First!! Pat pat pats your MCs because they went through a lot :( i hope they grow up to be happy and live wonderfully!!
Runie’s canon event (lol) is when he was isolated in the old city he used to live in because of his strength and because of the way he looks. With only him and his mom he didnt really have any other friends besides Damian, Sonia and Qinru.
Other kids bullied him because of how he was ‘Girly’ or how he doesnt look like a typical boy. But they were also scared of his strength, and isolated him because they thought he was a freak. One of his bullies was his ex-bestfriend (which i will also make an Introduction for considering hes an important character as well nyehe) and that made it even worse for Runie. He was isolated by his peers until he was 10 years old.
The incident left him very soft-spoken and reclusive, and when his only best friends moved away from the city, his light only dimmed more and more.
Luckily his mom helped him not change himself or his appearance, she was his pillar during those rough years.
And now that he’s in Golden Grove, Runie began to open himself up again and shine like he used to before. :D