Matt

Matt
Matt is one of the founding members of the guardians. He survived an abusive household thanks to Annabelle.

Background
Before the events of the series, Matt was a cheerful kid. He stood up to bullies to protect a girl named Liddy. Two years before the start of the series, he and Liddy were playing hooky when they encountered a madman named Vesper. He and Liddy ran, but led Vesper to Stony Brook K-12 school, where Vesper proceeded to enact a massacare.

Matt was blamed for the tragedy, and he began to suffer abuse from his alcoholic step-father. Sometime later, he went to school with a black eye, and encountered fellow victim Annabelle, who comforted him.

That night, Annabelle went to visit Matt, but found him bloodied and bruised in the barn. She patched him up and took him to live with her family.

A year later, Matt set out to bring Vesper to justice, but in the process, he and his other friends inadvertently allowed Motherboard to be infected with a virus. After another year, Motherboard finally died and her passing created a gate linking the worlds. Matt and Annabelle encountered other children and founded the Guardians to protect children from violence.