William Fitzwilliam Darcy had gotten his peculiar from his mother maiden name and his father last name. It sometimes bothered him, but later in his life, he would treasure having his mother's name.
His parents owned Pemberley Digital, where Ann served as the CFO and William Sr. was the CEO. The company developed and financed film projects and with the apparition of the Internet, the CEO decided to venture into new ideas using this nascent technology.
The Darcy family lived a big and comfortable house in the suburbs of San Francisco. Even though Ann and William Sr. had been born in privileged families, they were well aware of the hard work that was required to thrive in life (Pemberley had not been always a successful enterprise), and they had taught that to their children, William and Georgiana.
When he was four years old, William had welcomed his baby sister, who was named after their mother's grandmother. His sister had issues pronouncing her name correctly, so William Sr. had given her an easy nickname, Gigi.
William was not a fan of that name, but he realized that it suited the personality of his energetic sister. She could not stay quiet and calm for long, and was always thinking about ways to get her parents to notice her. But William loved her unconditionally and was very protective of her.
In contrast, William was taciturn. He liked to play with Gigi, but preferred to spend his time reading and imagining how he would bring the stories to life. However, he found that he always had an opinion about everything, and when something was not the way he wanted or expected, he was not afraid to say so, like with his sister's nickname.
Besides Gigi, William spent his childhood with Fitz Williams (yet another Williams in his life) and George Wickham.
Fitz had been his best friend since kindergarten and had practically grown up together since they were also neighbors. Fitz had a special talent to take William out of his book's world and show him how to have fun in the real one.
However, just before high school, Fitz's family decided to move to Seattle. The two friends stayed in touch by phone calls and early emails.
George Wickham was the godson of William Sr. He was the child of his late best friend and Mr. Darcy had taken George's education as his responsibility. Therefore, George spent a lot of time in the Darcy house, with William and Georgiana. He was very charismatic and everyone liked him, and sometimes William secretly wished he could be like him, especially when they reached their teens.
William had always wanted to go to Harvard, like his father and was glad when he enrolled him and George in the San Francisco University High School. It was mainly George who made all the friends and William just tagged along. His first three years were normal; he was fully committed to his education.
Until the craziness started when someone ran into him in the corridors of the school.
He was about to complain or say something, but when he looked at the responsible of the collision, he was completely speechless for the first time in his life.