Foxtrot Tomas River

born to joseph river & dali reyes, foxtrot, born with the name frankie, was raised in a small home in santiago, a city in luzon, philipines. though he wasn't there for very long. at age 3, joseph river, who was part of the navy, was restationed in fort louderdale, florida. shortly after rehoming, him and dali married as mr. and mrs. river and took to living in asheville, north carolina. unfortunately, around this time, joseph had cheated on dali, resulting in august river, and then a year later, mica river, both daughters to audre palileo. a rocky few years later, at age 8, dali and joseph moved to rochester, new york.

frankie was a troubled child growing up, seeing as his family moved around often, it made his care for good friendships and decent grades rather forfeit. this didn't bother so much dali as it did joseph. joseph was an aggressive father, taken to beatings and yelling matches with a young frankie that resulted in their very bad to commonly ignored relationship, as well as put a wedge between his and dali's marriage. shortly after a specific incident, dss was called on joseph after frankie had returned to school with a bruise and with that, at age 11, dali and joseph were divorced.

with the start of middle school, frankie had regular counselor visits and favouritism of the teachers given dalis care for her son and exposure of what he'd been through, which gave him plenty of enough attention from the typical pack of school bullies. but rather than sit back and use the tools his mother gave him, he became well known for school fights. though from these fights, he met a young boy by the name of jessie wright who then quickly became his right hand man.

at age 13, he had his first experience with marijuana, which solidified him as a stoner for what could quite possibly be the rest of his life. dali of course, was supportive of this as she too was a stoner and now didn't have to keep it so hidden. around this time, dali had also remarried to a young man by the name of clayton todd. at first, frankie was hesitant, but after teaching him how to play the guitar, frankie and claytons relationship was a strong bond seemingly overnight. it was from clayton that frankie decided he'd one day love to start a band, even bringing over his friend jessie to learn a few things as well, though his fascination centered the bass.

within this year, jessie had frequented the todd household, as well as frankie had frequented the wright household. along side their connection, they had gathered a small friend group including athena sade, cera kim and levi connor. (though reluncant with levi, he proved to have a weird obsession with frankie the others didn't particularly appreciate) around this time, frankie had come to accepted his long since developed feelings for jessie, trying to make them rather obvious with sexual jokes and teases, but found comfort in a lot of them flying right over his head. that was until frankie had gotten confident and asked about jessies first kiss. one thing led to another and it was suddenly a lot more difficult to keep everything under wraps. having their first kiss in the bag, frankie had come out about his budding relationship with jessie wright to dali and clayton, to which they gave him their full support. the next following year in december, frankie just barely pass the age of 14, just before christmas break, frankie had asked jessie out, and thus started their secretive relationship. unfortunately, as the months rolled on, jessie and frankie were caught kissing in the wright family household, thus making their trips to and from houses rather challenging on jessies side of things. (his parents where definitely not in support)

at 15, frankie had mentioned to jessie his desires to be called foxtrot, to which he was given full support, to then come out to dali and clayton about it and they wasted no time in making the switch over, as well as help with the school to get it swapped over. around this time foxtrot and jessie had taken up sneaking out and running around town, this was when foxtrot slowly started getting into graffiti, as well as took up drinking. it was common for the two to go to parties as well as several concerts within the area, as well as pull athena sade from the evil grips of her family to come join them. they continued this all through age 16, as jessie was the first to get his drivers permit he would commonly 'rally the troops', including cera and levi when the need arose.

at 17, this was when foxtrot's life seemed to plumet, upon getting a break up message through text from jessie without any sort of explination. distrot, he seeked out his sisters august and mica for support, and together they concluded it having something to do with athena sade, who had also become unresponsive that same night. without much thought, foxtrot later seeked out comfort from levi connor, who heard the news and refused to leave him alone about it, which proved to be a bad choice for the following year to come.