Identity V | Wax Artist Background Story 

Now I know why the Wax Sister doesn't have her own abilities. She's literally dead. Phillip is carrying around what's basically a taxidermy of his sister.

This probably is a hunter that actually has humanity left in him He feels regret

I feel like once this guy steps into the manor the chat’s gonna debate on whether he’s hotter than Wu Chang or not

Wuchang: So... we all lost someone incredibly close to us that was like a sibling or was a sibling? Joseph: yup. Wax Artist: yeah. Prefumer: obviously Lucky guy: *cries* Demi: Well sort of... Robbie: I am the dead sibling. Wu chang: we should start a club or something.

Netease has genuinely gotten better in story telling it’s amazing

So Phillip is some madman who waxed himself with the corpse of his sister. . . I fucking love this

One thing that irks me about the backstories is that they never usually answer the question, how do the hunters get invited to the manor? For survivors, they get letters mysteriously given to them, but we don’t really see how most of the hunters get there.

Did someone noticed that how pretty his sister looks!!! Omg, she's angel faced!!! Imagine, Netease makes hunter only her and she is having a S tier skin!!!!

his hand writing is what i adore

Hey guys, i have a different theory, because I think this is a bit more deeper than we think. We can see that his sister IS actually the wax artist, but she didn't know her art was used to do something like his brother's work of physiognomy. To me, it looks like she discoverd it when he became famous abroad. She realized that her beautiful work was only used to spread pseudoscientific racist mentality (racist, but most of all, unfair, because a person appearance and their actions are obviously not related) She knew about how the "evil was imprisoned in wax" and, seeing herself as evil (because of how her work was used by his brother), she imprisoned herself in wax, killing herself. I guess she would have wanted to make his brother realize how wrong his own actions was by doing it, maybe pushing him either to stop everything or to follow her in death, but he only fell in a deeper madness. Actually, now the two of them are "imprisoned in wax", because both of them were evil, one consciously, and the other one innocently. The "this time, let's do this together !" imply how they're both forever linked by destiny and by the evil. He will, once again, bring her knowless and innocent (dead) sister to do horrific things with him. They became, together, the beast.

This might be it lads. This might be the hunter that will make me dual faction.

I can't imagine what will happen to me playing survivor when this Hunter is released

explain this straight: the wax artist actually had NOTHING TO DO WITH ART. in the past, the wax 'artist' developed the theory of physiognomy, which is a pseudoscience and contribute little to the world. it means to determine a person good or bad by the physical feature he/she appears to be. this caused lots of people to get killed by misunderstandings. their family or relatives felt quite angry so they came to the home of wax artist to revenge. he happened to give academic speech all around the world about this physiognomy and left his sister home. those people cruelly killed his innocent sister instead, who simply though his work was some sort of art form. so, when the wax artist got home, he was astonished and angry finding out that his sister was dead. and this time they will 'do it together'

How pretty and Handsome do you want him to be? Netease: Yes. I'm screaming, he looked so pretty! :o And he still is- but holy-

I like how the sister's neck just crack in the end :))

Imagine if the animators just drew a random face for his sketch but everyone just asummed it meant he's racist lolol

When this man gets realised the English chat won't stop arguing if this man is racist or not

HOLY SHIT THIS WAS THE COOLEST BACKGROUND STORY OUT OF ALL

a moment of silence for the people who said they're married

and here we thought that woman was his lover or wife xD turned out to be his sister lmao sdfsdf x) been waiting for him for so long bruh. fortunately for us now we have 3 handsome hunters joseph, wu chang and wax artist x)

when showing his journey on the map, the trail is bloody o.0

Poor Phillip his sister was killed (maybe suicide) because he left her all alone to continue his research i feel kinda bad for him :(

Boy your going into my handsome tall boy collection

idv, it’s been 2+ years, can i finally get a limited s tier from an essence, PLEASE give me his s tier

I envy his handwriting

THE SIBLINGS ARE SO PRETTY I'M BI PANICKING

Ok that it.I pulling for his S-Skin.The background story is so damn good.Not to mention that he hot and loving brother.I'll sell my soul for his skin and him.

as a wax artist main, i think wax artist should have a buff buff: when shooting wax, it will slow survivors down until the wax is gone, survivors will be slowed 2% that's my idea on wax artist

ENGLISH DUBBING in the background stories??? Since when?? OMG. Keep it up Netease! Btw, I LOVE this Hunter. He's gonna be one my mains for sure

im gonna call them oni-chan and one-chan whenever this guy come to match *laugh nervously* but seriously, I adore sibling relationship....doesn't remind u Demon Slayer vibe?? XD

