David "Dave" Young (also known as blowhole)
History
Dave's old face.
Twelve years before we first meet him, David was hit by a drunk driver, and therein lost the majority of his face. The loss of his face led him to seek out Mark Sloan, as Mark was a world renowned plastic surgeon, to do a face transplant on him. David met friends online, therefore they knew nothing of his accident or his face, though he invited them to come and take care of him after he learned that he needed people to care for him after his surgery, otherwise hospital protocol would not allow Mark to perform the transplant. When his friends showed up before his surgery, because they decided to take an earlier flight, he drove them off and yelled at them to get out of his room, turning the injured half of his face away from them. He then allowed the doctors to convince him to bring them back, mostly because Mark told him that he would not be able to undergo a major surgery such as a facial transplant without people to care for him after he came out of surgery. He explained to his friends that he didn't want them to see him like this, because he thought himself ugly, but one of his friends, an elderly African-American woman, gently kissed the top of his forehead and said to him, "Do not call my dear friend ugly." Therefore establishing that she wanted to be his friend, no matter what he looked like.