Callisto

Personality Common of members of the Ring, Callisto shows an interest in the macabre and brutal when framed through a lens of artwork, taking a primary interest in the human corpus. During Ryōshū's time with the House of Spiders, he showed a caring side towards the woman, mentioning his wish for her to wield what he considered his prized creation upon its eventual completion. While he carries a constant strive to experience the most extreme of arts, he is shown to yearn for a discussion with somebody in the terms of art, even if it becomes a matter of pure taste.

Story Prior to Limbus Company Callisto was formerly a Maestro of the Ring who led the school of Corporism. At some point, the school of Corporism came to be seen as "outmoded" by other schools, with his artpieces being seen as "mundane". Eventually, Callisto was sent to the House of Spiders.

Among the five Fingers, Callisto was the Ring's representative in the process of raising Ryōshū into a "perfect blade". In her youth, Ryōshū was trained by the Ring Nursefather in the field of using a human body as a weapon, attempting to persuade the girl into taking an interest in the field of corpse-based artwork. A particular piece the man worked on was planned to be his greatest piece of art, which he wished for Ryōshū to wield. While Ryōshū, in her youth, expressed a constant distaste for Callisto's brutal art, he found that she was capable of being a discussion peer as she grew into her young adult years, viewing their dissenting tastes as a possible place of interest.

At one point during Ryōshū's childhood, she had approached Callisto asking if she could go to school to make friends. While Callisto failed to see the point of it at first, he ended up enrolling Ryōshū into an art academy which was a subsidiary of the Ring, hoping to further her knowledge on different forms of artistry. This was short lived however, due to a small scuffle that led to Matthias violently retaliating against the entire class. After the incident, Callisto was furious and tried comforting Ryōshū by telling her that he would enroll her in a more secure academy, but at this point she no longer wanted to attend public schooling. To comfort the panicked girl, Callisto assembled a "snowman" to leave by her bedside, composed of heads of several of the people that Matthias had killed, stitched together.

While growing up, Callisto noticed Saru's suffering, which worried Ryōshū while she cried in her room for a whole day. In an attempt to show affection and comfort her, he offered to create a gift for the girl the next day. That gift was Beastbone Blade, a living blade composed of Saru's body; while it was believed to just be her pieces, the tanto was alive. Ryōshū felt pity for the weak, beating heart, and chose to end the pet's life, destroying the gift.

At one instance, Araya was scared by one of Callisto's exhibits, which grew far too large to be contained solely within his gallery. Due to this, the young girl encountered it within the Ring's Corridor, causing her to run back to her mother and cry in her arms. Callisto saw this as a chance to introduce the girl to his world of art, which Ryōshū refused outright.

During Ryōshū's attack against the Nursefathers, she destroyed several parts of the Callisto's gallery, most notably a blade he had worked on for ten years,[2] setting him back in progress on his masterpiece.

After Ryōshū's departure from the House of Spiders, Callisto began teaching an apprentice, Albina, who took up a similar position towards the artform and the destruction of one's own body in pursuit of Corporism.

Canto IX: The Unsevering During the raid upon the Limbus Company HQ, Callisto was present in the assault, with his apprentice accompanying the Dihui Star and her apprentice. During the raid, Callisto provided manikins for others to use, composed of researcher corpses. These manikins featured a carving with a message towards Ryōshū, left behind by their creator, reminding her of the grotesque artform. Callisto not only left the manikins in service, but also composed several art pieces within the HQ, leaving the bodies behind for the coworkers of the ingredients to find.

As a group consisting of Hohenheim, Marton, Heathcliff, Sinclair, Don Quixote and Faust worked on restoring power to the headquarters, Callisto developed an impromptu exhibit in the nearby hallway, utilizing corpses for installments. As the group attempted to hide from the man while discussing a possible plan to deal with him, Callisto happened upon the group, allowing him a chance to act as the curator of his exhibit. The Sinners, with a plan to allow Hohenheim and Marton time to repair the power to the facility, distracted Callisto temporarily. However, due to a surge in Dante's abilities, the Sinners present were knocked unconscious, leaving the LCE members unprotected as Callisto returned to them. In a last ditch effort, and against Hohenheim's word, Marton allowed his E.G.O gear to access a higher Attunement level than was safe, hoping to utilize the properties of its Faelantern abilities to charm Callisto. While Marton fleed during the activation, Callisto confronted Hohenheim, explaining his plans for the researcher's body to be involved in his art. However, according to Marton's expectations, Callisto is enthralled by a glowing hue of teal, being lured to the man's abilities and buying Hohenheim the extra time he needed. Per the expected consequence of over-Attunement, Marton's E.G.O Suit exploded soon after, killing him in the process. Moments after the man's death, Callisto was called to return to the House of Spiders, meaning he would have to close his gallery in the headquarters. In doing so, he wished to see Hohenheim again soon, so that they may continue their discussion of art.

