In a small village lived a round a population of a hundred, it was small, but quant. Not too far from it was a house in the woods, living a comfortable family. They were not nobles, but were seen as such in the small village as they ran the markets in town and a lumber mill. The couple were excited as they knew they had chance to elevate their status, they just needed to procure the right relationships. They tried a couple of times to have kids, only to be met with failed pregnancies. They waited a few years before trying again as it took a toll on the wife, growing older and no kids wasn’t good social status.
Finally one day she became pregnant, it was a tough pregnancy with scares but she gave birth to a boy. The baby was sickly for a while and it was touch and go, but after a couple of years when the baby reach toddler, he was healthy. He was still small and no one thought he be a big or tall man when he grew up. This upset the couple as it meant he would be hard to court off. She would have tried for another and sent the sickly one off, but she found that baring anymore was not possible for her. She was stuck with the small boy, she cursed him for not being able to have more kids, better kids.
When the boy was four, she began to get irritated, when the child got loud or cried, she started to lock him in his closet. She leave him there for hours to scream in the dark. She would ignore his screams, wait till they went silent and still keep him there. Sometimes she leave him the whole day there, she even began to throw out toys, because she couldn’t stand to hear anything from the child. The father wasn’t much better, if the boy cry, the father would beat him with a belt till he stop crying.
The older the child got, the meaner she got, he once went out during went to gather up twigs and such, playing about a little. He had taken too long to do the task that his mother locked him out, he bang on the door and screamed to be let in. He beg, crying as the snow fell and his fingers burned from the cold. He finally got let him when his father came home. He ended up being seriously sick, the father explain that they can’t allow him to lose fingers, they still needed to find anyone high up the social status to court him when he was of age.
Since they knew the boy wouldn’t get tall, the mother would often starve the kid. Lock him in his closet with no food, half the time he would sleep there instead of his bed. He learn to no longer play, to not try to talk. He once spoke to his mother and was slapped for it and drag to his closet. Even his father would smack him against the head if he spoke out of turn. He once made eye contact with his mother and she hit him for it. Eventually he learn to just watch the floor and not talk unless it was expected of him. He had become fidgety over time, it drove his mother mad, she smack him every time he fidget. He never once grew confidence, he was far to timid.
When he finally came of age, he was introduce to whom he marry. The families had agreed and it would greatly improve their status, they finally be consider nobles by proxy. Their son was perfect spineless being for their daughter who was a hellion of a woman, but needed a male to be her puppet. However the boy was caught with another boy, the girl refused to marry and her parents pulled back. He had gotten brave when the boy had led him on and got him to give in, but after caught he was blamed for it all.
His family furious, his father had beat him bare hands. He beat the boy until he was force to heal in bed for a few weeks. Once he had strength and bruises had healed, they gave him options. He could become a eunuch and live with monks they had found, he could stay with them, but be lobotomized, or he go become a priest and forsake ever being part of the family. He be dead to them to say the least. He chose becoming a priest and so the family told everyone in his village that he had hung himself in shame. He have no home to come back too, so he lived his life for the church as a priest.