User blog comment:Rukatin/Backstory help/@comment-24147026-20140506182002

I believe I have a couple ideas for a backstory, if you're willing to hear them out.

Idea 1: Odhran grew up in the wooded areas outside the agricultural district (No idea if there's woods there, apologies in advance.)  with his mother and father. His father was a woodcutter who prided himself on his strength and wisdom, while his mother was a happy-go-lucky gardener with a extensive array of flowers and some types of trees.

They both instilled what they knew to the young Odhran, teaching him values and how the world works. The family was happy together, but this would not last. A beowolf attack left his mother in serious condition, and his father became more withdrawn and reclusive from the young man.

The attack had cost Odhran his parents, nothing was the same for him any more, and that left him with a burning desire to make sure he got his revenge/made sure this never happened again. So, in the dead of night he left home and set out to be the one thing that could help him achieve that: A Hunter.

Idea 2: Odhran was abandoned in the woods by his parents, not intentionally of course (They could be criminals/Attacked by Grimm/Lost him in travel) but the young man had to fend for himself. Learning how to survive in the wilderness through sheer testing and exploration, against whatever odds he was able to not only sustain himself, but thrive. That was of course before he encountered Grimm (Before this point he could have been actively avoiding them or unaware of their presence.)

Odhran put up a good fight, but was ultimately futile in stopping his opponent, it was only due to the timely intervention of a Hunter that he was able to survive. (The Hunter takes the role of the parents from the first idea here. No idea on the characteristics of him/her.)

Impressed with how the boy fought, The Hunter decided to enroll him into Signal to become a Hunter as well, and to help him find answers to why he was abandoned in the first place.