I live in backlund, born here, cursed here, lucked out here, and probably gonna kick the bucket here, some old acquaintance once told me: "you don't choose backlund, it clings to you like the smoke in your lungs and the blood under you fingernails." RIP tim. "can't you leave" you may ask, yeah I can catch the next train to the country side, run away from this hell, maybe get a fresh start. But that's quiting and running away, and mama raised no quitters, did you know that most of the gamblers quit before they hit gold, and I can feel it in my bones, I'm about to hit a jackpot here!
A home you ask? Well that's for the rich, I sleep wherever the rats dont bite first, I just make sure to wash up well before going back to the streets the next day, maybe steal some clothes when mine get torn or rugged, ppl get suspicious and tend to avoid you when you look like a beggar and smell bed, and that hurts my business.
Well if I tell you where I get my money from I may have to kill you, but I can do it for the right price...
I guess you really wanna know huh, well I just tell fortunes.
Why are you laughing, you think mysticism is dumb? Well aren't you a privileged dumbass, for my ppl superstition is the only think keeping us alive, the hope that by some miracle fate would turn and smile at us, so I sit on a crate under that broken clocktower and offer my services I give my customers the lovers when they’re lonely, the tower when they’re cocky, and the wheel or fool when I’m bored. You’d be surprised how many pay just to hear a stranger say 'your luck is about to change'.
But business ain't always good... somedays no one buys my services, those are the hungry days, and as you know, hunger brings the worst of ppl, I won't say I'm proud of it, but I turn to thievery, pickpocketing and when those damn money brokers are out for my neck, I may even resort into breaking into homes to pay them enough to see the light another day and get snother chance...
Well as for my spendings, it mostly goes to my water and food, I try to stay away from stealing from my ppl, so I make sure to never steal what I eat. But whenever I have some coins left, I go all in on testing my luck, be it pocker, dice games or any gamble I encounter, I throw all my money on it. That's the mindset of someone who will win big soon and turn his life around.