#i was asleep most of today from the booster shot knocking my life force out of me

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Heyy! So I was wondering what the crew was up to before they became andromeda six. We know Calderon and Ayame basically started it when she broke him out of prison, then they recruited Bash and Ryona. But what happened to June? If he left the facility at 16 years old and he's now 27, that's 11 years of his life. At what age did he join A6 and what did he do immediately after escaping bc he didn't know anything about the outside world presumably, other than what he could've learned at the lab. Did he start doing labor, join a militia, or rummage around for scraps? I would love to hear some takes on this. Like I want to know everything about this man, lol. Thanks!

Omg omg omg anon this has been sitting in my inbox for over a month and for some reason I haven't responded yet but I love the spiraling potential here.......

I'm not a wanderlust patron anymore so I can't go back and check what's "canon" but tbh who cares, if it's not addressed in the game then it's not canon yet to me lol

But seriously! we don't even know how he originally got OFF of Orion! like ok, you fuck up the lab, you kill several people and at least seriously injure many others, did he just hijack a ship?? did he smuggle himself onto a shipment of Orionite?? who knows! there's so much unknown!

and in the 11 years interim......hoooooooooooooooooo boy! because you have to consider the start point of an angry and hurt 16 year old boy who has literally 0 life experience or guidance and the June we know at the start of the game who is gentle and kind and yet still scared. so like, how do you bridge those two people into one person? what experiences would have led him to Terranium and the crew of the A6 in the first place? so many possibilites!

my own vague theorizing is that he wanted to distance himself as much as possible from the empire and politics in general, since being a pawn against your own will your entire life would certainly sour at least me on that entire sphere of life. so from there, I imagine he probably ended up at an outpost like the crew stopped at on their way to Tilaarin and did odd jobs in exchange for a place to stay/a measly amount of credits. he probably also had to keep on the move fairly often because once his coworkers/neighbors realized What he was, he'd have to leave (either due to their own fears/prejudices or his anxieties about them)

it's that sort of nomadism that I think led him to encountering Cal and the A6 on Terranium, and it's possible that he could have known the other members from that wandering previously (meeting Damon during his gang time, meeting Bash when he was still a ring fighter, Ryona when she was a futuristic doctor without borders lol) and he just didn't open himself up to them then, and it took the 11 years of relative safety and finding what it means to be independent and distancing himself from who he was meant to be with who he is to be able to be the subdued and caring person he is at the start of the game

lmk if ya'll would be interested in a fic of this idea lol (vignettes of his nomad experience? meeting the members outside of the crew? something else??)