❝ DUSTIN GREENE IS A 31 YEAR OLD ANIMAL SHELTER EMPLOYEE AND UBER/LYFT DRIVER, LOOKS A LOT LIKE ADAM DEVINE, & HE IS ORIGINALLY FROM BERKELEY, CA 🌞
TW: alcohol & drug abuse, death, abandonment, car accident
Life is a series of choices. And Dustin has made some very bad ones.
Dustin was born in South Berkeley to a man and a woman who wanted anything else but to be parents. Legally, they had to care for him and his older brother, Christopher, but ultimately the traits for a parent fell unto the eldest who was only thirteen when Dustin was born. Chris fed him, bathed him, took him to school, went to parent-teacher conferences, helped with his homework, taught him how to drive, talked to him about sex and puberty and was Dustin’s only source of a positive role model.
By the time Christopher had turned nineteen and Dustin turned six years old, mom had skipped town and dad left not even two months after that, leaving a child in the hands of a boy that just graduated high school.
As the years progressed, Dustin made it more and more difficult on Christopher. In grade school he would constantly talk back to his teachers and run away from home. In his pre-teens, he would hang out with people to get drunk and smoke weed. In high school, it evolved in him doing harder recreational drugs. Dustin changed girlfriends as often as she changed clothes and every other week he would get into a fight and Christopher would have to go down to make sure he didn’t get expelled from school.
No one taught Christopher how to be a parent but he was there anyway, taking care of the one person he loved more than anything in the world.
That was until Christopher met the love of his life, Mandy, and had a daughter with her; both of the Greene brothers’ lives had changed drastically. No longer was the eldest there to scold him for missing school. No longer could he be responsible to make sure that Dustin ate breakfast, lunch and dinner. No longer was he constantly there to get Dustin out of the messes he got himself in because he was busy taking care of his own child, Millicent.
This taught Dustin to be somewhat independent. When he was sixteen he joined the football team which also taught him discipline and responsibility. And he was good too. He was fast and he was strong. If it wasn’t for his terrible grades (which he did bring up to a 1.7 GPA average in order to make the team) he would be in line for a football scholarship. Much to everyone’s surprise, he graduated high school. No one, not even Dustin, though he’d be able to do it. But Christopher knew. Aside from the constant drinking and sleeping around, Dustin seemed to finally be on the right track.
Until one night when Christopher and Mandy asked Dustin for a favor. They were in desperate need of a date night and asked Dustin to look after their daughter, who was two years old at the time, for a couple hours while they were out. They both seemed to trust him, and it was only supposed to be for a couple of hours. An hour into their departure, an ex-girlfriend called Dustin invited him to the end of high school rager so they could hook up. He was only supposed to be gone for thirty minutes and his niece was sleeping upstairs. It couldn’t hurt.
While Dustin was gone Christopher and Mandy got a call from a neighbor saying that they could see someone suspicious loitering in front of the house and wondered if they were supposed to have company over. They tried calling Dustin, who was too busy screwing his ex-girlfriend to hear his phone vibrate in his jean pocket. They hurried home in the pouring rain, driving in a car in which the windshield wipers weren’t working.
Ten minutes after he left the party, seeing all the missed calls from Chris, Dustin got the call to inform him that his brother and his girlfriend had died in a car accident on their way back home. They were speeding and thought they saw an animal jump in front of the car and swerved off road.
The drive back to the house was a blur. All he could think about was his niece. And how she lost her parents. The only two people who were supposed to love her unconditionally for the rest of their lives. The house was broken into and the television was stolen as well as his laptop and a bunch of other material items, but he didn’t care. Most importantly, he was just grateful that according to the police Millicent was so sound asleep in her room the burglars didn’t even know she was there. Dustin was by his niece’s side the rest of the night. Watching her sleep peacefully while he sat wide awake, hating himself because there was no one else to blame.
This was entirely his fault.
Millie didn’t really understand what happened to her parents when Dustin told her. The concept of death should have to never cross a toddler’s mind, taking away whatever innocence they have at such a young age. For the next two months Dustin took care of her while social services sorted out her living situation and at the time it only made sense that she didn’t stay with him. He could barely feed or bathe himself, how was he going to take care of a two year old?
One day as he was perusing through his brother’s movie collection so they could watch something together he found a DVD labeled ‘important’ in big bold letters in the Fantasia 2000 case. The contents on the DVD shocked Dustin more than anything.
It was his brother’s will–his version of it. And he wanted his daughter to be raised by Dustin and only him. But why? Dustin beat himself over it for months, just absolutely perplexed that Christopher would choose the most irresponsible person in the world to raise the purest human being to ever exist.
There was only one thing he could do. It was slowly, but surely that Dustin changed his ways, his lifestyle so he could properly take care of Millie. He fed her, he bathed her, helped her with homework and went to the parent-teacher conferences. Anything to be a positive role model for his favorite person.
When Millie was five, an old teacher of Dustin’s who had learned of his situation offered him a job at UCLA as his personal assistant so they packed their bags and headed down to Venice Beach to start a new life. Only a few months after he arrived he found a job at the local animal shelter (totally Millie’s idea). Two years after that, proving he was a responsible and loving guardian, he adopted Millicent so now he was fully legally and financially responsible for her. Now she’s sixteen and she’s a pain, but he couldn’t be been happier. It’s as if he finally has a purpose, finally understands what it meant to contribute to society, and finally able to love someone selflessly.
Dustin has made some very bad choices, but choosing to adopt Millicent definitely isn’t one of them.
DUSTIN IS PLAYED BY : LIA
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