The story of his physique and appearance for people only meeting my mc in the last couple of years.
And who never witness the effort he puts into training and eating just right to maintain it.
But academically everything continues to come rather easily for him. Though due to him having to do decades of catch-up work now he works far, far harder now than he ever would have done in highschool or an ordinary university. Being in constant, mortal peril and hating his current damsel in distress status does wonders for his academic diligence.
Math has been the bane of my academic existence and while university did get a bit more difficult nothing in highschool except for that damnable math was particularly hard for me. I imagine everything could have been easier still had I actually been properly diagnosed with celiac’s before my mid-twenties.
Guess you were. In real life I only briefly managed the sculpted abs at 29 while on disability. Currently slowly working on regaining them.
While I like to imagine most of my teenage and twenty-something mc’s as fit, they didn’t always start out that way and figuring out what is what in that regard helps me with establishing their personalities. My main mc here would react differently as a result than say my Myrmidon mc who was always made to be a (near) perfect android (and who is keenly aware of those qualities and doesn’t know what it is like to not have them).
This mc of mine is actually quite good at cooking and has been doing so for his mom and himself from a relatively young age. Which means he also likes food and that combined with no or limited natural inclination towards athletic pursuits meant it was easy for him to start highschool somewhat pudgy.
Sometimes when my mc’s start out in a really bad place, mental or material or both they have more of a journey to get “better” in the actual game, instead of it just being in their backstory. My mc in that other supernatural wip “Roots” would fall firmly in that category, being an impoverished teenager with a family quite literally falling apart because of said impoverishment at the start of the game.