hi apologies for my absence i will have you know that @medicallyfascinating has so kindly introduced me to jesus christ superstar and i have been hooked on trial before pilate because my eldest cubert fanchild's lore lines up so terribly awfully well with it and auuuughhhhhh
tldr: when he's 21 he gets into it with his sister and runs away from home, where he's essentially abducted by a small band of surviving agarthans who have formed a cult-of-sorts ,, and then they implant a crest in him (by his request- at the time he was going through an elitist mildly eugenics-esque phase).
so now with a crest his body isn't able to handle, he's rendered extremely weak and frail- but his ego remains The Most inflated. he steps out of line a not insignificant number of times while he's in service to the cult he's been swallowed up by, and he does indeed endure a not insignificant number of very brutal punishments which do not help his permanent disabilities in the slightest.
