comes from a broken home (his drug-addict mother left when he was 5, father was an abusive alcoholic and gambler)
was a constant troublemaker in school
self-taught genius (had extremely high IQ but was too bored by how âeasyâ school was, so he put no effort in and failed out time and time again; spends most of his free time not at home, reading and learning)
naturally exceptionally talented in physical activity (sports and dance), as well as music (singing and playing instruments) that all his teachers lamented that all his talents would go to waste and heâd end up in jail his whole life
was transferred to different schools many times for how many fights heâd get into (especially anyone who learned about his family situation and tried to humiliate him with the truth around peers)
by 9, heâd joined up in a street gang of middle and high schoolers for somewhere to belong, starting off as a scrappy grunt who was treated like a nuisance younger brother
by 13, he was the right-hand of the gang leader (who was 19) because of his intelligence, skills, natural fighting ability, and his talent for always getting something done discreetlyÂ
by 15, he challenged the leader to a fight and won, taking over as the gang leader
he rebranded the gang, calling them now âMephistoâ, and making their symbol a crow/raven
by 16, Mephisto had challenged and defeated/dissolved/absorbed many rival youth gangs, having total control over the troubled youth of the cityÂ
by 18, Mephisto had become a full-blown underground criminal empire, evolving from petty thefts and fighting to âlegitimateâ underground business
when 19, he was discovered by a kpop agent (Rafayelâs paternal aunt) when he upstaged a performance at a formal event to rap while his best Mephisto boys (Kieran and Luke, who are half-Asian/half-American) worked to hack certain businessmenâs accounts to acquire funds.
Sylus was so damn good that Rafâs aunt immediately dragged him to the Agency after his performance and a deal was struck- the Agency would try to ignore and sweep Sylusâ bad youth record under the rug if he became a new groupâs rapper (that group was Love x Deepspace)
he keeps his bad boy personality and the fans stan him because they love it and think itâs just a stage persona, when he really is just that way
he still leads Mephisto, of course, but subtly because heâs so skilled by now to not get caught
it is a requirement for all Mephisto members to buy his albums
Luke and Kieran attend every show, and to the public, theyâre his âyounger best friendsâ
His father died when he was 17. Sylus came home to leave at least a little money for food (though his father only spent it on booze), and his drunk father stumbled home before he could leave. He began to beat Sylus (who could have killed him easily but took the beating on purpose), even smashing a bottle on his head and making him bleed profusely. His death? An accident, of course. His drunk father stumbled over his own feet while following him to beat him more, and simply slipped down the stairs. Sylus *definitely* didnât nudge him.
many suspected the troubled teen of murder but the violent evidence of how badly hurt Sylus was proved to investigators that he was a victim (âi took the beating because I just couldnât raise a hand to my own father even after all heâd done, officerâ, an obvious lie for sympathy)
a year into his kpop debut, info of his fatherâs death and his abusive childhood were leaked (coughs in Luke and Kieran), and it garnered sympathy among his stans who loved him even more for what he endured
he likes to be shirtless so much on stage and in music videos to show off his huge crow wing tattoo. To stans, he just looks like a sexy bad boy. To those in the underworld who see him, itâs a threat to not mess with Mephisto because the kpop group is internationally famous
bro is a bird whisperer whom all the crows/ravens seem to adore
Sylusâ most prominent tattoo is the set of large crow wings on his back/arms, but he also has a small âN109â tattooed over his heart. In interviews, he never answers questions about what his tattoos mean
his tattoo kind of looks like this
snowghoul
tangentwithtanner
origamiaround
theartofmadeline
jacobvanloon
gummygunk
romaincrisis
baratheonpilled
pixelskylines
