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| 【 Name 】 Dimitri Kuroneko 【 Age 】 Eternally 17 【 Gender 】 Male 【 Status 】 Active | 【 Alias 】 Demi 【 Origin 】 Unknown 【 Ethnicity 】 Japanese 【 Theme 】 link a song |
" MAGICIAN " || Demi’s role in this omniverse can be classified in many ways, but the most simple of these would be as a magician. This term is used with the understanding that a magician was once human but has since then “ transcended ” to a higher plane of existence. This is not said in a spiritual sense, but in relation to the dimensional plane Demi resides in with accordance to quantum physics theory.
According to this theory, humans exist on the 4th dimension, which is where the concept of “ time ” exists. Demi exists on the 8th dimensional plane. As Dimitri, he only got as far as the 6th dimensional plane. As someone on the 8th dimension, Dimitri can experience worlds with different “start - up factors” than his place of birth. He is limited, however, by the laws of physics, and cannot experience a world where the fundamental laws of reality are extremely different from his own.
Demi is not omnipotent, meaning he cannot see all worlds and times like they are written on paper. He can, however, experience them. He is even capable of minor time travel, but can never visit a time where “Demi” already exists. Crossing paths with “Dimitri” is perfectly possible, but will make the Dimitri of that moment very sick.
" MAGIC " ||| What Demi calls “magic” is actually closer to a form of hacking. He and others like him chose this term because it’s widely understood in a number of realities, meaning that he doesn’t have to delve into huge specifics. But if he were to get specific, Demi would call it “ world hacking ” and insist it isn't actually magic.
For Demi, the world is a series of numbers and formulas. To perform his magic, Demi needs to understand the rule and then rewrite it. This is a delicate process because a poorly written code could cause time and space to snap and break. He calls these “paradoxes,” where the world is caught between two conflicting realities. A paradox can be horrendously destructive or just a minor inconvenience, ranging from black holes to a bright light/“ufo.” He can usually correct these.
With his magic, Demi can seemingly do anything. His own limitations are his understanding and creativity, which tend to be two conflicting traits. He is blessed by an active imagination, though he has a tendency to imitate powers and scenarios he has read about in entertainment because he enjoys this strange “roleplaying.“
Despite his creativity, he does need to understand first. This requires that Demi read a lot of books in any given world, or consume knowledge through other forms. If a world has a limited understanding of itself then it’s really hard for Demi to understand it too. So his powers are "stronger” in worlds with more technological and scientific advancement, and more “simple” in worlds without.
SQUISHY ||| All of this cosmic powah is not without drawbacks. The biggest drawback that Demi faces is his body. Demi was born human and his soul resides in a human body. His biology is mostly on par with a human, and if you took his apart you’d find he’s a pretty regular human boy. He’s stopped aging around nineteen years old, which is when he officially abandoned his human life. Essentially meaning Demi stopped experiencing “aging” when he left the flow of time.
Demi can be hurt and he can be killed like any other mortal. What spares him being immediately mauled and murdered is that Demi is a magician. His human body is just a container to him, and he can modify it vaguely. He limits himself to the human biology he understands because if the container dies then he will not be able to perform magic and modify it anymore. He has to be incredibly careful.
When injured, Demi can heal his body by accelerating his natural healing process. His wounds will not heal naturally unless he is in the 4th dimension, because time stops mattering above that. For this reason, he may sometimes drop into a random world to heal in an emergency situation. Demi has no idea how to recreate missing body parts, so if he loses an arm then the most he can do is not bleed to death.
The most limiting factor is that Demi has to be able to think clearly in order to heal himself properly. If he cannot think up and write a code then he can’t use magic. What will ultimately kill Demi is pain. When Demi receives a wound that causes him too much pain to think clearly, his emergency plan is to drop into a random world and hope someone can save him. He’s been lucky so far, but luck can only last him so long. His omnipotent friend Speck has already told him that he will die.
Demi's backstory begins before he was even "born," though terms like 'before' and 'after' are sort of irrelevant to his existence. His parents are Kuroneko Satou and Mikale Reed, a pair of 4th dimensional Mages of their world... Which is to say that they are locked in the flow of their universe's time and cannot even fathom escaping it. The couple is one that is often copy+pasted about the multiverse, but in the universe of this boy's birth was one of the few where they lived into their adult years. It was a world full of "Gods," though these beings were not actively worshiped in the modern day. In fact, not many people even "knew" how real they were, so much as they "believed."
