Sylas Clement

**Sylas Clement** is an infamous assassin of COALESCENCE. Noted for being ruthless, vindictive and willing to do anything to get paid, he does not care about civilian casualties, only the money or respect he desperately craved.

## Biography

### General

Sylas Keegan Clement was born in Rutherland. He was born with a fortune, having grown fond of the top-tier school in his hometown of Vancross. He was a noteworthy smart boy, known to easily soar in grades as his passion to study was admirable, and his desire to become a police officer, ever since his father was robbed by shady people when he was younger. He became a detective instead after discovering that Muldoon Lundgren had murdered his brother, who was virtually unknown.

Throughout his life of being a young adult, Clement was a highly decorated detective, however, the amount of homicide and brutal killings that he has witnessed had made him more violent than ever. As a result, his methods were more violent and he was soon discharged from duty. When the time has come, he managed to enlist himself in COALESCENCE and slowly became on of the finest assassins ever, in Ruthian history.

### A Nightrider: Hero of the Dark

Sylas Clement is a seasoned COALESCENCE assassin, employing ruthless tactics to assassinate his targets with hatred and commitment. He has treasured the security firm's beliefs and carries them out in a brutal manner that appears to cross the line between right and wrong. He has even encountered rojinese syndicates, whom he simply kills in cold blood, determining that they all deserve to die because some of them are associated with the megacorporation. Unfortunately, his demeanour has eventually resulted in a slew of controversies and accusations, with even the respected Amanda Gyllenhaal accusing him of sexual assault.

Much to his disgust, he is placed under the same woman's supervision and is observed with a Behavioural Analyser. This is also the time when he learns about the legendary assassin PSYLOCKE-832. He was merely discharged from combat duty as a result of his acts, leaving him with nothing to do but monitor the outside of his cell, eat, and sleep like any other prisoner. Notably, he stayed inactive for multiple years probably more than a decade. This was to ensure that he won't go down a dark path as his codename: Bloodthirst.

### PROJECT-G/NEX War

Sylas was mostly a POW throughout the corporate war. As a result, he has spent nothing but to live a horrible, but seemingly normal life in prison, As a result, he attempts to flee from COALESCENCE territory, to no avail.

#### Rampancy

In the *Rampancy*, he has heard of the incident in Technovolk, shrugging the fact that the two titans of the megacorporation are "Oversized squabbling toys". Amanda silences him, deducing that he has attempted to pick lock the prison gate and hack it. He shrugs, knowing that COALESCENCE still regards him as one of the finest assassins. After the entire incident, he was reinstated in combat after running through a series of psychological and mental evaluations, to ensure the lack of any attempted betrayal, or desertion when he is deployed again.

According to reports, he stealthily kills scores of PROJECT counter-espionage operatives without their knowledge, knowing that a direct, violent method to killing the adversary could readily catch their attention. Notably, he invaded some random megacorporation outpost and slaughtered the opposing forces within while the stationed guards were distracted by a hilarious antic that he pulled. Some say he used a civilian in his prank that caused minor attention.

#### The COALESCENCE

In 3012, he was assigned to get rid of PROJECT personnel in Rutherland alone. As he is not partnered with anyone else, he was free to kill as many corporate members as possible, but Amanda Gyllenhaal oversees his activities, unbeknownst to him. Clement was also aware that PSYLOCKE-832 was zooming around the highways with VI-516, intending to intervene in the heist, but was later thwarted by the G/NEX rebel as she threw a blade into him inadvertently, launching him off course and injuring him.

Unable to intervene, he instead starts a massacre among the megacorporation's ranks, killing all the soldiers still roaming the country, without a second thought. After that, he returns to the base and escorted back to his cell for the daily use of the Behavioural Analyser device, hating it as expected. He even requests Amanda to stop using the device for a while, claiming that it is unnecessary, giving the fact that he has his redemption "arc". she is not amused, and tased him with pleasure.

Unknown to him, Amanda implemented a duplicate of the device that is embedded on his spine inconspicuously.

