Disclaimer: I don't own JTHM, Jhonen does.
Jonathan Celvins: A History
Johnny had both loving parents. They both loved each other, and they loved Johnny just as much. A happy family triangle. However, this soon began to fall apart when Johnny's mother, _, lost her job. It was extremely important to her. She was a nurse, but she soon didn't care about her health as she picked up drinking after the loss. She often spiraled out of control, especially towards her son. Thrown or sometimes broken bottles of alcohol at Johnny, either hitting him or missing him. Either way, it was quite traumatizing. His father often comforted him after these events, usually ending up Johnny staying up half the night. He was only about 5, when she started all this.
Once he got into school, he often sat by himself crying during recess about his mother and wanting his old mother back. Kids also made fun of him calling him "crybaby" or "Noodle boy" (Noodle boy carried through high school). All of this resulted in consueling, and an early stage of paranoia and sleeping problems. Also, this all started a slight bad case of social isolation, only the beginning.
Meanwhile, the tension between two brothers (his father, Leon, and uncle, Astor) soon grew even worse than it already was in the past. The uncle was a schizophrenic, and it created a wedge between them during their teenager years. Anyways, the uncle heard voices telling him to make his brother pay for staying with his abusive wife. So one night after he heard the voices louder than ever, he decided to go pay his brother a nice little visit.
Johnny cried and cried, watching his father be killed. His uncle figured to kill his nephew as well…Johnny looked too much like the demon he saw recently. He tried to stab Johnny, but fast and furious, but he couldn't get Johnny. So he opted to burn down the house. He started lighting some random objects on fire until he got his hands on some of Johnny's art supplies (paints) and some flammable cans and fluids from the laundry room. At that instant, realizing what his uncle held and planned to do, he rushed up to his room, stumbling, to go find one of his most precious items: his Diary.
By the time he found the notebook, the house was already on fire. So the poor little boy tearfully found his way out. As he got a fair amount of distance between himself and the towering inferno, he collapsed onto the ground, crying until he fell asleep until well into the night.
In a few weeks, he was placed into an orphanage. He stayed there for about a year. While there, he showed great intelligence. This made the orphanage persuade the state government to let the boy return to public school. He made his first friend there-Brandon. Brandon looked like a nerd, was a Christian, ambitious, and a bit mysterious/dark. Once in awhile, they both visit each other outside of school. Brandon's mother welcomed Johnny,. But Brandon's father thought of him as a street urchin.
When a full year had passed, a foster family decided to adopt him. They had a little girl that went to the Elementary school as well. They family was loving, but soon the mother felt distant, due to a passing of a relative. This had a profound effect on Johnny. It reminded him of how his mother acted towards him when she lost her job, distant. He grew more isolated from her, and slightly towards the family as well.
He started to show classic symptoms of childhood schizophrenia, such as delusions and self-mutilation, around this time. The latter was also inspired by pure curiosity, wondering what the human body looked like. Soon, incidences of animal dissection filled his spare time, as he grew apart from the family. Growing apart from the family was partially due to his foster sister's insults towards him constantly, calling him names like 'wacky'. They decided to take him to a therapist, after he got home, each day.
After awhile, his foster parents get divorced. He felt upset during this period of time. Luckily, Brandon was there for him throughout and even afterwards. However, another friendly person helped him during this time: Nicki Helsing. He was intelligent, a bit lazy, and insightful. The both of them, Nick and Brandon, kept Johnny comfortable during the divorce. Both parents wanted to have Johnny, but they couldn't get a settlement they both agreed to. Nicki's parents eventually stepped in and decided to take in Johnny themselves. The foster family agreed it would be for the best, and they would visit him whenever they could in the next few years, whenever they were off work, which wasn't a lot.
As Johnny approached 13, his art talent skyrocketed. He stayed afterschool at the Art Club, and several people there and throughout the school knew that he could easily go up against one of the art teachers and easily win. He even won constantly through the school's local art show for all artists throughout the city/town. By time he entered high school, his talent was on the same level as another famous painter, Thomas Cole. (Example: .com/keywords/Thomas_Cole/Thomas_Cole_) As soon as he entered 10th grade, Nicki's parents enrolled him into the Painter's Club from the next town over. Johnny soon grew famous in the state (California), and his art became famous within the country.
Everything went great, even mostly through his first two years of high school. He still ocassionally saw the consueler for his sleeping problems, slight paranoia, and slight schziophrenic tendencies...but nothing major. He was a relatively happy teenager, however, quiet and into dark interests.
Then...some dark writing in blood appeared on a wall, on a night in the school...the next morning, a wall in one of the hallways said ''My next victim, Johnny Celvins, I have found you...You shall die along with the people who make you happy, your friends.'' He saw it the next day, with students gathered around it. It spooked him out, and sent his paranoia skyrocketing.
Several consueler visits later...he was happily having a session after lunch, during an open period (a study hall), and suddenly the alarms in the school went of and announced ''School will be locked down, as a dangerous man has entered the area, please stay within your designated areas the classrooms.'' Johnny felt horrible, and wanted his friends near him, especially after awhile when the killer slaughtered random students in search of his nephew. His friends made a daring move, sneaking out of one of the classrooms and joining him in the consueler's office trying to keep quiet afterwards.
Oddly enough, the commotion calmed down, but the killer was still in the building. Johnny had carefully and catiously exited the office along with his friends, to calm himself and try to convince himself that the uncle *growls* was gone. However...One of his friends, Nicki Helsing, was not so lucky. He had broken away slightly from theb group, trying to spread more ground for Johnny. Out of nowhere, the uncle had grabbed Nicki and started to mutilate him, by taking out his brain and smashing his body inwards.
Johnny had watched the entire thing, quite terrified, afterwards taking Nicki's own necklace with him for memory...Also, the other friend was lucky atm, he didn't die...Brandom Huke. Also, Johnny had survived, purely for torturous reasons meant by the Uncle/killer.
After the incident, the consuler visits had skyrocketed as well. He would have two everyday. Because at the time, Johnny's test scores pummented even further, earning him usually D's or F's. He had written threatening notes in the margins of his test papers...wanting to horribly rip apart his uncle. A few months later, his thoughts got darker and darker, and he eventually dropped out of school, only with a few more months until graduation.
The school wanted to put him back in the orphange, but he had remarked, 'Don't bother me, I have a fucking place to live.' The school had investigated a little bit, and it was oddly a house left for him from his uncle. The house was left to him, in the will of his uncle after he had been killed mysteriously. Apparently his uncle had left him the house, as a one kindly deed so Johnny had thought. His uncle also had a fondness for his art. Brandon had also died in hands of the uncle only a couple of months after the school incident as well.
I honestly might do a Part 2, -coughs- Should I? Put your replies in reviews, please. :3 And tell me how this is! Good or bad?