Damian Desmond

"I’m Damian, scion of the Desmond family! I’ll be a politician one day and protect this country! Father fought against all kinds of enemies during the war… and I… can fight too!"

- Damian Desmond in Chapter 71

Damian Desmond (ダミアン・デズモンド) is the second son of Donovan Desmond and a first-year student at Eden Academy being part of Cecile Hall, Group 3.

Appearance
Damian is a young boy with short brown hair and hazel 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. However, in Anya’s view, he gains a derpier appearance.

Like other students, he is usually seen wearing Eden Academy's uniform. He wears socks with vertical lines and black shoes.

Personality
Due to his upbringing as a child of an important and powerful man, Damian gained a highly respected status among his peers by default, making him grow 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 develops a crush on her that he does not want to acknowledge, denying it at every opportunity he gets.

Later it is hinted that a possible reason for Damian's behavior can be attributed to his brother's success as an Imperial Scholar and his father's influence, which has set high expectations for him to strive and become part of the Imperial Scholars. His father's influence and lack of attention to his life motivated Damian even further to meet his expectations. This causes him to look down on others beneath his social class, for if they are not a benefit to him, they only slow him down from becoming an Imperial Scholar and, in turn, slow down his progress in getting his father's attention. A rare exception is when he protects Anya from a ball in a dodgeball game, willingly getting eliminated from the game. Though it did not help their class win the game Anya did note that Damian had a kind heart. Another rare moment was in their classroom when a girl from their class spread a rude rumor about how Anya got her first Stella Damian stood up for her.

Abilities and 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.

Intelligence: As it is shown in his grades, Damian is a very studious and intelligent student as he always strives for high grades and good scores. His discipline and responsibility made him have one of the highest grades in his class, and for this he managed to get a Stella for being in the top 2 highest grades in the History midterm.

Donovan Desmond
His father whom he has a very distant relationship with. Their butler, Jeeves, tries to act as if Donovan cares for Damian, but Damian does not believe it. After Damian's meeting with Donovan during the Imperial Scholars Mixer, he strives to become better to earn more praise from him.

Melinda Desmond
Similar to his father, Damian has a distant relationship with his mother. When Anya tells him that their mothers have become friends, Damian asks if his mother said anything about him. However, after Anya assures him that Melinda said nothing, Damian appears disappointed.

Demetrius Desmond
Similar to his father, Damian has a distant relationship with his older brother, to the point of being nervous when talking with him on the phone.

Anya Forger
His classmate whom he has mixed feelings for. The two often engage in fights, but Damian has shown to have some positive feelings about her when he sometimes blushes while talking to her. After the bus hijacking incident, Damian gains a newfound respect for Anya and calls her a friend. He currently has a big and very obvious crush on her but she seems to be oblivious to this.

Becky Blackbell
Damian is on odd-terms with Becky, with her being Anya's best friend and the two often trading remarks on any subject in or out of school. After the incident from the bus hijacking, it is shown that these two are in better circumstances.

Emile Elman
His classmate who acts and is seen as Damian's flunky. Though Emile may be one of Damian's "minions," they seem to have a friendly relationship as they are shown doing various activities together.

Ewen Egeburg
His classmate who acts and is seen as Damian's flunky. Though Ewen may be one of Damian's "minions," they seem to have a friendly relationship as they are shown doing various activities together.

Awards and Demerits

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Anime Appearances

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Trivia

 * Anya's nickname for Damian 'Sy-on Boy' is a mispronunciation of 'Scion'. Anya calls him "Jinan" (じなん) in Japanese, which means "second son" (次男).
 * The anime's English dub translates Anya's nickname for Damian as 'second son', instead of following the English manga's 'sy-on boy'.
 * Damian stays in the school dormitories of Eden Academy, with Emile and Ewen.
 * Damian has a German Shepherd named Max, who he leave at home in the care of his house servant, Jeeves.
 * Damian has a fear of worms.
 * Damian's shoe size is 17 cm.
 * Damian's favorite things are football, cartoons, and Stella Stars.
 * Damian's disliked things are earthworms, peppers, and the national language.
 * Damian's chair, featured on the seventh volume cover, is a Willow Chair designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

Quotes

 * (Damian to himself, referring to Donovan): I know father couldn't care less about me. If I want to please him... If I want to earn his respect... I have to be perfect. I have to become an Imperial Scholar!