#### Going All Out

In *Going All Out*, he intervenes in the Siege of Daitoshi, flaunting his braggart combat skills in front of the heroes, much to their chagrin. Sylas has also entered several buildings and managed to remove the tracker on his spine, preventing the Behavioural Analyser from fully deducing his motives and actions. As a result, he assembles his own band of ex-COALESCENCE mercenaries to carry out his objective of bringing justice to the megacorporation by sheer force and unmatched savagery. They even robbed a bank of the megacorporation to get some money and improve their gear by themselves, but this was caught on live TV and the security firm's reputation has been challenged, yet again. Amanda falls in a state of rage and contacts Rachelle about the controversy.

PSYLOCKE-832 takes note of this and informed COALESCENCE, much to his anger and her comrades agreed that they should all settle things somewhere in the Obsidian Mountains in 3025. When he returned to base, he quick raped Amanda to prevent her from telling anyone, but he was too late to stop the incident from spreading to their ranks, another sign of his failure, and even failed to demand the true potential of PSYLOCKE-832.

#### Technological Lies: Truth Unfolds

COALESCENCE has started a campaign to fight PROJECT in their own means. However, Clement and his vicious team have taken advantage of it and has a headstart as they traverse throughout the treacherous terrain of the Obsidian Mountains mountains. As a result, operatives such as mercenaries and their assassins are extremely displeased, and PSYLOCKE-832 voluntarily lead a group against his own. She then observed the true colours of Bloodthirst himself, the ultimate contract assassin.

He issues an ultimatum to Rachelle and the COALESCENCE members: either assist him in killing the G/NEX rebels to bring PROJECT to an end by their own methods, or battle all of them to the death. She loaded her firearm and aimed it at him. During the dispute, she stripped her own armour to assert her authority and demanded to know his true intentions. Sylas acknowledges it and brutally admits to everyone, that he envied her for becoming the security company's elite assassin, and arrogantly claims that super powered warriors stole his reputation instead. Amanda slaps him in exchange for knowing about his terrible personality.

### Demise

In anticipation, Sylas demanded a fight to the death. Rachelle, to to his surprise, accepted it and selected hand-to-hand combat over melee weapons, knowing that he may easily outmatch her; which gets them an audience while they prepare. He consume a *NEXI-Steroid*, completely inflating his muscles and essentially turning him into an ultranevian, knowing that his strength, speed, agility, and durability are NOTHING like hers. He quickly used his newfound strength and toughness against her, briefly taking over the fight with his seemingly superior strength, so much so that he used it with his own skills, earning Palmer's laughter, knowing he is desperate to kill her in order to reclaim his position as COALESCENCE's elite assassin.

He even insults her codename of "Obsidian", claiming that the entire mountains would be her grave owing to the similar colours. Due to this, Rachelle was able to beat her with ease, breaks his right arm and dislocates his shoulder; Humiliated as the latter opened a video call for the Van Dammes to see his true colours, with the other operatives lined up in formation. As he revealed his true motivations and his desire for revenge against the firm who gave him life, the agents pointed their weapons at them, with Sylas' demeanour changes, begging for mercy as the couple decided that he should be executed in the Obsidian Mountains no matter what method.

As he failed to fight Palmer's onslaught, he is kicked in the face, and hurled in the air with incredible strength, ending his desire for vengeance once and for all, being shot in the head with a sniper rifle. Not long after, PROJECT has found his corpse and used it as propaganda.

His death was quickly covered up by COALESCENCE and dismissed it as an "Unfortunate Traitor".

## Legacy

Sylas' legacy at COALESCENCE has further tarnished the security firm's credibility. As a result, COALESCENCE's cybernetic endeavours are difficult to conceal, leading to detection and public distrust. While he originally shown the skill, experience and discipline that his fellow mercenaries possessed, he is always greedy, cruel, and self-reliant, eager to betray anyone for personal gain.

## Personality

Originally, Sylas was extremely loyal to COALESCENCE, as well as being slightly cocky. He had a strong attitude, as well as a tendency to go to extreme lengths to do things, like when he threatened to rape Amanda Gyllenhaal if she did not reveal PSYLOCKE-832's true potential. As for when he took up the "Bloodthirst" persona, Sylas was unpredictable, unapologetic, vicious, arrogant, ruthless and murderous. Following his escape from the COALESCENCE, He completely abandoned COALESCENCE's ideals, quickly becoming obsessed with only one thing - revenge against the same company who gave him his life.

