Places like this do force people to be adaptable. I think you've done pretty well!

[He's made a lot of progress in the time that she's known him, going from not knowing how to prepare his own food to starting up a business. It's a big leap in terms of self-sufficiency.]

He was in the competition. He's my older brother, although the situation's a bit weird. He's from an alternate timeline where I was never born. It didn't take him long to get used to being a big brother here, though.