Backstory: Frostwalk

''In the world I lived in, If you had nothing and you wanted to live. You had to survive through any means necessary. Like most people my age at the time, we had scavenge, steal, or beg for what we needed and wanted. The world looked at the poor and meak as vermin who were doomed to wallow on the streets, begging for food and shelter. Forced to give up our freedom for a comfortable life. Me. I couldn’t trust those who were like me. Despite us being in the same situation, we were still in this life for ourselves. And like so, I applied that to my own life. A life of solitude within the cold streets. This is a story of thievery to honor. My name is Yokuhashi Tojun. My story begins turn like gears.''

Yokuhashi: *is sitting in his cell pacing back and forth until a security guard opens his cell*

''I never knew who my parents were, but as my life passed by, I forgot I had to have come into the world somehow. When I was seven years old, I began pick-pocketing from the wealthy and the financial stable. For a good while, I was able to provide for the food part. Not so much for the shelter, but on the streets of New Vince, the cold was welcoming for me. I made a name for myself as one of the most notorious pick-pocket in New Vince, mostly referring to me as ‘slippery as ice’. For me it was abit overdone. Besides, I didn’t do what I did to make a name for myself amongst the vermin and wealthy, but to live. I kept this up for 5 more years until I got caught and I was arrested.''

‘Come on out, Tojun. It’s Court time.”

Yokuhashi: *walks out of his cell and walks into the open courtyard with many other inmates*

The inmates in the courtyard only seem to be only talking and gambling

Yokuhashi: *looks around for a minute*

You lost friend

Yokuhashi: *looks down at a man sitting on the ground with both hands clasped together*

Well you certainly can’t get lost in a small courtyard like this

Yokuhashi: Who are you?

My name is Tokkan. I live in Cell Block A13

Yokuhashi: That’s my cell…

Tokkan: You know what that means.

Yokuhashi: *sighs* Cellmates..

Tokkan: Come now, I’m not all that bad. Despite me being a criminal in jail. Who knows? You might learn a few things from me.

Yokuhashi: I doubt it.

Tokkan: I doubt that you doubt it. *smiles*

''Tokkan was a my cellmate and soon-to-be mentor. He was arrested for a mistaken identity.''

Late at night

Yokuhashi: *is on the top bunk, staring up* Why do some lived good healthy lives and the rest of us are forced to rot?...Why do people have to constantly remind us that we're vermin?...We never asked for any of this... *feels a cold wind blowing through their cell. He rolls over trying to keep himself warm only to see Tokkan sitting on the bottom bunk with something glowing in his hands* What is that?

Tokkan: My way back home.

Yokuhashi: But you're behind bars. How can a small speck of light get you out of here?

Tokkan: Do you feel the cold?

Yokuhashi: Well..yes. Why?

Tokkan: It will set us free. For me it is my why home, for you...it might be another chance at a more meaningful life. I am at the understanding that you are here for petty thievery, right?

Yokuhashi: Yes.

Tokkan: You can take all the materials you want in life, but it doesn't take care of you for long. Only you can take care of you.

Yokuhashi: I have been for 12 years.

Tokkan: Not like that. That's survival. Preserving. Not living life.

Yokuhashi: I don't understand.

Tokkan: You will. When freedom comes, follow this light, and there I will show you how to truly fill your life.