leetaeyong

APPEARANCE- Striking blue eyes.
- Caramel tresses. The long tail of his hair seemingly like an overgrown mullet that cascades down his midriff. On closer look though, his hair doesn’t actually reach his midriff, but just a little past his chest. He also has piercings on his left ear.
- His hair is stylishly parted on the side exposing his forehead and the slit on his brow, the side tucked to display the array of silver earrings. He also braided the long tail of his tresses.
- Has lines of tattoos on his skin. A phoenix with its wings spread wide is inked on the expanse of his chest. There are words littering his right flank and on his back are letters dropping down the length of his spine, disappearing under the waistband of his pants. Taeyong’s back, the black ink down the latter’s spine, “Le mal est parmi nous,” “The evil is among us.” The French line runs down the redhead’s spine, ending just above his crack.
- Grew his hair long because his sister said he’d look good with long hair. Like those princes or warriors in manga whatever she reads.
- Dyed his hair red, chiseled jaw, thick brows with a slit on the left one, and one of the ears is littered with earrings.
- Shaved the side of his hair and left a tail in the middle to reminisce the style he had before Red Phoenix’s war with Dragonaire.
- Unorthodox hairstyle.
- Alternate hairstyle is a vibrant red, short and messily cut on the bottom.
- A slit on his brow and an array of rings on his earlobe.
- The scars littering some areas of his face add another untold story to the people that will cross paths with him for the first time.USUALLY SEEN WEARING
- Black hoodie and track pants.
- Blue jeans and white shirt.
- Trench coat.
- Studded leather jacket with a single sling hanging off of it and a chain with both ends attached on either side of the collar, giving an illusion of a necklace.
- Black leather pants.
- A pair of sweatpants and hoodie - all in black.
- Wears only a black overall. It’s his go-to fashion ever since.
- Wrapped in black from head to toe. It’s a must to wear clothes that can hide blood stains especially when they have to be stained outside.
- Tight pants, red shirt and black blazer.
- Black vintage coat.
- Laced boots.
- His style ever since: a hoodie, tight pants and kicks.

TRIVIA
- Music taste: heavy metal, Michael Jackson.
- Doesn’t have a card, stronger than a Diamond card. Or to put it precisely, he’s more dangerous than the enemy.
- Doesn’t like people in general.
- He was scouted when he was a teenager, that’s roughly 7 years ago. He murdered two civilians in a club – causes unknown, bashed their skulls with a bottle until the flesh spurted all over. He received therapy for his violent tendencies.
- He’s also a chain smoker.
- Mother is French and he has a sister.
- He’s originally from France.
- Speaks Korean, English and French.
- Mastered the art of knife throwing at the age of six. His eccentric fascination with blades can be associated to this.
- He’s highly intelligent with an IQ of 220. He was in and out of school but taught himself by utilizing the public library.
- Outright dangerous, cunning.
- Taeyong’s skills are out of this world. He could beat the speed of a bullet and he’s got a deadly accuracy in his strikes. It’s like the blades are a part of him and when he moves, it is fluid like water.
- Lack of emotions. The lack of empathy and compassion are as natural as breathing in their profession. But Taeyong is something else. Not a twitch of the eye, not a downward curl of his mouth, not a glower. Nothing. It’s though he’s an empty vessel of what used to be a human being.
- He’s insane but he’s all Red Phoenix wants. He’s like all the Gold and Diamond cards combined. Just screwed in the head that’s why his work is limited. The torture’s just to relieve the itch.
- Can be manipulative. Be wary of every little thing that comes out of Taeyong’s mouth, since there’s a high probability that all of it will turn out to be a lie.
- Knows when people hide things. Things that are most probably too embarrassing to admit so they keep it inside.
- A psychopath, crackhead, freak ㅡ call him whatever you want. He hates people and he won’t stop hating people.
- Can escape even the maximum security prison as he will outsmart them all.
- Taeyong on the other hand has one thing and one thing only to care for, and that is to achieve things on his own no matter the consequence. Innocent lives do not concern him and his heart is devoid of feelings.
- Taeyong may dislike contact, but he’s a maddening flirt.
- Tortures to relieve the urge.
- Nudity isn’t a big deal to him.
- Most of his thoughts are spontaneous, out of this world, something that a mentally healthy person wouldn’t even consider.