I have so many questions. 1) I'm guessing that maybe the man's research was similar to how sketch artists draw out criminals' faces for the police or something like that even if there is no mention? 2) We see his sister smiling as the double doors opened. Was that just him imagining how his sister would look when he came home? Or did perhaps the killer come to the house impersonating her brother? 3) The final scene. Was the sister's body fused with the wax artist's? Curious and curiouser. The story is just so intricate and well-detailed. Loved it. ❤️

he's hot but his ability looks so sus in game i can't stop laughing when i kite him 😭

I have no clue why I'm rewatching so many of these but I don't regret it

People getting pressed over a sketch of a face is so stupid to me. Its a face, it symbols a mask that hides the beast inside a person. That's all, like come on use your brain. Think. Don't just jump to conclusions.

His voice gets me, I cannot, I- I guess I *s i m p* for him now..

when i first saw the girl attached to him i thought that was his lover or something 💀

Netease: *releases a trailer about a new hunter* Hunter mains: "TIME TO SAVE SOME CLUESSSS!!"

is it just me that sees this guy and galatea together in duo hunters as literally the best duo ever?

Im getting Korekiyo flashbacks from him oml

They both are beautiful 😩❤️

im sorry for the person i will become after he's released

Not people saying he's racist because he sketched a random face in his lore lmao💀

Polun/The Will Brothers: OMG! SIBLING DUO! Wax artist: OMG SIBLING TRIO!

HE IS SO PRETTY IM GONNA BUY HIM

Alright! We got Wu cheng we got Joseph, Vera(Chloe) and now we have Phillip! Now who's next?

It was mentioned that his "works of art" are mere cages to imprison evil, but when he came home, he said that "the escaped beast wrought his sin upon an innocent lamb". Probably one escaped from his "prison" which I assumed that the killer was encased in wax and took revenge on him by killing his sister and encased her with wax as well. But I believe this is all but metaphors. There must be hidden meanings behind those words. And yeah it kinda reminds me of Joseph's backstory. His brother died and got obsessed with parapsychology, which is a pseudoscience same with Philip's physiognomy. And yeah, one I've noticed is that in the ending part, his sister's "wax statue" was beside her, but where's her torso? The legs? Did he...well...nevermind. If he is not afraid of doing that, then it must be that what he is doing to "imprison evil" was to encase the evil people with wax and use their faces to study the faces of criminals. But hey devs, what do you mean by "Her evil within cannot be contained for the fanned flames have surely destroyed her!" Is his sister evil? Now I'm confused... But that's all my thoughts about it!

Philip is very handsome, like his sister, I feel sorry for both of them... I would never have thought that Philip would be hated for being allegedly racist. I don't think he's a racist, because he fights criminals and it's clear that racists have no place to be in such work

...so she got killed by drowning in wax? Fuck that's disturbing. Poor thing.

HE IS SUCH A DADDY-- And his sister is so beautiful too. I'll try my best to play him. 💕//My man Joseph now won't feel lonely... Me : Joseph, This is Philip...my new (2nd) man--- *Got hit by Joseph's sword*

Oh my, his story is.... Interesting

⚠️TW: VIOLENCE, BAD ENGLISH! ⚠️ So if anyone was wondering, this is his story: Philippe and his sister were two famous wax artists. They were making statues together and they were pretty famous. However, Philippe had another hobby besides creating wax sculptures: studying Physiognomy, so a no-scientific study based on the possibility of a person being a criminal based on their facial features. His research became famous and he started traveling around the world explaining people everything he learned. However, this created many misunderstanding and people started killing each other (I mean when they saw someone with a “criminal” facial feature). So everyone thought it was Philippe’s fault. They wanted to get their revenge and so they broke into his house, but they only found his sister Christine, and since they knew she was really precious to Philippe, they took her and drowned her in a boiling wax tub. When he finally got home, he found the scene. Apparently nothing happened: Phillippe “got over his sister’s death” and started teaching to his apprentices. However, after his loss his statues became to be… as beautiful as weird. Lots of people found them scary as they looked like “they were catching the moment of someone’s death”. He was arrested a few times for this reason, but never charged for anything. Nobody knew how Phillip was creating those sculptures, as he was always making them at night. At a certain point, the crime rate of his city increased, since a lot of people started disappearing. The mayor of the city closed all the “night locals”, as they were too dangerous. With the time passing, the criminal rate decreased, so the mayor decided to make a huge ball so that the city could celebrate. The party makers ordered 30 wax statues in Greek mythology style from Philippe to expose them to the ball: Although he only should’ve made 30, Phillipe made 60 statues. During the ball everyone was admiring the sculptures, as they were comparing their height to them’s. At a certain point, when everyone was drunk, an apprentice of Phillipe started wondering a lot about the statues, as he was under alcohol effect. He broke into Philippe’s dark workshop and he fainted. He was awaken by some steps. He was hiding in the dark, so when Philippe and a very drunk man entered in the room, they didn’t notice him. He started wondering why Philippe was carrying a drunk man into the workshop. However what his teacher was he about to do was something shocking. As Philippe made the man lay onto a table, he started heating some wax. When it was boiling he took the pot and started pouring the wax onto the man’s chest. He was still alive, so he started screaming from the burns, and so Philippe poured the wax into his mouth as well. Right after some moments, the wax became solid, and the man’s corpse was now a beautiful wax sculpture. The apprentice was frightened, but he kept his mouth shut. Philippe then inserted some tubes into the statue, as he suck all the blood away replacing it with pink wax. The apprentice ran away while screaming (Phillipe noticed him, but it was too late to caught him) and broke into the ball’s room. However, everyone was dunk, and everyone was admiring the statues… so one on them, under a strong alcohol effect, decided to set fire to them so that they could became big candles. Everyone followed him. A few minutes later the room was filled with a muddy liquid made out of wax, flesh, blood and other liquids. Nobody knew what happened to Philippe, but since his body is covered in burns, he probably died in the fire.

