Wil Quartermaine

David William “Wil” Quartermain (born 10/31/1977) is the second eldest child of Doctors Teri and Alexander Quartermain and is the leader and founding member of first the Vindicators and then later, the Defenders teams of metahuman heroes under the aliases of The Hammer.

Early Life:
Wil was born on Halloween of 1977 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada-making him along with his sister Kate of his parents' six children to be born outside of the United States. Despite being the second oldest, his older brother Kevin Ross was born in Belleville Illinois three years earlier, and he was soon joined by Katherine Yuriko (8/6/1980), Leland Joseph (4/11/83), Jonathan Richard (9/17/1985), Elizabeth Hope (4/23/1992), and Cassandra Marie (12/11/1989).

Due to his father's occupation as a scientist for SHIELD that specialized in metahumans, he grew up in multiple parts of the United States throughout the 1980s and some of the 1990s before finally winding up in Fayetteville Arkansas where his father took over operations for STAR Labs there.

At one point in 1986 while living in Hawkins Indiana, nine year old Wil found himself staring down a pack of strange looking creatures and started to feel slightly strange in the presence of the creatures, but before he could do anything-he was saved by both one of his new friends in Jane "Eleven" Hopper and an adult that introduced himself as "Lamont Cranston". Wil would recall this moment years later as one of the key things that would lead him to becoming a superhero.

High School Years:
In 1994, Wil's family moved to Fayetteville Arkansas and it was over dinner their first night in this new city that Wil would meet someone that would change his life forever;

Kelly Brown.

Even though he wouldn't learn her name for a couple of more days, Wil would instantly fall for this young woman and become quite smitten with her, eventually running into her again on his first day at Fayetteville High School. It was also on this day that