In Denver, Colorado, there lived a boy named Michael Richard Teavee, but he normally was just called Mike. He had brown hair, had brown eyes, and mostly wore clothes in black and red. (Red was his favorite color.) He lived in a one-story yellow house with a red border along the bottom, red borders around the windows, a red garage door, and a gray roof with a red ridge. He lived in this house with his father, John Teavee, who used to be an accountant, but was now a high school geography teacher; his stay-at-home mother, Lorraine Teavee; and his older sister, Miranda Teavee, who was fifteen years old.
Whenever Mike had any free time (which was most of the time), it would be used with some form of technology. He would either play video games, watch movies, watch TV shows, or go on the internet on his laptop. He used the TV so much that there was one in the living room for him and his whole family to use, and another one in his bedroom for personal use. Ever since he was a baby, it's been like this. Whenever he would start crying, his mother would just turn on the TV to distract him, and the crying stopped. When he was a toddler and a growing child, his mother would continue to plop him in front of the screen so she could do other things around the house like cook or clean without having to worry about little Mike. His dad was always busy with work, so he couldn't do much with his boy, either. It's not that his parents didn't care about him, they certainly did. They loved him a lot, and he loved them back, it's just that they were often too "busy" to properly raise him. And as Mike got older, he became more and more obsessed with technology as his parents became more and more behind the times, so he and his parents weren't exactly on the same level anymore.
He tried reading books before, but just couldn't get into them. He found the walls of text too boring to comprehend as a story. He only read when he had to for school. His dad tried to get him into playing chess, since he was particularly fond of the game himself; however, like reading, Mike just found it to be too boring. But despite playing video games all day, he was probably the most intelligent person in a family already filled with intelligent people. Mike got mostly A's in school and never really struggled that much, especially in math class. He was also a computer genius, so he found hacking into computers to be a very simple thing.