Aiden Hades: the first child to be taken into Wammy's. He was given the alias A, for alternate. Next came Rue Ryuzaki, given B for Backup. After that, the students who came in that weren't as smart as those two were allowed to choose their own aliases. Some would choose letters, like C or Z, where other would choose regular words, like Rayne.
When A first came to Wammy's House, he met L shortly after. Everything was explained to him: What he was here for, what was expected of him, the talents he showed at such an early age, and what he was going to grow up to be. When told all this, the blonde's eyes lit up with excitement. He was going to mean something… He was going to be really important. And here he thought he'd never amount to anything special if he was being shipped off to some orphanage.
It wasn't like he gave from a bad family or anything. He lived with his Mother, Father and Grandmother before the house fire when he was five. His parents died, but his Grandmother lived. A day after his sixth birthday, his Grandmother passed away, and he was sent to one of Watari's regular orphanages.
This was at the time when Wammy's House had first developed, and Watari was looking for L's future successors. He sent exams to all his orphanages, planning on taking in any children who got at least a 95 score. But none did. Only one, who just happened to get 100%. This child was a six year old Aiden Hades.
A little while after he got himself situated in Wammy's House, a new student was introduced.
Rue Ryuzaki.
Not allowed to know each other's real names, A and B were expected to get along well, but focus mostly on their studies as well.
But they were definitely not expected to get along as well as they had.
Never having had a friend before, A immediately jumped at the chance to get to know B. The game room hadn't come in yet, so unless they wanted to play out in back, the only thing to do for fun in the house was watch television in the main room. But their interests with television were nowhere near similar to each other. Even though B hadn't grown up in a house where he was introduced to horror films and crime shows, he found them interesting and fun to watch. But A wasn't intrigued by anything scary like that. He'd rather watch kid friendly shows, like most children his age did. And only once in a while would the two compromise for eachother.
Rue Ryuzaki only ever knew his Mother growing up. Every time he'd try to ask about his Dad, his Mother would ignore the questions, shooing him off to play on his own. She didn't waste a second by the time he turned two to sign him up for nursery school, but even that turned out to be not such a good idea. It seemed as though Rue didn't even try to get along well with the other children. He started fights constantly, resorting to violence like pushing or kicking when he didn't get his way, and stealing toys from the others. He once was teased by another kid for his odd eating habits, eating strawberry jam straight from the jar, and needless to say… The outcome resorted in him being sent home, the antagonizer to the nurse.
Shortly after he turned five, Rue's mother was killed by an oncoming train. No one knew the real story… only Rue and his Mother. But it was a suicide. One he didn't feel comfortable telling anyone about once he was old enough to figure out the truth.
Not having any other family to fall back on, Rue was taken in by the very same orphanage that Aiden was once in. Of course, the blonde was not there anymore, since he'd been sent to Wammy's four days before Rue showed up. Rue was given the exam as well and, getting the same score as A, was renamed 'B' and sent off to Wammy's Institution.
When they first met, the thought that immediately came to mind was something that surprised the raven slightly.
This boy…
He's cute.
B thought.
He'd watch him all the time, even when A was busy doing something else. Biting his thumb, a habit whenever in thought, he'd sit nearby and study everything he could about his first ever friend. The way his tongue stuck out a bit whenever A was concentrating or writing. The way his royal blue eyes seemed to light up when he smiled or saw B. The way he blushed whenever complimented. How he'd pretend not to be afraid whenever there was a little blood in those crime investigation shows B watched, just for the sake of spending more time with B. It was all so.. interesting to him.
Other children started being brought in to Wammy's House too, and although the two friends took interests in them as well, not as much as they did in each other. Because as far as they were concerned, they were best friends – and that was all they needed, wasn't it? D, X, K, Y – they tried to befriend A and B, but it never really worked. They could only be acquaintances with those children, and best friends with eachother.
