in his mid teens, Jonathan met a green haired man by the name of Boris. the sketchy middle aged man was involved with La Populace, the shadow mafia that was the bogeyman of the streets. Boris was an informational broker and elite spy for the criminal organization.

of course, Jonathan didn't know this at first but remained skeptical of Boris. because Jonathan was so keen, Boris took a liking to the teenager. seeing how broken and lost he was inside, he adopted him as a sort of nephew.

while Boris left most of his business with La Populace out of their friendship, Jonathan would figure it out very quickly that Boris was involved with the mafia. young Jonathan didn't care, he liked how goofy and fun Boris was to be around and he filled in the gap that Joshua left behind. Boris also had a twin brother by the name of Draco, to which Jonathan related to, having a twin of his own.

upon learning that Jonathan was an aspiring detective who wanted to bring justice despite the restrictive laws of the governing Lunar Church, Boris taught him his ways of epsionage, what to look out for, how to twist the rules to his favor. all Boris wanted was to equip Jonathan with the right tools for what he wanted to do, and boy did he succeed.

said tools included shadow magic, although Boris was hesitant to involve Jonathan in such sketchy business. regardless, Jonathan was persistent.

Boris had his own agenda, however... and that agenda was to take down La Populace. a lot of the things Boris was going through he kept to himself. when it finally boiled over, Boris was killed in a mysterious explosion, most evidence destroyed.

losing a second father figure destroyed Jonathan, it was one of the darkest moments in his life. he became very introverted, angry, and spiteful.

Boris left behind a silver briefcase tucked away beneath the floorboards of his hideout. it was a very inconspicuous hiding spot, but Jonathan was keen enough to discover it. he learned all the secrets Boris kept, every bit of information on La Populace, all the strings that needed to be pulled to take them down. and that's exactly what Jonathan did down the line.

Tes was that "weird, quiet kid" back in high school who would often be by his twin brother, Sébastien's side like a shadow.

the latter was much more popular and was the head of a clique that pretty much ran the show around school. but Tes? no one knew a thing about him.

nobody truly knew what was going on in Tes' head. he barely ever talked, but when he did he was charismatic and controlled the conversation. usually, others would get the feeling he knew more than he should have about them and the people around them.

he would be found in the dark corners of the building, picking locks to get into places he shouldn't be in. everyone avoided him because getting involved with him spelled trouble.

except one person. that person was Wesley, he was just as crafty and quiet as Tes was. they got into a relationship. that relationship ended in heartbreak when Tes accidentally got Wesley pregnant. Tes had such a freak out he decided to dip the relationship and promptly self neutered. Wesley aborted the child and now has motherly trauma that carried into his adulthood.

they were basically two troubled people who couldn't work out their issues, as people and with their relationship and decided that running away was the better choice.

it would've been the hottest gossip passed around school, but due to Sébastien's influence and his threats towards anyone who dared to talk shit about his brother, no one could just freely do that.

later on during Jonathan and Sébastien's young adult years, Francine became involved with La Populace and had previous relationships with their members. in fact, she dated a man by the name of Henri, who was an important figure among their ranks.

he cheated on her, and being the horrible person she was, she hired a hit on him and had him buried just like she did her previous husband. La Populace wasn't stupid. they knew it was Francine who ordered the hit and sent their own on her.

it was on a night with a full moon when the assassin came to their house and poor twenty year old Sébastien watched as he beheaded her with his katana in their living room. Jonathan hid, being the smart one. but Sébastien? he was covered in his mother's blood as he held her body and wailed the night away until the police came.

after that night, Sébastien was never the same.

the two brothers had to get themselves together; their only parent was dead and they had to move on. Sébastien and Jonathan founded their own private investigation agency together, Penumbra Covert, using their biological father's old office. the two promised that they would get to the bottom of La Populace together. Sébastien for the sake of their mother, and Jonathan for the sake of Sébastien.

in reality, Jonathan knew that Francine was awful and it never sat right how she treated Sébastien, but all he wanted was closure for his twin brother. he would do anything if it meant Sébastien would find peace and move on.

Sébastien began taking some very sketchy requests behind Jonathan's back, being moved by the clients' stories of their affairs and dismays, as though he'd seen himself in them. he would blackmail cheaters and mistresses to literal death for the sake of revenge, not being different from what his mother was.

Jonathan confronted Sébastien and it resulted in a fight between the two twins. Jonathan revealed that Francine was the one who sent the hit on their father, Joshua, which Sébastien did not take well at all.

Sébastien walked away from that conflict and it was the last time Jonathan ever saw him for years. when Jonathan returned to the office and checked their home, Sébastien was nowhere to be seen. he'd taken nearly everything he deemed he owned and went his own way.

heartbroken and mourning for the third time, Jonathan felt as though his family had been irreparably torn apart. the only thing he wanted to do now was move on and forget everyone he knew. this was when Jonathan ditched his name and began his paranoid habit of avoiding every bit of emotional attachment in fear of losing someone he loved again.

Jonathan, now the Nameless Shadow, coped heavily with copious, frivolous sex and began chain smoking. fortunately, his altered biology by shadow corruption meant his health no longer was affected by cigarettes.

this nickname wouldn't last long, as Desmond - his childhood friend who was trying to reconnect with him - tried to refer to him as Jonathan, only to get into a small spat over his name. the private investigator uttered, "don't test me!" and from then on, Desmond began referring to him as Tes. it caught on quickly.

at the age of 23, Tes decided he would finish what Boris couldn't, smashing a car into La Populace's penthouse and shooting down a dozen or two men before wringing out the leader's neck like a towel with his bare hands. that leader, Eugene, died that night with a pair of shadow scissors in his heart.

this left La Populace in ruins, enough for Sébastien's forces to eliminate the rest of La Populace's scattered members.

Tes knew that in a way, he and Sébastien worked together to take down the group that tore their family apart. they'd completed what they set out to do when they started Penumbra Covert, even as the two were apart.

it should have felt satisfying, closing a chapter in their lives that pained them like a festering, aching wound. but it wasn't. Tes was hollow and empty on the inside without Sébastien, who was now dictator and Archbishop of the Lunar Church.

but he couldn't admit that. so he moved on, trying his best not to look up at the full moon. his brother was watching, and he knew everything he was doing under the keen eye of the moon. he would not escape him, no matter how hard he tried.

that was much more painfully obvious when Sébastien shortly after passed a law that all shadow magic users should be punished by death. Tes broke down that night hearing the news, sobbing tears he'd kept in for years over a bottle of bourbon. convinced that he was dead to Sébastien, he tried to forget him entirely. but that didn't happen, because Sébastien refused to let Tes go.

eventually Sébastien snapped, his unhinged wrath reaching a breaking point. the only person who could convince him to step down was his brother, but unfortunately Tes was extremely hesistant and violently so.

it's a long, winded story, but the climax ended with Sébastien metaphorically tearing off the skin of the Moon and wearing it, trying to play god. it says something when Sébastien is literally so powerful that his mind overpowered a thing that is supposedly a deity.

Desmond had to convince Tes to face his younger twin, nearly getting killed in the process by an enraged Tes in his shadow form. Desmond, who also had a younger twin who he dearly loved, told Tes that he understood what it was like, and it wasn't just Sébastien's life at stake, but the entire world's. Tes would soon come back after a cigarette to help take down Sébastien from his power trip.

if it weren't for Tes, the mob would've had Sébastien's head on a pike. can you blame them after all he'd done? but Tes wouldn't let that happen. he disappeared with Sébastien, and that was the last time the general public has ever seen the Archbishop.