Elios/Relationships

## Friends and Acquaintances

### Emma Wilson

Emma is Elios's girlfriend. They were previously acquainted as children in Elios's old hometown. In the current timeline, Elios and Emma share a loving, seemingly sweet relationship. After becoming fellow coworkers at a local cafe, Elios agreed to go out with her. He cares deeply for her and will take extreme measures to protect her from threats, including physical assault. Through his skewed perspective, Elios believes the actions he takes to eliminate Emma's threats are justified and honorable. As Emma is his only source of hope and affection, Elios harbors absurd jealousy over anyone she interacts with, especially males. Through persuasion and manipulation, Elios isolates Emma from her peers and convinces her to be physically and emotionally dependent on him alone. He feigned compliance in front of Emma as she headed off to study with Brian, only to follow them in secret and later attack Brian. When Emma confessed her love on their date, insisting that he was always on her mind, Elios assured her in response that he would kill anyone who dared to hurt her. After Rupert Patrovsky attempted to harass Emma, Elios declared people like him were better gone from this world.

Throughout the series, Elios planted suspicion in Emma's mind about the integrity of various people who attempted to make her acquaintance, including Yohan Lee, Jamie, and Sophie McCarthy, convincing her that others have no value and should be regarded as meaningless. To illustrate that he empathized with Emma's social struggles at her university, he shared stories of incidences in high school where fellow classmates took advantage of his generous nature. He promised to always stand by her even if the world turned against her. Though he was displeased that Emma made previous engagements to go on a school field trip with Sophie on his birthday, he kept his dissatisfaction to himself. The night before the school trip, Emma called him to wish a happy birthday.

In the second season, he reveals himself to Emma while panic was ensuing after Sophie got stabbed. Emma was overjoyed to see him and he admitted to sneaking in to join the trip to surprise her. However, Emma noticed he was soaked with blood after embracing him and started to become suspicious. She also tells him that she's noticed one of his habits is when he lies, he always puts his left hand behind his back. This prompts Elios to reveal to Emma that he was the perpatrator who stabbed Sophie. He told Emma that Sophie doesn't deserve a second chance since she did not have any remorse for almost causing her to drown. Elios then told Emma that he was serious about killing anyone who tries to harm her and will stop if she wants him to, but he begs her not to hate him. When Yohan came calling out for Emma, Emma told Elios to hide, fearing that Yohan will figure out that he is the culprit and have him arrested. As Yohan led Emma away, Elios watched on with jealousy.

### Yohan Lee

Yohan is Elios's second victim. On his way to work, Elios caught sight of Emma and Yohan walking together to the cafe. After informing his manager and texting Emma that he would not show up to work that day, he watched the two of them from afar with a cold expression. Whenever Yohan would show up at the cafe, Elios refrained from making an appearance. He eventually warned Emma to avoid Yohan, claiming that Yohan was plotting something. A few weeks later, Elios tailed Yohan as he walked home from a cafe. He followed him for several blocks and into an abandoned house. Although Yohan attempted to persuade him into working together, Elios was not fooled by his antics and attacked him with a knife. He pinned Yohan to the ground and was about to stab him when Yojoong Lee appeared. Abandoning Yohan, Elios created a distraction and fled the scene. At the cafe the next day, Elios was shown sporting a large bruise where Yohan had hit him.

### Brian

Brian is Elios's first victim. After Emma informed Elios that she was receiving help from an upperclassman, Elios observed their interactions at a 24-hour cafe. He witnessed Emma rejecting Brian's advances and escaping his assault attempt. Once Emma was safely out of sight, Elios bashed in Brian's head from behind and snapped his arm in half. As Brian cried for help, Elios held a knife to his throat and threatened to kill him if he ever touched Emma again.

### Yojoong Lee

Yojoong and Elios have never officially met. As Elios, masked, was about to stab Yohan, Yojoong arrived with a gun in hand. Elios attacked him with a rock and fled the scene.

### Jamie

Jamie and Elios never had in-person interaction. When he noticed Emma cheerfully texting Jamie, Elios later stole her phone from her locker to read her texts. The following day, Jamie started avoiding Emma.

### Matthew

Matthew and Elios are fellow coworkers at the cafe. Though they work the same shifts, they have never been seen interacting with one another. It is later revealed that Matthew never knew Elios, after it was revealed in Episode 69 that he was just a figment of Emma's imagination.

## Family

### Mother

Elios loves his mother despite having a very distant relationship. Elios's mother raised him by herself, albeit inadequately. Too busy with work, she constantly neglected Elios and failed to show proper maternal affection. Knowing that she was overwhelmed with work, Elios would get up in the morning to make breakfast for her before she headed off to work. He would then walk to school by himself.

### Father

Elios had a very close relationship with his father, claiming that he liked him better than his mother. Whenever Elios got upset at his mother for breaking her promises to him due to her work, his father would always reassure him of his mother's love. He would also encourage Elios to not hold a grudge towards her all the time. He was deeply saddened by his father's sudden passing, but kept his promise to his father to take of his mother in his stead.

## Reality

### Farah

Farah was Elios' co-worker and boss at the café they both worked at. He first met her when he spotted Farah wandering through the city distributing flyers advertising her café. Elios approached Farah while mistaking her for Emma, only to later become interested in her to the point where he asked to work at the café. His initial first impression of her was hopeless; due to her clumsiness. However, Elios began to admire Farah when he learned that she was the one who designed and built the café, and for her genuine kindness. When Farah encouraged him to be true to himself, Elios gradually started to develop feelings for her. She eventually became his girlfriend at some point and they had a good relationship, despite the misgivings of the female customers who were crushing on him.

While working, Elios always looked out for Farah and was concerned for her when she suddenly began distancing herself from him (due to Emma sending her death threats to break up with Elios). When Farah got hospitalised after getting injured by Emma, he rushed to the hospital where she told him that she wanted to break up. After she explained her reasons, Elios protested and tried to reaffirm his love for her, but Farah told him that he had no idea how she felt when she was by his side. Elios relented and suggested they have some time apart until she's ready to talk. However, Elios belatedly realises that Farah is potentially in danger after a conversation with his mother and his earlier encounter with Emma. Worried for her safety, he rushed to the hospital fearing that Emma might harm Farah because of what he said to her. When he arrived, he was shocked to find Farah gone and quickly realises she had been lured out after a conversation with an older female patient. He then ran to the lake (where he and Farah visited for their last date) and found Emma lunging at his girlfriend with a knife. Elios managed to shove Farah out of the way and got stabbed by Emma. As he bled out, he urged Farah to escape while she still can, but desperate to save his life, she administered basic first aid before leaving to call an ambulance.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Episode 23
2. ↑ Episode 2
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Episode 3
4. ↑ Episode 5
5. ↑ Episode 8
6. ↑ Episode 12
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Episode 31
8. ↑ Episode 38
9. ↑ Episode 40
10. ↑ Episode 11
11. ↑ Episode 19
12. ↑ Episode 20
13. ↑ Episode 21
14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Episode 22
15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 Episode 27
16. ↑ Episode 28