- Shameless manipulator, cunning and sinister.
- Has a mind of his own.
- Hates going out, rather stay in.
- Nasty habit of eating noisily.
- Inspects knife’s sharpness by slicing through the thin skin of his thumb, watching the blood ooze out and dribble down his wrist before licking up a stripe, following its trail.
- Tasted a lot of blood in seven years he was in Red Phoenix.
- Factors that trigger him in a plane: snoring, loud chats, crying babies.
- Normally doesn’t fuck with people who belittles him. But also doesn’t let them see the end of the day.
- Triggers the desire to kill by getting into the crowd.
- Fight. That’s what he wants people to do. He wants people to fight and resist and show that they’re not scared. Taeyong would love it.
- Crushing bones is like classical music to him.
- Hates liars the most, opportunists taking credit for things that aren’t theirs.
- Taeyong will always know all of it, will always get what he wants – one way or another.  
- It isn’t like Taeyong to be hiding away from a mess, especially when they wake the animal in him.  
- Thrill. Taeyong lives for the thrill.
- Everyone is a monster, and he believes he’s the worst of all.
- Mother was raped, sister tormented.
- A careless boy, much more than that. Uncaring and has a mind of his own.
- He’s not using that name called Ethan. Everyone calls him Taeyong.
- Habit of nail biting.
- Fears nothing. He’d swim in a sea of sharks and feel at home with the predators.
- Felt fear once and that’s because he thought he was going to lose his one and only friend.
- A nicotine addict.
- A very hardheaded man.
- He won’t trust himself no matter what.
- Mood changes quickly.
- Out to kill with useless, taunting questions.
- A deadly accurate knife thrower
- Independent. Relying on no one for emotional guidance. Taeyong has no one because he’s stubborn, will never let anyone touch him, come close to him – unless it’s Jung Jaehyun.
- Never been to a church his whole life.
- The spawn of Satan.
- Manipulates people for his own sake.
- Learned to hold his temper, though he’s still struggling from time to time. Managed to stay in a room full of people. Learned to apologize when he knows he let his irrationality get the best of him.
- Really good at knife throwing.
- Off the charts crazy.
- He wanted to lash out, to scream at people not to look at him because he felt exposed, he felt scrutinized and he hated attention.
- Daredevil skills of counter flow and beating the red light.
- Everytime he gets close to people or finds himself in a crowd, he thinks of something that distracts him, something worth thinking of rather than the jitters in his nerves, which includes quite a few things. But the strongest compulsion is Jaehyun’s eyes. They distract him – sometimes.
- Has a dark humor.
- He never forgets the faces of people he meets even if they only appeared once in his life.
- The dull, imminent dread of not knowing a thing. It discomforts him because he’s always supposed to know what’s going on.
- Never gone to a theme park.
- Never played mobile games.
- Not afraid of going through the battle alone, lived through bouts of flames and pricks of ice. Looks at death right in the eyes.
- Taeyong will never learn how to speak without swearing the life out of anyone talking to him.
- Sexually vulgar.
- Hates being controlled.
- Bordeaux – it was Lee Taeyong’s – Invictus’ second kingpin’s birthplace.  
- Strongest member of two crime organizations.
- The people before him won’t be able to touch a man of his caliber.
- Possesses both organizations’ traits and competence.
- Red Phoenix’s heir, Garnet’s member and Invictus’ second kingpin, Lee Taeyong.
- Having lived through 29 years with a mind of his own, thoughts of his own, he only needed himself to consult.
- Part of two deadly crime organizations.
- Inside the cold heart is still a ruthless killer.
- His eyes are always lifeless, a blank slate. His face doesn’t give away anything either.
- A psychopath is nothing but impulsive, thoughts changing as quick as the day goes. 
- He never really bothers with drying his hair properly. 
- He’s always been more comfortable concealed, hidden.
- He never listens to his therapist. He doesn't take the pills for his anger regularly. And no matter how many times he sees professionals and receives their service, his nature is hopeless, brain made not to conform but to perform however it wants. people like Lee Taeyong are too complex. 
- Cursing, passive aggression, guilt tripping.
- He despises it when he has to deliver a heart-shattering speech and someone cuts him off.
- Used to torture people into submission, extract necessary information that his organization would make use of. When they’re dead, sometimes he play butcher and remove the organs because they sell high in the black market.
