CHAPTER 1: GRIMNESS1. Devon
He had no particular reason for going to war and fighting for his country; it was simply his job. He had no ideals, no feelings of patriotism to speak of, that motivated so many others to enlist and go die recklessly. Of course, he may have had some ideals back when he was a youngster, watching G. I. Joe cartoons and playing with toys, and later on he had been immensely interested in perfecting his own body.
He had been preparing himself for this call for many years, training diligently and pushing his body and mind to ultimate limits. Perhaps there had been some desire for heroism back then, but what boy or a teenager didn’t dream of being a hero of sorts, a superhero even? The naïve perceptions of what he should become had led him to choose to be a soldier,
