Wick was born as Jay Bishop, to an extended family living in a mining settlement. His family did not have a lot of money, and lived in housing provided by [Mining Company]. The company gave this housing to families as long as they sent a certain number of their family to be employees working in the mines or factories, the only exception to this being if they didn't have enough people who were old enough or physically able (by company standards) to work. This deal was multigenerational, and led to Wick’s family being stuck working for the company or risk losing their home and all their money. As older family members became unable to work, younger family members took on the job.

Wick was born with a disease that gave him chronic debilitating migraines, he was weak and prone to getting injured. Unfortunately the illness wasn’t severe enough once he was of age to count him as unable to work. This meant when he was next in line to work, he got skipped, his twin taking up the job instead, much to the distaste of some of his family members, who believed he should work despite his illness. Especially since the company had said he was able to work.

Despite this conflict, Wick was tasked as a caretaker in the home. He still had to do work at home, even if it wasn't the mines or factory. As luck would have it however, soon after Wick’s sibling started to work, there would be an accident in the factory, leading to one of his family members dying. Since the next oldest after Wick’s sibling was too young to work, Wick had to work or risk the family losing their home. This meant he would likely die in the next few years.

Wick instead chose to fake his death and leave the galaxy at age 15, he stopped going by Jay and started using the name Wick. And after traveling a while, he was able to find medication to aid his condition. It is a very expensive medication, but started taking on bounty hunting jobs to pay for it.

Now healthier, he had the choice of going back to his family, and working without the risk of his illness taking him away so soon. He chose instead not to go back, as it wouldn't really help their situation much, and also because part of him resented his family for being so willing to let him die, even if there wasn’t much of a choice.

Once he made his decision, his goal shifted to getting rich as fast as possible, in order to retire early and never have to work again. He spent every moment of his time doing jobs, and slowly began to save up.

Eventually he got a job offer he couldn’t refuse, he was offered it directly, instead of having to find it in the bounty system, and the pay was enough to complete goal. All he had to do was capture Aritza and bring him back alive.