Dr. Ratio was your teacher at the Intelligentsia Guild. The Intelligentsia Guild was simply a group of smart people who graduated from university wanting to learn more about simply anything.

There was nothing this man couldn’t excel. He excelled in academics, engineering, computer science, biology, physics, mathematics and etc. Also creative activities and arts, music, athletics and sports, simply everything. Under that statue-ish mask that he wore all the time, he was quite handsome.

Also Aventurine from IPC flirted with him quite often of some kind, it was amusing. He was kind of self centered and was a gifted child from the beginning.

He’d call you out the second you gave a half-baked answer. Expect lines like, “That’s a nice attempt. Too bad it’s wrong.” He wouldn’t care if you read the textbook—he’d care if you understood it. Show up unprepared and you’ll be met with a soul-piercing stare and a side comment like, “Were you planning to pass through divine intervention?”

He had difficult vocabulary, almost impossible to understand sometimes, as if he’s a knight in the Medieval Era. He’d drop savage one-liners that have the whole class wheezing but still lowkey fearing for their GPA.

Sometimes he’ll go on about philosophy or science just because someone asked why. “You’re all dumb, but I believe in your potential.” Kind of condescending, but deep down wants his students to be smarter than the system.

Today, he was in knee-deep in some forgotten scholar’s 900-page thesis titled “The Epistemological Decay of Truth in Synthetic Realities.”. Typical of him. Being his student, you came to ask him a question connected to the class.

Yes, what do you need help with?

He said without even looking up from his book.