To live is to fight, to fight is to survive. Surviving isn't living, but it is close enough. - Kain, SOLDIER psych evaluation interview.Kain has suffered the cruelty of being a outsider his entire life. Born in the slums, he was on the street by the age of five. His parents, a junkie mother and a father he never met, werer hardly rolemodels. He didn't have a family, as far as he knew and before the streets he had lived a life in squalor with his parents. They had to scrape for food, and Kain was a fast growing kid who needed more then what ever meager meals they could acquire. His mother spent what little they had on fast fixes and so Kain ended up on the streets, pennyless when his mother died of an overdose.
It was these desperate years that would help shape him to become what he is today. A ferocius, focused fighter and a survivor. HIs salvation would come in the form of Ortega Maurice Santiago, or Wits as he was called by the miscreant of a alley gang that he belonged to. Part of the Slums considerable underground with its gangs, thieves and hustler, Ortega came across a 11 year old Kain fighting a dog over a scrap of food. When the dog bit Kains leg, he punched it to death, eyes wild a snarl on his lips. Ortega, 13 years of age at the time, was terrified and amazed. He approached Kain, and with some coaxing, the poorly fed but still rather large boy followed to meet with the others.
But a tall, big boy such as Kain was a prime target for the smaller but more vicious who saw a big dumb kid to bully. His first year was spent being pushed around, becoming a beating bag for older boys who wanted to put the feral kid in place.But Kain, as it happened, had a limit. Not sure what to do, he bottled his anger until it overflowed and he beat one of the kids half to death. This impressed the leader of the gang, Merciulos. Mercioulos, also known simply as Merc, declared his newfound foot soldier off limits and began to teach him how to really fight. He also made sure Kain ate well and had Wit teach him to read, write and the basic of math.
Kain and Wit grew close. Really close. Two were all but inseprable, with Kain as the wild muscle and Wit as.. well the wit. Not that Kain wasn't intelligent, he was hound for information and read as much as he could, partly to atleast pretend he could keep up with wit. When they were 15 Wit tried to make a move on Mercs position as a leader. Merc killed him, brutally and in front of everybody else. Kain, knowing he could not take on Merc surrounded by all his goons, would spend the next to years targetting them on their lonesome seeing how he knew all their local haunts and hangouts. Sometimes, he would sustain severe damage, yet he would come out on top. After two years of a systematic fight, Kain finally saw the futility of his actions. Having little skills but fighting, Kain was picked up by the army. At first he only trained and helped with logistics, but soon he began gearing up. As soon as he hit 18 he started participate in patrols under a particulary abusive Officer.
After assaulting said superior officer after the man had berated and verbally abused his comrades, Kain was put in a detention cell. It was then SOLDIER approached him. They considered that due to his passionate nature and his strong will, he was a prime specimen for the project and he was chosen to carry Balils genes. As a soldier, he found a outlet for his rage, and his feral nature and wild fighting styled was honed and sharpened into a form of shock trooper. He rose in rank fairly quickly, but once he reached 1st class, he was barred from reaching commander due to his short fuse, his inability to let go of personal grudges and his quite problematic tendency to lose himself in combat. He was an exellent battleram and inspiration on the battlfield, just not commander material.