Sylvester

"*Hang in there!*"

🔷Sylvester Webster🔷

He/Him ⚡︎ Cyborg human ⚡︎ Submission guardian

Sylvester Jaz Webster (also known as “Sly” and “Live Wire”) was a male cyborg human and the former ride guardian of Submission at Alton Towers before its removal in 2013. Originally a rockstar from an alternate universe, he was well known for his musical talents and humor, being one of the most entertaining guardians at the time (making up for the lackluster experience of Submission itself). However, Sylvester had his fair share of issues that arose from his fame in his home-universe that carried over to the towers, the most prominent one being his desire for romance to feel like “a real person” and not just a celebrity. This caused a rather one-sided relationship with his best friend, Maverick, although this was thankfully resolved in later years. His friends often gather in the Submission garden every once in a while to honor his memory as he sadly died the same day his ride was removed because of a fatal injury he received many years prior that was being stabilized by its energy.

* Full name was Sylvester Jaz Webster, although he was well-known in his home-universe by his stage name “Live Wire”. Close friends and family simply called him “Sly”.
* He was born in the year 7035 in the universe categorized as UF-56 by the WBAU (Worldwide Bureau of Alternate Universes), a universe very similar to ours but separated by its futuristic environment with many complex technological advancements.
* Sly’s home-planet was Rostrom, one of the three planets in UF-56’s solar system that could support life.
* In his home-universe he was a solo rock artist who wrote and sang his own music and was well-known for his over-the-top style.
* The rock genres he performed were typically:
* Glam rock (his main genre)
* Progressive rock
* Rock and roll
* Space rock
* He also dabbled in synth and electro music, often combining them into his normal rock songs to create a “sci-fi superstar” theme. He called this musical hybrid “Extraterrestrial rock” or E.T rock, for short. According to him it was “similar to space rock but had the pizazz and flare of glam rock”.
* Music genres he enjoyed but didn’t necessarily create music for (besides taking small bits of inspiration for his “E.T rock” music) were:
* Pop
* Hip-hop
* Funk
* R&B
* According to him, his music was a homage to the over-the-top showbiz environment that emphasized the futuristic aspects of life on Rostrom (Rostrom was a planet well-known for entertainment and its sci-fi-themed venues that over-exaggerated the universe’s technological advcancements) his home-city had and how it had an iron grip on him at a young age.
* Sly was able to play many instruments but he was a master at the electric guitar, keytar, synthesizer, and drums. His most iconic instrument was an electric guitar shaped like a zig-zagging ball of sparks that he affectionately called “Beebop”.
* His parents were two actors who adopted him from an orphanage located in one of less-glamorous cities when he was two years old. His biological parents had been killed in an accident while trying to visit their family on a neighboring planet, Sly managed to survived but needed robotic replacements to survive.
* He originally only had his torso and left leg replaced but he later on proceeded to get the rest of his body (excluding his head and internal organs) replaced for aesthetic reasons relating to his career. His original parts were also “bedazzled” to fit the sci-fi glam rock theme.
* Sylvester got his start as a performer when he decided to enroll in his school’s theater program, to which he discovered his love of both singing and acting. While he would never go on to become a full-on an actor like his parents, choosing to take the more musical route, he incorporated his performing skill into his live shows and music videos.
* After his theater days he would go on to write his own songs for a space-themed musical inspired by his father’s shows and his beloved home-city. While this musical never became a reality and was just a childhood pipe dream, the amateur music he composed and sang set the groundwork for his future musical career.
* Later on in his life, when he was around 14, he would develop a love for rock music and the outrageous style of glam-rockers after stumbling upon it on the web. He decided to make the drastic leap from the theater-styled tunes and short experiments he had creating and into rock territory.
* At age 17, he and his two best friends (who had been by his side since his theater days) formed the band “Gravitron” and released music on the web. However, the band never got off the ground (due to both the music being mediocre and the fact that they were just three random kids uploading music on the internet) and the three disbanded due to loosing hope.
* However, Sly still wanted to peruse his dream of being a rockstar and continued making music, making the “Live Wire” account and uploading longer experiments and incomplete songs.
* At wasn’t until he was 20 that his first real song was made and it wasn’t until he was 21 that that song was finally picked up by a record label (after many failed attempts) and played on the radio. It performed fairly well, although it didn’t become a smash-hit or anything. It simply performed well-enough that his record label decided to continue working with him.
* Sly continued to make four more songs before his fifth single, “X-Ray Vizion”, took off and made him a respectable figure in the music community. The positive feedback on X-Ray Vizion gave him the inspiration to continue making music (as the “ok-ness” of his four other songs were greatly de-motivating him, as he was afraid that he would simply fade into obscurity or be known as “that one guy who made those songs”) and gave him an idea of what the public wanted to hear.
