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This is the story of (Bond) James Bond before MI6, before the Secret Service, before M, before Vesper, before the military. Young James Bond is based on all of the little history bits revealed in Ian Fleming's 007 James Bond series, with some (necessary) artistic liberties, and connects as closely to Craig!Bond movie canon (hence young!Bond's blondeness). James is tall, blonde, with slightly icy blue eyes. He is also incredibly fit, strong and agile.

James grew up traveling abroad with his parents - Andrew and Monique (nee Delacroix) Bond - and learned to speak German and French quite fluently (along with English, of course). He has a penchant for adapting to his locations quite quickly, if only because sticking out like a sore thumb usually attracts trouble. Due to a lot of his moving around, he tends to be closed off and distant, never revealing more about himself than he needs to, but he is quite the opposite of shy. Charismatic and extroverted, he is quick to make friends ... he just has no intentions of keeping them.

At age 11, after a terrible mountain climbing accident that leaves James an orphan, his sense of familial rooting is, well, uprooted. He finished his early schooling in Pett Bottom, England before he was sent to Eton College at around 12 years old ... only to get kicked out two semesters later for - ah, girl trouble. (Which only worsens as he gets older.) The distance he keeps around himself, as far as revealing personal things about his life, only hardens, but he can be quite the life of the party if he wants to be. Soon after, he was sent to Fettes College in Scotland, where his father went before him. While there, he mingled with the right people who knew other 'right' people. This is where, before leaving at 17, he began to learn of his love of drinking, food, lavish lifestyles, athletics, and girls.

He is just past being under the official guardianship of his aunt, Miss Charmian Bond, who hasn't moved from Pett Bottom, England, though James hasn't lived with her since he was 11. They have a ... complicated relationship.