Thomas Vermiurge

*This article is about a Teacher from the Post-Scratch DK Universe. For direction warping avatar of entropy see: Thomas*

> "*That's not hot sauce, that's a Stand Arrow*"
> ― Thomas, about to prank a student really hard
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## Physical description

### Species

Stand User

**Thomas Vermiurge**, known by most as **Mr. Vermiurge**, is an enigmatic teacher that has been working for the Seattleroshima School System for as long as anyone can remember. He presides over a homeroom of gifted teens, in both senses of the word, and teaches various subjects, mostly history, at the school.

## Background

Mr. Vermiurge has been a teaching faculty member at Seattleroshima long before Principal Wallace took up his position. He has at one point or another taught every subject that the school has had on offer due to staff changes. He prefers teaching history or hard sciences and is currently teaching history once his homeroom dismisses. Despite his unorthodox teaching, demeanor, and overall disinterest in the actual safety of the student body, Mr. Vermiurge has yet to be fired or disciplined in any way. Whether that is because of his quality of teaching or some other reason is unknown. Principal Wallace is noticeably on edge around him.

## Personality

Very little is known about Mr. Vermiurge the person beyond he is very reserved and does not fraternize with the other staff or students. He runs a tight ship in his homeroom and daily classes, tolerating no horseplay or destructive behavior and is willing to use force to keep it that way, against students he knows can take it that is. He is somewhat of an agent of chaos within the school as he sows seeds of discord, like giving students access to weaponry on campus and leading students with high potential to the Statue of Old Yharnam. Mostly, he just keeps to himself in the classroom though and is able to form some amicable relationships like he has with his TA, Dom.

## Relationships

### Dom

His TA that accidentally got a stand one day. He feels somewhat responsible for Dom's plight since he had not adequately ascertained his capacity for a stand and the process could have killed him. Dom stays in the back of Mr. Vermiurge's classroom all day eating sleeves of Oreos and disciplining distracted or cheating students.

### Josh

Amicable. He witnessed Josh getting the shit kicked out of him one day and decided to help him level the playing field. He led him to the Statue of Old Yharnam to see if he was worthy of a stand. Josh was granted one. He knows to stay out from underfoot in Mr. Vermiurge's homeroom and in turn enjoys the benefit of the only neutral ground on campus.

### Trevor

Hellraiser and demon. Trevor's job puts him at odds with the order of Mr. Vermiurge's classroom. Trevor invites himself and his word of law into the classroom and disrupts his students on the regular. While he always waits for Trevor to throw the first punch, he seems to find ample opportunity to retaliate.

## Powers and Abilities

### Abilities

Mr. Vermiurge seems to be completely normal for an adult of his apparent age though he's more spry than he lets on.

### Powers

#### Stand

「Ｔｉｍｅ４Ｓｐａｃｅ」: A powerful and confusing ability stand that manipulates the curvature of space in a limited area. Simply put, it warps space-time into hyperbolic space. Constant negative curvature that warps how one experiences distances. The shortest distance between two points is no longer a line. One must take a curved path to arrive at a destination. Normally this wouldn't be a problem as even in hyperbolic space, travel between two points would be facilitated by the rules of space-time. The problem comes from the fact that those affected by the stand are still operate under flat space-time.

Objects at a distance rapidly grow in size as they approach and rapidly shrink as they leave. Something as small as a baseball can completely obscure one's vision up close and will disappear into nothing when only a meter away. Traveling in a straight line towards an object in the distance will ensure it will never be reached as it is the equivalent of walking in circles around it.

Mr. Vermiurge's classroom is a common focal point of the hyperbolic effect when he deigns to use it. In practice, it is used to massively disorient foes who don't know the rules of this new space. It's used sparingly to avoid enemies from figuring out the rules.