Saphir Pietsch

Saphir is a magic knight of German origin who has been abandoned by his birth parents in Featheria Island. The Neufeld family raised him until he was deported back to Germany as a baby and his birth parents exposed the truth about them 6 years later.

## Profile

* Name: Saphir Pietsch
* Nickname: Saphir
* Gender: Male
* Race: Human
* Birthday: July 14
* Age: 15
* Zodiac Sign: Cancer
* Zodiac Sign (Chinese): Rat
* Appearance: Light blue hair, blue eyes
* Height: 154 cm (5 ft 1 in)
* Weight: 41 kg (90 lbs)
* Personality: Whimsical, Moody, Gloomy, Loner, Reserved, Cold-hearted, Kuudere
* Likes: Sapphire, swords, magic, easy and intense fights, frozen food
* Dislikes: Training, anti-magic, chaos, spicy food, bullies, monsters
* Weakness: Darkness

## Biography

### Prologue

Saphir's mother Anja was born in 1974, during the time when Germany was divided into two separate countries, in Bonn, as the eldest daughter out of a family of 4 children. However, Julia refused to listen to anything her parents, older sister and younger brothers say to her and was abusive towards her 2-year-old daughter Melanie whom she gave birth to at the age of 16 in 1993, by leaving her alone in a house full of trash to frequent illegal bars, which led to the local Jugendamt taking the latter away from the house to prevent further child abuse and told her aunt, who was 19 years old at the time, about the abuse in her mother's family.

Soon after, the news about Melanie's neglect were spread all across German newspapers, which led to Julia getting disowned by her own family and her sister gaining legal custody of her daughter. From the time they first met each other, Anja and her niece knew about each other for the first time and played with each other until 4 years later, now at the age of 23 in 1997, the earlier met a old college friend called Frank, who would later become Saphir's father, and they get to know about their hobbies before dating for 5 years that they introduced themselves to their parents in 2002 and they got engaged for 3 years in their early 30s by 2005 until she announced to her parents that she's going to marry her fiancé in 6 months, and the marriage was held in Cologne in which 2 months later, Anja and Frank waved goodbye to their parents before they left for Featheria Island, where they built a small house near the bridge to the Featheria Palace for them and their future child.

2 years into their marriage, Saphir was born to his biological parents and they were happy to have him at first until unfortunately, his mother Anja suffered from postpartum depression to the point she couldn't raise him properly and left him behind near the aristocrat Neufeld family's house a week after he was born before returning to Germany only to get scolded by her parents who wanted to see their grandson, and was raised by his foster father Stefan who forced him to train with him to become a knight and suffered from his hands but however instead of going back to Germany with his mother, he kept training while facing dangers that awaits him.

After what he had gone through for the past 3 months, Saphir wanted to go back to see his real parents and while 4-year-old Cornelia was playing marbles with her 2-year-old sister Althea, she saw him crying near the place where he was found by his foster family and they took him to her palace where Cornelia told her father that she found a 3-month-old baby, and considering his age, the king sent the boy back to Germany, where his uncle Markus raised him in his house in Dusseldorf along with his 14-year-old cousin Melanie, whom he gradually gets along with.

5 years later, his foster father wanted to do the same thing to him back when he was a baby by forcing him to train almost everyday, by travelling to Germany and threatening Saphir's maternal uncles as well as his 19-year-old cousin Melanie to the point of stalking, harassing, sending death threat letters and blackmailing them, that they fled their apartment and took him with them to the Berlin Brandenburg Airport and took a flight to Poland where they moved to Lublin, where his grandparents are still living because of the same situation they have been in since their first grandson was a baby, and they cherished him with the love and respect he needed, but however, things didn't last long, when Saphir's father Frank told his mother that he saw the fashion designer Ms. Nowak that was accompanying the two North Korean defectors Hwayeon and Minjun near the German border.

Turns out, his prediction was true: Neufeld was a member of a terrorist organization that Ms. Nowak belonged to relating to the kidnappings of Hwayeon's parents and according to the Italian authorities, was specializing in human and drug trafficking through the Mediterranean Sea, and has been wanted by Hungary for human trafficking a few years back then, and having enough of his death threats towards her family, Saphir's mother and uncles had to file a case against him in Polish court and at the end of the case in 2015, the judges sided in favor of the former, sentencing him to 50 years in jail for human trafficking in Hungary, child abduction, death threats, stalking and participating in an terrorist organization, and drug trafficking.

After the case was over, Saphir's family decided to move into Cologne, where they now live a peaceful life in Ehrenfeld and on the other hand, Melanie began to work as a full-time barista at a cafe after graduating from University of Cologne, and sometimes she takes him to work part-time while after finishing his school timetable every weekend. 6 years later, while 14-year-old Saphir was on his way to work at his cousin's cafe during the weekend, he saw a poster of Chinatown Heroes glued behind the front windows of the cafe and initially didn't want to join the group until he saw Mingyu reading a newspaper and gave him the latte his cousin made for him, only for the the latter of the two boys to go and drink his latte outside at one of the cafe's tables and he told him to follow him here, in which he agreed to.

Outside of the cafe, Saphir and Mingyu got to know about each other and Chinatown Heroes as a whole until they disappeared to Sakurahama Island, much to the anger of the customers who regularly liked the former and the cafe owner had to confront them over the argument. While in Sakurahama Island, Saphir and Adelia (who was from another world) were summoned at the same time and along with the person who summoned them to the island, they met fellow heroes Mochi, Chizuru, Iliana, Hwayeon, Kiran, Lolli, Yonako, Nagomi, Miro and Yinuo, who were all happy to welcome the two into their group, with one of them taking Saphir to learn how to use a sword and magic at the same time.

The one who took Saphir in was Kiran, who already knew how to use a sword as well as magic at the same time due to his species, and he taught him how to wield a sword before going on to using magic at the same time until he was successfully taught on doing so, and told him "I want to show my parents how proud they are of me!". Soon, the former finally joined the group and vanished to Germany, where he told his parents about his new friend Mingyu and they were soon proud of him for that, before he left for his sword training lessons with Kiran in Featheria Island and soon after he became a magic knight and his new journey as one begins right here.

## Relatives

### Family

* Frank Pietsch - Father
* Anja Richter - Mother
* Stefan Neufeld - Foster Father
* Julia Richter - Aunt
* Melanie Krueger - Cousin
* Markus Richter - Uncle
* Oliver Richter - Uncle

## Appearances

Saphir made his first appearance in Crystalline Codex Season 8's Swordfish Online where he was found running to Crystalline's house in search for Emlyn.

* *Crystalline Codex* (debut)

## Quotes

### Crystalline Codex

#### Season 8

* (to Crystalline) "I'm not sure if Elsword will get jealous very fast, but since he went to your house anyway, I'll go then." (from *Swordfish Online*)
* (to Elsword) "What the hell, dude? She is in a coma! Please stop with it!" (from *Swordfish Online*)
* (to Elesis) "Elesis, what are you doing here with a swordfish? Throw it to the sea!" (from *Swordfish Online*)
* (to Elesis) "Shut up Elesis! You can't help me get off your brother off Emlyn!" (from *Swordfish Online*)
* "Yikes! What's this explosive liquid?!" (from *Saphir's Perfect School Life*)

## Trivia

* Saphir shares his birthday with Cody and Yinuo.