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Callisto
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–Callisto, Canto IX: The Unsevering | ||
Callisto is a former Maestro of The Ring and the master of Albina, as well as being one of the five parental figures assigned to training Yoshihide as a Nursefather of the House of Spiders. He is an antagonist introduced in Canto IX: The Unsevering.
Appearance
Callisto is a massive man seen wearing draped, white, robes with a gilded trim along their perimeter, silver-adorned, white high-heels better seen in his animations, and a large-brimmed hat featuring a litany of holes through its brim. His body is composed of sleek, full-bodied prosthetics with a metallic textures on his torso and a gust-patterned, white chassis on his leg and shoulders. His body, visible through a gap in his robes, reveals some of his innards through glass panes. His arms feature large gaps in their centers, with sharp claws at the end of his hands. He carries a massive weapon composed of his own body known as Tibia, which features several large pointed notches along its blade.
Beneath his wide-brimmed hat, his brain is partially exposed due to a failed attempt to utilize his brain in an art piece.
Personality
Common of members of the Ring, Callisto shows an interest in the macabre and brutal when framed through a lens of artwork, taking a primary interest in the human corpus. During Ryōshū's time with the House of Spiders, he showed a caring side towards the woman, mentioning his wish for her to wield what he considered his prized creation upon its eventual completion. While he carries a constant strive to experience the most extreme of arts, he is shown to yearn for a discussion with somebody in the terms of art, even if it becomes a matter of pure taste.
Story
Prior to Limbus Company
Callisto was formerly a Maestro of the Ring who led the school of Corporism. At some point, he was demoted from his position for unknown reasons, implied to be his refusal to change his outmoded artstyle, and was sent to the House of Spiders.
Among the five Fingers, Callisto was the Ring's representative in the process of raising Ryōshū into a "perfect blade". In her youth, Ryōshū was trained by the Ring Nursefather in the field of using a human body as a weapon, attempting to persuade the girl into taking an interest in the field of corpse-based artwork. A particular piece the man worked on was planned to be his greatest piece of art, which he wished for Ryōshū to wield. While Ryōshū, in her youth, expressed a constant distaste for Callisto's brutal art, he found that she was capable of being a discussion peer as she grew into her young adult years, viewing their dissenting tastes as a possible place of interest.
During Ryōshū's attack against the Nursefathers, she destroyed several parts of the Callisto's gallery, most notably a blade he had worked on for ten years, setting him back in progress on his masterpiece.
After Ryōshū's departure from the House of Spiders, Callisto began teaching an apprentice, Albina, who took up a similar position towards the artform and the destruction of one's own body in the chasing of corporism.
Canto IX: The Unsevering
During the raid upon the Limbus Company HQ, Callisto was present in the assault, with his apprentice accompanying the Dihui Star and her apprentice. During the raid, Callisto provided manikins for others to use, composed of researcher corpses. These manikins featured a carving with a message towards Ryōshū, left behind by their creator, reminding her of the grotesque artform. Callisto not only left the manikins in service, but also composed several art pieces within the HQ, leaving the bodies behind for the coworkers of the ingredients to find.
As a group consisting of Hohenheim, Marton, Heathcliff, Sinclair, Don Quixote and Faust worked on restoring power to the headquarters, Callisto developed an impromptu exhibit in the nearby hallway, utilizing corpses for installments. As the group attempted to hide from the man while discussing a possible plan to deal with him, Callisto happened upon the group, allowing him a chance to act as the curator of his exhibit. The Sinners, with a plan to allow Hohenheim and Marton time to repair the power to the facility, distract Callisto temporarily. However, due to a surge in Dante's abilities, the Sinners present were knocked unconscious, leaving the LCE members unprotected as Callisto returned to them. In a last ditch effort, and against Hohenheim's word, Marton allowed his E.G.O gear to access a higher Attunement level than was safe, hoping to utilize the properties of its Faelantern abilities to charm Callisto. While Marton flees during the activation, Callisto confronts Hohenheim, explaining his plans for the researcher's body to be involved in his art. However, according to Marton's expectations, Callisto is enthralled by a glowing hue of teal, being lured to the man's abilities and buying Hohenheim the extra time he needed. Per the expected consequence of over-Attunement, Marton's E.G.O Suit would explode soon after, killing him in the process. Moments after the man's death, Callisto was called to return to the House of Spiders, meaning he would have to close his gallery in the headquarters. In doing so, he wished to see Hohenheim again soon, so that they may continue their discussion of art.
Callisto was later encountered in his art gallery within the Ring's Corridor, having arrived to Albina's aid. Preaching about the beauty of the corpus and his hope to create the most human gallery in the City, he soon joined in the battle against Ishmael, Faust, Sinclair, and the LCE researchers. As the fight grew hopeless with Alyssa having already been taken out of commission, Hohenheim chose to discuss Callisto's artworks and giving critiques about them, much to the Maestro's delight. This allowed Hohenheim, who had his neck gripped by Callisto, to strike at the Maestro with an E.G.O weapon he had kept hidden, knocking off Callisto's hat and revealing his damaged brain. As the Ring Nursefather prepared to kill Hohenheim for good, Sinclair's Sign fully awakened, summoning a version of himself from a possible future to battle, causing Callisto to become ecstatic at having a person who witnessed such horrors as a critic. After Albina was slain, Callisto noted the beautiful artwork that Albina would become after she was killed, though he was soon also mortally injured by Sinclair, who called his artwork 'trashy'. As Sinclair moved in to finish him, Callisto would ask him to describe the sights of the Second Smoke War; Sinclair would reply that it was pointless, although Callisto was satisfied nonetheless, knowing that the sights were too horrific for words. Soon after, the Ring Nursefather was reduced to metallic scrap by Sinclair's finishing blow reminiscent of the Night Drifter's teachings.
Gallery
Trivia
- Callisto takes his name from the nymph Callisto of Greek myth. In most versions of Callisto's myth, she loses her human form and is transformed into a bear, and eventually set among the stars as the constellation Ursa Major.
- The art movement which Callisto bases his philosophy on, Corporism, is not a real-world movement of art. The name is derived from the plural of corpus, corpora, an archaic word meaning "body".
- While Corporism is not a real art movement, Ryōshū mentions the Maestro's art utilizes Cubist technique in some capacity as well. This is an actual 20th-century art movement, featuring abstraction of forms and use of wild perspective.
- Callisto's sword Tibia is named after the tibia, the larger of the two bones between the knee and ankle.
- The maximum stack of Callisto's status effect
Corpus Ingredient (Bones) Corpus Ingredient (Bones)- Max Stack: 206
- Unique Charge (fixed Potency) is 206, referencing the number of bones in the human body, while the maximum stack of
Corpus Ingredient (Blood) Corpus Ingredient (Blood)- Max Stack: 5
- Unique Charge (fixed Potency) is 5, referencing the average liters of blood in the human body.
References
- ↑ Callisto refers to Ryōshū as his daughter (Canto 9-14), as all of the Nursefathers regard Yoshihide as a daughter to them, while she called him her "Dad" when she was still with the House of Spiders (Canto 9-16, Canto 9-47). While they are not biologically related, they still had the relationship of a father and daughter when she was being raised.
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