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* Marilyn Sue Dajie of ''VideoGame/AkatsukiBlitzkampf''. If the [[AllThereInTheManual manual]] didn't explain too much detail about her past. But in the [[AdaptationExpansion "Alluring Princess of Murder/Enhanced Assassin Princess" novel]]; as it expanses to be believed. [[spoiler: Marilyn was born to a farmer family in a rural village somewhere at Hebei, China, but unfortunately she was considered a "heihaizi" (aka bastard child) [[ParentalNeglect conceived outside from the One-Child Policy]], until an Old Farmer adopts her for 100 yuan, and revealing his past history to her and teach her master arts of Piguaquan. She begins to help his farm work, in order to work out her body, and earns enough money to buy "iron sandbag," filled with iron grains and mung beans to train. Some years later, [[ParentalAbandonment Being left orphan once again after Old Farmer passes away]], she abandon her birth name and called herself "Marilyn Sue" to find jobs in the spring in Shanghai for her survival and likely to find a way to honor her adoptive grandfather's wish, she implies for [[StreetWalker Mizu]] [[HostessClub shōbai]] and it's very profitable. But one fateful night, she was accused of touching customer's money. She nearly killed the customer and the hostess. As she was running soaked and wet in the rain to alleyway, one of the members of Black Hand found and captured her, yet immediately welcomed and respected by its leader, Yin Hu for her lethal tactics, and not out of any sympathy for her.]]

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* Marilyn Sue Dajie of ''VideoGame/AkatsukiBlitzkampf''. If the [[AllThereInTheManual manual]] didn't explain too much detail about her past. But in the [[AdaptationExpansion "Alluring Princess of Murder/Enhanced Assassin Princess" novel]]; as it expanses to be believed. [[spoiler: Marilyn was born to a farmer family in a rural village somewhere at Hebei, China, but unfortunately she was considered a "heihaizi" (aka bastard child) [[ParentalNeglect conceived outside from the One-Child Policy]], until an Old Farmer adopts her for 100 yuan, and revealing his past history to her and teach her the master arts of Piguaquan. She begins to help his farm work, in order to work out her body, and earns enough money to buy "iron sandbag," filled with iron grains and mung beans to train. Some years later, [[ParentalAbandonment Being being left orphan once again after Old Farmer passes away]], she abandon her birth name and called herself "Marilyn Sue" to find jobs in the spring in Shanghai for her survival and likely to find a way to honor her adoptive grandfather's wish, she implies for [[StreetWalker Mizu]] [[HostessClub shōbai]] and it's very profitable. But one fateful night, she was accused of touching customer's money. She nearly killed the customer and the hostess. As she was running soaked and wet in the rain to alleyway, one of the members of Black Hand found and captured her, yet immediately welcomed and respected by its leader, Yin Hu for her lethal tactics, and not out of any sympathy for her.]]
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* Marilyn Sue Dajie of ''VideoGame/AkatsukiBlitzkampf''. If the [[AllThereInTheManual manual]] didn't explain too much detail about her past. But in the [[AdaptationExpansion "Alluring Princess of Murder/Enhanced Assassin Princess" novel]]; as it expanses to be believed. [[spoiler: Marilyn was born to a farmer family in a rural village somewhere at Hebei, China, but unfortunately she was considered a "heihaizi" (aka bastard child) [[ParentalNeglect conceived outside from the One-Child Policy]], until an Old Farmer adopts her for 100 yuan, and revealing his past history to her and teach her master arts of Piguaquan. She begins to help his farm work, in order to work out her body, and earns enough money to buy "iron sandbag," filled with iron grains and mung beans to train. Some years later, [[ParentalAbandonment Being left orphan once again after Old Farmer passes away]], she abandon her birth name and called herself "Marilyn Sue" to find jobs in the spring in Shanghai for her survival and likely to find a way to honor her adoptive grandfather's wish, she implies for [[StreetWalker Mizu]] [[HostessClub shōbai]] and it's very profitable. But one fateful night, she was accused of touching customer's money. She nearly killed the customer and the hostess. As she was running soaked and wet in the rain to alleyway, one of the members of Black Hand found and captured her, yet immediately welcomed and respected by its leader, Yin Hu for her lethal tactics, and not out any of sympathy for her.]]

