Cain

Cain has no last name, choosing to remove it from his records as soon as he was a legal adult. He had planned to take Eila's last name once they married, considering that the greatest honor he could give her parents, the only people he considered to be good parents.

Childhood
Abandoned the day he was born by an unknown teenage mother, baby Cain was passed from hospital to orphanage to the hands of one greedy couple all within the first week of life. He wasn't loved, he was used for the government monthly checks to parents of adopted children. He was given the basic of care, and didn't go to school until his parents realized the government would eventually be checking up on the boy. So off he went.

Cain was not well received at his first school. Dark skinned and growing up in a country where people were predominantly white led him to be constantly teased, and he ran away from school several times before his parents threatened to take him back to the orphanage if he didn't stay. So he learned to grow a thick skin, and deal with it.

High School
High school was no better. The harassing got more extreme than childish pointing and laughing. He was locked in janitor closets, cafeteria food poured down his shirt, and pins left on his desk chair. The cheerleading squad were by far the cruelest to him, but that didn't stop him from developing a crush on the head cheer girl, Eila Summerset. After a year, he finally got up the courage to ask her to the end of the year dance, to which she said no. He asked again every day for a week, and finally, in frustration, she said yes.

After her hair turned white, Cain stuck to Eila's side like glue, giving her courage to make it the rest of the way through high school. When she met his parents and realized they were so abusive to him, Eila convinced her parents to give Cain a small amount of money, enough for him to buy a small house on the edge of town.

Adult Life
Cain always had a deep love for numbers, and mastered basic algebra at a very young age. After school, at Eila's urging, he pursued an education as a math teacher. After two years he was officially hired as algebra teacher for the local school, and he considers taking the job as the second greatest thing to happen to him (next to Eila).

Utisz
Once he became possessed by Utisz, Cain built a small space inside his mind to live in hopes of keeping himself from going insane. It worked, mostly, though there's no telling how well he'll do once he gets back his body for good. ..