Wills Pelham Codrington (ウィルズ・ペラム・コドリントン, Uiruzu Peramu Kodorinton?) is an instructor for the Department of Spiritual Evocation. He is the son of the late Trevor Pelham Codrington.[1][2]
Profile[]
Background[]
Wills is an instructor for the Department of Spiritual Evocation, especially popular among the female students. He was also the childhood friend of Waletta Codrington until he rejected her marriage proposal.[1] He ranked second on the unofficial annual poll of which man at the Clock Tower the female students most wanted to sleep with of 2003.[3]
Personality[]
Wills is mindful of his position as an instructor, knowing to leave his office door open when meeting with a female student to prevent any misunderstandings.[1]
Despite his popularity, he is well-known for his disinterest in women.[1][2] This is due to his Fairy Eyes allowing him to perceive and become entranced by fairies. In particular, he becomes infatuated with Faye, a fairy on the grounds of the Marburry Workshop, to the point of following her through the portal to the fairy realm.[2]
Role[]
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files[]
Wills is gently rejecting the advances of a student in his office when Lord El-Melloi II, Reines, Gray and Trimmau enter. El-Melloi II offers his condolences on the death of Trevor, Will's father, as it is the first time they have spoken since the funeral. He inquires as to the matter which Wills' requires his help, which is revealed to be the Marburry Workshop: built by Trevor from a wasteland he had purchased five years ago, its magical energy can rival that of a shrine. However, the workshop went out control, causing a series of lightning strikes that killed not only all the family Mages, but also dozens of regular citizens, with Trevor being the final casualty. Knowing that the incident was caused by a Leyline becoming warped, El-Melloi II wonders why a prolific Mage like Trevor was unable to repair it. Reines explains that the main Codrington family will seize the workshop and its land if the incidents continue, which Wills agrees he is powerless to stop. El-Melloi II realizes if such a powerful workshop is taken, it would hurt Bram as well. Wills tells him there is another matter he needs to consult with him, which he will explain on site.[1]
On the train, El-Melloi asks for details about the case, as well as the reason why he was consulted since it technically falls under the jurisdiction of the Department of Spiritual Evocation. Wills reveals the Codrington main family has already filed a complaint about the incidents to the Department of Policies, as they blame him for why the workshop is unstable. He warns with the current rate of the workshop's instability, it will breach the Concealment of the Mystics. Thus the main family will need to manage the workshop, which would be troublesome for Bram.[1]
At the Marburry workshop, Wills is immediately restrained by Hishiri Adashino, who appears with Waletta Codrington, a representative of the main family. Adashino places Wills under arrest as a suspect for the murder of Trevor, a conclusion they arrived at when Waletta tried to call Trevor's spirit, and then the spirits of everyone else who had died, upon arrival but was unable to do so. Waletta accuses Wills of using his necromancy to erase all traces their spirits, adding that he was present at the mansion during each incident. Wills argues that he had also tried to call his father's spirit but failed, however he is unable to prove this. To Waletta's chagrin, El-Melloi II convinces Adashino to allow him to investigate the workshop until the storm passes and she releases Wills, although she maintains her suspicion of him.[1]
In the study, Wills explains that he was childhood friends with Waletta until he rejected her marriage proposal, hence her hostility towards him. Prompted about the other matter he wished to discuss in private with El-Melloi II, Wills' Fairy Eyes activate and he sprinkles magical dust on El-Melloi II to allow him to see a fairy that has appeared before them. The fairy seems to be bound to the land, and she says something inaudible before disappearing. Wills explains she started appearing around when the workshop was completed, a day he remembers was also stormy, apparently to give him a warning prior to each death. He tells El-Melloi II he wants to know what the fairy is warning him about. El-Melloi II suspects it may have to do with the Wild Hunt, an order of fairy knights.[1]
After Kairi Sisigou rescues Gray and Reines from the ghosts in the underground graveyard, Wills greets him as a friend of his father's and escorts him to his usual room.[1]
When Waletta is killed by lightning, Wills tries and fails to call down her spirit; Kairi reasons a spell must be interfering with the evocation. As the one with the most to gain from the deaths, Adashino again points to Wills as the culprit, with the possibility that he invited El-Melloi II to investigate to create a witness. El-Melloi II, however, is sure that the perpetrator is someone else.[2]
