Anyways everyone come hold hands with me and imagine Kallus growing up with a caretaker (maybe an uncle, maybe someone who just took baby Kallus in) who owned a shitty diner and working at that diner from the time he was old enough to learn how to clean tables. Learning how to curse real early and moving from cleaning to waiting tables to eventually cooking before eventually joining the academy as a way to get off the planet. The diner crew encouraging him to join, even. But the more invested in it he gets the more he drifts apart from them though he still wonders about them occasionally, especially after defecting.