In the year 2055, the countries of America, Europe and Asia, amongst others, had reached the 4th year into their seemingly everlasting war. Nuclear weapons and powered-up soldiers dominated the lands, while the sounds of jet-planes and missiles shadowed the skies. Hope that the war would one day end slowly turned from a belief, to a rumor, to a dream; that is, until one day - July 16th to be exact - the president of Mexico had proposed a treaty between all countries in conflict to end the war. The news was received well by both presidents and citizens, and progression on world peace was a soon-to-be reality.
This was the case up until 2 weeks before the final treaty signing by the president, the proposer himself, was requested to occur. The president had unexpectedly fallen ill with a life-threatening disease, believed to be a direct cause of the nuclear products exposed by the warfare weaponry. Bedridden, in a panic to return him to a healthy state, medics had assigned the most well-renowned doctor of the country to aid in his recovery; his name was Devon Joriah.
Joriah had begun treating the president shortly after notice of his illness arose, and over the course of the week and a half spent together in a private hospital room, the two were believed to have acquainted well. While no witnesses were present other than them both, many believed the president had even told Joriah most of the country's plans regarding the peace treaty due to the president belief that he may not survive his illness. This supposed belief of his turned out to be true, as 3 days, before his arranged signing of the treaty, he died.
In a greater state of turmoil due to the now lacking of a president for their country, Joriah had proposed he be put as the new president to take over. Being the one present the most with the now deceased president at his dying moments, and having studied politics before converting to the profession of a doctor - a certificate of proof of his studies was presented - he was put temporarily in charge.
Days later, at the signing of the treaty, where the presidents of all other countries had too been brought as witnesses and companions, before Joriah could sign the treaty to establish peace and end the war, one of the other presidents had lifted a gun and shot 4 others, killing 3 and heavily wounding one. Outrage was sparked by this act of treason, causing all presidents to retract from the treaty, and more violently than before, returned to war.
With the world returned to its state of madness, and Mexico in necessity for one to take the spot as the new president, Joriah had been pleaded to fully take the role as president. The vice-president of the country was originally planned to take this role, though later investigations of the shooting in the treaty signing found the vice-president was choked and drugged to death by one of his own bodyguards. Joriah chose to take up the role, though asked that he may perform his doctor job once more before discontinuing. This was allowed, and 2 days later, Joriah was brought into a doctor's room and presented with a pregnant woman and her husband.
Being such a renowned doctor, the birth had been a success, though to the dismay of all in the room, the woman had died due to the birth. The baby, when in the womb, had grasped onto the umbilical cord and tore it out in retaliation to not wanting to be born, causing major blood loss in conjunction with what was already lost due to the birth. The father, distraught with seeing his wife dead on the platform, had rushed out and entered a bathroom. Nurses believed he simply needed to shed tears of loss and allowed his departure despite the baby being left unattended by a parent figure, though after an hour had passed with the father not returning, nurses were sent out to look for him. It only took 5 minutes for one of the nurses to find the body of the father in the bathroom he had entered. His face was covered with blood and a large crack was on his skull; the sink was covered in blood as well, so it was assumed that in an act of severe trauma, the father had committed suicide by bashing his head onto the sink.
The nurse had returned to Joriah and told him of the news. Equally in shock and despair, as this had never once happened in his time as a doctor, Joriah had proposed he adopt the son, as the ultimate loss of his parents was his fault. The hospital allowed this, and so custody of the baby boy, given the full name Jonas Joriah, was given to the doctor Devon.
