clyde mcqueen d1m. cbd3. fin.

You were born from the blackest of gems.

Heart coated in the dust of your ancestors who've been stuck in One since before the Dark Days. You knew nothing about them, but the families of One did. Your family name was thrown around like a disgrace to all that glitters in One, but you remained resilient through it all. Your family was one of the poorest. Growing up, you knew what it was like to starve and to watch the ceiling drip with water from the holes in the roof since your family couldn't afford repairs. You watched with bated breaths as your family grew weaker and weaker by the day, staring at the rich kids who laughed and mocked your family for having to mine for everyone else's, but it's what made you strong than before. A strength that no one in One had known about.

A strength that granted you the best scholarship that the Career Academy could offer. A smile breaking from your lips as you flaunted it to your parents who gave you the biggest hug they could. Your father staring back at you with those words upon his lips. "You'll disgrace those rich kids." You believed him then and you still believe him now. Wiping blood from your lips as you break the spirit of kid after kid. You've learned what it's like to starve and built yourself up through survival in One. You've built a new legacy away from your ancestors and have become something bigger than what everyone thought of you.

You were one of the blackest gems of the bunch, but you glittered all the same.

You are a McQueen through and through.