He was willing to sacrifice two of his guys in order to kill COALESCENCE operatives with a grenade, and he viciously attacked Rachelle Palmer with no remorse. When he was eventually defeated, he did not hesitate to accept his mistakes before Palmer tossed him into the air with enormous force and cruelly shot him in the air, ensuring his demise. However, before to his death, he was revealed to be an exceedingly sadistic person because he lied to Amanda about the latter meeting with ASHE-159, and when he teased him, Sylas appeared to be relishing the false conduct that he had committed.

He proclaims himself to be "a true soldier" when in reality, he is nothing but a disgruntled assassin turned into a vicious terrorist.

## Abilities

Sylas Clement was an extremely skilled assassin. He is proficient in firearms, knives and explosives to a great degree. He is also adept in Hand-to-hand combat; Using his height and strength to enhance his formidable capabilities in various techniques, most notably knives and swords.

* **Enhanced Physiology**: Upon consuming a NEXI-Steroid, his body grew significant muscle mass, granted him superhuman strength, durability, speed and agility. This allowed him to take the superhumanly strong blows from Rachelle Palmer until its effects slowly decayed until she is able to break his arm with ease.
	+ **Superhuman Strength**: Under its effects, his strength was increased to superhuman levels, making him more or less the same level as Rachelle Palmer herself, allowing him to trade blows with her easily, and survive her devastating hits. It also amplified his own strength to lift objects, such as throwing an entire bus at her to prove a point.
	+ **Superhuman Durability**: As his muscle mass greatly increased and results in a more muscular form, he is able to take serious punishment, able to withstand blows received from Rachelle Palmer with relative ease, until the steroid's effects worn off.
	+ **Superhuman Speed**: His speed was permanently amplified.
	+ **Enhanced Agility**: He became more agile than expected under its effects.

### Skills

* **Master Detective**: Sylas was known for his exceptional detective skills, he is able to easily connect the dots and solve cases far easier than a regular nevian can do.

* **Skilled Combatant** : Sylas, also known as Bloodthirst, is a combat expert. He is an expert in knives, hand-to-hand combat, and marksmanship. In terms of hand-to-hand combat, he is likely one of the best in the COALESCENCE, trailing only Rachelle Palmer, the PSYLOCKE-832.

* **Expert Manipulator**: Sylas is adept at deceiving and manipulating people for his own good. This benefits from his incredibly deceitful persona, switching personalities with ease to get an advantage.

## Trivia

### General

* He once worked as a Ruthian detective. However, he is known to shoot criminals without a second thought, particularly when threatened. This ended his career in an instant.
* Known for his height and his physique is impressive. Notably, his strength is quite amazing.
* Sylas dislikes desert areas and prefers urban settings, noting that he disliked the sand interfering on his clothing.
* Sylas' expertise with Knife is also known as one of the best skills in his abilities.
* His ruthless persona that is currently witnessed is due to the fact that he is involved in various scandals.
* Strives to be a cyborg one day, knowing that nevians won't really matter in the current state of Nexonia Prime.
* He is envy of Alphas.

### Developmental Process

* Sylas was designed to depict COALESCENCE in more of a neutral organisation with internal troubles.
* His main weapon of a knife was designed in accordance to his sadistic, deluded; and manipulative personality.
* Sylas was supposedly shorter, but final decisions placed his height at six feet, four inches. He is also notably muscular.
* Early depictions of his betrayal saw him joining PROJECT, but is scrapped for time constraints.
* His surname was chosen after revising Ashe's legendary last name into Clemirosa. Therefore, they are not related.
* In his normal body, he can bench 450 lbs and punch with an average force of 1045 lbs per square inch.
* Upon his death, Sylas' corpse was found by hikers in the Obsidian Mountains. The dissolved COALESCENCE did not acknowledge the truth about him, but Lauren explained the truth regarding Sylas and his horrific betrayal that ruined the security firm beyond repair.
* Sylas' betrayal was mostly responsible for COALESCENCE's downfall during *Codename: REVIVAL*.
* Behavioural Analyser results shown that Sylas is a sociopathic and has the behaviour akin to an elusive serial killer.
	+ The only reason he passed it was putting on a robotic clone of himself, which was later found out by Amanda and soon, he was exposed for being a fraud and subject to termination.