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* Marilyn Sue Dajie of ''VideoGame/AkatsukiBlitzkampf''. If the [[AllThereInTheManual manual]] didn't explain too much detail about her past. But in the [[AdaptationExpansion "Alluring Princess of Murder/Enhanced Assassin Princess" novel]]; as it expanses to be believed. [[spoiler: Marilyn was born to a farmer family in a rural village somewhere at Hebei, China, but unfortunately she was considered a "heihaizi" (aka bastard child) [[ParentalNeglect conceived outside from the One-Child Policy]], until an Old Farmer adopts her for 100 yuan, and revealing his past history to her and teach her master arts of Piguaquan. She begins to help his farm work, in order to work out her body, and earns enough money to buy "iron sandbag," filled with iron grains and mung beans to train. Some years later, [[ParentalAbandonment Being left orphan once again after Old Farmer passes away]], she abandon her birth name and called herself "Marilyn Sue" to find jobs in the spring in Shanghai for her survival and likely to find a way to honor her adoptive grandfather's wish, she implies for [[StreetWalker Mizu]] [[HostessClub shōbai]] and it's very profitable. But one fateful night, she was accused of touching customer's money. She nearly killed the customer and the hostess. As she was running soaked and wet in the rain to alleyway, one of the members of Black Hand found and captured her, yet immediately welcomed and respected by its leader, Yin Hu for her lethal tactics, and not out of any of sympathy for her.]]
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* ''VideoGame/StarShiftRebellion'':
** Krax Grog's Geodonian community on Infernis Prime was captured by the ESA and put through deadly experiments, of which he was the only survivor. The ESA then enslaved him and put him in a digging site, but he eventually escaped and joined the ORC.
** Mari Williams and Jack Victor were kids on a contraband smuggling ship, but the ship was captured and their parents were arrested. Mari eventually found her mother, but the latter was brainwashed and no longer remembered her.
** Jianna Flux and Soren Xander were one of the few survivors of Scrap Springs, which tried to fight back against ESA occupation. The ESA wiped them out and Jianna only survived due to being converted into a cyborg. Jianna's father joined the ORC to atone for starting an unwinnable battle against the ESA, but he was killed in Moletown on a mission to free prisoners. However, [[spoiler:the ending reveals her father was actually imprisoned, and she gets to reunite with him]].
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* In ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'' series, one or two fighters crop up with these kinds of pasts, but extra points go to Rock Howard, who has this through virtually no fault of his own. He's the son of the notoriously death-retardant Geese Howard, who barely took any interest in the boy's well-being. Rock was rendered an orphan by one of Geese's nemeses, Terry Bogart (who tried to keep him from falling to his death, only for Geese to yank his hand out of Terry's grip and GoOutWithASmile as he fell), who took it upon himself to raise and train Rock himself...possibly out of penance. Rock is surprisingly well-adjusted, but it constantly [[VillainousLineage at war with himself internally, given he has "evil blood"]].

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* In ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'' series, ''Franchise/TheKingOfFighters'', one or two fighters crop up with these kinds of pasts, but extra points go to Rock Howard, who has this through virtually no fault of his own. He's the son of the notoriously death-retardant Geese Howard, who barely took any interest in the boy's well-being. Rock was rendered an orphan by one of Geese's nemeses, Terry Bogart (who tried to keep him from falling to his death, only for Geese to yank his hand out of Terry's grip and GoOutWithASmile as he fell), who took it upon himself to raise and train Rock himself...possibly out of penance. Rock is surprisingly well-adjusted, but it constantly [[VillainousLineage at war with himself internally, given he has "evil blood"]].



