if we are talking about back stories: how did oz’s friend group all meet? what were they like when they were younger?
well well well i’m glad you asked because thinking about oz’s childhood in the first place is what got me curious about others’ ocs…!
oz & dave met at a casino, klaus & manny met at a bar, dave & manny were in a bowling group together and hit it off :P and so all four of them got together and bonded over their love of card games.
oz went on the bullied -> bully pipeline. he suffered a looot of ridicule from his peers until he grew 6+ feet tall and started hitting the gym. got into a lot of fights, suffered a lot of mental health issues. he met noshin in adulthood because their parents knew each other. it was basically an arranged marriage, which he was fine with.
oz did not get along with his parents at all, though he attributes this less to the way they would beat him and more to the way they never emotionally supported him in anything. he always thought his dad was an asshole and never really understood his mom. some of his family history is expanded on in seen a ghost ii.
klaus was a bully for the LOVE OF THE GAME! his dad died before he was born (in vietnam) so he only grew up with one parent. had a lot of flings & girlfriends which he treated like shit until his mother told him to knock it off. she was a hardass but he loved her until she died.
manny had a pretty happy childhood. has a big family, which he gets along with, and spent a lot of his life going back and forth between the US and mexico. went into his father’s roofing business.
dave was kind of a nobody. his parents pushed him to do well in school, so he did, and that was that. he respects them a lot. met grace in high school and fell in love. they dated while he went to university and she went to culinary school.
grace has always been highly motivated and knew from a young age that she wanted to become a chef, much to the disappointment of her parents. she does not have a good relationship with them, but would hesitate to call them abusive. has never done anything to sonny that she hasn’t experienced herself.