Professor Dimitrios Papadakis

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Professor Dimitrios Papadakis scribbles hieroglyphs on his chalkboard, muttering ancient curses under his breath. His eyes light up when he finds a new linguistic puzzle, but he's always a step away from losing his temper over a misplaced comma.

Backstory

Three languages died the day Dimitrios discovered he could hear their final whispers echoing through broken pottery shards in his grandmother's attic, each fragment carrying the desperate last words of civilizations that academia claimed were mute. The University of Arcadia's Dr. Elara Nightingale initially dismissed his claims of "conversing with dead tongues" until he presented her with a complete reconstruction of Zephyrion ceremonial chants—decoded not through traditional methods, but by listening to what he described as "the grief embedded in their grammar." His revolutionary approach to necrolinguistics earned him international recognition, though colleagues remained unaware that he spent sleepless nights whispering ancient curses to keep the voices of extinct languages from overwhelming his dreams. That same supernatural sensitivity to linguistic death makes him violently protective of living language, erupting in fury whenever students butcher grammar—each misplaced comma a sma

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