* ''VideoGame/StarControlII'' has this for both the Ur-Quan and the Kohr-Ah:[[spoiler: The Ur-Quan used to be the leaders of TheFederation (the Sentient Milieu), until they discovered the mind-controlling Dynarri, who enslaved them and the rest of the federation for generations. The psychological damage was so great that it permanently altered their genetic structure itself. After the Dynarri empire fell, the Ur-Quan became genocidal maniacs hell-bent on imprisoning every other species, while the Kohr-Ah faction became outright {{OmnicidalManiac}}s.]]

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* ''VideoGame/StarControlII'' ''VideoGame/StarControl II'' has this for both the Ur-Quan and the Kohr-Ah:[[spoiler: The Kohr-Ah. [[spoiler:The Ur-Quan used to be the leaders of TheFederation (the Sentient Milieu), until they discovered the mind-controlling Dynarri, who enslaved them and the rest of the federation for generations. The psychological damage was so great that it permanently altered their genetic structure itself. After the Dynarri empire fell, the Ur-Quan became genocidal maniacs hell-bent on imprisoning every other species, while the Kohr-Ah faction became outright {{OmnicidalManiac}}s.]]
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* ''VideoGame/LikeADragon'': If they are a major character, they likely have quite a bit of baggage from their past weighing them down.
** As revealed in ''VideoGame/Yakuza4'' and reinforced in ''VideoGame/Yakuza0'', Goro Majima was doing okay for himself in the Tojo Clan until he learned that his sworn brother, Taiga Saejima, was being set up to go to prison. When he refused to cooperate, he was blinded in his left eye, then turned over to Futoshi Shimano of the Omi Alliance and tortured for over a year before being allowed to work for a local cabaret in what was, essentially, a supervised work release under the Omi's supervision.
** ''VideoGame/Yakuza0'': [[spoiler:Tetsu Tachibana and Makoto Makimura were born to a Japanese woman trapped in China and married to a Chinese husband after World War II. Their being half-Japanese and half-Chinese made them the objects of scorn among other Chinese until a young Tachibana ran away to Japan, where he fell in with a gang. Makoto and her mother made their way to Japan to find him, and reunited with her maternal grandfather in the process, but her mother had been so alienated from Japan and its culture for so long that she couldn't reintegrate in her homeland and eventually committed suicide. Makoto continued to look for her brother, only to get kidnapped by a gang -- the same gang her brother led, though neither one knew it at the time -- and sold off to the Jingweon Mafia, where she endured such horrific abuse that it drove her psychosomatically blind until she was rescued by a Chinese assassin who took her in as a surrogate daughter.]]
** ''VideoGame/YakuzaLikeADragon'': Ichiban Kasuga had been found abandoned in a coin locker as a newborn infant by the proprietor of a Kamurocho soapland. While he was raised in a loving environment with his adoptive father and the staff of the soapland, he fell into depression after his father died and became a violent delinquent until he ran afoul of a yakuza group, only barely surviving by namedropping Masumi Arakawa -- at the time, a feared figure among the yakuza. When Arakawa surprisingly saved him, he became [[UndyingLoyalty undyingly loyal]] to him and joined him as soon as he was able.
*** It extends even further for Kasuga, and he isn't even the only one. [[spoiler:Masumi Arakawa had an abusive mother, and his father was murdered when they went out to eat at an upscale Yokohama restaurant. Later, as a young yakuza, he was arranged to marry his boss's daughter, but had already fallen in love with another woman, Akane. When his boss found out, he sent assassins after Akane, leaving her with little time to hide their baby in a coin locker before escaping, and eventually [[VideoGame/LikeADragonInfiniteWealth making her way to Hawaii]]. Arakawa never knew this and assumed Akane was killed, but was able to save his son...''or so he thought''. The child he had saved was actually the son of a Kamurocho thug named Jo Sawashiro, who sought to abandon his son in a coin locker because he never wanted to be a father. When Sawashiro suffered a pang of consciousness, he went back to the coin lockers, only to see Arakawa break the locker open and rescue the child inside -- ''[[SwitchedAtBirth Sawashiro's son]]''. Arakawa's actual son would be the one rescued by a soapland owner and raised as Ichiban Kasuga, while Sawashiro's child -- who had become ill from hypothermia and left wheelchair-bound for years as a result -- would be raised as Masato Arakawa.]]
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* ''VideoGame/TheOuterWorlds'': Ellie doesn't talk much about her past, but the hints she does drop do not paint a pretty picture. Enough digging reveals that [[spoiler: Ellie is actually exaggerating how bad her childhood was. While her parents were and are neglectful and emotionally abusive, her childhood was definitely not the horrifyingly traumatic hellhole she insinuates it was.]]
* Devlin [=McCormack=] in ''The Orion Conspiracy'' definitely has this. Let us see. He fought as a soldier in the Corporation War, which apparently left him with issues. He admits that he was not a good father to his son Danny and that he in fact drove him away. Interestingly enough, Danny's death and the investigation of it is what drives Devlin for a portion of the game. Also, the local {{Jerkass}} claims that Devlin drove his wife to suicide, which would indicate that Devlin may not have been a good husband. Of course, it is hard to say that really is the case, or if there is more to that story than that.

