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 ‘easy’ 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 he’d end up in jail his whole life

was transferred to different schools many times for how many fights he’d get into (especially anyone who learned about his family situation and tried to humiliate him with the truth around peers)

by 9, he’d 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 discreetly 

by 15, he challenged the leader to a fight and won, taking over as the gang leader

he rebranded the gang, calling them now ‘Mephisto’, 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 city 

by 18, Mephisto had become a full-blown underground criminal empire, evolving from petty thefts and fighting to ‘legitimate’ underground business

when 19, he was discovered by a kpop agent (Rafayel’s 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 businessmen’s accounts to acquire funds.

Sylus was so damn good that Raf’s aunt immediately dragged him to the Agency after his performance and a deal was struck- the Agency would try to ignore and sweep Sylus’ bad youth record under the rug if he became a new group’s rapper (that group was Love x Deepspace)

he keeps his bad boy personality and the fans stan him because they love it and think it’s just a stage persona, when he really is just that way

he still leads Mephisto, of course, but subtly because he’s 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, they’re his ‘younger best friends’

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* didn’t 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 (“i took the beating because I just couldn’t raise a hand to my own father even after all he’d done, officer”, an obvious lie for sympathy)

a year into his kpop debut, info of his father’s 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, it’s 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

Sylus’ most prominent tattoo is the set of large crow wings on his back/arms, but he also has a small ‘N109’ tattooed over his heart. In interviews, he never answers questions about what his tattoos mean

EYESHADOW N109 by Seleng