Adashino confines Wills in a room separate from the others, but he is later released to assist El-Melloi II with a ritual alongside Kairi. The ritual harmonizes Wills' Fairy Eyes with the element in Reines' Mystic Eyes, which allows everyone to see and hear the fairy. The Marburry Workshop is revealed to have been designed to use the Leyline to draw out the powers of Mystic Eyes, specifically Wills' Fairy Eyes, and that magical energy then used the dead as the cores to create artificial fairies. The lightning strikes were actually Black Dogs summoned by the workshop to kill humans, with the murders occurring on days where the alignment of the Moon and the stars heightened the powers of the underworld and Earth. Those killed were also transformed by the workshop into Black Dogs, essentially allowing Trevor a machine to endlessly create and control artificial fairies to serve under him. The underground graveyard is a sign that there were more deaths in the area than had been reported.[2]
The fairy confesses that she killed Trevor as punishment for deceiving her and disrupting the fairies' order. However, the workshop remained active even after Trevor's death, leading her to seek help. Wills, in turn, is reluctant to part with the workshop because of the fairy: those who can perceive fairies are also easily enchanted by them. Adashino concludes that Waletta was killed by Wills' Fairy Eyes, much to his distress; but El-Melloi II refutes the notion, saying that Wills was merely being used by his father like the fairies were. They are interrupted as the chamber begins to collapse due to the Leyline suddenly shifting.[2]
Wills leaving with Faye for the fairylands.
Outside, a horde of Black Dogs gather and charge at the mansion, breaking through Adashino's Bounded Field. El-Melloi II realizes his ritual activated the workshop, although that would have happened even without his interference. As the dead call to the dead, the Black Dogs continue calling for their kind from the gate to the fairy realm that has opened on the grounds, transforming the false fairies into the Wild Hunt. While Adashino reinforces her Bounded Field to protect the mansion and Reines, the only one unable to fight, the others go to fend off the Black Dogs; with Wills summoning a pair of combat knives, determined to put his father's demented work to rest. As the situation becomes dire, El-Melloi II orders Gray to use Rhongomyniad. She succeeds in destroying all of the Black Dogs and ending the Wild Hunt, but the gate still remains. Adashino considers gouging out Wills' Fairy Eyes and destroy the workshop, but El-Melloi argues it would only cause the sealed spirits to run wild. Wills reveals he knows of a way to stop the spell, and willingly follows his beloved fairy through the gate; much to El-Melloi's horror who warns that he may never be able to come back. After thanking him for his friendship as well helping to unrave the mystery surrounding his family and bidding farewell, Wills disappears into the realm of fairies; which causes the gate to close, the threat averted.[2]
As everyone prepares to leave, Adashino reveals to El-Melloi II that, based on information she had gathered within the workshop, Wills was not born with Fairy Eyes. Trevor had purchased them from the Mystic Eyes Collection Train, Rail Zeppelin, having intended to use Wills as the foundation of the Marburry Workshop from the very beginning.[2]
Abilities[]
Wills possesses Fairy Eyes, a type of Mystic Eyes which allows him to perceive fairies. He was not born with them however, as his father purchased them from the Rail Zeppelin, the Mystic Eyes Collection Train.
Like the rest of his family, he is a necromancer.
He possesses the ability to use Reinforcement on his body befitting of a First-class lecturer of the Clock Tower, allowing him to nimbly battle alongside the others against the Black Dogs.[2]
He uses a Magecraft that embodies concepts of words. When embodying "the concept of cutting",[4] he summons a pair of combat knives when activating the spell, the word "ceorfan" (Old EnglishWP for "to cut") appearing as the knives manifest. When he frees himself from Hishiri Adashino's snake bindings, the word "freogan" (Old EnglishWP for "to liberate") appears before the binding covering his mouth tears open.[2]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Lord El-Melloi II Case Files: Grace Note - Episode 4: "A Workshop, a Grave, and a Necromancer"
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 Lord El-Melloi II Case Files: Grace Note - Episode 5: "The Farthest Spear and the Fairy Eyes"
- ↑ Lord El-Melloi II Case Files -Rail Zeppelin Grace note- Drama CD
- ↑ Makoto Sanada Twitter 12:17 AM JST · Aug 3, 2019
- Will's nimble movements are befitting of a first class lecturer using "reinforcement. An elite Bram would have no problem with helping out. Also, he uses a kind of magecraft that transforms text into a knife, manifesting the concept of cutting.