Callisto was later encountered in his art gallery within the Ring's Corridor, having arrived to Albina's aid. Preaching about the beauty of the corpus and his hope to create the most human gallery in the City, he soon joined the battle against Ishmael, Faust, Sinclair, and the LCE researchers. As the fight grew hopeless with Alyssa having already been taken out of commission, Hohenheim chose to discuss Callisto's artworks and offer critiques on them, much to the Maestro's delight. This allowed Hohenheim, who had his neck gripped by Callisto, to strike at the Maestro with an E.G.O weapon he had kept hidden, knocking off Callisto's hat and revealing his damaged brain. As the Ring Nursefather prepared to kill Hohenheim for good, Sinclair's Sign fully awakened, summoning a version of himself from a possible future to battle, causing Callisto to become ecstatic at having a person who witnessed such horrors as a critic. After Albina was slain, Callisto noted the beautiful artwork that Albina would become after she was killed, though he was soon also mortally injured by Sinclair, who called his artwork 'trashy'. As Sinclair moved in to finish him, Callisto asked him to describe the sights of the Second Smoke War; Sinclair replied that it was pointless, although Callisto was satisfied nonetheless, knowing that the sights were too horrific for words. Soon after, the Ring Nursefather was reduced to metallic scrap by Sinclair's finishing blow reminiscent of the Night Drifter's teachings.

Intervallo VII: Twining Threads Following Operation Spider Pyre, the House of Spiders was gradually traversed by the Sinners, accompanied by Kira and Alan of Wayfarer Company. The Ring's Corridor was a particular piece of interest to parties, being the starting point of the cleaning operation, as well as connected to Émile Benoît's gallery. Because of the Sinners' encounter with the Fauvist Maestro, she learned of her fellow Maestro's death, causing her to order her Students and Docent to acquire both his remaining art and projects: this order included Ryōshū. While the faction of the Ring failed at this goal, they viewed Callisto's assistance in the project of raising Ryōshū important enough to offer the woman an artistic movement of her own.

Trivia Callisto takes his name from the nymph Callisto of Greek myth. In most versions of Callisto's myth, she loses her human form and is transformed into a bear, and eventually set among the stars as the constellation Ursa Major. The art movement which Callisto bases his philosophy on, Corporism, is not a real-world movement of art. The name is derived from the plural of corpus, corpora, an archaic word meaning "body". While Corporism is not a real art movement, the Body Worlds gallery in Berlin shares many of its aesthetics and aspirations, including the removal of skin and exclusive use of real human bodies, albeit with a lesser focus on alteration thereof outside of certain pieces. Moreover, Ryōshū mentions the Maestro's art utilizes Cubist technique in some capacity as well. This is an actual 20th-century art movement, featuring abstraction of forms and use of wild perspective. Callisto's sword Tibia is named after the tibia, the larger of the two bones between the knee and ankle. The maximum stack of Callisto's status effect Corpus Ingredient (Bones).pngCorpus Ingredient (Bones) is 206, referencing the number of bones in the human body, while the maximum stack of Corpus Ingredient (Blood).pngCorpus Ingredient (Blood) is 5, referencing the average liters of blood in the human body.

Appearance: General Information Gender:Male Occupation:The Ring Nursefather, & Corporist Maestro of the Ring (formerly) Affiliations:The Ring, The House of Spiders Relations, Ryōshū (Daughter)[1], & Albina (Pupil)

Appearance Callisto is a massive man seen wearing draped, white, robes with a gilded trim along their perimeter, silver-adorned, white high-heels better seen in his animations, and a large-brimmed hat featuring a litany of holes through its brim. His body is composed of sleek, full-bodied prosthetics with a metallic textures on his torso and a gust-patterned, white chassis on his leg and shoulders. His body, visible through a gap in his robes, reveals some of his innards through glass panes. His arms feature large gaps in their centers, with sharp claws at the end of his hands. He carries a massive weapon composed of his own body known as Tibia, which features several large pointed notches along its blade.

Beneath his wide-brimmed hat, his brain is partially exposed due to a failed attempt to utilize his brain in an art piece.