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Karma was pretty much a "hippy" in her life with nothing really going on, mostly making friends with wild rabbits that lived nearby, she wound up meeting the ship through a journeying AU exploring the dimension for scouting purposes.
Essence, who enjoyed cleaning out peoples wallets in gambling, found out about dimensional travel on accident after winning a faulty watch from someone in a bet.
Beth's pre-story life on the farm wasn't tragic or anything, she enjoyed what she had, but she did take an interest in space and wondered what it'd be like to travel. Though no one in her life ever believed her, she enjoyed what she experienced and often wished to return.
Madeline lived in a neighborhood where crime was pretty abundant, one day a local gang rivalry lead to the burning of several buildings, including the apartment Madeline lived in.
Having nowhere else to go, she was offered a home by a wealthy passerby in exchange for service.
We should all know Jasmine's by this point, she was a cam girl pre-story, though not a super POPULAR one, she had an audience she tried to entertain.
In an attempt to get fans, she promised "fun times" in ways no one had ever seen and signed up to be a test subject.
Contrary to what you (or even she) might believe, Hazel was actually a scientist in her dimension who wound up discovering dimensional travel through an accident. Now, she has a hard time remembering things from her pre-ship life and isn't always the best narrator in that regard.
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While she may talk a big game now, Liddell initially struggled to make any of her spells strong enough to last, so by high school, she met up with and got into some pretty shady dealings with a local cult that promised to make her stronger.
Well... at least it worked.
Anabell before she joined the ship was a woman of a mob, she was a lacky until an event happened that wound up with her accidentally giving away the location of their boss, after, she laid low, incognito from both her old gang and the law until she met up with the admins.
Ginger was the last of the admins to join the group, while known as the confident hibernophile that's on ship, but fun fact, the root of that really comes down to a coping mechanism after the passing of a friend who also had an interest in the same topic.