Demitrio Aristides

Demitrio Aristides (デメトリオ＝アリステイディス, Demetorio Arisutidisu) is an instructor at Kimberly Magic Academy.

Appearance
Demitrio is a man in his prime with shoulder length black hair and dark blue eyes.

He is dressed in old-fashioned, baggy robes. His robes are half white, half marooon, with a green hood, and bands around his wrists and ankles. He also wears open toe sandals.

Personality
As the Astronomy teacher, he is deeply motivated to protect their world from tír threats and Gnostics.

Demitrio appears uncaring and aloof because of the discrepancy in cognitive density between mages with vast stores of knowledge and those less informed. However, unlike some of his colleagues, he shows concern about the safety of his students and treats their questions with respect. At the end of the combat league, he volunteers to help heal the injured participants. During a tír migration from Uranischegar, he was angry with Vanessa Aldiss for flinging pieces of a creatured near their students and regrets letting one come in contact with Katie Aalto.

In his youth, Demitrio was passionate about astronomy and studying tírs, wanting to one day travel the stars. Without his accumulated knowledge and experience, his personality was that of his familiar, Yuri Leik.

Background
Before joining Kimberly, Demitrio used to be a remote-village mage, tending to ordinaries as a healer, teacher, and fortune teller. He was likely popular with his assigned town since the villagers constructed a deck for him and his students to stargaze on.

Demitrio teaches astronomy at Kimberly, a year two class. He is also a Gnostic Hunter, as well as one of the seven conspirators in the murder of Oliver Horn's mother, Chloe Halford.

As the astronomy instructor, he teaches how to read the positions of celestial bodies and estimate their influence on their world. Demitrio believes astronomy is an extremely urgent and practical science because knowing how to react to tír threats is paramount to resisting the Gnostic threat.

After Enrico Forghieri's murder in 1533, he splintered his soul and planted a familiar among the students to find his and Darius Grenville's murderer.

In 1534, he acted as a commentator along with Luther Garland during the combat league, and offered to help heal the injured students after the fighting concluded. He and Vanessa Aldiss then lead the third year and above students to stop a tír migration from Uranischegar. When the migration began, he was furious at Vanessa's disregard for student safety as she flung pieces of tamper pillars towards their barrier. A fragment landed near Katie Aalto, who reached out to try and communicate with it. Tim Linton tried to pull her away before it could do any harm, but it attacked him as well. Demitrio eventually intervened and destroyed the creature, ordering Oliver and Godfrey to take their friends to the back of the barrier. After the battle, he examined Katie to ensure there were no lingering parasites or etheric damage.

Spells

 * Altum Somnum: A spell that puts his target to sleep. Demitrio uses it to render Yuri Leik unconscious in order to siphon the information he has gathered.
 * Soul Split: Demitrio is able to split his soul into two parts, knowledge and ignorance, creating a familiar. Ignorance represents Demitrio's personality without his accumulated knowledge and experience. The familiar is their own being and is not aware they are part of Demitrio's soul, however, Demitrio is able to extract information from them.

The Fifth Spellblade - Papiliosomnia, the dream of a butterfly that never wakes up again
Used by Demitrio Aristides. This spellblade functions by inducing the target into a state of selflessness, where subject and object are not separated. This blurs the target's cognition, making them lose the ability to distinguish between themself and their opponent; between attacking and being attacked. The caster then guides attack and defense to a result in which only the target is killed, typically by making the target kill themself. Because the target mentally agrees with the result, there is no resistance in the process.

Quotes

 * (To his astronomy class) "I am Demitrio Aristides, and I teach astronomy. Let me offer a word of caution—when you address me, use a name. Doesn't matter which. But if you simply say Instructor, I won’t perceive that as a term of address.

Trivia

 * This character may have been named after Aristides Demetrios, an American sculptor that came to prominence in the 1960's.