Ninyan

* Bio

> A professor at the Imperial Jade Academy who teaches the school's advanced placement thaumaturgy curriculum, including the art of spiritual invocation. She is a widely respected professor who is stern with students yet is still willing to work with them.
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**Ninyan** is a professor at the Imperial Jade Academy. She teaches the advanced placement thaumaturgy courses, and though she is a strict professor, she grades her students' preformances in class quite fairly. Because of her somewhat lenient nature as a professor even outside of class, many students flock to her and she is the club adviser for many clubs in the academy.

## Appearance

Having been cursed when she was only 10, Ninyan's physical appearance shows the repercussion of such a curse, despite her quite elderly age of 1,000,000,000,000+, she is really only as tall as a 10-year-old and is noted to have a stature reflecting it. She wears a sailor fuku-style uniform despite being a professor, presumably due to her role as the school's thaumaturgy professor which she pairs with brown loafers. She comes off as very cutsey and extremely approacable.

## Personality

Ninyan was said by the students of the Imperial Jade Academy to be a somewhat lax teacher as shown when she playfully brushed off two students seriously fighting in her classroom or when she playfully teased some of her students for showing up to her classroom in their sleeping clothes. However, she can quite easily become severe and unlenient with her students when they abuse their trust with her, as shown when she refused to allow several students to enter her classroom during exam week, because she feared that they would cheat on the exam. She is shown to have a great passion for advanced thaumaturgy/spiritual invocation and wanted her students to respect and not to take the subject lightly and encourage them to study harder for the exams. Her students place a great deal of trust in her as an educator and describe her as the 'doting professor mother' due to many of her students seeing her as a motherly-like figure.

## Background

Little is known about Ninyan, only that she is a homunculus created for the purpose of advancing thaumaturgy and spiritual invocation to a whole new level of power and prestige. She has taught in the academy since it's founding and is known as the single teacher that has remained in her post despite the centuries that passed. She has four adult sons, created from samples of her blood and marrow tissue, with the eldest of her sons (Chao) attending Royal Sword Academy, her two middle sons (Chaoxiang) and (Donghai) attending, while her youngest (Genghis) is attending Night Raven College.

## Trivia

* Ninyan is inspired by Nana from *Darling In The Franxx*.
* She is believed to be some sort of fenghuang homunculus, as she has an unnatural affinity for fire-based magic, almost divine-like usage of fire-based magic being but a single aspect of a fenghuang.
* She is the penpal of Dire Crowley and Ashton Vargas, with her influence allowing to bribe the school into accepting several female exchange students from the Imperial Jade Academy.
* By the time of the current events at the start of the series, Ninyan is not only a professor but also the current Celestial Jingwei ("Celestial Phoenix Sage"), the equal to a headmage or dean of the Imperial Jade Academy.
	+ She has been in the position of the Celestial Jingwei ("Celestial Phoenix Sage") since the death of the first and founding Celestial Jingwei ("Celestial Phoenix Sage"). This is supported by the fact that even longer-lived members of Yángguāng Jiàn's Imperial court remember her appointment to the position.
		- Being the current Celestial Jingwei ("Celestial Phoenix Sage") of the academy, she is part of the academy's Jingwei dorm.