Well! I was thinking, I tend to think of backstories on the spot and I was also thinking that, when other people are involved, I try to one-up them because I'm competitive and usually, it turns out pretty good. So this is where you share your characters basic backstories and you help develop them! I thought of this while sleep deprived.
Challenge accepted. My character is named Australia. She is an android from a society of sentient androids that has been established for 86 years. Technically her model is part of Gen4 and has been running for about 21 years (matching her looks). Unfortunately this results in her breaking down often as this is about the point at which androids begin "dying". She appears frail from aggressive repairs and malnourish, and in her past she has experienced general anxiety and severe anxiety attacks, which have been partially cleared after years of repairs and therapy. She is very distant in general and not very opinionated at all, but does find herself doing a lot of things out of sheer curiosity.
Melanie Rodriguez: A human in her late teens who hates society, life, people, and socializing. She has a major attitude because of her parents, who couldn't care less about her. Her father beat her, and she became aggressive at school. Both her parents are alcoholics, and her father, Markus, is a drug addict. At age 10, her father died from ODing (overdosing), and her mother broke. Melanie learned to both care for herself and her mother by doing odd jobs for people, always keeping quiet as long as she earned money. At one point, Melanie's mom, Cierra, joined a gang and got addicted to drugs. Melanie found this out too late at age 17 when she was cornered by gang members, asking Melanie to pay for her mom's debt. After escaping with several cut wounds, Melanie returned home to her childhood home…to find her mother dead, her throat slit. The emotional pain that she felt could never compare to anyone else's of her age. (If you want me to add more, I will. I am known for writing twisted and creepy backstories, so expect that from me.)
Gawain: A male Earth Dragon who ran away from home at a relatively young age because he couldn't stand being a part of the mafia that his grandmother ran. He has Earthbending magic, but that's extremely rare and illegal. He stayed with them for the longest time because they said they would protect him (all while verbally and physically abusing him to the point where he still has nightmares), but as soon as he met a human woman named Guinevere, he decided that he would run away and start a new life with her. While working for the family, he was relegated to dark, cramped mineshafts to dig for gold and precious gems. He only ever went out on one mission, which was to crack a safe at the city's largest (and only) bank. It went off without a hitch, but they took so much that the bank shut down, thereby plunging the city into chaos. The grandmother wanted to keep filling her coffers, and so the family then created this whole scheme to keep the city running with her at the head, getting to do whatever they wanted. Gawain was sick of this, and when he met the woman, Guinevere, he decided to run away and never look back.
Nevihata Qewlling: Was very young when he was adopted into a group of aliens. He does have parents and they are alive, but his mother gave him up for his safety. Lived with the aliens for a while and had limited English skills before some humans were like “this boy looks human, we have to take him away from you so we can teach him proper Terran stuff” and so the aliens were sad but decided it was best for him as he at the time was presumed to be Terran/human. Learned about human society and languages and such, it was a bit hard for him. Eventually due to some of his skills he was selected by a woman named Avereious, to become a guard/soldier (or at least some form of it.) and picked up some skills in aviation. In training went pretty normally, made friends, made rivals, had a crush but it left him once he realized the girl was interested in another girl (but they stayed friends). Finished training and went on to become a guard during the First War, went fairly normal for a space war, pretty long and lots of his comrades died during this time and even just people in the story. Met Sinistra during this time, fought, somehow beat her then shortly after discovered Avereious’s true nature after she ordered him and his fellow comrades to execute a group of unarmed people. Nevihata didn’t want to do it, so he didn’t shoot, a few others did to avoid punishment. After that he left to a planet and became a bounty hunter there as well as a pilot. During this time the first war ended (after a few years.) but tensions were still at high.
I like this idea, I used to not like writing backstories, but I somewhat like them now, it’s just a matter of finding an idea to start off with.