VAN WEST.

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important.

       the show van is from has quite a bit of various, non-politically correct themes, including homophobia, racism, ableism, etc, and while i think the show portrays that this behavior is wrong without smashing it in your face, i will not be writing these kinds of themes myself. please also take a look at jethro west's biography as well before interacting with van, as the two are twins and therefore there is a chance i might make his brother appear in threads as a side character from time to time or mention him or otherwise make him relevant to the threads.       

biography.

van attended chris amon primary school, where he met munter and aurora bay. van would also often hang out with billy grady. when he was 15 years old, van was expelled from school because he crapped under the stage before assembly in the middle of summer two weeks in a row, and was caught with his pants down. van and aurora fell in love and aurora was gonna let van take her virginity once they were of legal age, as a birthday present to him, however she ended up with jethro, having mistaken him for van, and van saw the two have sex. believing she didn't love him, van distanced himself from her after that, making her believe he had dumped her.

as van grew up, his father, wolf, got arrested and sentenced to four years in prison. in order to help pay for his dad's lawyer, van robbed the home of an asian businessman and became wanted by the police. cheryl, his mother, was hassled by tracy hong, the daughter of the businessman, who requests the return of a priceless statue, a family heirloom. however, his father advised him that perhaps the statue contained drugs, so van smashed it open. when cheryl discovered this, she was furious, and she decided that the family were getting out of the crime business; she got van a job helping the hongs around the house to make up for his actions.

when his friend, billy grady, died, van started to feel extremely guilty, and to feel better and get some money for wolf's appeal, he went on a crime spree. jethro stopped him though, saying he didn't want van to end up in jail like his father. later, wolf set van up with a job to help sparky, an old family acquaintance, burn down the video hut, but van pulled out. mr hong, happy with van's work, employed him at the lucky dollar store. van worked there for quite a while, while occasionally still partaking in smaller crimes with his best buddy, munter. eventually, van's path crossed with aurora again, and the two realized what happened when they were younger, and van admitted he still loved aurora, and she admitted she still loved him as well. but there was a problem. after she thought van had dumped her, she had gotten involved with a gang, and ended up as one of the gang member's girlfriend, and said gang member practically kept her locked up at the hide-out most of the time and would be furious if she tried to leave him.

aurora didn't want van to get involved out of fear that he might get hurt, but van, unwilling to let aurora stay in this terrible relationship, came to her rescue at the same night that his brother and father robbed the gang. her boyfriend eventually found out, but they came to an understanding as aurora gently explained to him why she left him for van, and he left them alone. aurora and van started talking about getting married, and van and aurora both took on jobs to start saving for a wedding. however, aurora didn't tell van that her ex boyfriend had gotten paralyzed since they last saw him, and that he needed help with taking care of daily things, and was paying her to help him. van found this out on his own when he was going to buy some drugs and came to the house her ex was working as, only to find her there with him. aurora promised she would never see her ex again and find another job, however van, not trusting her, followed her and found her going back to him (only to say goodbye) and as he peered through the window, he saw her kissing her ex goodbye.

hurt, he called the police and let them know her ex was selling drugs and where he lived, and he told aurora what he'd done. aurora, shocked, told van she loved van, and only van, and she hoped that he would come to see that, before rushing to try to help her ex avoid getting caught by the police. this resulted in her getting in a road accident and dying from the injuries, sending van through a horrible depression and believing he had been cursed by the family curse (a curse that supposedly happens if you snitch on someone to the cops). he stopped going out of his room, spent most of his time either drunk, sick, or sleeping. at his lowest, van got suicidal, and started preparing to kill himself. however, with the support of sparky, and realizing how much he still had to live for, including his family, he eventually started feeling a little better again. he started taking on small jobs, some legal, others not-so-legal.

van uses drugs quite a fair bit. he has trauma from the freezer incident and gets triggered by chest freezers in particular. standing freezers are okay, but he's still uncomfortable with them from time to time. if he's having a hard mental health day he might even get triggered just by cold temperatures.

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