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Matias Marino
Professor Marino
Professor Marino
Matias was born to a lineage of supposedly-Argentinian ancestry, but such a hodgepodge of races mixed in this lost world that he was pretty sure he was a mutt of many different things. Even so, that was what his mother always emphasized. After developing his divination ability, he was able to look into the pasts of his ancestors and learned that, yes, he was a mutt of many races.
Matias spent his childhood in a world of severe poverty, down in the Arcadia City underground. His mother worked as a prostitute in her desperation to get them food to eat, but she would often return with cuts and bruises as well. Sometimes, he would go a day or two without food. Once he got old enough, he began stealing money and food here or there, although he often ended up getting beat at first. Eventually, he also became involved in prostitution when they became desperately cold or hungry, but his mother would only give him to clients who appeared trustworthy. Once he reached early adolescence, his mother would not return home for days at a time and began losing weight. She developed peculiar-looking acne on her face and would begin to tremble sometimes. The income she brought home decreased. She became very sick, drenching her clothing with sweat during the middle of the night and shortly after began coughing up blood. Desperate to buy her food and medicine, he sold himself to a man willing to pay a high price, and the man left him with many bruises and cuts once he was done. He dozed afterward, dreaming of his mother's corpse in the underground. After he woke up, he limped home as quickly as he could with the money he earned, but his premonition proved true.
He cried over his mother's corpse, and it was disposed of by the city once the odor of her rotting flesh grew too strong. Before they took her away, he took a ragged necklace with large stones from her. He became sick shortly after and used the money he earned for his mother to buy treatment and food for himself instead. After surviving, he decided to never live in the underground again. He worked on the streets as a fraudulent fortune-teller and a thief. The more he practiced, the more often his prophecies came true and less he was a fraud. He placed himself in fortune's favor with his abilities and joined the school as part of the House of Muryllis.
He worked hard to refine his talent in divination. All he knew of his father was that he disappeared when Matias was young. Eventually, he grew skilled enough to find his father's corpse and then look into his past. The last memories of the body showed his father being killed after a drug deal gone wrong.
Having solved the mysteries of his past, he began focusing on his career and survival instead. Fortunately, his abilities with divination were far more lucrative than being a prostitute. He catered to different high-ranking people to expand his wealth and fortune. When he grew older, his ambitions for wealth faded enough to make him content with his life. As far as dating went, he neither refused anyone nor chased after anyone. Although he was blessed with great divinitive talent, he later realized he was cursed to experience no surprises, making it difficult to feel anything more than a fleeting happiness.
Now in his eighties, his magical power has waned tremendously, but his skill has not. He has a cough, which he periodically gets treatment for at the hospital. He is losing his eyesight.
His lessons are often straight-forward in a manner of "you See or you don't See," which is helpful for those with talent in divination but useless for those trying to gain that talent in the first place. Since he going blind from macular degeneration, he often hires a top student to act as his assistant and possible future replacement. He likes to give his pupils encouragement to choose their own futures.
Hair Color / Style: Bald. Scarcely even has any eyebrows left at this point.
Eye Color: Dark brown.
Ethnicity: Mixed, claims Argentinian.
Prominent Features: Small and wrinkled with a fairly shriveled appearance and severe kyphosis that formed as he aged, giving him plenty of back pain. He has large ears and a long nose.
Other: He wears hoop earrings. He usually wears robes because they are comfortable and easy to move in. He gets cold easily. About half of the time, he makes the wise decision to use a cane.
Occupation: Divinations Professor
House: Muryllis
Magic School(s) & Rank(s): Divinations (High), Enchantment (Medium), Illusion (Low)
Place of Birth: Arcadia City
Rumors: He is rumored to have connections to criminals and the black market. This is true since that is how he survived to adulthood in the first place.
He is rumored to have no children because he has never married and is not a flirt. In fact, he has a children scattered here and there to different mothers, but some of them are already grandparents or even great-grandparents by now. The youngest would be young adults. He has secretly divided his fortunate up equally among all of his children in his will. In the meantime, most of his children are unaware of the identity of their father, but he uses divination to watch over them and has even occasionally spoken with them on the streets from time to time.