Donovan Helwig

Donovan Helwig is one of the upperclassmen in the Yukigaya Hero Club. He is a bibliophile with a habit of recreationally reading college-level textbooks. He is an arcane trickster rogue and fights using his signature magic butterfly knife.

Personality
Donovan is generally the clever silent type. He can most often be found quietly reading with one hand, twirling his knife with the other, and drinking coffee with a magically summon third.

He tends to be rather closed off with his emotions, keeping his feelings to himself if he can help it. Often, however, he can't, and his emotions tend to bubble out through his mask. He is often quite passionate in defending those he cares about, often willing to go to violent extremes if necessary.

Donovan has a fear of rejection, making him often bashful and sometimes snarky in his approach to romance. He has a habit of avoiding things that he is not absolutely certain that he knows he can succeed at.

Childhood
Donovan was born to Ivan and Irina Helwig, a wealthy Kiokan family who own Tanako Tower.

As an only child, he was raised with the expectation that he would take over the family business. Donovan was pushed to spend most of his time on his studies so he can get into one of the top private schools in Kioku. At the end of middle school, Donovan, unwilling to follow his parents' plan for him, intentionally flunked his placement exams, making public school the only education option for high school. Thus he ended up attending Yukigaya High School.

Time at Yukigaya
When he started school at Yukigaya, Donovan was mostly without friends. At some point during his first year, he was approach by Yadama Doku. Eventually, the two became friends and Donovan was, albeit reluctantly, convinced by Yadama to join the Yukigaya Hero Club.

There, Donovan still maintained his isolationist persona, but he slowly became friends with several of the other second years in the club. One of these would be Obi Gidayu, who Donovan would share a close bond with due to the fact that he, too, appreciates silence as a virtue.