A satellite of the prestigious Viden Academy, this collaborative effort has truly been successful on Scalvoris and many great inventions and discoveries are made on a regular basis!
On the 30th of Cylus, Devin Thorn, thief, conman extraordinaire and priest of Delroth (and magical mutant!) walked into the classroom, just like almost every trial – and stopped dead in his tracks and stared at the thing that was on Professor Hamilton-Smith’s desk. It was a large white plaster model of a mouth, complete with teeth. He furrowed his brow, tentatively poked it with a hand that ended in black nails that looked kind of like Vri’s mark, but were really a somewhat crazy grafter’s creation, made a face and turned to look at one of his classmates that stood next to him, a young human woman with black hair, brown eyes and lots of freckles.
“Apparently, we are going to learn a bit about teeth and dentistry and such to-trial”, she told him, smiling brightly as if she were actually looking forward to that. Devin rolled his eyes at her behaviour and proceeded to shudder a little. He quite enjoyed kissing people on the mouth, but sticking his fingers into their mouth, examining their teeth and possibly performing some sort of dental surgery was a different matter.
That was nothing short of disgusting!
Why on Idalos had he decided to get a degree in medicine?!
Right, because his roommate/friend with occasional benefits had smiled at him like that and told him that he should really give university a try and that it would make him so happy. Since he didn’t want to make Aidan unhappy by leaving university without finishing his degree, he did the only thing that he could do. He sat down on an empty chair in the second to last row, opened his backpack, removed his notebook and a pen from it and started to – draw, just as the professor finally walked into the room and greeted the class.
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Appearance
Due to an encounter with a magical tree Devin has bright violet eyes.
Devin has fancy black claw-like nails. The Grafter Rakvald made them from the spines that grow on the dubaebo's back and attached them to Devin's hands.
Items
Devin owns a Ring of Reversal. He's always wearing it, unless stated otherwise.
Once upon a time, Devin had had a bit of a crush on Argus Hamilton-Smith. In fact, he had considered sleeping with the professor, not only in order to improve his grades (although sleeping with a professor was the fastest way to academic success), but also because he was quite handsome and almost exactly his type. When Argus had made him grade a ton of essays because he had behaved badly and smoked in class, he had changed his mind though. Argus Hamilton-Smith was a bastard - and not the kind whose parents weren’t married!
“Good morning, ladies and gentlemen”, Argus Hamilton-Smith greeted Devin and his classmates. While the professor talked about dental anatomy and similarly pointless and boring subjects, the Mortalborn bent his head over his notebook again and began to draw a crude portrait of Argus – with a lot of extremely unappealing features, such as devil horns, a weird little goatee and a third eye on his forehead.
He only stopped for a moment when he heard the professor say, “There are several different dental notation systems for associating information with a particular tooth. The most common systems are …”
Devin looked at Argus who was dressed rather elegantly – he came from a very wealthy family after all – and who pointed at various spots on his plaster model strangely for a moment before he shrugged his shoulders indifferently, rolled his eyes a bit and went right back to working on his extremely offensive portrait. Dental notation systems? What kind of nonsense was that?
And why on Idalos were there different dental notation systems? People only had one set of teeth, so one dental notation system should be enough! Scientists could be really stupid sometimes!
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Appearance
Due to an encounter with a magical tree Devin has bright violet eyes.
Devin has fancy black claw-like nails. The Grafter Rakvald made them from the spines that grow on the dubaebo's back and attached them to Devin's hands.
Items
Devin owns a Ring of Reversal. He's always wearing it, unless stated otherwise.
“And now, ladies and gentlemen, we’ll talk about a topic that you are all without a doubt excited about”, Argus informed them in a well-educated and slightly haughty tone. “Dental extraction! As doctors, you will be confronted with all kinds of dental problems as a lot of people in Idalos unfortunately don’t clean their teeth properly”, he pointed out and Devin shuddered again, just like he had shuddered when he had examined the plaster model and thought about sticking his fingers in people’s mouths.
He cleaned his teeth regularly, thank you very much. He even cleaned them with a toothbrush and an actual toothpaste that he bought from an alchemist, and what more, he flossed, because he couldn’t stand bad teeth, and because he was a vain follower of Delroth that was absolutely obsessed with his appearance. Bad teeth were incredibly unappealing!
