrors hidden away from prying eyes; that when the lights went out at night in the other homes, Marcus Eaton would strike his son brutally for anything he set his mind to. Evelyn, his poor, defenseless, mother, could do nothing about her husband's abusive tendencies, even when she did step in to save her son from a rather nasty whip. Even after, his mother would tell him as he cried that Abnegations were supposed to forgive, that he was raised to forgive everyone, no matter what the mistakes they made were. So why was it that Tobias Eaton couldn't bring himself to forgive his own father, his own kin? Marcus Eaton was dead to his son before he even realized it himself. Now, it was Tobias' turn to strike back. At 16 years old, he was ready for the choice that could change him forever, the choice that determined who he really was. He knew exactly where he was going, and it didn't involve him helping the poor and taking care of his father when he was older.