She sat quietly in the corner of the bedroom, watching her several younger sisters playing with their dolls. She would join them, but as she was the only human child, she was often excluded, not that she wanted to. She thought back to the day half a decade ago when her father joined the White Fang. How he got into a fight with her mother. How she tried to fight back when he went to hit her. How he murdered her right then and there, slicing her to pieces. How he had made the five year old Gloomy clean it up, under threat of meeting the same fate.
She looked once more at the bunny eared young girls, decided she would no longer endure the abuse, and stood up. Making sure not to alert her sisters, she loaded her favorite wagon with her treasured dolly and some bedding, as well as the box of snacks she had to sneak from her sisters' collections. It wasn't till she had opened the door, and had already taken off running and crying, that they noticed. She stood her best friend's house a week later in the next village over, dirty and bruised. She knocked on the door weakly, and passed out.
When she awoke, she found herself to be clean and patched up, the Viridis family standing around the bed she was laying in, which was in the same room as her best friend, Rana's. This family was one of faunus, but they were nice faunus. She trusted them, 'cause they wouldn't hurt her. Mrs. Viridis was the first to speak, "Gloomy, darling, while you are welcome here, I must ask, why you decided to come here." Quietly Gloomy answered, breaking down into tears, "I ran away... My papa is a big meanie… He hits me…"
Two years later she sat at the local park, listening to Rana ramble on about whatever it was she was talking about. Just then Rana grabbed her shoulder and pointed, "Hey look, it's Team KNHT! Aren't they so cool?" "Y-yeah… They are…" Gloomy mumbled, in timid admiration. Clapping her hands together, Rana exclaimed, "We should ask them to train us!" "I don't know… we are just kids…" Gloomy spoke shyly.
The leader of the team, whose shirt had his name, Ken Hikari, upon it, walked over, "I heard someone yell something about training. Was it you two?" "Yes! I want you to train my friend and I!" Rana practically squeaked out, excitedly. Ken his hand on his chin, looked over at Gloomy, "and what does your friend think?" "It would be kinda cool… I guess…" she said meekly. "Then it's settled! I want to see you two at my Dojo at 8 in the morning, tomorrow!"