I got dragged out to the state I live in at thirteen and I've been struggling to make ends meet ever since. Whether it's been something as simple as getting a ride out to school, which I was forced to move between frequently, or figuring out how to make a phone call, things have never quite clicked for me. Over the course of time, my mother has stolen somewhere in the range of four thousand five hundred dollars from me, not including what I've used to bail her out of jail or get her car out of the impound lot because she couldn't keep her foot off the gas pedal, and I needed her to survive. I've lived on my own since the age of eighteen (I'm twenty-one now) to escape her and her boyfriend, who would turn off the power to my room in the middle of the Summer because me typing at ten o' clock at night apparently impeded his ability to sleep. I work at a plastic recycling plant making just slightly over minimum wage, enough to cover the bills, but not much left in the way of having fun. Hell, my fiance and I just broke up, and she was supplying my phone for the past year and a half, so now I've added another bill to the list that I already couldn't afford. I've been using a 360 controller with destroyed thumbsticks for a long while now because I can't even afford a new plug and play kit for my old controller, and dropping money on even a three-month Xbox Live card is pretty intense for me. I haven't actually bought a game in quite some time, all but maybe two of them in the past four years have been gifts from friends. I got Destiny as one of those gifts, as a matter of fact. At this point, it's one of the few things that helps keep my mind off the severity of things. I want to continue the adventure, because this game has its fun points and I enjoy being able to play a cooperative game as big as this, but forty dollars is pretty far above my head for DLC right now. I'm not an alcoholic, and drugs have killed too many members of my family for me to even want to touch them. I've seen them twist people all around until there's nothing left. I've seen the ashes after they've been cremated. My father included. I've got enough problems without creating more for myself by -blam!-ing up my head even worse.