rewind.

BIO:

First and only son of Faith Henderson.

Born to a sixteen year old single mother who had been raised better (his grandfather's words), Ezra was supposed to be adopted at birth.

In a sense, he was.

For the first ten years of his life, Easy was raised by his grandparents as their son and as his mother's younger brother. After falling in love with Ezra at first breath, Thomas and Bernice agreed to compromise on their staunch belief of what the right path for their daughter and grandson was but only on their terms.

The hunt for hidden birthday presents had yielded something else -- the truth about his birth. He can still recall how it felt to read his birth certificate and not understand why there was a blank space where his father's name should be and why his sister's was printed where his mother's should be.

What followed was a tumultuous eight years. Easy rejected everything from his grandparents apologies, his mother's explanations, the church he had grown up attending weekly without fail and God himself.

Then Faith got sick and everything changed.

Struck with a new fear that he would lose his mother before she ever really got a chance to be his mother, Easy and Faith began to rebuild their relationship with no secrets lurking between them. Except for one.

Easy asked plenty of questions about his birth father. Who he was, what his name was, where he was from but he was met with a refusal to answer any of them from his grandparents and pleas from his mother to leave it be.

He did his best to, looking into what he could piece together by himself without assistance or interference from them.

From the age of 21 he worked alongside his great uncle Solomon who was a registered private investigator, much to his grandfather's disapproval. He loved spending time with Sol and quickly found he had a knack for the work -- which was the start of a running joke with Sol that Easy's first foray into the bizz had been when he stumbled on his own family secret.

Just after his 26th birthday, Faith passed away peacefully at the home she shared with her husband Malik at the age of 42.

The loss knocked Ezra for six and he knew that he couldn't stay in Minnesota without the one person that was grounding him there.

With Sol's help, he managed to piece together everything that he he could find about his birth father and his grandmother's fury at the name Gideon Green being spoken in her house was all the confirmation that he needed to know he was correct.

With a criminal conviction at eighteen, he could understand his grandparents apprehension and his mother's unwillingness to cause another rift in the time she had left but he knew he couldn't remain with so many questions and no one around him that was willing to answer.

With a series of tense goodbyes, he set off from his home state to couch surf at his friend Monty's place in Aurora Bay, California.

PERSONALITY.

+ considerate, inquisitive, tenacious.

- headstrong, obsessive, nosy.

FUN ADJACENT FACTS.

biiiig gamer. it took him years to convince his grandparents to let him get a playstation and once he had one of his own it sparked a lifelong love for gaming.

is no longer a practicing protestant but does find comfort still in a church setting. will wander into one at times when he feels overwhelmed to centre himself in the quiet.

got accidentally trapped in a garden shed once while trying to uncover proof of an affair for one of his uncle's clients.

prefers cats to dogs.

despite their disapproval for his move and the reason why, he has a weekly call with his grandparents that he never misses.

has partial hearing loss in his right ear from a firework going off too close to him when he was seven. can sometimes talk louder than he intends to / asks people to repeat themselves because of it.

has a small lightning bolt tattoo just under his right ear because of the above.

country music enjoyer. 🤠

CURRENT CONNECTIONS.

son of @greengideon (currently undiscovered)

lodger / close pal of @natemontclair

coworker of @tabithaxking, @priyaxdesai

SPECIFIC WANTED CONNECTIONS.