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* ''VideoGame/TheOuterWorlds'': Ellie doesn't talk much about her past, but the hints she does drop do not paint a pretty picture. Enough digging reveals that [[spoiler: Ellie [[spoiler:Ellie is actually exaggerating how bad her childhood was. While her parents were and are neglectful and emotionally abusive, her childhood was definitely not the horrifyingly traumatic hellhole she insinuates it was.]]
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* Devlin [=McCormack=] in ''The Orion Conspiracy'' ''VideoGame/TheOrionConspiracy'' definitely has this. Let us see. He fought as a soldier in the Corporation War, which apparently left him with issues. He admits that he was not a good father to his son Danny and that he in fact drove him away. Interestingly enough, Danny's death and the investigation of it is what drives Devlin for a portion of the game. Also, the local {{Jerkass}} claims that Devlin drove his wife to suicide, which would indicate that Devlin may not have been a good husband. Of course, it is hard to say that really is the case, or if there is more to that story than that.



* Most of your party in ''VideoGame/{{Persona 5}}'' have some pretty crappy backstories:

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* ''VideoGame/CelestialHearts'': Kayah was originally from Lestonia, but left because of harassment from homophobes. Even outside of her home, she experienced homophobia until she settled down in Livia. As a result, she doesn't trust strangers easily, since she wonders if they'll judge her.


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** ''VideoGame/KnightBewitched'': In the original version of the game, Uno reveals that in his past, he started off killing a lord that did unspeakable things to a young boy who begged him to reduce taxes on the town. His relationship to the boy or even if [[AndThatLittleGirlWasMe he is the boy]] is [[AmbiguousSituation left unclear]]. The guide book DLC and ''Enhanced Edition'' confirms he was sold as a slave to that lord, who he killed, though the taxation part is no longer part of his backstory.
** ''VideoGame/CelestialHearts'': Kayah was originally from Lestonia, but left because of harassment from homophobes. Even outside of her home, she experienced homophobia until she settled down in Livia. As a result, she doesn't trust strangers easily, since she wonders if they'll judge her.
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** Wyll made a DealWithADevil to get his warlock powers. That's just the beginning of his rabbit hole...
** Karlach was Shanghaied into TheLegionsOfHell as a child and had what is essentially a hellfire reactor embedded in her chest as she was forced into an infernal war.

