Before Hector was an esk he'd been a farmer's son and nothing moe than that. He hadn't had a life outside of his family's farm, his family lineage didn't have anything but the farm from the moment they settled there and he never knew anything other than that or had the opportunity to be anything other than what he'd grown up to be.

And for most of his life, he'd been fine with that; he'd loved his life, his entire existence being there on the farmland his family had owned and cared for for generations. But then things went wrong.

A few bad seasons had the farm drying up and with no help or assistance from nature their finances dried up and they ended up needing to sell the land to someone else and move away and NAME...

He hadn't known what to do with himself, quickly falling into a deep despair over the uncertainty before him and the knowledge that he was losing everything he was and everything he had been. And that's when Trigger found him and transformed him, giving him a new opportunity to be something other than the farm boy that had been terrified at the notion of needing to leave his home.

He could be something else now, gently, one step at a time.