Daphne Papadimitriou

**"Insignificant being be gone!"**

## Background Information

### **Likes**

Volleyball
 Baklava

### **Dislikes**

Spiders
 Rock Climbing
 Cave Tunneling

## Image gallery

**Daphne Papadimitriou** (Japanese: **パダイミトリウ ダフネ**, *Padaimitoriu Dafune*) is a third year student attending Inarizaki High. She plays on the volleyball team as the starting middle blocker and is known among the girls' side of the volleyball circuit as the "Queen of Middle Blockers" due to her solid blocking and stable receiving qualities.

In 2018, Daphne became a member of the Showa Imagination Team, a Division 1 team in the V-League. She became a member of the Japanese Women's National Volleyball Team during the 2020 Olympics. As of 2022, she is now a member of AGIL Volley, a professional team in the Italian Women's Volleyball League.

She is the older sister of Anastasia Papadimitriou.

## Appearance

Daphne has sandy-coloured hair that's parted evenly on both sides of her face, sporting brown eyes and an average build. Typical of most females in her family, she is incredibly short as a result of her mother's side of the family being all incredibly short themselves.

## Personality

Daphne has a cheerful and hyperactive personality, being incredibly excited at all times and quite loud, a trait that has somewhat led to slight resentment of her. Atypical of most Middle Blockers on her team, she is quite friendly-natured and gentle-demeanored, being greatly empathetic toward others' struggles. She is not quite as observant at noticing social cues as most of her teammates but is incredibly capable at blocking on the volleyball court, being the most highly trained Middle Blocker that her team has to offer. Naturally good at schmoozing, Daphne tends to use this trait without thinking and this has allowed her to easily mesh with her team. She also serves as a mediator as her calm and cool-headed nature balances easily with the notoriously tempermental and hot-headed nature of some of her teammates.

On a much more deeper level of her physique, Daphne is a dedicated athlete easily able to recognize even the slightest slip in her preformance levels and moving to rectify those problems immediately. From more simple things such as adjusting her sleep schedule to far more complicated things such as raising the difficulty of her workouts, she is skilled in all of those related areas. In addition to this, she has a rigerous studying schedule that allows her to stay on top of all of her classes and not slip a single inch of a point in grades.

## Background

Born to a Greek mother and a Japanese father, Daphne is a hāfu (a Japanese language term used to refer to a person ethnically half Japanese and half non-Japanese) that also possesses significant Italian heritage (mother's side of the family) and is a biliungal language speaker. Prior to attending Inarizaki High, she was a student at Toyokuro Junior High. She played on the girls' soccer team as their goalie and was childhood friends with Shunki Kawatabi's older brother, Mitaboshi who was in Daphne's year and all of her classes. She was also friends with some of her underclassmen, most specifically Kenjirō Shirabu and made a promise with him, to attend some of his high school volleyball games. It is later revealed that she only decided to go to Inarizaki High after Mitaboshi begged her too. By the time of Shiratorizawa's game against Ohgiminami, Daphne and Mitaboshi had been dating for several years.

## Plot

### **Interhigh Arc**

#### **Shiratorizawa vs Ohgiminami**

In Block H, Shiratorizawa played against Ohgiminami and won the match in straight sets without much difficulty (2:0 / 25-10, 25-6). Having decided to attend the game themselves, Daphne was impressed by Shiratorizawa's power and dragged Mitaboshi with her to congratulate Kenjirō. Much later on, while passing by Karasuno High on their way to Daphne's grandmother's house, Mitaboshi and Daphne are ambushed by the Karasuno High Boys' Volleyball Club.

### **Tokyo Nationals Arc**

#### **First Year Training Camp**

Directly before Nationals, Daphne is invited to Shiratorizawa's Training Camp and agrees out of mere curosity. Though greatly insulted about the instituations towards her height, resulting in her notorious cold-tongued nature coming out (at the worst moments), she proves her strength as an impressive Middle Blocker and manages to irriate Ushijima with her impressive blocks. When asked about her opinion on Ushijima by Goshiki, Daphne bluntly describes as "somewhat of a bonehead with a incredible physique and the "heart" of his team" whereas she described herself as a "pillar of support" for her team. Interested by their conversation,