--- Now, if one was to be perfectly honest and speak of this world from a 10th dimensional standpoint, they'd know that these beings were not "Gods" at all. Like this boy would one day become, they were Quantum Magicians who exerted too much power and pretended to be holy beings. Satou and Mikale had gone on a world saving adventure in their youth, where not only did they meet and fall in love but they also caught the attention of the Quantum Magicians in their universe.
The kid still hasn't been born as the pre-backstory continues: Saving the world alone had not earned the attention of the Quantum Magicians. It was a unique trait of Satou's. She, too, had a higher dimensional presence and a grand power far out of average reach: She could create a "fact" in any universe. A 100% that could not be denied in any off-branching timeline. Normally, she exerted this power in exchange for her mortal life. Her sad fate was one that repeated in many universes, with the leftover pieces collected into the Omniversal being of "Certainty." However, she had not used her power in this particular world: Her friends and soon-to-be family prevented her death, allowing her to live on to marry her best friend.
Now the kid can actually be born. His parents married and adopted the name "Kuroneko" (in Romanized spelling only,) when they were in their early twenties. At the early age of twenty-three, Satou gave birth to her first child, Dimitri Kuroneko. All the while, Quantum Magicians were watching her. Statistically speaking, the most common pattern was that her power would transfer to her first born and she would die in the process. This did not happen with Dimitri. He was born to a healthy and living pair of parents, with an elder sister (Humra) adopted from the world saving shenanigans.
Dimitri grew up happily. The Kuroneko family of this universe was abnormally blessed. Dimitri, especially, was watched by Quantum Magicians. At a young age he was approached by a Quantum Magician called "Hope," who granted him a strange sort of power: The ability to cross into other dimensional spaces near his own. It was not the same ability to travel that Quantum Magicians possessed, by an ability to manipulate the fabric between dimensions and travel between them. However, despite being told and taught of his new power, Dimitri really had no interest in it. He was perfectly content with his parents and not courageous enough to try space travel. He mostly forgot about it and convinced himself it wasn't real anyway.
That is, until he was around eleven years old. At this time, Dimitri had a run in with his half-brother, Yumeno Yuuto. Yuuto was born from his mother in an alternate marriage, but had a similar blessing as his half-brother. While Dimitri sat on his butt, Yuuto actually took up traveling and quite enjoyed it. He had since then learned Quantum Magic from another Magician and refined his travels, but failed to tell Dimitri any of this. He just told his half-brother how exciting and fun it was, and eventually convinced Dimitri to join him on an adventure.
Adventure they did. Rather mindlessly and with childish naivety. It wasn't so bad, until Dimitri was left to "go home." It was at this point that he realized a key piece of the adventure that he had not planned for... Just how was he supposed to get home? Yuuto, he realized, didn't ever go "home." He just went to other dimensions and his mother tended to accept him easily. Yuuto had a very fluid concept of "home" that Dimitri could not wrap his mind around. Even if he could, Dimitri soon discovered another problem: Worlds where his parents got married were rare. Even when he tried to live like Yuuto, he was stuck in uncomfortable worlds where his mother was married to another man or one half of his family had died all together.
All of this served to make Dimitri a very lonely and miserable person. While Yuuto and his apparent girlfriend "Speck" were having a grand time, Dimitri was lost. He wandered the omniverse with his power and consistently saw his parents miserable. He realized that the world he was born into was a miracle and he would likely never see it again. However, he did meet the being calling herself "Hope" again and deduced that if he could run into her twice, surely he could cross his home universe twice as well. Dimitri also discovered that he was shackled to the 6th dimensional plane, though he couldn't figure out why. Even when he began learning Quantum Magic from Yuuto, Dimitri had been snagged by Hope's curse. He was too stubborn about finding his "real" home to leave the revolving doors that might eventually take him there. Running into her again had limited his mental scope.
Until he was chronologically thirteen, Dimitri traveled miserably. He wandered space so much that his sense of time got muffed up, leading him to a world where his mother was still only seventeen years old. It was a miracle, he assumed, that she was so quick and ready to believe his teary story when he eventually broke down and told her who he was. The Kuroneko Satou of that world took Dimitri in without question, giving him a home and providing for him like a mother would. He selfishly decided to stay and rest there, living with his sister and father in a time where they had yet to complete their world saving shenanigans. Yuuto and Speck even came to join him and soak up the strange family atmosphere only their mother's love could create.
