Talk:Roman Torchwick/@comment-24573226-20160520233649/@comment-24573226-20160521175135

Roman does have unexpected skills.

I can't really see Roman ever having tried to become a huntsman. The headcanon that's beginning to form for his backstory involves a rotten childhood and perhaps that glimmer of hope when a Huntsman appeared, which was immediately dashed, leading to his low opinion of humanity in general as well as the futility of Huntsman.

That's vague enough, right? To elaborate, acknowledging that this is only in my head from vague pieces of canon information, I think Roman had a crap childhood... orphanage, slave labor, worse (Lampwick was turned into a donkey and made to work like a drudge animal, right?). A huntsman cottons on to the child labor ring Roman was in, attempts to do something about it, but is killed by the evil people who have charge of it. Formative years of Roman's childhood. People are evil, those with hope and will are wasting their lives, take your fun where you find in and care about as few people as possible.