Editing August Casso (section)

=== The Rise of Kenny Case (2012-2016) ===
While August had not dabbled much in sports or extra-curricular anything in their early education - 8th grade they tried Track and all of JHS they had done scholastic bowl team, student council, and volunteered for food stands at HS games as ways to extend their access to socialization with other kids. So upon hitting HS, while they missed Freshman football due to ignorance on how that all worked in a schedule - they were able to sign up for and join the basketball team. While not good at all; this socially opened them up a rapid ladder of social climbing, being dubbed 'Kenny', their first initial alias for long term use by Sam Nelson (then a senior). By the end of the year, they were involved in most clubs, now in sports year-round, and would be one of the most active students in their student body as far as any activity was concerned. Which made their having a license and vehicle, with nigh unlimited gas thanks to their step father's career in the oil and gas field, a perfect recipe for ascending to the pinnacle of picturesque highschool experiences.

Those who knew them then would describe August, then Kenny, as someone who told it like it was, very confident, funny, and smart as a whip. The truth of the matter was August would often feign narcicism initially as a defense mechanism, doing so pseudo-ironically until it just was reality for them after so many years of it. Their confidence was a glass canon, and they were callous and cruel to those socially beneath them who caught their ire as it bolstered their own place in the chain while portraying them as a brutally honest comedian. The intellifence was certainly there, if anything squandered due to laziness, and comedy acting as a crutch in place of actual pleasantness or decency. August had worked out how to be charming over years of trial and error and watching other's reactions to their own and other's input; so while not understood on an emotional level it was easy enough to mostly replicate with success.

Tied into their social status was their start with substance abuse. The inciting incident, when asked to hangout with two upperclassmen and try beer and weed one weekend, centered around the sin. By the time they would graduate, they would be nursing an infant alcoholism and have tried a handful of drugs; though the real hard knocks wouldn't hit until 19/20. Despite it all, they never allowed it to affect their schooling near absolutely separate - and would stay consistently with near perfect if not actually so attendance and in the top of the classes students in terms of GPA. They would be the highest ACT score of the grade, though it was still not a satisfactory mark for August's liking. They would attempt to get into an Ivy League college at the encouragement and example of their friend from Speech, Tayven. 

Due to increased tensions over rebelion, philosophy, etc. - August would in essence leave home early. The summer they turned 18, but while still 17, they would get their own room at the Canton Traphouse with their best friend Dakota Hook and co. and throughout the year bounce between primary home bases of friend's homes, parties, or just their car's backseat if necessary. For many, many years this was what August considered their golden age. It also did not impact their schooling negatively at all, as they would still get into a college (albeit not Ivy), graduate a Sophomore in College while still in HS thanks to dual credit and weighted courseload, and both semesters have only 1-2 hs courses total at all while the rest were higher education. Their future bright, they raced toward their young adulthood hopeful after years of having had built it up in their head