Amateur Sleuth: Though a magic professor by profession, he spends quite a bit of time solving mysteries.

He did happen to be an orphan, but a family like hers was really the last thing he needed.

Adult Adoptee: As a young adult, he was adopted by Reines as her elder brother.

It also conveniently put the responsibility of paying off the family's rather terrifying debt onto him, which Waver isn't exactly happy about.

Adopted into Royalty: Waver comes from a working-class background but was formally adopted into the El-Melloi II family by Reines, mostly so she could ruffle other lords' feathers by forcing them to treat a third-generation mage as a peer.Meanwhile, due in part to Depending on the Artist, his features in the Case Files novels and especially its various adaptations aren't quite so harsh, stress lines notwithstanding. Adaptational Attractiveness: Though it's not as if he's outright ugly, his portrayals in older character materials and other franchise entries * Fate/kaleid liner PRISMAРІВвЂ ILLYA, Fate/strange fake, Fate/Apocrypha, Fate/stay night, Fate/Grand Order tend to depict him rather haggard-looking, making his status as a Chick Magnet more of an Informed Attribute.The title character of the series, having grown in the ten years since his life-changing experience in the Fourth Holy Grail War as the current professor of Modern Magecraft and acting head of the El-Melloi house.

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