This is the one hunter that will convert countless survivor mains

I wish people who ship him and his sister because they thought its his wife a very *bruh moment*

Need more lore for this man and her sister

This one is special for me, the character is intriguing. A fantastic background story.

"ITS WAX ARTIST! BE HAPPY!" everyone who saw netease fighting for their life abt the leaks: 💃

HIS VOICE OMG.

I'm not sure, but 1:25 really seems like a reference to the painting ‘La mort de Marat’ to me. So, if it's actually one, did Philip's sister get killed like Marat ? I have no idea lmao.

He would be the best char ever if he has sensitivity settings

The image of his sister in the bathtub reminds me of "The Death of Marat" by Jacques-Louis David

I was not expecting him to be that good looking omg 😳

This backstory 💯

The music at the background it sounds so good!!

AY I WAS WISHING HIS BACKSTORY WILL RELEASE END OF SEPTEMBER AND IT WAS OUT ON MY BIRTHDAY THANK YOU!

Tbh what did he think was going to happen 😨 like he left her with his wax statues all alone and really thought his sister was going to be rlly safe 😭😭

I’m so excited when he come outs

He's like so handsome and pretty at the same time help??

His voice is so calming I love it

1:12 *Sudden flashbacks of White & Black's backstory*

I really like this character

ugh this story gives me goosebumps

voice acting on point !!! 🛐🛐 who’s yalls casting director, somebody better give them a raise

If I had a nickels for every person called Phillip who turned into a murderous statue due to the death of a loved one in a Korean game, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's strange something like that would happen twice.

Nice animation as always im exicited to use wax tehe

I like the storytelling. Wow. Base on my understanding, he's really ambitious and that ambition got her sister killed.

His voice is so relaxing bruv

Starting the video out by saying criminals have a certain appearance, then showing a drawing of a black man…..🤔

I love his voice! 💗💗

I need it, and I've been saving for this moment. I want to buy from Wax Artist

ITS JUST THE FIRST 4 SECONDS AND IM SIMPING-

The backstory is honestly kinda sad but OMG THIS MAN AWOOGA 🥰🥰🥰🥰

He is so handsome.

WHAT IN THE HASTUR?! OOH MY GOD!! POG And also Philip's sister looks pretty ✨✨

this fandom wants to be mad at something so badly, can ya'll please fight real world racism and not just get angry at your interpretation of a fictional character you made up yourself. Like I fr thought he was a loud and proud racist or somethin' and it's just bs like this ☠☠☠☠

WAIT I LOVE THIS

I'm really excited about WAP artist :)))

comphet for him even if his name is phillip

Does anyone know the VA in this? Their voice is super soothing ngl

This hunter looks cool

Damn I'ma save up clues for thiss

Dont ya just love when people write their own death warrants, heh.

I'M. EXCITED.

He came to bring the survivors to an end.

Literal fucking chills with the head turn

OH MY GOD, I THOUGHT THAT WAS HIS WIFE, NOT HIS SISTER WHEN THE LEAKS CAME OUT-

Lesson: never leave your sister

The speaker in this video is amazing

Why is he kinda🤤🤤🤤🤤

so this background story is about him and his sister not bad I wonder what his limited skin look like

HOW IS THE SISTER SO GORGEOUS OMG I AM GAY BUT FOR HER I'LL BE HER MAN