Dimitri lived with them even after the world was saved. Because of all of the help and knowledge of his mother's omniversal condition, they were able to save the world without Satou having to sacrifice herself. He enjoyed this world too, though always entertained the idea of his "real" family and thought of this as an "illusion." When he was seventeen, Dimitri was confronted by Hope again. But now, Yuuto and Speck met her too. Speck identified the being as "The Unknown Cruelty" and realized that she had betrayed Dimitri. She diagnosed "Hope" as being Dimitri's 6th dimensional curse, who had toyed with him and prevented him from accepting happiness.
Satou, too, learned of this. And she was angry. So she used her grand power to sever Dimitri's link to the Unknown Cruelty. His power to cross the fabrics of space was snapped in two, and he seemed to be stranded. With his power lost, Dimitri thought of this world as "home" for the first time. Finally, the fool who had hoped instead of being happy found happiness. But it came at the cost of his mother's life. As was the rule, Satou had to trade her mortal life in order to give Dimitri this kind of clarity.
He stayed in that world for another year, grieving his dead mom and helping take care of the family she'd left behind. In his spare moments, Dimitri revisited the study of Quantum Magic that his brother (he no longer thought of Yuuto as "half" anything,) and sister-in-law (???) had started him on. When he turned sixteen-- and more importantly, when his sister Humra was legally adopted by their surviving father, Mikale-- he decided to leave. But this time, he wouldn't be leaving because he was searching for "home." He had found home and knew how to take it across the Omniverse with him now. This time, Dimitri planned to leave and help his family in more worlds. Instead of sitting around and waiting for miracles, he intended to find a way to create them himself through hardwork. Understanding he needed to cement his new resolve somehow, Dimitri decided to abandon his mortal life all together and dedicate himself to a higher purpose in the same way that his mother was "Certainty of Saving Worlds." He chose to call himself "Demi" and stepped out of the flow of time altogether, becoming Eternally Sixteen.
Dimitri Kuroneko was a naive and happy kid. Before space-time shenanigans warpped him, he was a happy mortal living with a happy family. His parents were happily married and he had an older sister, all of whom loved Dimitri to the moon and back. Maybe even further. During his childhood, Dimitri grew to understand that magic could exist-- Heck, his parents were mages who met when they saved the world together, and they were horrible secret keepers,--- but he also learned to respect the laws of reality. He was a bookworm, and equally balanced his love for science and fact with a love for fantasy and fiction. In fact, it was perhaps because the magic of his parents was known to him that Dimitri was able to become so grounded: Even magic had limits, after all.
Most importantly, the mortal boy Dimitri was always smiling. It was this that the emo child would lose and never recover as his stupid angst quest began spiraling out of control.
The importance of this smile eludes to one wonderful life advantage that had horrendous consequences: Growing up, Dimitri experienced little to no major suffering. His parents had both suffered horrid hardships before they were even teenagers, so they were perhaps a bit too dedicated to keeping Dimitri's childhood a happy one. While not out right spoiled, Dimitri was given the chance to earn anything he asked for. When things got miserable at school, his parents and older sister always had his back and never got angry with him. Dimitri's pet cat did not die tragically, he had no grandparents to lose, his parents and sister were perfectly healthy, his friends were all good to him, he never truly failed anything he started... All in all, life was good.
So Dimitri never learned how to handle any sort of loss or losing. He was used to things always working out if he tried hard enough. Because of this, Dimitri was not equip with the maturity or techniques he needed to solve problems caused by loss. When he lost his family, Dimitri had no reason to believe that he could not be reunited with them through enough effort. Even with the odds blatantly being a billion to one, Dimitri honestly didn't think he could fail. This stubborn streak still exists in him, causing Demi to push at something for an extraordinarily long time before he realizes that it is hopeless.
The word choice of "hopeless" is also important to Demi's change of character. With Dimitri, there was always a chance. Sometimes it was just smaller than others. With Demi, there's yes or no. Once he gives up on something, he considers the chance of it to be zero and declares it hopeless. Until he makes the declaration, he'll fight and struggle as if the chance to actually 99%. It's 0% or 99%. He doesn't count on the 1% miracle.
This is part of his new resolve; Demi may be out to create miracles, but he's not big on wasting energy. Unfortunately, he isn't that kind of invincible spirited hero. He's a person who would rather use his energy effectively and won't pursue extremely low odds. He calls that "gambling" and will playfully say "my mother said I can't gamble," when in actuality he's just passing off the blame for being lazy.
Passing off blame is another habit of his. Dimitri did it and Demi still does it. But he does it in a sort of twisted way, where he is not simply participating in a black and white "nothing is my fault." A lot of things are his fault, and he knows that. Dimitri divides the blame depending on what the problem is and how willing he is to solve it, and it goes into three categories: Blaming others, Blaming himself, and Blaming Mom.
