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Dekker was born to a linage of criminals and degenerates, but proud ones. As a child he was often bullied by his siblings for being a coward and treated like the runt, and it only got worse as his Quirk manifested. After all, he was a dud. His father's quirk could summon horrors, and his mother's could induce terror in others... and yet his quirk was a failure in their eyes. Although he could materialize horrors, he had no control over what they looked like or their size, or if they appeared at all. If that wasn't already a failure, his mother's quirk had resulted in his quirk amplifying his own fear instead of other's, and it was directly tied to his horrors.

If his position in the family hadn't already been rock bottom, his quirk cemented it. Two of his siblings, Jago & Declan, had powerful variations of their parent's quirks, and even his third sibling, Luella, had their mother's quirk at least and was still treated better than Dekker. His parents called him a failed project, but they ignored him and let him stay so long as he took care of himself and didn't get in their way. His siblings however, weren't as kind. They often found his fear hilarious and would use their quirks to torment him, going as far as to sick horrors on him for entertainment.

This led to Dekker spending most days away from home wandering the city to scrounge what he could to survive, often following older boys and getting into trouble stealing from stores or running drugs. As he reached his teens, he often surfed couches or at worst would find somewhere safe to sleep outside if he really had to, anything to avoid his family.

On a night such as this, Dekker was looking for a safe place to crash for the night when he stumbled on a secluded tree house in the rich side of the city. As he hauled himself up into it hoping for a place to hide, he instead came upon Beau for the first time and was almost immediately drawn to the other boy. Instead of fleeing as he was caught trespassing, he flopped down and talked to him, too tired to even try and run. Amazingly, the two hit it off.

They continued to meet in secret at the secluded treehouse over the next two years, although only occasionally when they could both escape their family's gazes. Despite that, it wasn't long before the two became increasingly close, and Dekker had the sudden realization that he didn't think of the other boy as just a friend. He knew his family would kill him if they knew he had feelings like that for a guy. Yet knowing that still didn't stop him from falling head-over-heels for Charm, and soon he was all Dekker cared about in his shitty little world.

The only good memories Gambit has to this day were made in that treehouse, making absurd plans about the future, telling stories, and just talking about themselves and their lives. At least, as much as Dekker dared say about his life. He couldn't deny it was an abusive situation, but he opted to leave out just how fucked his family was. Perhaps that had been his first mistake. Letting Beau tell him about his family's quirk had been the second.

Everything seemed to be going amazing, until his family destroyed everything. Dekker had been walking on the street when the car pulled up and he was unceremoniously snatched inside. After a short drive he was dumped out onto the driveway of his family home before his brothers dragged him inside. In what felt like the blink of an eye, Dekker was kneeling in front of his father and mother like a felon facing a firing squad.

His brother had spied on him and seen him messing around with another guy and 'slandering their name', but they also knew that the boy was from a rich family, and were willing to negotiate if Dekker told them what he knew. Despite being a coward, this was the one time in his life that Dekker refused, and his family did not take it well. He was locked in a dark room with his brothers, and after a few hours the terror induced from their quirks simply broke him. In the process they got enough of what he knew to head out with the intention of kidnapping their brother's lover, Beau.

Meanwhile, Dekker was saved by the pity of his big sister Luella, who found him curled up on the floor in the room. While their family was distracted going after Beau, Luella managed to carry Dekker to her car and sneak away to the shipping yard. There she paid an illegal contact to get her brother out of the country despite not being a registered civilian, whatever country the ship was headed to was good enough. Thus he was loaded into a shipping container, and the last thing he saw was Luella turning away before the doors closed. He never learned what happened to the person he cared about most, and when he regained consciousness he was in Japan on the other side of the ocean, alone with no way back.