Highschool is a tank of sharks. Well, tank of guppies at least. Several hundred little predators roaming through a building just barely large enough to hold them. Each one trying to eat the other, and stay alive. Maybe some other places are better, but yours is an absolute nightmare. Situated in a poor neighborhood, and half funded, it's a den of violence and students trying to get by.
There's a weapon in school at least once a month. A knife, a gun, it doesn't matter. The teachers are hard and weary. Drugs are almost trivial to get, and you'd swear almost a quarter of the school was suspended at any given time.
Despite this, there are a few sanctuaries here and there. The computer lab was one. The library another. Your personal favorite was the gym. The teacher there was a man so muscled that he looked like he could bench press a car. Incredibly focused on fitness, the man had managed to keep a core sports team together that actually did something. It wasn't the best in the state, but it was actually notable. Considering the environment, that was a sincere accomplishment.
In your opinion, he's the only reason you even bother with school. He's taught you how to body-build. It's a rather unique lesson plan, but it works for you. Better, it gives you an outlet and keeps the idiot gang-banger wannabes off you. No one wants to mess with the six foot muscle man. Even with the dorky name.
Yeah, your name is Astral Seeker. Yeah, it's a play on words. No you don't want to make fun of it, because I can pick you up with one hand. You get it? Good.
Body building's actually pretty fun for you too. You've gotten bronze in a small one a few weeks ago, and think you could actually make a living off it if you wanted to. It's tough and requires a very strict diet and exercise, but it's a future that you don't think you would have ever gotten. So you owe Mr Smith a lot.
You also owe Jet for tutoring you. He's a little computer geek almost a foot smaller than you and thin as a rail. Good guy, if a bit of a coward. Without him helping you, you'd have been booted out. Instead you're absolutely average. Which is good enough for you frankly. You'd never been a genius anyway.
Aside from that, you have a deadbeat drunk of a father and a crappy apartment in the city. It's not the best life, but it's better than some people have.
Like the top troublemaker in the school. She goes by Faith, though your fairly certain that's not her real name. All you really know about her is that she's probably one of the school 'bad girls' and sometimes comes in with bruises from her shitty foster family. She's the hottest girl in the school though, so everyone knows about her. And the fact that she's slated to get a different guardian soon. Something sort of bizarre charity thing that should happen within six months.
You'd probably have been content with that. Learning and honing your body, and getting out of this hellhole.
But then faith interfered. Faith with a little f. Where you got your mind touched by something that could be called a god, and learned that the world out there wasn't so simple.
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Choose the god your character follows, and (Option 1 or Option 2)
Note, since this is Buffy The Vampire Slayer, I could be using real world faiths, but I'm not going to in the interest of keeping out of religious debates.
-Nature (Warden / Druid)
-The Light (Paladin / Priest)
-The World (Monk / Shaman)
-The Thirteen (Special): This is an option to take a god from my other quests. It will be elaborated on more if you take it.