#devan tiwari

thank you!

oof, i'm struggling to think of a different fun fact for every single one so i'll just list off what i have currently.

angel loves horror movies and always picks the grossest and longest ones when it's their turn to pick for movie night just to see the other members suffer (they definitely cackle while watching)

jiwon is a mess in the kitchen and is banned by the members to ever hold a knife, devan is the one who cooks for the members. despite owning a family restaurant, cloud actually also sucks at cooking (they're learning now!). saint cooks sometimes too but only if they're in the mood for it and there's music playing. cooking becomes an event when saint is in on it so it's for special days and most days devan kicks them out of the kitchen for bothering them.

mitsuki used to have a ranking of their members to determine who their current favorite was and while the others liked to pretend they didn't care, they'd compete for the top spot. the truth is, the ranking is bullshit and randomized and mitsuki just do it so the others would dote on them more.

kila is a great cook and is good at housework but they pretend like they're spoiled and clueless so no one can order them around. they're also the complete opposite of jiwon in terms of relationship to religion--they fucking hate religion.

valentine has never had a relationship before meeting sparky so their views on love and romance were idealistic--a surprising fact considering how cold they come off at first. they have a collection of romance books (might have some of tatum's there).

tatum takes a lot of inspiration from icaris songs to write. their writing playlists have plenty of icaris songs and you know that game where someone has an artist's discography on shuffle and someone else has to guess the song quickly? tatum will probably be able to guess all of icaris' songs in the first few seconds but no one will ever know cause they would never answer. you think their niece is the biggest fan of icaris? think again, it's actually tatum themself.

the characters’ ages at the start of the past timeline and at the start of the present timeline, in age order (adding the rest of the members too):

valentine: 21 years old at the start but 24/25 when they meet sparky (sparky is 20/21). 35 during the reunion. kila: 20 at the start, but 23/24 when they meet sparky (sparky is 20/21). 34 at the reunion. saint: 18 and a half at the start, 32 and a half at reunion. jiwon: 17 and a half at the start, 31 and a half at reunion. sparky: almost 17 at the start, almost 31 at reunion tatum: 16/17 at the start, 30/31 at reunion devan and angel: 16 years old at the start, 30 years old at reunion (angel is three months younger so turning 16, turning 30) cloud: 15 years old at the start, 29 years old at the reunion mitsuki: 14 years old at the start, would’ve been 28 by reunion.

the “start” is predebut, so a full year before their debut at 2012. present time is 2025, 2 full years before their actual 15th anniversary. aaaand i just realized i worded the main post wrong because their album would’ve been released in 2026… the actual 15th anniversary will be their last concert lol… i’ll deal with that later. timelines are confusing for at this time even though i have it all written down.

but yeah, hope that isn’t as confusing to you as it is to me, and unless i majorly confused myself while writing those down i think those are accurate.

Anyone who knew Devan Tiwari from a young age would know that Devan had always had a streak of rebelliousness in them. Rarely malicious, sometimes out of place, but Devan Tiwari knew their path in life since they were a child and stubbornly intended to follow it through to adulthood. So when their parents gave them a choice to make—a stable family home or to pursue an unpredictable singing career—Devan packed up and left at just 15 years old. For months, Devan took on odd jobs and lived in friends’ houses, moving whenever they felt they’d overstayed their welcome. It wasn’t until a few friends mentioned going to LA and asking Devan to go with them that Devan found their ticket into the industry.

“It wasn’t immediately easy,” Devan had said during the group’s first documentary, Sunborn, “but I had support.” Support for Devan had been in the form of older friends who’d bring them around everywhere, and an elderly lady who had lived alone and paid Devan to do her daily chores. When Devan auditioned for and got into the group—“I was promised trainee allowance,” Devan explained with a laugh, “and I was hoping for a solo career, not one in a group”—they’d moved out of this kind lady’s basement but didn’t fully cut off ties with her. She had spent the next few years supporting ICARIS’ career, being one of the twenty first audience members, and Devan paid everything back by supporting her financially. This elderly lady—unnamed to this day but abuela to Devan and the other members—was one of ICARIS’ biggest fans until her last days.

Devan is a vital and irreplaceable part of ICARIS—the main vocal who was also among the top dancers and Cloud Rattanakorn’s assistant choreographer. They had a strong, emotional voice that carried most of the group’s most demanding melodies and adlibs, and their background in street dancing had helped them guide the other members’ dancing. Perhaps this is why the company never let them go, despite many petitions to remove them for “ruining the group’s image.” Devan is one of—if not the—most controversial members of the group, known for late-night lives where they’d fight back against the haters who wouldn’t leave the group alone. They were always on the cover of tabloids, drowning in rumors of dating, drug-related activities, and sometimes physical fights.

But most of all, Devan is known for being the catalyst to ICARIS’ breaking away from their abusive company. They had gone on live at 3 AM one day, sporting a black eye and a split lip, and announced to the world that the members were being mistreated, abused, and exploited. The rest of the story of ICARIS VS Elysium Entertainment was a mixture of uncomfortably public moments and steady private conversations—a story where they ended up winning and taking control of the company. Devan is, and will always be, known for being the one brave enough to save the rest of the group, and perhaps this is why the public could never fully truly hate them anymore.