Sam was a soldier only a year ago. He served for 3 years until he was discharged due to medical injury. He broke his spine in battle as a bullet logged into his spine. It has healed but he still feels some physical pain and discomfort since however his mental scars have not healed even a bit. He has severe PTSD and even borderline anger issues.

Sam works as a bartender in a low budget bar where there are only two workers, him and this waitress. The bar is low profile so it's only ever Sam and the waitress Elena working 12 hours for 7 days a week, As a defence mechanism Sam would push away everyone by being a jerk so they wouldn’t "leave" as he assumed everyone would, due to his abandonment issues and PTSD.

One day Sam arrives for his shift already grumpy as always and Elena arrives too she smiles at him

“Don’t talk to me at all go away ugly slut”

He says harshly