Awesome backstory, and I think Brian is going DOWN!
Pet peeve, don’t switch tenses! You have present, past and conditional all thrown into the same 1,024 character story. That’s a no-no in my book and very distracting. Tragic story but nicely conceived.
Well, I think going through tenses aren’t that bad! I mean, if you need to tell some back story while in present tense, how else can you do that?