Matt was a man with pale skin, brown hair with bangs but still short,  brown eyes, he was very sweet and kind, but also very stupid and not good at his job, and fairly clumsy. He was Christian and took it seriously. Matt was born into a "rather religious community that doesn't believe in modern medicine". He grew up in Montana, on a farm that he describes as "a homestead" that could provide the family with food "when the secular world destroyed itself". He'd only been allowed to read the Bible. 