James wasn't a Normal human boy. He has actually been alive for along time, 384 years to be exact. But in our world he was 19 years old. James tried to live a normal life in the beginning. But the more he tried to be normal the stronger the hunger got. So he gave up on being a normal human and after his family died he felt like he didn't have a purpose anymore. So his daily activities were feeding but he got in to some trouble with hunters. So he ran away, from the hunters, from the town he was born, from his old human life.