De Wolf was born in Eureka, California. Raised Baptist, DeWolf was a "hardcore Christian kid" who hoped to become a minister. At the age of six, his pastor handed him a book titled "The Kingdom of the Cults". It referred to contemporary religious movements, one of which stuck out: Scientology, founded to his surprise by his own great-grandfather, L. Ron Hubbard. Since that point, DeWolf became fascinated with his ancestor's legacy, reading his books, and citing Hubbard's legacy as his inspiration to become an artist. "I remember idolizing L. Ron as a kid, and I remember asking my mom all the time why couldn't I meet him," admits DeWolf. "I didn't know at that point that he had created a religion, I just knew when I went into a bookstore I could find books by him—he was evidence to me that you could be a writer simply by your will alone. Outside of this man running this crazy church and brainwashing millions of people, at the same time he was just another family member."