On A's seventh birthday, B had no idea people were supposed to get their friends or loved ones gifts on that day. He'd never been given a birthday gift in his life, only a cake, and he told A that. A was a naturally understanding person, and told B he didn't need to worry. But sure enough, a few days later, B handed over a slightly late birthday gift: the watch A still wore to this day. By the time B's sixth birthday rolled around, he was presented a gift from A: a little action figure A took from home that B always liked to mess with whenever they were in his room. Two meaningful gifts.
About a day later, Celeste Taiyoko – given the alias 'C' – walked in the front doors of Wammy's House. Now eight years old, the pinkette used to bounce around between orphanages since he was two, never really staying anywhere long enough to call a place his home. Although he grew up this way, he easily passed his Wammy's entry exam, and over time – he was eventually considered to be third place in all of Wammy's after A and B to succeed L. But, after seeing all the work and pressure that was dealt to the only other two students who met L, he started to fail on purpose, successfully lowering his rank.
Considered to be more of a wallflower than the other children, C never really tried or had any luck in making acquaintance with anyone else, keeping to himself most of the time instead. He didn't converse with the others unless engaged, and even then it didn't really last long if he could help it. He was closed off… And maybe he preferred things that way.
Not long after, Zack Anderson was brought into the institution one afternoon by Watari himself. The old man knew this boy had seen more horrors in his seven years on this earth than he had in his entire life. Z grew up in a bad neighborhood with his Mom and Dad. Although, unlike the other children, he wasn't born in England. He was born and raised for the first six years of his life in New York, America. He started school when he was five of course, his Dad really didn't want him home longer than necessary, but wasn't allowed out of the apartment at any other time.
His Dad was an old drunk, who his Mother hated but couldn't afford to leave. But she didn't take most of the beatings. Little Zack did. He was abused – physically, mentally and sexually, until he was six years old. His Dad came home one night, drunk as ever, but the outcome was extremely different this time. He didn't go straight to Zack's room to pull him out from under his bed. Because this time, his Mother put up a fight for her son. She was stabbed by a kitchen knife, and Zack's Father was too stunned by what he had done to move. Taking the opportunity, the trembling boy called the police, and had his own Father arrested.
Like most of the others who ended up at Wammy's, he had no other family to fall back on. But once his intelligence was put to the test at one of Watari's regular orphanages, the man realized this child showed too much potential to not be tried as one of L's successors.
Because of the way Z grew up, his ability to trust was far beyond damaged. As a result, he kept to himself for a long while. But friendship found him, when his backstory was spread around the orphanage. Even if Z was asked years later about what happened, he could clearly tell anyone word for word what went down.
It was B.
B stopped the teasing before it really got a chance to take off. The first fight B ever got into at Wammy's was with Y, and what a way to start. He was sent to the nurse, and since they didn't have the solitary room at this time – since it's reasoning for being used in the first place was mainly for unstable children like B – he was only sent to his room for the night as a first warning.
The next day, Z went straight up to the other and thanked him for what he did. He was introduced to A, and after that, the three became a tight little group that nobody could break. That day that B saved him… well… It was the first day he ever felt admiration and respect for anyone. And that was where his love for B first developed.
Of course, he was a little jealous of how close A and B were with each other, but he always kept those feelings to himself. Which is why when X decided to try and befriend A but not B, he didn't tell B anything or interfere at all. If X and A became new best friends, what would he care? A was his friend and all, but he didn't have feelings for A. He didn't admire A. Just B.
Rose Williamson – given the alias 'X' – arrived a little before Z, and the two never really interacted before. He didn't know much about her, but just by her accent and the way she looked, Z could tell she'd probably lived in England all her life.
And she did. X had a full family – A Mother, a Father, an older brother and an older sister. But her family lived on a financial struggle, and she was the result of an unplanned pregnancy. Since her Mother couldn't bare to get an abortion, she was sent to live in an orphanage instead. It's needless to say what happened after six years of nobody wanting to adopt her.
But although some of the children in Wammy's might not have gotten along with everyone, they were still a family. A family with one goal, all united under one roof. And although it may not have seemed like it to some, Watari made sure to never let one child feel less important than the rest. No one was neglected. Everyone was special. That was why they were all here.
That was why they were in Wammy's.