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Extended Backstory ★

Demi's backstory begins before he was even "born," though terms like 'before' and 'after' are sort of irrelevant to his existence. His parents are Kuroneko Satou and Mikale Reed, a pair of 4th dimensional Mages of their world... Which is to say that they are locked in the flow of their universe's time and cannot even fathom escaping it. The couple is one that is often copy+pasted about the multiverse, but in the universe of this boy's birth was one of the few where they lived into their adult years. It was a world full of "Gods," though these beings were not actively worshiped in the modern day. In fact, not many people even "knew" how real they were, so much as they "believed."

--- Now, if one was to be perfectly honest and speak of this world from a 10th dimensional standpoint, they'd know that these beings were not "Gods" at all. Like this boy would one day become, they were Quantum Magicians who exerted too much power and pretended to be holy beings. Satou and Mikale had gone on a world saving adventure in their youth, where not only did they meet and fall in love but they also caught the attention of the Quantum Magicians in their universe.

The kid still hasn't been born as the pre-backstory continues: Saving the world alone had not earned the attention of the Quantum Magicians. It was a unique trait of Satou's. She, too, had a higher dimensional presence and a grand power far out of average reach: She could create a "fact" in any universe. A 100% that could not be denied in any off-branching timeline. Normally, she exerted this power in exchange for her mortal life. Her sad fate was one that repeated in many universes, with the leftover pieces collected into the Omniversal being of "Certainty." However, she had not used her power in this particular world: Her friends and soon-to-be family prevented her death, allowing her to live on to marry her best friend.

Now the kid can actually be born.
His parents married and adopted the name "Kuroneko" (in Romanized spelling only,) when they were in their early twenties. At the early age of twenty-three, Satou gave birth to her first child, Dimitri Kuroneko. All the while, Quantum Magicians were watching her. Statistically speaking, the most common pattern was that her power would transfer to her first born and she would die in the process. This did not happen with Dimitri. He was born to a healthy and living pair of parents, with an elder sister (Humra) adopted from the world saving shenanigans.

Dimitri grew up happily. The Kuroneko family of this universe was abnormally blessed. Dimitri, especially, was watched by Quantum Magicians. At a young age he was approached by a Quantum Magician called "Hope," who granted him a strange sort of power: The ability to cross into other dimensional spaces near his own. It was not the same ability to travel that Quantum Magicians possessed, by an ability to manipulate the fabric between dimensions and travel between them. However, despite being told and taught of his new power, Dimitri really had no interest in it. He was perfectly content with his parents and not courageous enough to try space travel. He mostly forgot about it and convinced himself it wasn't real anyway.

That is, until he was around eleven years old. At this time, Dimitri had a run in with his half-brother, Yumeno Yuuto. Yuuto was born from his mother in an alternate marriage, but had a similar blessing as his half-brother. While Dimitri sat on his butt, Yuuto actually took up traveling and quite enjoyed it. He had since then learned Quantum Magic from another Magician and refined his travels, but failed to tell Dimitri any of this. He just told his half-brother how exciting and fun it was, and eventually convinced Dimitri to join him on an adventure.

Adventure they did. Rather mindlessly and with childish naivety. It wasn't so bad, until Dimitri was left to "go home." It was at this point that he realized a key piece of the adventure that he had not planned for... Just how was he supposed to get home? Yuuto, he realized, didn't ever go "home." He just went to other dimensions and his mother tended to accept him easily. Yuuto had a very fluid concept of "home" that Dimitri could not wrap his mind around. Even if he could, Dimitri soon discovered another problem: Worlds where his parents got married were rare. Even when he tried to live like Yuuto, he was stuck in uncomfortable worlds where his mother was married to another man or one half of his family had died all together.

All of this served to make Dimitri a very lonely and miserable person. While Yuuto and his apparent girlfriend "Speck" were having a grand time, Dimitri was lost. He wandered the omniverse with his power and consistently saw his parents miserable. He realized that the world he was born into was a miracle and he would likely never see it again. However, he did meet the being calling herself "Hope" again and deduced that if he could run into her twice, surely he could cross his home universe twice as well.
Dimitri also discovered that he was shackled to the 6th dimensional plane, though he couldn't figure out why. Even when he began learning Quantum Magic from Yuuto, Dimitri had been snagged by Hope's curse. He was too stubborn about finding his "real" home to leave the revolving doors that might eventually take him there. Running into her again had limited his mental scope.

Until he was chronologically thirteen, Dimitri traveled miserably. He wandered space so much that his sense of time got muffed up, leading him to a world where his mother was still only seventeen years old. It was a miracle, he assumed, that she was so quick and ready to believe his teary story when he eventually broke down and told her who he was. The Kuroneko Satou of that world took Dimitri in without question, giving him a home and providing for him like a mother would. He selfishly decided to stay and rest there, living with his sister and father in a time where they had yet to complete their world saving shenanigans. Yuuto and Speck even came to join him and soak up the strange family atmosphere only their mother's love could create.

Dimitri lived with them even after the world was saved. Because of all of the help and knowledge of his mother's omniversal condition, they were able to save the world without Satou having to sacrifice herself. He enjoyed this world too, though always entertained the idea of his "real" family and thought of this as an "illusion." When he was seventeen, Dimitri was confronted by Hope again. But now, Yuuto and Speck met her too. Speck identified the being as "The Unknown Cruelty" and realized that she had betrayed Dimitri. She diagnosed "Hope" as being Dimitri's 6th dimensional curse, who had toyed with him and prevented him from accepting happiness.

Satou, too, learned of this. And she was angry. So she used her grand power to sever Dimitri's link to the Unknown Cruelty. His power to cross the fabrics of space was snapped in two, and he seemed to be stranded. With his power lost, Dimitri thought of this world as "home" for the first time. Finally, the fool who had hoped instead of being happy found happiness. But it came at the cost of his mother's life. As was the rule, Satou had to trade her mortal life in order to give Dimitri this kind of clarity.

He stayed in that world for another year, grieving his dead mom and helping take care of the family she'd left behind. In his spare moments, Dimitri revisited the study of Quantum Magic that his brother (he no longer thought of Yuuto as "half" anything,) and sister-in-law (???) had started him on. When he turned sixteen-- and more importantly, when his sister Humra was legally adopted by their surviving father, Mikale-- he decided to leave.
But this time, he wouldn't be leaving because he was searching for "home." He had found home and knew how to take it across the Omniverse with him now. This time, Dimitri planned to leave and help his family in more worlds. Instead of sitting around and waiting for miracles, he intended to find a way to create them himself through hardwork. Understanding he needed to cement his new resolve somehow, Dimitri decided to abandon his mortal life all together and dedicate himself to a higher purpose in the same way that his mother was "Certainty of Saving Worlds." He chose to call himself "Demi" and stepped out of the flow of time altogether, becoming Eternally Sixteen.