A Look Into the Past

by TheGazingEyeWontLie

We already know the life stories of Tobias and Tris... But what about the others? How did they shape into the person they are now? These short stories were created before my knowledge of Insurgent. So if any information is inaccurate I apologize, but please enjoy my little headcanon of what the past has taught these characters.

1. Chapter 1

Eric

Ever since I was young, I was always pushed to be the absolute best at everything I ever did. My father, was never satisfied with anything I did, I could never be good at anything, I had to perfect in it. He was one of the powerful people in my faction, Erudite, but right after him was of course Jeanine Matthews. I had never really paid that much attention to politics as a child so I never really knew anything about her, except from what my father had always said, or rather complained about her. She appeared to me as the enemy.

At my Choosing Ceremony, I was chosen into the Dauntless faction. I find it funny, almost. Every since I joined this faction, that boy, the only person that stood in my way, excelled me in every possible test. How was I supposed to be the greatest when someone had already filled that position? I wondered, if only there could be one flaw about him. I would ruin him. Break him down onto the steps in which I would use to get to the top. To be the best, as my father would have wanted.

And now here, I am ruling amongst this army, my army. But alongside me is Jeanine... who I had long ago thought was my enemy, but now a companion. We had destroyed Abnegation, together. Four's, no, Tobias's, formal faction. A Divergent rebel. That's how he managed to triumph me. Soon everyone in my way will be gone. And then, that's when my father will be truly proud of me, not just because I was a leader of a faction. But because I would be greater than all beneath me.