Background

Andrés Trejo, a man whose hands are often equipped with axe - big, calluses hands that could exert strong grip, a typical spitting image of a lumberjack that lives in the middle of a forest. Andrés' early days see him tending around plants, as they had a garden, thanks to his mother's love for plants. His mother was a Spanish woman that married a Jewish-American man. They lived on the outskirt of a small town called Denton, Delaware. Not much thing happened during his childhood except he had grown fond of plants, forced to be a lumberjack, and well, he loved to fight - be it bare-handed, or with weapon. A trouble maker, he was, during his juvenile days. Grown up, at about twenty, he never got the chance to enroll into a botanist major; his father rejected that notion, and instead, made him a successor of a small lumberjack company that his father owned. No matter how hard he tried to put a hearing, his father blatantly refused - so he's left with nothing to do than accept his fate. Through his course of days, the subject to which he hated, had grown attached to him. Chopping woods, assembling furniture, sawing, etc. doesn't seem to be annoying no more and he decided that he would pursue this path of career and leave behind, his adoration for plants. Things were going smooth, he had a family, he had a permanent job - to which he loved, but alas, incident strikes. His father was caught in a sawing accident that left him witnessing such harrowing scene. This made him change, some part of him. He wasn't ready to witness his father's dead, and thus, secluded himself from anyone, even his own mother. Far from home, he built a wooden cabin and lived by hunting until the rumors about some virus infecting the living started to circulate. Unfortunately, his mother became one of them 'infected' - devastated, he granted his mom a coup de grace, sending her to God's grace. He would then resume his journey far from home, leaping over some obstacles along the way - a journey that has taught him about friendship, love, and betrayal. He switched from group to group until he grew fond of certain people, thus the formation of HOPE. HOPE was his group, a group consisted of ten people that shared the same dream of achieving peace and sustaining life. Their plan was cross over to the Braddock island, discreetly, as the government had issued a stay-home order. Thus the group was separated into two batch, first and second. Andrés was on the second batch. Their plan commenced; using sheer willpower and makeshift boat, they tried waltzing their way across but the first group never managed to see the surface - as they were gunned down by military ship, not to mention the rough sea, their chance was slim. But well, they had lost hope even if they had HOPE as their moniker - they rammed their way through to which only one person succeeded, and that is Andrés. That's their tale of valor, and it's been one year since then. Andrés is living a quiet life, hoping that he could join a survivor group that he could trust.