okay friends, while i put the finishing touches on him and try to find a journal layout i want to spend time working on, i think it's a good time to introduce eugene marvel, aka billy batson, aka shazam.
eugene was given the short straw pretty early on in life and had kind of a rough childhood, including parental death, adoption, shitty foster siblings & parents, and just an all around bad time. this shaped who he would eventually become, but first he had to hit a lot of bumps in the road and kiss a lot of frogs before he figured his shit out. he was a little lip gallagher-esque in the sense that he was really smart but did really dumb things to get by. he wasn't exactly the friendliest kid and grew up with a huge chip on his shoulder because of the cards he'd been dealt, and he kept that all through his adolescent years and into early adulthood until he sought out therapy. because he had kind of a bad attitude and couldn't find a way to emotionally connect with people due to a crippling fear of abandonment, he was stuck in the foster system until he was old enough to phase out of it and go off on his own. this, of course, absolutely helped nothing and he went on to fall in with a group of unsavory kids that taught him to steal and eventually start selling drugs.
now despite his choices, gene never actually did drugs and he stole them only to sell them as a way to make ends meet. this didn't last a super long time before he realized that if he kept going down the path he was on, he was going to ruin his life in one way or another. so instead of stealing drugs to sell them, he used this as an opportunity to help out different communities in need. he wanted to fight the man, so to speak, and fancied himself a bit of a modern day robin hood for a period of time. despite it still being a relatively dangerous path to balance, he felt as if he was paying it forward and doing some good in the world. a reporter caught wind of his efforts within the different communities and wrote a short article on eugene's effort and how he protected those who couldn't protect themselves and looked out for people that had nothing but gratitude to give him. although this would get him into a fair bit of trouble, he was granted a partial scholarship and was able to attend school and try to make something of himself.
that was so long ago and he's still kind of a lost soul, but he's an active big brother, a program manager for playstation, a very active tabletop gamer, videogamer and comic book reader and does what he can to be the type of person he was never able to have while growing up. he believes that putting good into the world will bring it back, and the simple act of paying it forward and that anyone can change with the right help, so on and so forth. although he had a huge chip on his shoulder growing up, he managed to come out of it with a relatively positive attitude and some pretty wild stories to tell to those who want to listen. the rest of his bio can be read here if you're so inclined to learn more!
now that that's out of the way, he could still use a lot of lines of any sort. if i recall correctly, he'll have connections through ~caper with leadership and magikal, a roomie in circuits, and a friend that goes back to his messyboi days in mischief. he'll also have an on/off fwb type thing with cosmics as well. he could use a lot more friends, people who he may have met doing big brother/big sister type things, people he's met at playstation meetups or community events (which i'll prob have more info on soon!) other nerdy minded folk who like d&d, comicbooks and staying up way too late to play videogames, and anything else really!