Kye Lewis Byllesby (Character)

Kye Lewis Byllesby, also known as just Kye, and, in the far future, Future Kye or The Narrator, is the narrator of the story of Boastgusters and is one of its main characters. He is an unreliable narrator and incredibly nefarious.

Present
At the current moment in the story, Kye is kind of an impressionable everyman. Though for a brief period in Part 2 he glorified American imperialism, which is not average for fifth graders, he's overall the most normal out of the Fellas. He functions as the straight man and leader of the group, though is prone to not caring about others.

Future
Future Kye is the narrator of the story and an incredibly pompous and pretentious person who's completely terrible. It's not currently known how he became this way, but as thousands of years have passed between when the story he's telling takes place and now, it's safe to assume that something big happened. He also appears to have had a falling out with his friends. Most of the time, his endeavors are spent trying to impress and show off his "omniscience", which, he "has holes in", somehow.

Part 1
Kye briefly appears in Part 1, as he is delivered to Dad's doorstep in a cradle by the mysterious B.O.I.S.

Between Parts 1 and 2
At some point between Part 1 and 2, Kye met Joey, who would become one of his best friends. The two go to school together, and at some point, Dad teaches Kye a little bit about Chromosomes.

Part 2
Kye and Joey attend the class of Ms. Sage in fifth grade. During their final exam, a trigonometry test, they are the only two students to pass and are subsequently drafted into The Second Vietnam War, where Kye hopes to spread United States imperialism. He also watches Joey make a Pickle Sandwich.

On the way, they are grouped with Willem Dafoe in their three-man cell. When they arrive on the beach of Vietnam, they are sent deep into the jungle. While they camp there, Kye is attacked in the middle of the night by a Ghost Tiger. The next morning they go into the nearest village to find out more information.

In the village they meet Napalm Man, a large robot who happens to have a large cache of napalm. Dafoe steals some of this napalm, and on their way back, they encounter a baby who's just dancing in the middle of the road. After Dafoe shoots the baby in the head, Kye starts to laugh uncontrollably. This event would traumatize him permanently to the point where every time he saw a dancing baby he would become incapacitated with laughter for several minutes.

Later that day, Kye manages to trap the Ghost Tiger in a pit and sets it on fire with napalm. This causes an epiphany: imperialism is bad, actually. At sunrise, Joey goes into the forest to try and find an enemy that he picked up on. Kye follows him with his star fusion device that he constructed overnight. When he gets there, Joey has been shot by Christian Coleman, and Kye fuses Joey's entire being with the star known as Betelgeuse. They get back to camp, where Napalm Man is attacking. Joey defeats it, but Dafoe still runs off.

Christian goes home with Kye and Joey. Kye then goes to do some training with his father, and this is where he meets Chadley, but Dad has gotten so strong that he can punch Chadley into the sun with little difficulty.

Between Parts 2 and 3
The three of them meet someone named Christopher who eventually leaves them.

Part 3
Kye, along with the other Fellas (what their friend group would come to be known as), ends up attending Judkins Middle School, where he meets his mentor figure, Terry Handy. He helps restrain Joey when he enters Hulk Hogan mode. He is also present when Lingobingo reveals with her Yoomtah that Arnold Schwarzenegger is actually evil, and when Mr. Handy is "killed" by Schwarzenegger and The Happy Shirt Salesman.

At some point, when he is failing his Makerspace course, Kye goes to visit Steve Wide, his teacher. Mr. Wide tortures him with a demonstration, but he gets out with his life and even dodges an exploding orange from Lingobingo. Then, Kye visits Mr. Handy, and the two catch up on things.

In the last few weeks of the 8th grade, their principal is kidnapped by Mr. Wide and Crest Colgate. Kye is present when Christian uses healing Chromosomes to save the life of Jiffy Bizus. After a meeting with Dad, and the Fellas being officially registered as a group by Joey, Kye goes off with Mr. Handy to confront Mr. Wide. In the battle, Kye is the one who ultimately convinces Mr. Wide to kill himself because Flash is a dying application, and therefore nobody can view his animations anymore. With Mr. Wide dead, the two find that the principal is also dead, so Mr. Handy sacrifices his life by transferring his Chromosomes into the principal's body.

During the funeral service for Mr. Handy, Kye helps lower the coffin into the ground with Joey. However, he hears a noise from a grate on the campus, and the three of them descend into the sewers to investigate. Inside, they find Michael Jackson, member of the Freaker Five who threatens them that Freddie Freaker will be coming for Joey in some time, and moonwalks away. With this knowledge, Kye (along with the other Fellas) decides to train for a full year to prepare for this coming threat.

Part 4
In his training with Dad, Kye is eventually taught not only the Uber Summoning Technique but also Weeaboo Rage Mode. one of his father's signature abilities.