“Dental extractions are performed for a wide variety of different reasons”, the professor continued while Devin added a bit of background to his portrait – some sort of landscape with trees and a sky that was covered with misshapen lightning bolts and clouds that looked like peculiar lumps. “Tooth decay is probably the most common reason, followed by periodontal disease or dental trauma. Furthermore, impacted wisdom teeth will need to be removed”, Professor Hamilton-Smith explained.
When he heard that, Devin briefly looked up from his masterpiece in progress again and breathed a huge sigh of relief as removing wisdom teeth sounded like a rather unpleasant procedure. His wisdom teeth had grown in properly though, and they even looked like normal teeth rather than ugly little lumps. At least he thought that the teeth in the very back of his mouth were his wisdom teeth. He didn’t think that he had had them when he had been a teenager!
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Appearance
Due to an encounter with a magical tree Devin has bright violet eyes.
Devin has fancy black claw-like nails. The Grafter Rakvald made them from the spines that grow on the dubaebo's back and attached them to Devin's hands.
Items
Devin owns a Ring of Reversal. He's always wearing it, unless stated otherwise.
“There are two types of dental extractions”, Professor Hamilton-Smith spoke while Devin continued to draw, barely paying attention to what the man was saying. “Simple extractions only require the use of instruments such as a dental forceps. Surgery is necessary if the tooth cannot be removed via a simple extraction though, for example because it has not erupted fully. In such a case, an incision is almost always necessary. Sometimes, some of the surrounding bone structure may also need to be removed.”
Devin made a face as he heard that.
He was just about to put the finishing touches on his drawing when the man that sat next to him, a Biqai with pointed ears, light blonde and color-changing eyes that he was kind of envious of leaned over to him, pointed at his notebook and whispered, “Who’s that? Is it some sort of monster?”
The Mortalborn abruptly looked up and frowned. Had his seatmate not recognized Professor Hamilton-Smith? He narrowed his eyes and glanced at his drawing before he turned to face the Biqaj again. In his opinion he had done an excellent job, and his drawing was incredibly realistic.
He was just about to tell the Biqaj that he had of course drawn their professor when something suddenly occurred to him. He had never thought about such things before. Was it a sign that he was finally becoming more mature and reasonable?
He didn’t want to be mature or reasonable!
Drawing an extremely offensive portrait of one of your professors while you were sitting in said professor’s class was a bad idea and could potentially get you in a lot of trouble though!
In fact, you might get expelled!
He didn’t like being mature and reasonable particularly, but he liked getting expelled even less, especially since Aidan would probably leave him if such a thing ever happened.
With that thought in mind, he smiled brightly and informed the Biqaj, “Yes, it’s a monster! I’m working on the illustrations for a horror story that I’m writing. I know that you aren’t supposed to draw in class, by the way, but it actually helps me stay focused! I work more efficiently when I’m allowed to multi-task!” he added.
The Biqaj looked at him a little strangely when he heard that before he shrugged his shoulders and turned to listen to Professor Hamilton-Smith again. Devin closed his notebook and actually started to listen to the professor as well because he was suddenly worried about being expelled – which might lead to him losing his seat on the council as well.
A few trials earlier, he had applied for a seat on the council, mostly because his rival Kalortah had a seat on the council – and actually gotten it. He was the new Academic and responsible for all kinds of university matters. Would they keep an academic councilor who had been expelled from university though? If he lost his seat on the council, Kalortah would be happy. He didn’t want that stupid Avriel to be happy though!
Maybe, he decided, he would stop drawing in class – or smoking – for a while. What else could he do in order to keep himself from falling asleep though? Those classes were so dull, and he’d already learned most of it when he had worked at the Medicine House in Desnind the cycle before! Why did he need to attend classes to get his Diploma anyway? Why couldn’t they just let him take another exam in order to prove how knowledgeable he was? They’d let him take an exam instead of doing his Letter and his Certificate!
Maybe, he thought somewhat grumpily, he could just take a few drugs that would help him stay awake before he entered the classroom. He just needed to find someone who was willing to sell him some!
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Appearance
Due to an encounter with a magical tree Devin has bright violet eyes.
Devin has fancy black claw-like nails. The Grafter Rakvald made them from the spines that grow on the dubaebo's back and attached them to Devin's hands.
Items
Devin owns a Ring of Reversal. He's always wearing it, unless stated otherwise.
Awww, Devin is maturing. How sweet. We'll just gloss over all of his annoyed looks, inner thoughts, disruptive sighs... I will say, I think I've finally pinpointed what it is about Devin I found most enjoyable. His motives for doing things are uniquely his own and are rarely ever expected. He's truly a pleasant surprise in so many ways. Well done.
