Simon's mom died giving birth to him. From everything Simon heard, she was a sweet, kind woman named Lyun Lode. He never asked about his father, mainly because it wasn't hard to guess what happened. A human lady getting pregnant with a half-orc? Simon pretty muched guess he was a child out of rape, but learned to live with it. Since his mother died, the rest of his mother's family didn't want anything to do with him. Simon ended up with his Aunt Harsh. Actually technically her name is Harshline, but Harsh seemed more appropriate. She wasn't really his aunt, but an old lady who took orphans into her home. Many people thought it was out of kindess... actually it was for the cheap slave labor she got of them. She was to put it simply, the ugliest, rudest, most violent old lady you'll ever meet. Many people assumed Simon's rude and crude manner was due to his orc blood. Nope, that was due to years of living with a abusive, nasty Aunt Harsh. Her favorite task for him was to have him cut the onions. She seemed to get some sick pleasure watching him cry as he worked. As soon as he was old enough, he grabbed a sword and became a mercenary. He never took a second look at the orphan house that he considered hell and gave himself the last name Flipside. Why? Well because one thing mercenaries do best is change sides depending on whose paying the most.