i was thinking he was born in chicago and his dad left when he was young, so his mom moved back to california... she died a few years later, but i'm toying around with whether he would've been raised by his grandmother or his mom's best friend/his godmother. i'm thinking he's in his early 20s and still in school for something practical but really wants to be a cinematographer and work on horror films and is constantly casting his friends in these super low budget blair witch-esque horror melodramas that he writes himself.