Sylvester A. East

## Personality

Sylvester is a very stern, bold character who drags a lot of attention to himself when he enters a room. His dominant, assertive nature makes him quite an intimidating individual to speak to. He is highly intelligent, scoring the highest GPA in the Venzor area and takes a lot of pride in his good grades. Despite being bullied relentlessly, he enjoys school and ran for Student Body President up against Lizzy Meadows, surprisingly he was voted for the position. After that, the bullying calmed down and he created more of a social identity for himself, many didn’t want to cause any conflict with him due to his outside of school social status.

Sylvester belongs to the upper class and takes a lot of pride in his stable financial situation. He tends to brag a lot about his life & social class to those who are not as fortunate as he is.

#### Psychopathy

Sylvester’s psychopathy makes him appear much alike a robot when he is not putting on a show with his emotions. He is very callous and manipulative. He is able to feel emotions such as happiness, but his emotions are very limited and are not expressed the same way that the average individual would. He's often described as a theatrical man due to the fact he seems as though he's putting on a show a lot of the time since he is. Sylvester does not fear punishment or any consequences for that matter, he takes them into consideration but if his plans were to mess up and he did get caught, he wouldn't react strongly to it.

Another aspect of him that is affected by his psychopathy is his level of achievement. He is never satisfied with the bare minimum, and always strives to achieve the best of the best. His ambitions are high due to this, (his ideal career path being a surgeon). Luckily this pays off, considering he is highly intelligent as mentioned prior. He projects his own disappointment onto other people as he belittles them for not doing their best when they don't strive the same way he does.

Sylvester is capable of feeling cognitive empathy, and does so very well, but where affective empathy is concerned; he tends to struggle. This helps him mask his psychopathy and appear more average to individual's which gives him a more positive image where people are less likely to assume he is up to no good. Due to his lack of empathy, this also allows him to carry out heinous acts without remorse.

## Childhood

Despite his calm, collective nature, Sylvester had a very neglectful childhood. He overlooks this though and believes that his upbringing was the reason why he is thriving so much intellectually and in general.

From a very young age, Sylvester experienced neglect from his parents. His parents dysfunctional marriage made them lash out at one another, Sylvester often got in between this chaos and became subject to physical abuse. It mostly came from his father, but occasionally Sylvester's mother would target him too. He did always grow up closer to his mother than he was with his father. When his father would kick him outside of the house, Sylvester would manually go to the shed to study or other times his father demanded he goes inside there.

Within the shed, he was able to find a keen interest in spiders. He'd name a few of them and watch as they moved on with their life, taking inspiration from them and motivating him to do so too. Sylvester would hide his books and other essentials under the ground and sit there studying for the rest of the night. This induced insomnia inside of him but he did not care. His found comfort in this independent lifestyle, and believes it was given to him as a gift from a higher being to ensure his parents dysfunctional marriage didn't get in the way of his success.

## Crime

With psychopathy and his upbringing brought into consideration, Sylvester lives a very criminal, dangerous lifestyle.

His childhood friend became his first subject who was murdered. Sylvester took an interest to the human anatomy and eyeballs, so he gouged his friend's eyeballs out and felt no remorse in doing so. He then studied them, recognising how his eyeballs were alike her emotionless, gloopy ones. This truly sparked his interest in surgery and inspired his future murders.

He was off the hook for a while longer growing up after that instance, he was able to cover up the evidence significantly well and was never caught. Even if he were to be caught, his mother and father would happily bail him out of prison. But luckily that was never necessary.

Sylvester’s next instance of murder occurred in high school. Madeline Fatcher fell victim to his murderous tendencies. Madeline was his best friend at the time, he and her were inseparable. However, due to Madeline being mentally ill (having schizophrenia), Sylvester often had to deal with that and he felt as if that was stunting his academic life, and there is nothing Sylvester dislikes more than somebody being in the way of his ambitions. So, he decided to get rid of her. Tricking her into coming to his house for a playdate, he isolates her in his basement and humanely murders her by injecting her with a paralytic substance (aconite) which he obtained from a lethally poisonous plant. This was the most humane, evidence-less strategy he had to murder her and it worked.

Sylvester then got caught up in the world of crime when he signed up to be Mr L. Harper’s surgical assistant. He would get paid a lot of money to do so and he never had any issue with carrying out the illegal procedures he was instructed to. This strengthened his ability to perform cohesive operations and motivated him to commit more murder.

His second high school murder was Jude Cower. Technically, he didn’t directly murder him, but he tricked his drug dealer into giving him these *special drugs* which would cost more money, and Jude would be willing to pay it up.