Born in Toronto, located in America Todd had an average life growing up with his single mother in a trailer park. Against all odd's Todd managed to graduate school and even win a scholarship to Columbia State university where he studied economics.

Before the pandemic started, back in 2017 Todd Benedict was a white collar businessman working in the pits of wall street, when the company he worked for went down due to an embezzlement scandal. Without a job and with now prospects to make money Todd turned to the life of petty crime, but with no actual experience in criminal activity Todd was unable to make a name for himself, not afford the luxuries he became so accustomed to. This caused Todd to go into debt with some shady characters causing him to flee to Florida. This was not enough as even during the lockdown most countries experienced, in 2019 Todd was tracked down and taken to the person he borrowed money from, with no way of paying it back he knew this would be it. But instead of killing him Todd was offered a job, a way of getting rid of his debt and the crushing interest the loan shark added onto his loans.

The job was simple, travel to a country near Sweden that recently closed it borders due to AVM-FLA-19 and conduct a simple business transaction, the thing Todd has been doing all his life. Seeing this opportunity to save himself Todd jumped at the opportunity and accepted. The loan shark smuggled him onboard a shipping container that was marked as humanitarian aid for Nyheim. Being stuffed into the cramped container with a box containing food and water supplies, and a bucket for other needs, Todd already regretted this by the first night in. Weeks later Todd arrived and was snuck offboard by one of the loan sharks men, given a map and a old cars keys he was told to go to place indicated just outside of the harbour. With no other choice Todd set out to complete this transaction as quickly as possible and get out before the PLIKT finds him. When he approached the location in the late evening of October it was clear that everything has gone to shit, Hearing Oslo was declared lost demoralized him even more, but nothing was going to stop him from getting his debt cleared. He stopped the car and went into the abandoned building located, where men with guns were waiting for him to complete the transaction, not knowing much about how to actually conduct a criminal deal he foolishly handed over the cash before even seeing the products. The other party took advantage of this by knocking him across the back of the head. When he awoke Todd was alone in the empty building, no money and no product. Knowing he can't go back he once again fled, pretending to be one of the citizens and taking refuge in a nearby abandoned house to survive the dangers of the pandemic as he plots his next move.

Hearing about the bombing of Oslo and surviving day in and out, hearing gunshots multiple times a day and avoiding the infected the broadcast finally came across that refugees will now be accepted, taking this chance to come out of hiding Todd officially got accepted as a refugee and started his new life in the pandemic ridden city of Nyheim.