- He never lies. Unless he wants something.
- Kinky as hell.
- At the mention of his birth name, the name he legally uses in his home country, Taeyong visibly winces. He really can’t bear with it outside the bedroom and when someone else other than Jaehyun utters even just one syllable of it.
- For a man of his caliber, Ethan Lee sure knows everyone in here despite being a generally quiet and private person
- In Taeyong’s agenda, gloating comes first. Selfishness. Arrogance. Grandiose self-esteem. He needs an outlet for his emotional manipulation.
- A natural actor.
- One should not put their trust in Lee Taeyong. Even the man himself can lie so much that he himself might even believe it.
- Likes to show off.
- He doesn’t open up right away and he does and says mean things. He may or may not purposely do something you dislike to catch you off-guard.
- Likes knives. Knife throwing.
- Used to eating with his bare hands.
- Like a lion in his own kingdom. Like an unfeeling psychopath, equipped with tremendous pain tolerance.
- Shameless.
- Gardening is better than swimming or going through those annoying ropes and treehouses. They can do all that at home but it’s not everyday one does some peaceful gardening.
- Refuses to acknowledge anything remotely close to an act of kindness. Kindness, whenever it comes out of him whether on purpose or not, irks him to no end. It’s not his brand.
- What’s worse than being cornered is not knowing where the danger is.
- Likes darts.
- To kill time in the asylum, he either made stories in his head or read books he borrowed from an asylum friend or calculated the size of his room.
- Unpredictable.
- Someone like Taeyong cannot be excused. His actions are done on purpose without care for the feelings of others, unless you are someone like Jaehyun in his life.
- He has always slinked around his preys without them suspecting a thing – unless he makes them.
- Enduring a long, boring conference is better than dealing with cases filed against him.
- One thing Lee Taeyong hates for certain, in his own way, is when someone questions his ideas.
- Prideful.
- He’s not used to asking; it wounds his pride. Getting everything he wants as easy as 1 2 3 has always been his lifestyle.
- It’s always easy to lie to Jaehyun because one, he’s a good actor and it’s like a default in his personality.
- His memories are sharp but some things get rusty as time goes by.
- The knife thrower doesn’t crave peace – he shuns it.
- Impulsive.
- Overbearing, because he’s the best.
- Pain is like his intangible twin. It’s what keeps me going. And you, and Olivia, and the others I’m not yet ready to admit because I’m not sure if I have the right to include them.
- Maybe pain and candies and Jaehyun aren’t his most favorite in the world but the enticing thrill of annihilation.
- Red Phoenix’s hidden weapon.
- Doesn’t wanna partake in anything headache inducing. Just likes fighting.
- His existence alone is a treasured asset.
- Bloodthirsty. Vindictive.
- Since Taeyong’s stature is smaller compared to the opponent, his moves are quicker and his arm strength from all the training and combat gives hits harder than average.
- Hates sleep. sleeps so lightly that even Jaehyun’s breathing can wake him.DIET
- He doesn’t seem to give a fuck about anything other than sweets.
- Loves lollipops, particularly the grape and strawberry flavors.
- Drinking blood is like his diet.
- Loves Pissaladiére pasta, something homey, Strawberry flavored juice box. Pizza and beer. Pissaladiére – Taeyong’s favorite recipe. It’s different from Italian pizzas with its more bready crust topped with caramelized onions and salty olives and anchovy fillets, compressing a French man’s taste. Eats two toasts every morning. When not bothered enough making his own food at home as he’s not very much of a breakfast fan. Eats only sweets most of the time, too.
- Usual diet is the sweets from the vending machine.
- Chocolate Chip Cookie Sundae and Strawberry Street Car Sundae. As an avid sugar fan, those are his two most favorite flavors.
- Loves chocolate bars.
- He’s into alcohol.
- Calvados and Pommeau. Apple brandy.
- Bites down candies. Since Taeyong would never eat lollipops like a normal human would.
- Dislikes broccolis.

WEAPONS
- A batch of knives from his belt.
- At the length of his leg, a blade is strapped to his calf.
- Three knives varying in sizes and purpose, sharpened to perfection, strapped under his shirt.
- Small folding cleaver secretly strapped under his shirt.
- Long straps filled with daggers.
- Leg holsters.
