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Nathan was born into the influential and wealthy family that for generations have stood their ground in Domino City’s political ring. His father as a well respected political and military leader, while his mother was one of Domino city’s leading scientists. Nathan’s life was really set out to be a breeze, an easy and relaxing journey that started from the top and would only get better from there, however, this wasn’t how fate had planned his life.
Because his mother was one of the leading scientists in Domino City in regards to nanotechnology and the impact of the ‘The Dark Fog’ she was often at the outer rim of the city in order to study this mysterious substance. She was, to put it frankly, a workaholic: she continued to continued her research even when the first early signs of pregnancy began to show - however, stubborn as she was she she discarded the first symptoms as merely being the result of excessive stress. It wasn’t until the signs were so clear that even the children began to ask her if it was a boy or a girl.

At this point it was already too late.

The fetus inside of her had already absorbed too much of The Dark Fog to have caused chronic changes within the unborn child. Yet, miraculously some would say, the only thing that was odd when their newborn boy was his eyes: The left eye was a deep icy blue color while his right eye took on an almost shining amber colour. Relieved that this mutation was the only change that The Dark Fog had seemingly brought with it, his parents decided to raise him as any other child. And what a child young Nathan grew into.
Even from an early age it became apparent that he was different in other ways than just his Heterochromia iridum: his parents soon realised that he had an incredibly gifted mind as well. He easily outsmarted most of his peers and at the young age of just 6 he was already following his mother’s work in science. This fascination with science continued to grow within young Nathan as he became older and smarter. As his genius grew he began to skip classes in school, and at the age of 15 he entered into Domino City’s most prestigious higher education in sciences. However, it was also at this time that he began to notice that he was different than others in more ways than he had originally thought. It started out with minor deviations: items would fly across the room as he tried to reach for them, he would suddenly jump many meters into the air with just the smallest of movements, and he began to notice how his naturally brown hair begun to take on a lighter tone in the tips. Luckily these abnormalities always happened when he was alone, so no one knew about it - and because his family had such a high profile in the social structure of Domino City he wasn’t scanned and whenever someone would raise questions regarding the oddity of things surrounding young Nathan: how sensors would start to go off, or why his hair had begun to turn blonde, his dad always covered for him, shutting down any gossip or probing that would occur. His family simply didn’t want to believe that their perfect son had become one of the abominations that children feared and told nightmarish tales about to each other in order to scare their friends.

Nathan, on the other hand, was intrigued by what was happening to him. He had always loved that he was special - but not to such an extent as what he really was: to be able to manipulate vectors (something he didn’t initially know, but quickly hypothesised) opened so many possibilities that even he, with all his calculative power, couldn’t fathom how many opportunities was going to be open for him in the future.
What should be mentioned was that at this point his young mind wasn’t considering the possibilities that actually occurred: instead he thought that he could change the world for the good through the combination of science and his newfound power.

What he didn’t consider was the prejudice towards The Children of The Dark.

A few years passed and the now 18 year old Nathan Stryder was enjoying his life filled with science, math, medicine, and knowledge. His abilities had somehow not been discovered, perhaps through a mixture of his parent’s influence and their willingness to turn the blind eye to the signs, his own discretion and a large dose of sheer blind luck. He had continued to hone them over the years and could at this point in his life easily control them.

What unsettled his stable world was the social distress that had been birthed from the existence and hunt of the abominations such as Nathan. While the changes in society wasn’t something that changed drastically since Nathan was born, the constant unrest within Domino City meant that as both sides fought against each other, each for their own cause, it was inevitable that Nathan, the still young Child of Dark, would be included in the conflict.

It was in the wake of one of the larger conflicts between the police force and The Children of the Dark which resulted in a few dead and many more injured. The security was naturally on high alert following this episode and unlucky for Nathan this unfortunate series of events took place right up to one of the days that he had long awaited with glee as he had always had a fascination with the political world of Domino City - albeit it was nothing more than a hobby for young Nathan. Because of the events that had preceded his trip with his father the level of security at the political center in Domino City was much higher and stricter than it had usually been. This meant that because of this when Nathan went through the security check the Children of the Dark-scanners naturally went off, but this time no matter how hard his dad tried, the security wouldn’t let him go.
It felt like just minutes later that young Nathan sat on the cold bench in the dark prison cell wondering what had went so wrong for him to be in that situation.

Even to this day he can hardly remember how long he was imprisoned. It felt like years of interrogation, experimentation, and his family’s sobbing visits. While many would perhaps have given up and left this world broken, Nathan somehow managed to stay somewhat sane. How Nathan managed to escape has become one of his best kept secrets that barely anyone know about, but what is clear is that since his escape the individual known as Nathan Stryder has disappeared in the chaos and ruins his escape created. Instead a Child of the Dark who simply called himself ‘Zero’ took up residence in the Industrial Ring shortly after these events, earning a living by fixing and selling various mechanical merchandise.