He considered him as an older brother and even as a father figure as a preacher, but this story was revealed as partially fake; Cyrus was still a teenager when Sebastian came to the church and was under the tutelage of a preacher named Roger Trigon. When Sebastian's father came at him with a gun, Cyrus and Trigon broke into the house in their alter-egos as the Acolyte and the Devil and beat him. Trigon gave Sebastian a gun to slay his father and after he did so, Sebastian was escorted by them to an abandoned factory in the Glades and joined into Trigon's cult, Church of Blood.