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x Thijs Visser; early twenties
x born in Batenburg to a couple of very religious parents
x realized early on he was into men and ran away from home at age 16
x ended up on the streets of Utrecht doing petty jobs for local gangs
x is exceptionally good behind the wheel and as soon as someone discovered that, he started working as a getaway driver
x moved to Amsterdam at age 18 to work at the local race track
x pays for lessons from famous racer, Karl Bech, in the hope of becoming a race car driver one day
x still does getaway jobs for local gangs in Amsterdam
x meets Marcel Verlinden and becomes his roomie, the two rising through the ranks of de Groot's fraction together
x also becomes Marcel's very secret, "I'll kill you if you tell anyone" boyfriend
x it's a complicated relationship
x goes from being groundskeeper at the race track to truck driver for the resident team to, after a serious accident that takes Karl out, becoming the last-minute replacement
x while it was meant to be temporary, they quickly find out he's the best there is and at age 24, he becomes their new shining star
x and at age 25, he has to flee from the Netherlands, when de Groot orders Marcel to kill him and Marcel instead decides to fake Thijs' murder and send him overseas to a new future and a new identity

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x has never fired a gun in his life, wouldn't know where to start and should probably never be allowed near one, either.
x is a total miser with his money, spending only on what he considers necessities. note that anything car-related is a necessity, always.
x speaks 2 languages fluently, Dutch + English, plus German and French to varying degrees of fluency.
x in the period between he's 22 and 25, he starts dating the Chinese-descendent Mei who is studying to become a hairdresser; the year and a half they're 'together', she knows he isn't serious about her and he's her way of rioting against her parents.