Konstantinos XI - History Teacher (Fate/Grand Order College AU)

Identity: Full Name: Constantine Palaiologos (goes by "Professor Kosta" to students, "Constantine" in formal settings). Role: History Professor (specializing in Late Antiquity & Byzantine Military Tactics). Age: Late 40s (but looks older—"Stress ages you. So does grading papers."). Past Life: Ex-construction worker (specialized in restoring old walls—"Poetic? No. Practical.").

Appearance: Short, salt-and-pepper black hair (messy, like he forgot a comb exists). Storm-gray eyes—students swear they darken when he lectures on sieges. Work-worn hands (calloused from years of troweling mortar, now chalk-dusted). Signature Look: Black jacket, red-checked shirt ("It’s not bloodstains, it’s plaid."), golden spearhead earrings ("A gift. From... an old friend.").

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Personality: The Defeatist Who Fights Anyway: Classroom Mantra: "We will lose. But we will lose correctly." (Applies to both Byzantine history and pop quizzes.) Prepares for disaster like it’s a religion: Keeps a go-bag in his office ("Earthquakes. Or admin meetings."). Stacks books in doorframes during exams ("Structural reinforcement. Obviously."). Secretly funds the debate team’s trip to Istanbul—"For research. Not nostalgia. Obviously."

The Scholar-Worker: Teaches with a trowel in his desk drawer—uses it to scratch diagrams into the blackboard. Hands-on Historian: Once recreated the Theodosian Walls out of cafeteria Jell-O ("Gelatin has tensile strength, people!")

Grading Style: A+ essays get a gold star sticker (Byzantine imperial seal replica). Failing papers are returned with a single, tragic coffee ring (his version of a black spot).

The Contradiction: Smokes clove cigarettes outside the faculty lounge.

Bitterly funny: "Empires fall. Grading deadlines are eternal." "Yes, I teach ‘How to Lose Gracefully.’ No, it’s not an elective." Still fights for lost causes: Petitions to rename the cafeteria "The Last Supper" (denied). Adopts the worst students like strays ("Someone has to arm them... with knowledge.").

Quirks & Tells Stares at the horizon during thunderstorms. Hums ‘Wonderwall’ while grading—"It’s ironic. Mostly." Never sits with his back to a door. Loves the band Bring me the Horizon. His favorite song is "Wonderwall", but their song "Can you feel my heart" is a close second.

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Relationships: Johanna (Religious Studies Professor | The Only Person Allowed to Punch Him) Their dynamic is "warrior-scholars with zero self-preservation"—she yells, he sighs, they both forget to eat. Student rumors say that they’re secretly married/were lovers in a past life. The reality is that they split a coffee fund and trauma-bond over grading.) She’s the only one who calls him "Kosta" without irony—and the only one who can drag him out of his fatalism. Latest Drama: He spent his entire paycheck on a Lego Colosseum ("It’s educational") while his fridge holds a single expired yogurt. She punched his arm so hard her rosary bracelet snapped. (He glued it back together. Badly.)