OC backstory advice?

[CaptainCanti 5]

I'm been trying to work on my OC, Crimson Gavel. He's a defense attorney. I have a lot of ideas for a story I'm working on about him, but can't seem to make a fleshed out backstory.

 

His basic backstory is that his parents were murdered by changelings when he was very little. Since then he had been all alone in the world. Hating how alone he felt, he decided to help other lonely ponies by becoming a defense attorney. He defends the ponies that no one wants to defend.

 

Any advice on how to branch out his backstory, or flesh out certain parts?

Edited August 18, 2013 by CaptainCanti

[Blue Moon 6,341]

First off; get rid of his parents being murdered by changelings. It's unnecessarily tragic, and there are better ways to make your OC decide to become a defense attorney. Perhaps, when he was in school, he witnessed one of his classmates get in trouble because of something he was falsely accused of. That would be nice, I think, and it should motivate him to become a defense attorney.

 

For fleshing out his backstory; go into detail on how he became a defense attorney such as mentioning all the schools he attended, etc. If you want to branch it out a bit, try describing a few of his cases.