* His music career continued going up and improving after the release of XRV, the fear of becoming a one-hit wonder quickly extinguished, and the public grew to love Sly’s unique take on the rock and synth genres. He proceeded to produce five normal albums, two remix albums, one “best of” album, and ten singles during his time in his home-universe before being summoned to thsau’s version of earth.
* Outside of his music career, Sly was a romantic. He had a lust for life as well as actual lust. He loved love and wasn’t afraid to show it. However, he was notorious for how horrible he was at keeping relationships. It seemed that every couple days he was with a new man, his ex-partners leaving him mainly due to him being clingy, his needinesses, and his unsustainable desires. In interviews he would make jokes relating to his various failed relationships with stride and even make a few himself, he was funny like that.
* He, surprisingly, took the breakups extremely well, being accepting and understanding of his former partner’s decision and wishing the best for them when they left. While he was clingy in the relationship, he would allow his partner to break up with him with no resistance or a “but BABY-“. He never wanted people to stay in a relationship where they were uncomfortable. He even said in an interview that “I wouldn’t want to be with myself either, I’m too needy. You would think somebody like me would be easy to please but no, I need attention 24/7 to survive!”. However, even though he recognized the issue, he never tried to change himself. He believed that that was just “how [he] was”, that there “was no sense in trying to fix it”, and that he would just “find somebody who could put up with [him] someday” through trail-and-error.
* Due to his understanding nature, he was on fairly good terms with his ex’s, but his fair share of drama arose due to how frequently these break-ups happened and the fact he simply refused to change his behavior while in a serious relationship. He never properly addressed the drama as “it was his personal life and fans should stay out of it”, completely ignoring the fact that he openly talked about his relationships on TV.
* But, as I mentioned before, he was also extremely funny. He almost never took anything too seriously, sneaking a bit of comedy and satire into a fair amount of his songs and even doing a stand-up-esq segment during live shows. He loved seeing others laugh just as much as he loved making music. Sly’s humor could be fairly juvenile sometimes though, which got on the nerves of some people.
* Unfortunately, this was another reason why he was horrible in a relationship. He only really ever took the romance parts seriously while everything else was a massive joke to him. This got on the nerves of even more people.
* RELATIONSHIP ISSUES ASSIDE: Sly really was a nice guy. He was just childish sometimes and refused to change due to being extremely stubborn. He never intended on harming anybody and he just wanted people to feel good (while also receiving lots of praise and attention in response).
* His desire for attention stemmed from becoming famous, his life *literally* depended on being praised and liked as, if he wasn’t, his music career would fail. The typical worry over not being liked and desire to be praised for your hard work that every creator has evolved into an addiction similar to one a druggie has to cocaine. He *needed* attention to feel seen and feel good, and he needed romantic attention to feel like he was an actual person outside of his music career. He needed to believe that somebody genuinely cared for him because they liked him for who he was and not because he was just “the rockstar”. As he did indeed struggle with being seen as only the “haha funny space music guy” and not an actual human being, he just didn’t show these feelings in public or expressed them to anybody.
* He was in denial as well, in a way, a sort of “oh, I’m just a funny romantic who likes attention a bit too much haha. There’s nothing wrong! I don’t need to change this is just who I am!” kind of denial where he refused to believe there was some sort of deep psychological reason behind his behavior. Like I said, he never took anything seriously. Or at least he *tried*to never take anything seriously. Humor became a sort of coping mechanism as a response to his darker feelings as well as a response to criticism he doesn’t want to listen to because it’s right and he doesn’t want to believe it’s right. He refused to get involved with drama relating to him, even though the public did make some good points, because it scared him. He didn’t want to accept it.
* His heart shattered each time he was broken-up with but he knew it was for the best and that neither of them would be happy if he forced them to stay with him. He just let them go and tried out another guy to see if they ended up liking him, and the cycle repeated. He was almost never approached by somebody who wanted to get in a relationship with him, especially after his reputation was made known. Eventually it became hard for him to find somebody other than star-struck fans (who he wasn’t interested in, at all) who wanted to get with him.
* But beneath all. that. He was so so sweet. He cared for his friends and his family, even though he hid his feelings from them and didn’t see them as much as he did before due to spending as much time as he could making music. And even with his praise-issues him making music really boiled down to him just loving to fiddle with his instruments and making a funky tune. He did what he loved, even though it kinda broke him later on. Nothing really made him smile more than somebody close to him complimenting a short melody he made or laughing at his jokes. He was a real entertainer and good guy at heart. However, he eventually sacrificed all of his happiness for more attention from the public. As they are the only thing that matters when you’re a rockstar.

