Damian Desmond

Damian Desmond (ダミアン・デズモンド) is the second son of Donovan Desmond and attends Eden Academy as part of Cecile Hall, Group 3.

Appearance
A young boy with short brown hair and brown eyes with light skin. His eyes are narrowed and slightly drooping with visibly long lower eyelashes, and short thin eyebrows above them. He often wears a condescending expression. Like other students, he is usually seen wearing Eden Academy's uniform.

Personality
A young child with an arrogant and rude personality, caused by him being the second son of Donovan Desmond, the leader of the National Unity Party, a group important and powerful enough to threaten the peace between the East and the West. This has caused Damian to gain a highly respected status among his peers and making him incredibly arrogant, assuming Anya gained a crush on him when she stared at him. He is shown to prefer being called Lord Damian when spoken to. He gets angry when he is looked down upon by Anya's smile, quickly resorting to insulting her with his limited vocabulary and harassing Anya.

After taking a punch from Anya, he becomes very embarrassed around her. After Anya's tear-filled apology, Damian has developed a crush on Anya that he doesn't want to acknowledge, quickly running away in embarrassment.

Later we know that a possible reason for Damian's behavior can be attributed to his brother's success as an Imperial Scholar and his father having set a high expectation for him to strive and become part of the Imperial Scholars. His father's influence and lack of attention to his life motivated him even further to meet his expectations, causing him to look down on people beneath his social class, for if they are not a benefit to him, they are only slowing him down to becoming an Imperial Scholar and in turn slowing his progress in getting his father's attention. A rare exception is when he protects Anya Forger from a ball, willingly getting eliminated from the game.

Background
Damian Desmond was born to the Leader of the National Unity Party as the second son, giving him a rather high position in Ostanian society. His older brother is part of the Imperial Scholars.

Story Overview
On Eden Academy's orientation day, Damian Desmond is among the 208 new students accepted into Eden Academy that year. During the class and homeroom teacher assignments, he is assigned to Cecile Hall along with Anya Forger, where Loid Forger plans to have Anya befriend him to get close Donovan Desmond. When Anya stares at him, Damian arrogantly assumes she's fallen for him.

On the school tour, Damian, along with Emile and Ewen, brags about being able to become an Imperial Scholar soon and his father being the chairman of the National Unity Party, quickly gaining the admiration of his classmates, except Anya and Becky Blackbell. He approaches Anya, asking about her father's work and mocks her for not being important enough. After Anya smiles at him, Damian gets angry at being made fun of and begins to insult Anya with 'ugly'. He starts harassing Anya by throwing crumpled paper balls and threatens to bully Anya out of school. He is punched by Anya, sending him flying into a chair and some trash bins. He is left with an imprint of a fist on his cheek and begins crying. Henry Henderson informs his parents of what transpired. He is not seen in the group photo taken afterward.

The next day, Damian bumps into Anya and Becky, where his followers and Becky begin arguing, and Anya attempts to apologize for the previous day, but Becky pulls Anya away. In class, Damian stares at Anya from behind, getting angry about her being the only one to have ever hit him, and turns away blushing slightly when Anya turns to look at him. At the school cafeteria, Anya approaches Damian to apologize to him. Getting up to face her, he is confused at being tongue-tied and his heart beating faster whenever she looks at him, his face blushing. When Anya apologizes to him in tears, Damian is touched and his entire face turns red, making an excuse that it's anger. Embarrassed, he reminds himself that Anya defied him, but starts imagining Anya staring right into his eyes. Denying his crush on a 'common girl', he adamantly refuses to ever forgive her for as long as he lives and dashes off, blushing.

During the dodgeball match in the physical education period, Damian and his group briefly argue with Becky again. Although shocked by Anya walking away from him, he turns away, focused on getting MVP in the dodgeball match instead to get a Stella Star. He reveals that his motivation to become an Imperial Scholar like his brother is to get his father's attention. Damian is the first to throw the ball and sends it flying at the students of Wald Hall, but his throw is intercepted by Bill Watkins. He banters with Bill briefly.

After Bill eliminates several of his classmates, their team is left with only five students, with Damian left standing with Anya, Ewen, Emile, and one other unnamed student. While Damian tries to think of a weakness, Emile and Ewen sacrifice themselves to protect Damian. Damian is determined to make an impression by being the one left standing, apathetic about others being hit. Damian praises Anya after she dodges several hits. After Anya trips and falls, Damian initially thinks to abandon her but is able to intercept the ball with his hands, though it leaves his hands shaking and unable to grab the ball, eliminating him. Damian is confused at his actions and tells Anya not mess up. At the end of the dodgeball match, Damian gets angry at Anya for wasting his sacrifice with a bad throw.

Skills
Damian is still a child so most of his known abilities are limited.
 * Physical Ability: Although his strength as a child is limited, he is able to be one of the few that nearly survive to the end of the dodgeball match, despite having Bill Watkins as an opponent.
 * Endurance: Damian has shown to be pretty tough being able to block a shot from Bill Watkins, a kid who is about 2-3 times the size of an average 6-year-old.

Trivia

 * Damian's nickname 'Sy-on' is a mispronunciation of 'Scion'. He is called 'Second Son' in Japanese.
 * Damian stays in the school dormitories of Eden Academy, with Emile and Ewen.