- Holster beneath shirt, containing daggers.
- A set of throwing knives.
- Guns of different calibers, an array of knives, explosives and other deadly tools, even torture equipment. For Lee Taeyong, it’s home.
- Different knives specifically designed for his expertise – switchblades, gravity and ballistic knives, stilettos, daggers and folding cleavers made to cut through bones, as well as a handgun.
- Knives in straps to be wrapped around his torso.
- A gun in the holster on his back.
- An arm of grenades.
- Small cleaver from the strap attached to his torso.
- Suppressed sniper rifle.

BACKSTORYHe’s not sick in the head, he’s also not cursed. Only his mother thought that way.
Well, as a kid he had – still have weird quirks, clawed down other kids’ faces and giggle when they cry because what can he do, it’s music to his ears when they wail and scream pathetically. He’s that crazy little boy who watches gore and asked her one day if he could shoot people instead because he didn’t want to take an afternoon nap. Cut his little sister’s finger with a bread knife on her birthday because the icing on her cake was pink, he wanted it red. He made no friends because the news instantly spread and reached these mommy pigs and they locked their kids in their houses. Mother made no action to right their assumptions. Yeah he hurt the kids but only because they were so stupid. He wouldn’t hurt them if they weren’t, alright. She hit him, called him names so much that they don’t affect him now, hid his sister away from him. That whore hated him and he hated her too.
Learned knife throwing during the nights they were knocked out.
A bastard said his mother’s a whore, but he’s the only one who can call her that.
He was barely eight, or whatever, he fucking forgot already. Father brought them here in Korea. Namgyu was never there for the holidays, birthdays; he was just there once or twice a month, max of three once in a blue moon if he’s bored out of his wits and wanted some temporary entertainment. Introduced Taeyong to knife throwing. So if you think he’s good, you might as well give Namgyu some credit. Just the tiniest. He still does it the way he do because of himself.
Alright so Namgyu stopped coming over. They didn’t even know what kind of work he did. The geezer met Taeyong’s mother at a club, fucked her, had him and Olivia, dropped by like a stranger and disappeared without a word. Got sick of the routine, perhaps. And maybe, they held Namgyu back from expanding his job. Didn’t even have the decency to send some money. TY thinks it improved when Namgyu left, seeing that his mother and sister survived until he messed up Kim Jaeseok. Olivia and him learned to forget they even had a father. She’s more emotionally attached to familial shit like this, you know.It’s been a long while, like a series of eternity since his life in France. The only memories he has of the country are vague, having been kept inside the house for most of his childhood and forbidden to go out just so his mother could soothe the worries of their neighbors.
Taeyong was already a monster even before.
He didn’t see this day coming. He didn’t dream of coming back to a place he didn’t have much to miss on. Taeyong lives through each day without a care in the world, just trying to live the moment by however he wants, however it makes him.Taeyong is just a lonely person masked with the monstrous desire to be strong, to be feared. The loneliness makes him weak and he hates weakness that he blankets it with his hatred, anger, childhood issues and the need to become significant, to become someone hard to forget. To be a nightmare.Taeyong is a pool of torture and regrets and hurt. He murdered people just because they annoyed the fuck out of him and how much he hates people who try to look at him thinking he’s a plague.
He cut my sister’s finger when I was a kid because he didn’t like the color of her birthday cake. He murdered two men in a club when he was a teenager, bashed their skulls open because they wouldn’t let him grab his fucking drink. He tortured people, skinned them alive, plucked their teeth and carved letters on their flesh. After that he beheaded them. He didn’t stop with just one or two. He killed more. Because they got in his way and mostly because they were annoying.He’s capable of things no mentally healthy person will do.
He kills people just because he wants to. I mean, they give him a reason.
Because of what they did, he lost my father. Namgyu was tortured to death. He tortured people for a living.
He killed the bastard’s son first. Before you ask him, he did it because he was bored. Do you understand the need to kill? The desire? It sat within him, to the very core of his being, it runs in his bloodstream. The desire to inflict pain is in his nature. As far as he can remember, because ever since, he hated people and he hated things that don’t go the way he wants them to. So he hurt his nurse – because he felt like he needed to. He thinks, he will find a reason to hurt, no matter what.
According to his therapist, he kills for a reasons. They don’t think it’s solely due to lack of interesting activities. There’s a need that drives him to do these things.
