Millington. Apparently, Everytown, USA. Well, that's what most people think of it. However, Anthony was born to a family in an even smaller town, even farther away from major cities than Millington. It fulfilled every single expectation of Everytown, including the nuclear family living in the suburbs. Anthony was the older brother of the family, and has a younger sister, Maddie, who he was extremely protective of. However, all of it changed in the Autumn of 2008, when, after he had collapsed on the sidewalk, after jogging a little harder than normal in the morning. They wouldn't have found him, too, if not for his ringing cell phone. Maddie, who was going through a breakup with her boyfriend, was texting him, seeking advice. Needless to say, her priorities changed.

For the next three months, Anthony underwent a series of tests, which led to him being unable to run on the track team, which led to his team losing in most of the categories. This hit Anthony pretty hard, and he became more withdrawn, and even tried to commit suicide once, in the hospital, by trying to OD on some pills the Nurse had set on the sleeping table next to his bed. In a painful twist of fate, his suicide attempt was foiled, by the one thing he was trying to stop. His heart. He had an attack, and dropped the pills, right before he ingested them. The doctors stabilized him, and placed him under Suicide Watch, all the while coming closer to discovering the reason why he had multiple instances of cardiac arrest.

He had had Arrhythmia for a while, the doctors had discovered, but he didn't know it. It was a gradual onset, from a loss of breath, beyond the normal at a track meet, to a particularly painful ache in his chest, to the full-blown cardiac arrest that landed him in the hospital in the first place. Luckily, his Arrhythmia, while serious, was easily treated with the standard programs and medicines, and he was out within the month.

Unfortunately, he was unable to join the track team again, due to his condition, but was taken back to the school as a hero, a survivor of an encounter with death. He finished off his last two years of high school happily, being awarded for surviving, and being a former member of the track team, which of them, his senior classmates carried him out of the Auditorium on their shoulders, and took him out to party.

He got a scholarship for his condition, his involvement in the track team, and his grades, at Millington University, which he took as soon as possible. It was only a few hours away from his hometown, and he could study whatever he wanted. He has been at the school for two years, and is fairly well known in the Arts Department, particularly as the one kid from Industrial Design who would contribute pieces for the set for the Performing Arts, or that one guy who would collab with a Graphic Arts student to create a statue or something for a campus competition. He is known to the Music department for minoring in Lyric Writing, and being a fairly decent singer. Other students would've seen him around the library.