Kye also visits the Dream World and meets Randolph Carter in a bar, and the two of them discuss World War I trivia.

Part 5
At the beginning of Part 5, Kye asks his father if it's possible to create life using Chromosomes. Even though his father cautions him not to, he does it anyway, and creates Archagent Everlasting and Super Stoog, life forms based off of his inner psyche. Though Super Stoog is completely motionless, Archagent is actually sentient and requires being taken care of, so Kye's father demands that he take care of him.

The two go to their first day of high school at Central Coast New Tech High together, where they encounter all sorts of new faces (most notably Greg S. Minderbinder.) Their Spanish teacher, Señor Hinthorne, proposes that two students in the class go on a trip to Costa Rica. Though Kye tries his hardest to be chosen for the trip, ultimately Daniel Smith and Archagent are chosen instead. Kye resolves to follow them inside a very conspicuous bush.

When in Costa Rica, he finds the unconscious body of Daniel and takes it with him. Kye arrives to help Señor fight a rebuilt version of Napalm Man in the Costa Rican rainforest, and notices that Daniel has one of Archagent's eyes. He knows what happened and the three of them return home.

At his house, Kye and Dad have an argument over Archagent's death, and Kye walks by Celes watching the film Casa Blanca, and he thinks about how much he would want to die in a house like that.

He is one of the people who comes up to speak at Archagent's funeral.

Part 6
Kye is present when they are attacked by the Terminator, the revived cyborg form of Arnold Schwarzenegger. He runs him over with an Uber. Later, Kye is the one who notices that somebody might have stolen his bush hiding technique.

He is present when Lingobingo dies and Greg joins the Fellas, before they go to Egypt to confront Mark Zuckerberg.

When the Fellas stop in Kyoto, Kye summons an Uber and runs over a guy who's covered in hands that jumped him during a grocery run, which puts him in jail for a short amount of time. When Greg and Joey appear to bail him out Kye decides that he doesn't want to leave his cell. Kye and Joey have a fight, and when it's done, the three of them leave. Kye then looks for Christian, who he finds at a nearby schoolhouse. The two battle and it is revealed that Christian has had Egyptian Ghost Goop inside him since the day he met Mark Zuckerberg during his training. Once it is taken out of him, the three of them get on a plane that crash-lands in Singapore.

Kye watches Joey and Christian en Français fight it out at the restaurant in Singapore.

Kye fights Silverfish on the boat en route to India, and begrudgingly lets Celes join the team temporarily.

Kye and an Egyptian Ghost Goop clone of Christian fight each other in India after he and Christian go together to get some shaved ice.

Kye is present when the fight between Tristan Walsh, Christian and Joey occurs, and he's the one who "buries" him somewhere near the town.

Kye is the one who decides that killing people is Funni after accidentally murdering Pavlov.

While traveling to Orenburg, Kye has a fight with Demon Dough Flamingo and during this he gains the powers of the Founding Father, Alexander Hamilton.

Kye makes the mistake of staying in Яга's Air BNB like the rest of the Fellas, but makes it out okay.

Kye is the one forced to steal for King Lice after he takes over Greg's mind. He later beats up King Lice and pockets the Comedymium that he was forced to steal.

Kye finds the fiberglass.

Kye was the first to notice the evil baby, and he lost chess against Randolph Carter which made him very upset.

Distant Future
At some point, Kye has an altercation with the B.O.I.S.

Though it's unknown how he gets there, Kye eventually becomes immortal and the host of The Green Room, an isolated yet dapper pocket dimension in the Astral Void. His personality has also deformed into an exaggeratedly callous and calculated person and, at some point, unlearned empathy. In this room he has total omnipotence, and it's where he invites the reader of Boastgusters for an evening.

After telling the reader the story of The Second Vietnam War, he goes back in time to steal a pencil from Will Howell. Then he returns to the future to tell more of the story.

During the telling of Part 3, he simultaneously goes back in time and messes with Joey's DNA to give him the Temporal Screech.

After telling the story of Part 3, he makes some crumpets for the reader, and reveals more to them about the history of the Chromosomes, such as them being created by Nyarlathotep. Then he goes back in time to put the Fellas through a death game, though what exactly it was he did not explicitly state, before he returned to the story.

In the middle of Part 6, Greg S. Minderbinder breaks Kye's legs.

Appearances
Kye appears in every chapter.

Trivia

 * Though Kye in real life is genderfluid, the character of Kye is explicitly and unambiguously male.
 * As confirmed by Chapter 56, Kye does not know what the Great Wall of China is.
 * "Omniscience has holes in it" is a reference to Homestuck, where a character by the name of Doc Scratch states the same thing. Of course, Future Kye as a whole is an expy of Doc Scratch, with the fact that he resides in a Green Room being a big giveaway for that.