Marvin Kazembe

**Marvin Kazembe** is one of the main characters of the series, *Magium Boys: Tales of the Magicians*. He is a student in Mister Robertson's class at Midtown High School in Queens, New York City, New York, U.S.A. He excels in drawings, presentations and dancing, and has been practicing judo since he was 7 years old. In his schooling, he excelled in English, French, Spanish, Technology, Music and Art. With the Aether Magium, when inhabited by Yumme, Marvin transforms into the superhero **Aiterios**, gaining the power of divination to stop Night Shade and his kemonoid villains. When he is the Guardian of the Aether, Justice and Dreams, he thus becomes an Aitherologist with aitherokinetic powers, he can create, shape and manipulate the Aether, a powerful and unique celestial element that is said to circulate throughout the universe and existence. He is the leader of Magium Boys and the Keeper of the Magiums.

## Appearance

### Physical Appearance

Marvin is a 13 year old teenager in 8th grade, half-Congolese (on his mother's side) and half-Angolan (on his father's side) with a brown complexion, short curly black hair with brown highlights and light brown slanted eyes.

### Civilian

Marvin wears a saddle brown and white tie-dye hoodie with a yellow happy emoji print while sticking out his tongue; inside, he wears a simple white t-shirt with a collar and a small pocket on the top right and inside his shirt, he wears an undershirt (it can be white with white borders or grey with dark grey borders). He wears sandy brown jogger cargo pants with large pockets on his thighs and a silver chain left around his hips. Then he wears yellow and white high collar shoes with a pattern that says "LIKE".

### As a Superhero

As Aiterios, Marvin wears a navajo white leather superhero suit covered with two symmetrical black zigzags on his torso, two others on his thighs and ankles. On his face, he wears a navajo white leather mask with two symmetrical black zigzags that hides his hair.

## Etymology

* **Marvin** is a name of Welsh origin, and its first name meaning is "*sea friend*".
* **Kazembe** is a surname of the Luba-Lunda tribe, meaning: belonging to the royal clan of the Mwata Kazembe.

## Inspirations

* Marvin Kazembe shares some similarities with these other fictional characters and might possibly have been inspired to some extent by them:
	+ Ladybug from *Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir*, who in real life goes by the name Marinette Dupain-Cheng and fights her main enemy and supervillains as a superheroine with her Kwami, Tikki.
		- Marinette Dupain-Cheng is the new Great Guardian of the Miraculous, she was chosen by the former Great Guardian of the Miraculous, Wang Fu.
		- Marvin Kazembe is the new Great Guardian of the Magiums, she was chosen by the former Great Guardian of the Magiums, Huang Kuan.
		- Both names of Marvin and Marinette begin with an "M".
		- Both a miniature divine and magical creature that are the first of them. Marvin Kazembe has Yumme, a pikushi with the power of Divination while Marinette Dupain-Cheng has Tikki, a kwami with the power of Creation.
	+ Will Vandom of *W.I.T.C.H.*, fighting as the Guardian of Quitessence and the leader of the Guardians (better known as W.I.T.C.H.) a group of magical girls.
		- Marvin Kazembe and Will Vandom have the same power which is known as Quitessence or Aether. They are both leaders of their respective teams. They are also the ones with the most power in their team.
		- They were born in the same month (January) but not on the same day or in the same year.
			* Marvin was born on January 18th 1990 while Will Vandom was born on January 19th 1991.
				+ In the series, it was said that Will was born on January 19th 1971.
			* Marvin was born on the same day as Jerymy1234.
		- Marvin Kazembe and Will Vandom are both thirteen years old and are both also in the 8th grade.

## Trivia

* Marvin is in the same class as Adrien, Mike and Blaise.
* His favorite subjects are French and Spanish.