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** Wyll made a DealWithADevil [[DealWithTheDevil DealWithADevil]] to get his warlock powers. That's just the beginning of his rabbit hole...
** Karlach was Shanghaied into TheLegionsOfHell by someone she trusted as a child child, and had what is essentially a hellfire reactor embedded in her chest as she was forced into an infernal war.war.
** When he was young, Halsin had been MadeASlave for a drow noble, and [[RapeAsBackstory forced to endure sexual abuse]] until he escaped.
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* ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII'' has nearly all of your party members having not-so-cheery backstories:
** Astarion was a thrall of an abusive vampire lord. One benefit of having a mind flayer's brain worm in his head is that it disrupted said lord's control over him, giving him a shot at revenge.
** Shadowheart's past is a mystery to her, as having her memories sealed was a part of her mission for a GodOfEvil. [[spoiler:As it turns out, the people who brought her into said god's forces abducted her from her parents.]]
** Gale had everything: command over magic the likes of which cannot be fathomed, and the favor and love of the goddess of magic. Then he got a little too greedy for his own good and fell out of favor with her [[spoiler:after getting a FantasticNuke put in his chest]].
** Wyll made a DealWithADevil to get his warlock powers. That's just the beginning of his rabbit hole...
** Karlach was Shanghaied into TheLegionsOfHell as a child and had what is essentially a hellfire reactor embedded in her chest as she was forced into an infernal war.
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* Marilyn Sue Dajie of ''VideoGame/AkatsukiBlitzkampf''. If the [[AllThereInTheManual manual]] didn't explain too much about her past. But in the [[AdaptationExpansion novel]]; as it expanses to be believed. [[spoiler: Marilyn was born to a farmer family in a rural village somewhere at Hebei, China, but unfortunately she was considered a "heihaizi" (aka bastard child) [[ParentalAbandonment conceived outside from the One-Child Policy]], until an Old Farmer adopts her for 100 yuan, and revealing his past history to her and teach her master arts of Piguaquan. She begins to help his farm work, in order to work out her body, and earns enough money to buy "iron sandbag," filled with iron grains and mung beans to train. Some years later, [[ParentalAbandonment Being left orphan after Old Farmer passes away]], she abandon her birth name and called herself "Marilyn Sue" to find jobs in the spring in Shanghai for her survival and likely to find a way to honor her adoptive grandfather's wish, she implies for [[StreetWalker Mizu]] [[HostessClub shōbai]] and it's very profitable. But one fateful night, she was accused for touching customer's money. She nearly killed the customer and the hostess. As she was running soaked and wet in the rain to alleyway, one of the members of Black Hand found and captured her, yet immediately welcomed and respected by its leader, Yin Hu for her lethal tactics, and not out any of sympathy for her.]]

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* Marilyn Sue Dajie of ''VideoGame/AkatsukiBlitzkampf''. If the [[AllThereInTheManual manual]] didn't explain too much detail about her past. But in the [[AdaptationExpansion "Alluring Princess of Murder/Enhanced Assassin Princess" novel]]; as it expanses to be believed. [[spoiler: Marilyn was born to a farmer family in a rural village somewhere at Hebei, China, but unfortunately she was considered a "heihaizi" (aka bastard child) [[ParentalAbandonment [[ParentalNeglect conceived outside from the One-Child Policy]], until an Old Farmer adopts her for 100 yuan, and revealing his past history to her and teach her master arts of Piguaquan. She begins to help his farm work, in order to work out her body, and earns enough money to buy "iron sandbag," filled with iron grains and mung beans to train. Some years later, [[ParentalAbandonment Being left orphan once again after Old Farmer passes away]], she abandon her birth name and called herself "Marilyn Sue" to find jobs in the spring in Shanghai for her survival and likely to find a way to honor her adoptive grandfather's wish, she implies for [[StreetWalker Mizu]] [[HostessClub shōbai]] and it's very profitable. But one fateful night, she was accused for of touching customer's money. She nearly killed the customer and the hostess. As she was running soaked and wet in the rain to alleyway, one of the members of Black Hand found and captured her, yet immediately welcomed and respected by its leader, Yin Hu for her lethal tactics, and not out any of sympathy for her.]]
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* ''VideoGame/DyztopiaPostHumanRPG'': Akari [[spoiler:was a Smog whose father forced her to go through an abusive training regimen to become a submissive slave, all to prepare herself for the day she was about to be sold. Right when that day was about to happen, she threw herself into the fireplace to ruin her own face and make herself unsellable. Then Capricorn showed up and ate her father, and the two synced. Akari then decided to take her rage out on the rest of the world by helping Zazz turn Zeta into a hellhole, and she expects the revived humans to make the world even worse]].

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