Dennis was kidnapped at a very early age and then ran away when he was older. He doesn't know where he was from, all he knows is that when he was really little, he had many siblings and other kids his age at the orphanage. they weren't very kind to him. But around when he was 5, he was taken away from them and moved to a farm in Nebraska. Dr. Hannibal Lector and Mr. William Graham, his new parents, were unique.
They liked being secluded, the discouraged him from going out and making friends, and never truly unpacked after they moved. like they should have been ready to leave everything in an instant. the only premiant thing in their lives that they chose was Dennis himself, they also had a lot of dogs.
he was very close to them. not that he had any other option, they were the only people he really spoke to. sure, he interacted with his classmates and teachers when he needed to but he didn't really make friends, his parents didn't let him go out at all, and who would stay friend's with someone they couldn't see or speak to at all outside of school at all?
as he got older, he realized just how much they were isolating him. He didn't know why. until he had a school assignment, it was simple, just look up your own and your families' names and see what you can find. it was meant to make the teenagers think about what they posted on social media, he wasn't even allowed to have social media.
he expected to see other people with him name. maybe his adoption records. rather, when he looked himself up, he found a missing person's report.
then, he looked up his dads. What he found was and FBI report about them, Aswell as a few news articles. When he got home that afternoon, he couldn't bring himself to eat. the only thing he could think was that he needed to get away. He started distancing himself from them.
obviously, his dads were concerned. up until then he'd told them everything and anything, but now he wasn't talking to them really at all. he didn't know how they might have thought when he moved out a few months later
and he didn't know what to think now that he found a very familiar car outside of his and trinity's apartment.