Alton Towers Era

* At the height of his career and the low of his life, strange rips in space-time started to appear around his home-universe. While he had nothing to do with them at first, these portals later served as the gateway to his new job.
* At this point in time, Sly was spending his entire day in his studio making music. His friends had stopped trying to contact him while his fathers desperately tried to get him to visit them. Sly was miserable while simultaneously acting superficial and like his “usual, perky self” to keep up appearances and to hide his feelings from himself.
* In thsau-verse, it was 2001 and Submission had just been installed at the park. Despite being a flat-ride, it’s story and roll in X-Sector gave it enough energy to make a guardian a requirement.
* Oh my god it chose out Space Jesus…
* One moment, Sly was playing his guitar and the next moment he’s in a completely different universe in a theme park.
* He had blacked out and walked through one of the rips thanks to his ride binding it’s energy to his soul like some sort of demon pact or smth.Fun fact: The rip in space-time Sly emerged out of would later inspire the transformation of Air into Galactica :]
* Insert British person jumpscare
* Alton gave his little speech about why he was there and what happened yeah, yeah
* Sly was like, extremely distraught at first but he slowly began to grow fond of the idea of starting over in a new place. Maybe this was what he needed,,,
* “Oh, btw, you should probably go meet your coworkers-”In step generic white woman and Sly’s dream emo bf
* “OH YOU HAVE BADDIES HERE?”
* He was immediately smitten with Maverick although he tried to hide it because “new universe new me”. He could tell at the start that they would at least make great friends if he couldn’t end up getting with him. Maverick was the horrific alien to his sci-fi movie if you get what I’m sayin. They even shared almost the exact same fashion sense, except that Maverick’s was a little bit more… edgy than his.
* And they did end up becoming friends!! Maverick hit it off with Sly due to their similar interests and because Mav though he was super funny, he spoke his language. In turn Emily and Nemmy became friends with him as well and they introduced a new friend to the group :]
* This change really did positively affect Sly in a lot of ways. Because literally nobody knew him in this universe he could walk around without being bombarded by overbearing fans and he didn’t have to worry about his career ending because nobody liked his music or anything of the sort. Mav got him back into making music for fun and the two would often collab together on small songs about people getting killed in black holes or how a solar eclipse wiped out an entire alien race <33
* The change didn’t fix everything, however.
* Sly did still very much have issues relating to romantic relationships and the like. Ever since he turned 18 he didn’t really value friends that much and thought that romantic-relationships meant more due to them symbolizing “immense trust and admiration” or whatever idk allo people are weird like that. He still valued his friends and whatnot but he believed that being in a romantic relationship meant WAY more than having a friend who cared for him. This was mainly because of the plays and whatnot he watched because of how normalized romantic relationship supremacy over platonic relationships was in media. This, obviously, carried on with him over the years. While he was in his CLASSIC DENIAL about “oh, he can just be a friend. I don’t feel like I need him… I’m not like that anymore.” and trying to stuff his immense attraction towards Mr. Tall, Dark, and Handsome deep inside of him, he was having thoughts about how he felt like his life could be improved if they were together. Mav’s kindness only made Sly love him more and he had a real “he can fix me…” moment. Sly made attempts to make his crush as least-noticeable as possible due to him trying to prove to himself that “he’s a new person” even though he very much isn’t, but you could tell by how much he hung out with him and how he followed him around like a lost puppy that he had a thing for him.
* However, after awhile, Maverick confessed that he had feelings for Sly (demiromantic moment).Maverick sweetie… that was not a good idea
* This made him throw away all thoughts of “I’m a new person!” and immediately start planning out the wedding.
* Maverick, being completely unaware of Sly’s reputation and issues, thought he was just a funny lil guy!! They got along extremely well and bounced off each other in a very good way, he thought a relationship would be nice (how do people fall in love again)
* It only took a couple days for Maverick to realize that he made a very big mistake.
* This mfer relapsed into his “I need a partner to feel like a real person” phase but now it’s “a relationship with this man is the only thing that will make me feel alive” due to him completely shutting out his friends and family for so long due to focusing on his career, which in-turn strengthened his desire for intimacy, and the fact that he only really got back into music thanks to Maverick. He didn’t get back into it because he had the freedom to, it was because of Maverick.It was all because of Maverick.