Aggression, paranoia, depression and anxiety. schizophrenia, tendency to have negative emotions and self-image as well as signs of cautiousness. These reflects him.
He spaces out, thinking of stuff along the lines of murder, settling issues through violence and there’s always a need to be violent, he’s not kidding. His mood changes drastically in such a short period of time and he can’t help it.
His father abandoned him when he was a kid. What kind of a father leaves his family behind? His mother? How can he look up to someone like that? She did nothing but hate him, be ashamed of him. She’s like his father. They both wanted him gone; they wanted him hidden away from the rest of the world. Is this the result of being cooped up in darkness, hm? From isolation? His parents loathed him. If they don’t like him, then he shouldn’t like them too. Isn’t that how it works?
Lack of affection from both parents, especially the father; no close ties with the mother. He expressed interest in dance, the desire to do things in his own way or change the way things are. He has an unconscious fear of being left alone, hostility towards men and women, the desire for affection. He has also emphasized how dysfunctional his family is, the strong will to understand the people around him. He doesn’t think marriage is necessary. Again, he’s shown aggressive tendencies, lack of fear when faced with authority, and importance on perfectionism. All the negativities he’s felt ever since, they compress and manifest in the actions you make. He needs to learn how to express himself properly.
Family issues, right? He’s aggressive because it’s how he expresses his thoughts. He was literally kept hidden as a boy, until now that he’s a grown ass man. Without a proper outlet, no one to talk to, violence is always the key for someone like him. The fear of being left alone? Maybe. Though he’ll have you know he doesn’t fear anything unless we’re talking about his one and only friend; he doesn’t want him to leave him anymore because he’s the only one that actually got interested in him.
Taeyong wants to change everything about himself except for independence. He lived in the streets and survived without anyone’s aid, he killed his enemies without anyone telling him what to do, and he wants to live the rest of his life needing no one else’s support but himself. Taeyong is his own pillar, his own sword and shield.
He still struggles with them, especially in times he’s reminded of his family, as they are the core reason of his destructive personality.
Because as strong as independent he is, as indifferent and as heartless, he knows now that some people are worth keeping.The last celebration he remembers was when he was still young, small but already deadly. He welcomed July 1st, exactly at twelve midnight in the middle of mastering the art of knife throwing, wishing that his father would surprise him when the sun comes up.
Lee Namgyu didn’t come. He stopped believing in the concept of birthdays.
He’s a problematic tormenter, and Lee Namgyu wanted someone like him because he’s violent, ruthless and horrifying, able to do the dirty works they frequently had.He just wants to give back the pain he’s stored for years and years of putting up a strong front so that no one will break down the walls he made up for himself. One parent already abandoned Olivia and him, but that didn’t stop mother from neglecting him.
Taeyong recalls everything in his childhood and gets no happy memories, not even one. He doesn’t know if he should laugh or cry because he was a cursed child, like she called him then, that from a fresh age he had learned to shut himself down, which a normal kid shouldn’t have the worst luck of doing.
The only thing he’s glad mom did was never treating her the way she treated him. He knows he was fucked up ever since. But did she have to be ashamed of him? Did she have to deny him of the love and care he needed? From the start, he was a lost cause. Her and what people said were more important than he’ll ever be. She never gave him the fucking attention he craved and now he’s fucking doing it wrong!
He can’t love people the right way because he never knew how it’s done. He knows he has a lot of sins and he’s at fault for letting them happen. But do you know that one thing he’s always wished for but was too mad to admit?
He wished she was there to stop him during the times it was too dark and he had to paint it red so he could see.
Taeyong may be crazy, he may think he’s incapable of love but he loves his innocent sister the most, loved her even before love was reintroduced to him. Taeyong will always love Olivia more than anything in the world.
Not even the chocolates, not even the cigarettes, not even the pleasure of killing, and not even Jaehyun.Apparently, these murderous violent tendencies rooted from neglect, lack of affection and childhood hostility.
That Namgyu and Léonie had a lot of part to play in it, but contrary to popular belief, it’s not completely their fault because he had a hand in molding himself this way, because he let it happen even though he’s fully aware of the atrocious shit he did.To drown someone to the brink of death only to pull ‘em up so they could fill their lungs with air – pump those bags full enough until the next drowning. So when it happens again, and again, you’re gonna get used to it. And you will never be able to differentiate life from death again.He used to make snowballs and throw it at his sister’s face.
