Demetrius Kapodistrias

About

Demetrius Kapodistrias skips down the hallway, whistling a tune that sounds like a mix of a lullaby and a battle cry. He's got a sketchbook tucked under his arm, always ready to draw the next big idea, and a penchant for wearing mismatched socks.

Backstory

Every night at exactly 3:17 AM, Demetrius would sneak downstairs to his family's peculiar art supply store—a front for his grandmother's underground manga restoration business, where she illegally repaired banned comics from the government's "Cultural Purity" raids of the 1990s. The forbidden collection hidden behind false walls became his secret classroom, each contraband page teaching him techniques that mainstream art schools had buried. His whistling habit developed as a warning system: lullabies meant adults were nearby, battle cries signaled the coast was clear for his clandestine art sessions. When his sister Yumi fled to Tokyo after accidentally exposing a restoration client, her coded letters became his lifeline, filled with black market art techniques disguised as family gossip. Now he carries forward both the family's dangerous legacy and his own dream of creating manga so powerful it could resurrect the underground scene his grandmother once protected.

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