Ed Tucker wasn't always harsh, or sealed off to the world, he wasn't always a captain either. He once was a young man who wanted to make a difference in the world and to change people's lives for the better, he never dreamed that someday he would become a efficient and cold hearted leader of the Investigative Affairs Bureau, he never thought that one day he would discover a part of himself that he would struggle to come to terms with forever.
Ed grew up as an only child to a Roman Catholic mother and a atheist father who were very much loving, but equal parts strict, they made him recite his verses for eating when it was dinnertime and they made him say his verses for sleeping when it was time for bedtime. He grew up around so many rules and regulations that he began to lean into and embrace the need for rules his entire life. He had developed an affinity to rules because of how he was raised and how they brought structure to his chaotic life when they divorced, watching his parents fight and yell and squabble was one of the most traumatic things that marked his early childhood and he delved into his books in hopes of escaping their open hostility for each other and he was glad that as soon as the divorce was finalized, he would be able to visit his parents separately, but deep within, he felt shattered because he wanted his family to be together and happy, he hated how he was alone dealing with the mess of his family life and he hated it so much.
He withdrew deep into his mind, putting up walls and pretending he was fine when he wasn't and going through the motions of praying and crossing himself, when his mother forced him to go to bible study and camps and he had heard whispers of a priest hanging around kids more than he was supposed to, he didn't know what to believe, but he kept his distance around Priest Donovan, but one night while he was asleep in camp, Priest Donovan yanked the covers off of Ed as he snored and laid next to him and molested Ed, who woke up to Priest Donovan pleasuring himself and Ed at the same time and gulped when his length hardened with the added stimulation as the man jerked himself off and moaned. Ed couldn't make a sound, he tried to not scream in terror as the man then got out of bed, lay the cover on him and let him sleep. He felt so sick to his stomach that he never wore those pajamas again.
He didn't understand the gravity of what happened to him, feeling hurt and destroyed to the point that he actively avoided Priest Donovan and his mother for putting him in that position. He stayed at his father's house, afraid of his own shadow and afraid that somehow, his own parents knew that something terrible had happened to him and he hated it very much when he hid and lied from his own parents.
He soon was determined to make sure this never happened to anybody and he wanted to be an enforcer of the rules and laws of the land, he wanted to protect everyone from the evil that roamed the streets, he wanted to make sure that this place he lived in, would be a better place after he left it, than when he found it.
He graduated from high school and went to college and applied to a community college near him and applied to join the NYPD. He anxiously waited and then went through a series of interviews and written exams and was soon allowed to go into the academy and studied very hard, he got good grades and was able to even get prestigious honors with his AA degree and he graduated as a valedictorian from the academy and was awarded several ribbon bars including the Pistol Shot award and he proudly polished them and tacked them below his shining silver badge, hoping that somehow, he was doing the world some good, but his world was being rocked to pieces when he found out that he had a twin named Jason Tucker who had been raised by distant relatives out west in Seattle. Jason Tucker was now a cop in the Seattle Police Department and was rising through the ranks as a sniper in a Robbery Task Force and he was skilled at his job and efficient at taking down extremely dangerous threats, he was angry at his parents and added
"So you guys somehow conveniently thought that hiding my younger twin brother from me was somehow the smartest idea that you both have conceived? Let me say that you both are utterly ridiculous! Its awful that you both think that hiding Jason from me would have ever made things better! You guys are disgusting and awful and make me so sick! Neither of you deserve either me or Jason!"
He was nervous as he sat in front of his work computer, looking at the email address and work phone that was handed to him by someone who found Jason's contacts list in a rolodex and and sighed as he typed up the email, edited it a dozen times nervously and he was sure he even consulted the thesaurus for the first time in his life since the state exams as a young student and hoped and prayed that somehow...he would get to know his twin Jason a little more. And maybe, just maybe begin a new chapter on his own that would hopefully end on a more sweeter note.