CHRISTOPHER "STOMP" MINN

abandoned shortly after her birth, stomp was taken into custody by the state and remained in various foster homes throughout her early life. while stomp cannot remember much of her childhood (which she speculates is from ill care and borderline abusive guardians) she does have a very vivid memory of attending a hearing regarding her maltreatment at the hands of a couple whose neglect lead to severe staph infections, which resulted in the eventual amputation of her left leg.

her other clear memory of childhood occurred when she was eight and had managed to clamber up a young pine tree to get a clear view of a lunar eclipse. it was at that moment, stomp realized that she did not agree with the gender the state had assigned her and that she was a girl rather than a boy. after having a string of foster parents refuse her requests to be addressed using "she/her" pronouns and to be given skirts and dresses, stomp began to steal clothing and jewelry which she would wear in solitude.

at some point in these early years, stomp contracted ocular herpes in her right eye. at 12 this prompted an infection that became so severe and painful, stomp, who had begun to drink stolen and discarded alcohol to cope, drunkenly attempted to remove the infected eye with a pair of dull scissors. she was partially successful and the remains of her eye were removed. the surrounding socket was so damaged by the scissors, her doctor decided to go ahead with a tarsorrhaphy procedure so that the skin on her face and eye lids would heal. even after these stitches were removed, stomp's right eye remains permanently closed.

at 13 she was adopted by audry and sun minn who were more open to the idea of her transition and began allowed her to take dubiously acquired estrogen. despite remaining with the minn's for the rest of her life, stomp still considers herself someone who is entirely without family.

during stomp's first year of high school, she ensured that she would avoid the teasing and ridicule she endured as a child by acquiring a group of other "misfits" and acting out with violence towards whoever gave them grief. as the leader of this "gang", which was called "the bracers", stomp was given the nickname "stomp" (which would eventually become her preferred name) because of an incident involving her casually stepping on the crotch of an aggressive bully and rupturing one of his testicles.

stomp's powers did not manifest until she was seventeen, when she told a snarky barista to "fuck himself until he bled". she was immediately picked up by ennui as a last effort to keep her out of prison, due to her multiple juvenile offenses.