Cplx

* Discord
* IRL
* YouTube

### Aliases

cplX, cplex, cplx01, cplx10, cplx20, cplx30, cplxART, cplxLIVE, plx, spookplx, tweetplx

### Occupation(s)

* CEO of Hotel Laurentia
* COO of Editora Odyssey
* servant of Emperor Pikachu

## Physical description

### Weight

~65 kg (143 lbs)

**cplx**, also known as *cplx10*, *plx* and other variants of his Internet alias, is a Brazilian student, artist, YouTuber and writer. He is the COO of Editora Odyssey, one of the CEOs of Hotel Laurentia, Emperor Pikachu's personal servant and the creator of the Plxpedia.

He's been an active member in online communities such as Zealandia Mapping's *Zealandia Empire*, Liquid Lake's *Reservoir* and Poisonous Mapping's *Khakistocracy* and *Ville*, earning administrative roles in nearly all those servers and gaining some form of fame in those communities, becoming friends with many people in the process, such as his romantic partner Steph!.

cplx is an aspiring artist, owns a YouTube channel where he uploads content from time to time and, as a writer, he is the author of the Dimension Travel Saga and other Odyssey Classics, and the novel re-writer of the *Tales of Detective Lake* series. He is also the narrator and editor of Edd's 2023 film noir *The Tidal Zone*.

## Biography

### Real life

Born and raised in Greater São Paulo, cplx had a tranquil childhood, growing up around video games and YouTube videos, some of which inspired him to start drawing as early as 2010. With his parents' divorce, he began to spend increasingly more time in his father's LAN house, where his love for new discoveries, reading, the arts and the online medium would further develop.

After his first trip to a foreign country, in 2014, he set himself the goal of leaving Brazil and living in a better place, such as Australia, where he'd just come from. Additionally, this sentiment would grow with his trip to Sweden the next year and as he increasingly consumed foreign media, boosted by him learning English around this time.

Around 2016, cplx starts drawing more often and increasingly improves his skills. He also started drawing in comic layouts, designing whole stories and making up characters over the years, a phenomenon encouraged and inspired by his friend Alex. His first modern comic book, *The Dangerous Adventures of Jackson and Parry*, dates from December 2017, just as he was about to change schools.

Once he moved to a different school in 2018, a shift in his personality can be very noticeable, going from a overwhelmingly shy person to a talkative one, influenced by his classmates and long-term friends since then, such as Edd. Together with that, the comic book-making phenomenon would reach its peak in 2018-2019, as he, Edd and Paulo worked on many comic books together in their make-pretend companies, such as Grupo C.S.P., Odyssey Comic Studios and League of Comics. An honorable mention is cplx's magnum opus, the Dimension Travel Saga.

In 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic and, as a byproduct of such, the rise of online classes, comic book and art production came to a halt as cplx spent more time watching and making videos on YouTube. Throughout the first half of 2020, he stayed confined at home, only going outside on very rare occasions and barely keeping contact with his friends.

This only changed when he willingly started going back to school in November 2021. Since then, he's made new friends, started drawing again, mainly digitally, traveled to Natal in April and Ireland in the Summer of 2022, the first time he left the country since 2015, voted for the first time in the 2022 presidential elections and graduated from high school in 2023. Today, he's attending a computer science course.

### YouTube career

In 2015, cplx starts his first gaming YouTube channel, gathering over 7,000 total views and nearly 100 subscribers up to 2018, when he lost access to his email account. As such, he created the second iteration of his gaming channel, called *cnop* and later *cplx*, which was active until early 2020, when it and all its content, with the exception of one video, got deleted.

Finally, since 10 March, 2020, he's been active under his current channel *cplx10*, where he uploads videos about random topics. Together with cplx10, he owns cplxLIVE, where he uploads his Twitch VODs. He also attempted to start a Mapping channel and persona called Sao Paulo Mapping, but quickly gave up.

### History with Discord and Mapping

cplx first stumbled upon Discord in November 2018, when he created an account to join a YouTube community server, but only started extensively using it around January 2019, when he first met the Mapping Community via mapper Zealandia Mapping. He was an active member and later moderator of Zealandia's server, *Zealandia Empire*, through the rest of 2019, becoming inactive in early 2020 due to school.

Around the time the start of the quarantine of São Paulo in the COVID-19 pandemic he once again became active in online communities, joining the Reservoir right on its opening, on 18 March. Spending great lengths of time online everyday, cplx becomes a notorious member, later an administrator, of Liquid Lake's community, making contact with other Mapping personalities, such as Poisonous Mapping, who he met in other communities on the platform, like the Diarchy of Mapping and Poisonous and BLaacK's The Mapping Reich.

Among cplx's contributions to the community is his attempt at creating various servers through 2020 and early 2021, starting with his own community server, now long deleted. Some of these were Ubrington and the Holy Discordian Empire (co-founded with Glacia and Superpangamer), an attempt to create a server themed around the Holy Roman Empire, inspired by others also themed around real-life countries and historical states.

In late 2021, cplx was invited to join and co-administrate Poisonous' new server, the Khakistocracy, which was active until April 2022, being later rebranded to Posnville. Although cplx wasn't that active in the Khakistocracy, he was invited to co-administer Posnville, but he decided to remain out for a while, as, in 10 June, he was given ownership of the Reservoir by Liquid Lake. His period of ownership wouldn't last long, however, due to the threat of an attack conducted by Pinkstar being imminent for the whole period, convincing him and his moderators to let the Reservoir die peacefully. He resigned on 15 July, his own birthday, the server later being nuked by *the Fourth*.

With the Reservoir dead, he started being active in Posnville, acting as one of the administrators of the server until June 2023, when he followed Poisonous' step-down from the server's ownership due to the amount of occurrences of drama in Ville, the server's new identity. cplx made a video to say goodbye to the server, which premiered at the same time as it got archived on 31 July.

Since March of 2023, he's been administering the Hotel Laurentia with his partner Steph!, their co-owned server themed around a hotel.

## References

1. ↑ "São Paulo suspende aulas gradualmente a partir de 16 de março após coronavírus; universidades já devem fechar". *Globo* (in Portuguese). 13 March 2020. Retrieved 7 October 2023.