Forrest Whitetail grew up in a broken home. His parents got a divorce when he was five. Custody was given to his mother, who promptly married an abusive drunk. Forrest often counted the days that he's be able to visit his real father, who was the nicest man he'd ever known.

When he was sixteen, his stepfather became increasingly jealous and thought that Forrest's mother was seeing her ex-husband again. He murdered them both, and was later sentenced to death. Forrest was placed in the custody of his aunt on his mother's side, who was just as poor of a decision maker as his mother was. Forrest dropped out of school before the end of summer.

He got a job as a construction worker, and eventually found the love of his life, and married her. However, he was laid off from his job when the construction company went under. After several weeks of searching, he essentially gave up and started spending his unemployment check on alcohol. His wife left him soon after that.

He was evicted from his apartment, and he wandered around for nearly half a year before he realized he needed to get his life straightened out. He applied for jobs again, and surprisingly, he was offered a job at the Poke-combat Academy under the condition that he attend the AA.

Now he has a job and a respectable life again, but he's often depressed about how things turned out for him in the past and all the mistakes he's made.

Stay in school, kids.