* He was so obsessively clingy to him and genuinely just smothering. He was insanely immature too, something Maverick didn’t mind when they were just friends, but found insanely annoying when they got together.
* However, Maverick didn’t have the heart to tell him to buzz off since he could very obviously tell that this man was incredibly lonely and was just excited to be in a relationship (keep in mind that Mav knows little to nothing about Sly’s history, he simply refused to talk about it outside of small comments about his job or fame).
* Maverick has his limit though, and that limit is reached *very* quickly.
* He began to sour, snapping at Sly when he got on his nerves and becoming more cold and distant with him. He refused to display affection in return and generally just acted like he was done with Sly’s bs.
* Sly took this *horribly* but he wasn’t going to break away until Mav actually said he was done. He thought that he simply needed to “try harder” to please him and, in turn, became even more unbearable than before.
* Eventually Mav couldn’t take it anymore and broke up with Sly. He made an attempt to be as understanding as he was back home but he eventually broke down, begging on his hands and knees and saying they he would change for Maverick. As his relationship with Mav was something entirely new, he was madly in love with him and wanted to stay by his side at all times, none of his ex-relationships back on Rostrom was like that.
* Maverick declined but, feeling sympathy for his friend, comforted him by putting his arm around him and asking what was up.
* At that point, Sly was sick of trying to hide everything underneath layers of denial and pretend so he opened up to Maverick right then and there. He told him about his life before the Towers and how he felt the need to be loved by a husband who could fix him and make him feel like he was human.
* Maverick listened and when he finished he decided to help him through it all. The two spent months together as Maverick explained that platonic relationships could be just as, if not more, fulfilling than romantic ones. Sly began to hang out with Nemmy and Emily more, who also helped him out a little after learning of his past.
* It took a little while, but eventually Sly became his normal, goofy self that he thought was lost to time. He appreciated his friends more and went back to making music just because he could, performing in the queue of Submission for the few folks that lined up for it. However, he still struggled with various intrusive thoughts and feelings relating to his past struggles at times and sometimes acted out of impulse. It was nothing his little group couldn’t help him with though.
* His little crush on Maverick slowly faded away over the years as he began accepting him as nothing more than a good friend, and because of how mean he was during the latter part of their relationship :’) he doesn’t want either of them to go through that again
* In 2005, two years after they broke up and a few months before Submission’s second arm was removed, a gang of delinquents looking to get their hands on some of Submission’s power before it was significantly weakened by the change broke into the park after closing. Sly, obviously, protected his ride, but was unfortunately injured while doing so.
* One of the members of the little gang had managed to slide a knife in-between the plates of his prosthetics on his chest and stab his heart. This would’ve been fatal if it weren’t for Submission using a bit of its energy to keep its guardian alive.
* However, Sly didn’t know that Submission was the only reason why he wasn’t dead and just thought he was lucky that the knife (apparently) didn’t reach his heart.
* The years after were fairly normal, Sly continued working on improving himself and only really suffered from occasional home-sickness and the desire to see his old friends and family again to apologize to them. Unfortunately, there was no way of getting him back to his home-universe at the time due to the rip he originally climbed out of being no longer active. His new friends helped him feel better though :]
* In 2013, when Sly heard news of Submission closing, he thought he would be able to seek-out a way to get back home while simultaneously keeping in touch with his Towers friends. However, this belief was short-lived as he slowly became weaker alongside his ride before its closure. When the ride was disassembled, he died.
* Due to being a cyborg, the only parts that perished were his head and organs, which were, unfortunately, the very things that kept his body running. So *everything* shut down when he “turned off” and he couldn’t be fixed.
* His organic body-parts was disposed of in a local cemetery while his robotic prosthetics were kept in the void before the opening of Galactica in 2016, which allowed Maverick and his friends to visit Sly’s original home-world, explain what happened, and allowed his family to give the rest of his body a proper burial.
* They are no longer welcomed in UF-56.

Playlist

* Super Freak - Rick James
* Electric Love - BØRNS
* Space Age Bachelor Man - Ride the Cyclone Soundtrack
* ARE WE STILL FRIENDS? - Tyler, The Creator
* The Sword of Damocles - The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Gallery

Featuring Maverick, Emily, and NemmyConceptFeaturing Maverick (old)