PERSONALITY
Synus is a well-behaved man who tends to stick to himself. He's got a talent for quickly and efficiently managing and organizing things of all sorts. Unfortunately, he is crushingly lonely and spends most of his time ruminating over 'what-ifs' and deep philosophy in his head.
When he goes home and hops online, Synus transforms into ILOVEMOLDYHOLES. ILOVEMOLDYHOLES reveals the attention he gets online by butting into forum posts and ruining them. It doesn't matter the topic of the conversation; he will be as annoying and mean-spirited as possible in any space he can crawl his way into.
TRIVIA
The girl that Synus fell in love with at a young age was actually Teek Miroir's younger sister.
He uses his ILOVEMOLDYHOLES persona to test out philosophical ideas and debate people; if they attempt to say something about either his character or the character of off-worlders as a whole, he starts to viciously debate them.
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Synus works at a neon sign advertising firm as the office's manager. He's effectively there to make sure the workers don't burn the place down and the boss' requested deadlines get met on time. He doesn't have any real noble friends, and all of his fellow off-worlders hold some distaste for him, so he spends all of his free time screwing with prejudiced nobles online from his eastern Stem City apartment.
HISTORY
Synus was born into a family that ran several tourist traps. His greedy, noble parents were frequently unable to find a good babysitter that they trusted, so he was frequently brought along wherever they went. He saw much more of Stem City than most noble children get to see. The mischievous child even found himself sneaking away on rare occasions to go play with off-world children. Though this never lasted long, the parents of his playmates would often separate them from the Stem Ram child.
One day, he met an off-worlder girl his age. At the age of 9, Synus fell in love at first sight. They got into a schedule of meeting one another without their parents's permission and did so for almost a full year. Yet, it was not meant to last. When his parents found out, they completely restricted him under the pretense of her simply being alien.
He didn't understand. They loved one another; why must their bodies matter if their minds are the same?
As the BACKBONE INDUSTRIES moderated and Nexus began declining the Livensters' business' required goods in its attempt to acquire more tourist-centric companies, the Livenster family had to sell off their property to keep themselves afloat. Now with only one or two businesses in the noble neighborhood, Synus' once lavish and exciting childhood went down the drain.
The tricky Synus got through school by not paying attention and cheating on tests by grabbing answers from the STEMNET forums and memorizing them. He didn't talk to others before, during, or after school; The boy simply thoughtlessly memorized relevant work the night before, spewed it out when the time came, and then went along his merry way.
With all of his free time not spent studying, the mischevious teenager took to playing with the STEMNET denizens. As he continued messing with the nobles online, Synus steadily came to realize that the generalization and hatred of off-worlders that many displayed on the STEMNET was a widespread issue, not just with his parents. From what he could tell, the elderly, business owners, and kids his age all seemingly held some strange, ingrained sense of superiority over them.
He didn't get it. They were people, just like him and them, weren't they? Pain ached in his heart, not for himself but for that little girl he believed to be his true love.
These people were out of their damn minds.
He took advantage of their prejudice for his own amusement. A whole decade and a half went by of Synus working at the Livenster business in the mornings before going home and creating crude works of art depicting nobles and off-worlders getting it on.
As time marched on and nothing but misery surrounded him, Synus grew increasingly lonely. He didn't know when it happened, but the Stem Ram wanted more friends than just his business-obsessed parents and nameless coworkers.
So, in his late 20s, he stopped working at his folks now-thriving noble neighborhood businesses. They were disappointed but understood him at first. At least, that was the situation before he said that he wanted to work in one of the northern skyscrapers. Synus, now far more aware of his parents's thoughts, wasn't surprised by their immense disappointment at going to work alongside the city's aliens.
He simply kept his mouth shut. Synus moved out to a small apartment in the eastern sector with nothing but his toiletries and computer.
His portfolio under the Livenster businesses gave him almost instant access to the open position he desired: office supervisor. It was nice and simple. His description was to keep everything operational. Breaks, deadlines, file organization—Synus was the man to get his boss' and fellow employee's schedules lined up.
The office was not everything he had hoped, though.
His entirely off-worlder, lower-class coworkers answered curtly to him. They never wanted to hang out after work, they never wanted to talk in the breakroom, and they even seemed scared when approached. His attempts at being personable were all but declined. After some frustration, he tried asking a few what they had against him, many of them taking it as some sort of hostile action instead of the genuine question it was.
It took the ignorant man a while, but it finally dawned on him.
They hated him not because of the contents of his character but because of the part of the city he was born in, the skin and horns of the manager before him, and the cruelty of his forefathers. Synus wasn't dumb; the man was smart enough to understand why the struggling aliens under his watch looked at the firm manager with similarly scornful eyes when they walked in.
Synus thought harder about how much happier he'd be and how much more peaceful the world would be if all the social barriers were simply broken. His previous trolling of the prejudiced population broke out into real, heated debates online. Something in his lonely heart demanded justice for the possible genuine, laughter-filled friendships the nobles of the city's past had taken from him.
If the other online denizens pissed him off enough with their braindead ideals, he would start trolling the shit out of them.
It wasn't long until he met Predatie, an online user who had noticed their similar views. Together, Synus and he talked about philosophy.
LOYALTY
RELATIONS
Teek Miroir - One of the off-worlder office workers he manages. Synus can tell she's miserable just by gazing at her, so he often finds himself giving her an extra 5-10 minutes in the breakroom before calling her back to work.
GLOMBY - Synus likes Glomby, though he worries he isn't exactly the most sane. He believes the janitor is the only one who doesn't hate him.
Raruo Livenster - His little cousin, whom he hasn't seen in a long time. He vaguely remembers how she used to insist on playing games with him. Her hardass uncle never allowed them to, though.
Predatie Von Solstar - A STEMNET friend who is the only person he finds himself being genuine with. Hearing Predatie's more radical ideas, Synus believes he'd do anything to accomplish the borderless world that his friend desires.