To him, Christmas is nothing but coldness and yellow blinking lights that look like the butt of a firefly. He remembers watching from his room how neighborhood children played outside and enjoyed the holidays while he was kept inside because he would only cause trouble. Léonie wasn’t wrong. But he deserved to play, too.
Christmas that time was dull. And it always is.He was literally born in this kind of world locked up in a dungeon, you know. They tortured him until all he knew was either pain or nothing at all? You should’ve seen him get shackled to the walls, with his face swollen, ankle sprained. You know how he got his spine tattoo? They cut him down to see how much he could tolerate ‘til he passed out. He had the scar covered so everytime he looked at it, it’d look awesome. They even made him swallow a microchip to check if it could be detected when ingested. But it failed so he had to shove a finger down his throat to puke it out.When he ran away from home, his sister and him were in bad terms. It was entirely his fault – since the beginning, there was only him to blame. Taeyong didn’t want her to enjoy life because he was not allowed to. If he couldn’t be free, then why could she? Isn’t it the way it was supposed to be? But Olivia didn’t understand him. None of them did.
Yes, he might be a little obsessed with his sister, but that’s only because she’s the first person he had been invested with. It might be because they share the same blood that he has this strong attachment towards her. There’s nothing more to it. She’s someone that will make his life a little less boring, a little more meaningful. Together with Jaehyun, they’re going to make sense of Taeyong’s existence.Ethan was overprotective of her before, borderline paranoid when she used to go home late. He coldly reprimanded her, even threatened to do unimaginable things to her friends saying they weren’t who she thought they were.
He actually already forgot what he looked like when he was 19.
Fuck him up if even Lee Namgyu turns out to be alive after all. That will not make sense anymore because even though he didn’t see his body, he saw how badly electrocuted it was to the point of burning.What ticks him off? Lee Namgyu convulsing as high voltage electricity swarm his nerves, Olivia going through the excruciating pain of having her skin carved, Léonie being feasted on by sickening men, Red Phoenix losing from its own game, the fights he and Jaehyun had because of unrelenting pride and misplaced accusations and Invictus’ future put to a savage risk.Lee Taeyong is the last and realest legacy of Red Phoenix.
Red Phoenix and Invictus’ ace, with the man who cannot be ranked for his strength can never be measured.Léonie was the permanent family member in Olivia’s life, the one that favored her over her brother. Even though she was passively cruel to him, they had an unbreakable bond.He’s not totally insane. There’s a defect with his brain that keeps him from having intense feelings. Sometimes it happens, but they die down pretty fast. He might get mad right now and a second later he’s not – he will feel nothing. Based on the diagnosis, he cannot differentiate right from wrong. It’s true, but he also believes morals do not exist. See, when he ran away he slept in public libraries after reading lots of books. That’s how he knows humans are stupid.
Conscience is something he wasn’t born with so he never apologized for ruining Olivia’s birthday. But during the times he couldn’t go out like other kids did, he wondered if he could also be normal, do normal. He knew from the beginning that he doesn’t care if he’s wrong, if he hurt others, if he’s the spawn of Satan.
He thinks that’s why he learned to resent even though he barely felt it. Violence is the only way he could talk. That’s why he hated their mother. Because she didn’t teach him how to be like Olivia. That’s fine, though. Because if his symptoms were stopped earlier on, he would be weak. He doesn’t want to be weak.
A lot of things happened in the 11 years his sister and him were apart. But he will always want to protect her because he can do it, and he knows how cruel people’s intentions can be.Olivia had a snipped tongue and broken fingers.
Dragonaire was not the one that ripped articulation from the woman in front of him. Dragonaire was not the one that replaced her dainty hands with deformed digits.
Léonie was the only one he saw back there because Lee Namgyu’s body was already disposed, and Olivia was in Garnet’s hands.
Garnet member. Apparently, they were the ones that cut her tongue and battered her hands.
She was taken away after Dragonaire carved her back. Garnet mutilated and disfigured her, patched her up and let her go.He knew a lot of the bible, ironically, so Olivia could possibly be a believer.
Lee Taeyong is a phoenix. Was once thought to be a myth. Evaded death repeatedly. Came back stronger than before, every single time.