Mephisto Pheles

**Mephisto Pheles**, also known as **Mephistopheles**, is the unofficial leader of the Extra Demons, most known to mundanes in the Faust Legends.

Under the alias **Lokke Corbray**, he is known in both worlds as the headmaster of the prestigious True Cross Academy.

## Overview

**Mephistopheles**, also known as **Mephisto**, is a demon featured in German folklore. He originally appeared in literature as the demon in the Faust legend, and he has since appeared in other works as a stock character.

## Appearance

Mephisto is a tall, middle-aged man with pale skin, pointed ears, and a small goatee. He has gelled dark-purple hair and glowing forest-green eyes. He is also described as having a strange aura around him, which makes him seem elegant and friendly-looking, yet mysterious at the same time.

He is usually seen in an elegant white outfit consisting of a white top hat with pink-and-purple ribbon wrapped around the base, purple gloves, a pink-and-white spotted tie, a white suit with a magenta undershirt, and black dress shoes, which overall gives him the nickname of "The Clown". According to Azazel, back in the medieval era, he actually went full-on jester mode, complete with bell-tipped hat and clown makeup.

During the Siege of Scholomance, he was shown wearing a white military uniform, with a golden brooch pinned over his lapel and an off-shoulder cape embroidered with the Mephisto Clan's emblem of three ravens surrounding a red-and-blue rose.

Like other demons, he lost his wings to Michael when the Celestial Prince tore them out after banishing them into the Underworld. As such, he replaces his original three pairs of feathered wings with wisp-like ones formed of demonic energy. They are dark-purple in color, though the energy faded into different colors on each side, with his right "wings" faded into red and his left "wings" faded into blue.

His eyes were also plucked out by Michael, and his current ones are illusions placed on top of his hollowed eye sockets that bleed viscous black blood without control.

## Personality

Shrouded in mystery, many quickly learn of Mephisto's innate ability to act as if he knows more than what he is letting on. Careful and meticulous, he is like a chess player, always ahead of the game.

He enjoys chaos, even describing himself as a hell-raiser and that Earth is his playground. He frequently observes the conflicts and troubles around Rin and his friends with delight, though he does not wish to see his son or any of his friends get killed.

He is a firm believer of Liberalism, so he didn't get along with the original Four Great Satans, even outright admitting to despising them due to their extremely domineering nature of ordering him around, which was one of the main reasons why he rebelled against Heaven. He also isn't interested in the Rating Game, so he didn't give that many orders to Tannin and allows him to roam freely as he pleases, as long as he doesn't bring trouble to him or his house.

He is prone to eccentric moments nestled in between serious ones, making light of a heavy mood and is often portrayed as a clown or trickster in the eyes of his peers. Although being one of the richest people in the Inferno, whose wealth can only be dwarfed by the Mammon Clan, he is extremely cheap when it comes to spending on others. In addition, he is known for being deeply interested in Japanese pop culture, even proudly stating that he is an *otaku* and a *Japanophile*.

Although he is one of the most influential demons to ever live, being the "King of the Crossroad" and the unofficial leader of the Extra Demons, he holds a great disdain to all things political in nature, to the point where he forbids any talk about politics within True Cross Academy. In fact, the only known time that he actively engaged in politics was in the Devil Civil War, when he rallied support for the Anti-Satan Faction purely because of his own hatred toward the second Satans.

Despite these eccentric traits, like most demons, Mephisto is greatly feared because of his ruthlessness, cruelty, and simply diabolical nature. It is said that he is most adept at pitting people against each other, which have resulted in countless wars and major conflicts throughout history. He has stated that his greatest hobby is to pit entire societies against each other, to turn brother against brother, to sow discord and distrust wherever he could, whenever he could. Many great empires in the world - Such as the Roman Empire, the Golden Horde khanate, or the Yuan dynasty - had fallen due to his manipulations, all for his own personal entertainment.

As the Demon of Hatred, he views hatred as a useful tool, though one to be wielded with precision. That said, his hatred has a miasmic effect on wherever he goes or onto whoever his hatred is directed upon. He especially loathes the pagan gods and their followers, whose suffering is his delight, as he considers their existence to be blasphemy against God, and therefore, himself as one of His children. He himself is responsible for many persecutions of paganism throughout the centuries and was responsible for the end of hundreds of ancient religions, to the point where the gods themselves have to pray for the angels to have him restrained.

He once shunned companionship, considering it "a comfort of the wretched", though this part of him had changed throughout the millennia, particularly after the Great War, to the point where he even "loves" humans nowadays. He particularly favors his adopted son, Rin and Yukio Okumura, and loves his husband Shiro Fujimoto, even though their marriage is largely "built upon tax frauds".

## Trivia

* In legends, his name is considered as one word: **Mephistopheles**.
* His name may be derived from the Hebrew words *mephis* (מפיץ, "distributor") and *tophel* (תפל, "falsehood"), which makes the name Mephistopheles possibly means "distributor of superstitions".
	+ In Greek, however, his name means "not loving light".
* He much prefers the current Four Great Satans than the previous generations.
* According to him, he doesn't like sunlight because he has sensitive skin.
* He likes to gamble and make bets with whoever possible.
* He is very talented at party games, claw crane machines and chess.
* He has a major sweet tooth and his favorite food is junk food in general (mostly candy).
* He considers hope to be "the only virtue with purpose".
* His favorite type of women are those who are temptresses, "devilish", or elegant/beautiful. He mentions also fancying "pretty girls with a sad past", as well as charismatic women,
	+ Despite being married, it appears that his marriage with Shiro is an open one, or at least, not monogamous, as both have been shown to flirt with many other people, even offering to have a threesome with some of them.
* He has met five-generations of Gremorys in total, starting from their progenitor Runeas Gremory down to Rias and her father.