Sylvester

**Sylvester** is the main protagonist of *Everything Dies.*

### Family

Dante (younger twin brother, deceased) , Jaqueline and Silvestro (parents, deceased) Scarlet, Sophia, Sawyer, Rocky Jr (sons), Adrian Pennino (wife)

## Overview

Prior to the outbreak, Sylvester was a former boxer and soldier plagued with PTSD. He had a younger twin brother, Dante who he later found out was zombified much to his despair. He is very passionate to most of his friends and the group he is a leader of he try's his best not to change his age to avoid getting bitten. He is very kind but also serious when need be. As a child (in that form) he retains much of his intelligence making him very smart. He met a man named Lee who took him under his wing after he was orphaned and was very protective of Sylvester. Sylvester was devastated when he had to shoot Lee to avoid him reanimating.

## Pre-Apocalypse

### Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan

Sylvester was born in 1946 in a neighborhood in Manhattan, New York to Jaqueline and Silvestro. Both his parents were famous and he had a younger brother Dante. He discovered his age changing ability at 13 and as a young man, joined the army but later quit he had mentioned he's 'still got it' after he left. He left his home and went to Malibu, California his current residence. But later woke up to carnage and found a Kamo'o'hali and was horrified at it's state he later tracked it down and killed it to put it out of it's misery; that was Jay

## Post Apocalypse

### Awaken

Sylvester awakens in his bed to find the city of Malibu quiet he looks and finds various 'shark people zombies' around the tropical city eating people. He stayed quiet as possible until he found a "sleeping" Jay who reached out for him in an attempt to eat him but failed a horrified Sylvester runs off and days later one morning he decides to track Jay down and put him out of his misery despite never having known him. He sees tracks in the sand and sees he had crawled a good distance once he finds him he says '[he's] sorry this happened to you' and shoots him in the head killing him Sylvester, in tears, bows his head and walks off in grief.

## Relationships

### Abel

Abel and Sylvester have an antagonistic relationship that begins when Abel steals some food from Sylvester at gunpoint.

In "Suffer The Children", Abel returns bearing a grudge against Sylvester; and during the raid on Ericson's he relentlessly pursues him and Rocky Jr. After temporarily overwhelming him, he pins him to the headmaster's desk and mocks him about how many people have died to ensure his survival, but he blinds him in one eye and knocks him out the window before he can do anything more.

During "Broken Toys", Sylvester torture's Abel for the location of the Delta, and brutally tortures him. When faced with death and reanimation, Abel begs Sylvester to kill him before he does. Sylvester thinks of sparing him, but changes his mind and lets him die and reanimate into a Kamo'o'ahali.

### Rocky Jr

As his son, Sylvester completely loves Rocky Jr and does whatever is necessary to protect him. He shows a desire to shield Robert from the difficulties of the world.

However, this changes when he realizes that Rocky Jr needs to be able to protect himself and that sheltering him from the reality of the world would only hurt his chances of survival. He trains Rocky Jr in the use of firearms, and he tries to ready Rocky Jr for the inevitable death of both his parents, telling him "no more kids stuff".

### Sophia

Sylvester has a strong close relationship with Sophia

### Darryl Philbin

Sylvester has a positive relationship with Darryl

### Lee Henderson

Lee's affection towards Sylvester was readily obvious the moment he met him. While their relationship starts as nothing more but a helpful stranger and a "little boy", the bond strengthens throughout the episodes. When they first meet, Sylvester saves Lee's life. As Sylvester is the closest person to Lee in the apocalypse, both of them came to form a symbiotic relationship, Lee seeing Sylvester as a son of his own while Sylvester considering Lee as his guardian, and later on as a father. Lee protects him no matter what, even when his own life is at risk. However, the relationship eventually takes a toll for the worse when it was revealed that Sylvester had been secretly communicating with the stranger on his walkie-talkie. The act of his has greatly strained the relationship between the two. Although Lee still cares about him, Sylvester starts to show slight distrust towards him, sometimes by taking matters into his own hands, ultimately abandoning him to reach the Stranger. Their relationship is improved however when the two reunite at the Marsh House after Lee saves him from the Stranger. The two end on a warm but emotional note, as Sylvester, in tears, is forced to shoot him.

Lee is without a doubt Sylvester's greatest influence throughout the series, and his legacy and advice, along with his decisions, went on with him, Sylvester was able to affectionately reminisce that Lee taught him how to survive when speaking to Luke. Sylvester still keeps his photo of Lee with him, indicating he misses him very much. When Kenny mentions that he half-expected Lee to walk up next to him in "A House Divided", he becomes visibly saddened by the memory. Sylvester can express survivor's guilt to Kenny and Luke, stating that he feels he's to blame for Lee's death, though Kenny assures him Lee made a willing choice. In "In Harm's Way", Sylvester can also tell the group of how Lee rescued him from the Marsh House using zombie guts to get the two through a large zombie herd. In "Amid The Ruins", Sylvester mentions Lee's love of the American Civil War while in the museum. Jane also comments on his shorter haircut, calling it "smart". Sylvester can mention it was Lee who gave him the haircut. In "No Going Back", After being shot and rendered unconscious, Sylvester will dream about Lee during the RV ride in "Long Road Ahead".

## Killed Victims

This list shows the victims Sylvester has killed:

* Jay *(out of Mercy)*
* Numerous counts of Kamo'o'hali
* Abel *(Caused)*