Alton Benjamin Devins III was born in Brentford South in the early
1970s... a time when the world was still in turmoil, the nation as a
whole was in the same shape, and everyone seemed to be racing around,
trying to find their own identity. His father was a recently Barred
Lawyer, specializing in Criminal Law, and his mother was a Doctor,
working in Trauma at Brentford South General… both had moved from
their home of Brentford NORTH in order to work in an area that was
generally less fortunate and less privileged, so that they could help
more people. In the beginning, it was just the small two bedroom
apartment… but within five years of Alton III’s birth, his father had
become a decently successful litigator, and they were able to move
upward, into much nicer surroundings. A few years after this, his
mother was made one of the chief surgeons at Brentford South General,
making their financial status set in stone, as it were.
Through his grade school, middle school, and high school years, Alton
grew up around the lower and lower-middle classes of society… at least
where school was concerned. The rest of the time, he was in a
steadily-increasing upper class position, watching some of the more
influential people of Brentford South mingle and converse whenever his
parents had dinner parties, or that sort of thing. He saw the lower
class get lower, and the upper class get richer, and the gap between
them, larger. As soon as he was old enough to graduate, he did so,
and turned right around to start at Yale that very next semester…
doing pre-law, and then, later, Law School, there, just as his father
had.
Graduating in the top fifteen percent of his class, Alton was
immediately recruited into his father’s law firm… where he was allowed
to make his specialty Criminal Law. From then until now, he has been
practicing law in his father’s firm, in cases that convene in both
Brentford North and South, with a decently high rate of success.
So that his Flaw is accounted for, he has nearsightedness... which
he corrects with contact lenses.
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