When blaming others, Demi is saying that a problem is out of his control. He is admitting that he can do nothing to solve it anymore. But he's stubborn and would try to solve things endlessly if the solution was in his power. So, to stop his stubbornness, he passes the blame to another person. This way, he knowingly tricks himself into giving up his effort and resting. It is a last ditch attempt to give up and walk away from something when it becomes hopeless.
When blaming himself, Demi is putting the problem within his control. He is hating his present self and trying to blackmail himself into becoming better. It is a self deprecating way to encourage himself. Sometimes it worked in the past, but these 'days' it just causes Demi to hate himself. However, so long as he thinks he is the root of a problem then he also thinks that he is the one who can solve it. It does push himself forward. Just at the cost of his happiness and self image.
Lastly, when blaming Mom, Demi is making a fact. He would never disobey his mother, even now as an independent eighteen year old. So if he says something is his Mom's fault (or more often, something she told him to do or not to do,) it means that he won't budge on the subject and you really ought to just drop it. After all, you aren't his mom.
The self deprecation is a big part of how Demi interacts with other people. He has long since convinced himself that he is not very kind, smart, funny, strong, or likable. That's why he runs into so many problems, after all. However, Demi does want friends and he does want the last thing... To be liked. So at some point, he began pretending to be a nice person. Somewhat sarcastically, Demi actually went over the top. His mother would always tell Dimitri to "behave like a gentleman" and dressed him disgustingly formally, so Demi-- who is so dedicated to his mother's memory-- decided to start redefining himself by overemphasizing these traits. He is very polite, addresses everyone formally, and behaves like a Victorian gentleman in so many annoying ways.
But he always thought of it as fake. When choosing who he wanted to be as "Demi" he would think of it as acting. Demi gradually began to throw his traits into two buckets: Mistakes and flaws were his natural self, while anything he was praised for was an act. Even when he naturally showed instances of kindness or intelligence, both of which he does have in abundance, Demi would just call it "very good acting!" This longterm charade has confused his sense of self, and he has yet to realize it enough to correct it.
The game of pretend personalities also gradually caused Demi to disassociate himself with reality. It probably didn't help that he could hop between realities like a rock skipping on a pond. Demi does not gamble in hopeless situations, but that doesn't mean that he is opposed to risk taking. In fact, Demi will often engage in dangerous antics just for fun. If things go wrong, he can just hop to the reality where they went right... and everyone likes to have fun, right? So he doesn't see it as a huge issue. If he gets hurt, Demi does know how to heal himself. Getting backed into a near death experience will turn him off of this thrilling habit for a little while, but he ultimately won't learn any lesson beyond "Well, that was new and exciting!"
Having fun is relatively important to him. Most important to Demi, even now, is family. It has probably been made clear that he is disgustingly loyal to his mother. Of all members of his family, it is safe to say that she is the most important to him. It was a love for his family that originally drove Dimitri into his grief. Now, it is a love for family that allows Demi to travel timespace without grieving. He was originally very stubborn on having a "real family," but Demi understands family to be bigger than the people you are legally attached to. Demi can get through most any hardship now because he wants to honor the memory of the familial love that raised him. This is an unfortunate double edge sword: While Demi gains strength from his family, he will also ruin himself to protect it. Logic goes out the window when it's a question of whether not he will try to protect his family. In particular, Demi is deeply affected by any instance of his mother's sacrifice. He hates it and will grieve over and over with the same level of grief, no matter how many times he sees it.
Finally, above all else, it's important to note that Demi is no longer a "human being." He is a magician. Demi chooses to separate the two, which provides further insight to how he views himself and others. When he changed his name, Demi referred to it as "abandoning his human self." He views humans as forward facing 4th dimensional beings that are pushed and pulled by the whims of the cosmos. He has some degree of pity for them as he sometimes does not believe that they can change their own fates.
Furthermore, Demi does not see himself as being on the same "level" as humans. Sometimes this makes him conceited and egotistical as he looks down on them and their small world view. It also makes him cautious and picky when making friends with them. He does a lot more acting around humans as he attempts to seem human himself, and this can be tiring and stressful due to his personality crisis. Demi is much more comfortable interacting with "higher beings" who will accept him for "what" he is. It's hard for him to believe humans can truly accept them because they just don't understand. ( *slams the door like the angsty teen he is* )
All of this rolls up into a strange package. Demi acts happy, but hates himself. He smiles and takes huge risks for fun, but he won't put energy into something is the odds are way too low. He is incredibly family orientated, but the same love that gives him strength also tortures him.
