Teacher

Teacher is one of the main characters of the series.

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Teacher is an outsider who protects and takes care of Shiva. His memory from before he was cursed is missing at the start of the series, but Headless Outsider says that Teacher is the cause of the curse.

Appearance
Teacher is a tall Outsider with a bird like head. Due to his black skin, it is hard to notice his features, but when he is covered in flour, it is much easier.He has a long twirly horn on each side of his, with three much smaller horns towards his beak. He seems to have feathers at the back of his head. He also has a long skinny tail above the back of his pelvis.

Personality
Teacher is very protective of Shiva, and worries about her constantly. He seems to have a lot of self doubt, as he thinks that Shiva would be better off without him, and he often makes Shiva worry about him whenever he worries about her. He cares about Shiva above everything else. The reasoning for this is yet to be revealed, but he says he owes a great debt to her.

Before the start of the series
An unknown time before the start of the series, Teacher was cursed and had amnesia.

A long time later, Teacher found Shiva abandoned in the Outside with a note.

Between their introduction and the start of the series, there is an event which makes Teacher owe a great debt to Shiva.

Once upon a Time
Teacher was once a man named Albert with a wife and a baby daughter. He was the town's doctor and was well-respected by those around him. A soldier friend of his visited him with a gift, a locket, with a portrait of his family in it. One night he was forced to flee his town due to a curse being spread. He, with his family, escaped into the woods but along with many other townspeople he was shot down with arrows by soldiers. He handed his daughter to his wife and asked her to escape and get to the clearing of the forest.

As he lay on the ground with barely any consciousness, he opens his eyes and sees an Outsider, who curses him. Coming into his senses he found himself in an unfamiliar forest without any idea what had happened, where he was, why he was there, where his family were, and unable to feel anything.

He gets to a nearby town where he gets ostracised by the people. He later sees himself through a reflection from a river that he is an Outsider. At first he tried to explain to the townspeople who he was truthfully to convince them to help him find his family. He explained, asked politely, pleaded and begged, however the results were the same, no one would hear him. Except for an old man and his grand son who took him into their houses for the sole reason that they did not wish to turn their backs against him.

He lives with them in their spare room for quite a while until one day they head out for a village meeting. When it began to rain, he remembered that they never took their umbrella so he went out to deliver it to them. In the woods he witnesses them being confronted by the townspeople for that fact that they kept Teacher. They force them to kick Teacher out if they wanted to remain in the village but out of nowhere a group of soldiers emerge claiming that even potential curse carriers had to die, while they are still human. The old man and his grandson gets shot numerous times with arrows.

Watching everything Teacher realises that he had destroyed them, that it was all his fault and that this was his curse. For the next six years he remained in the cottage. His identity began to slip away, he began to forget everything except that he loved someone and he clung to that memory until one day, after years of examining corpses of people trying to remember who he was searching for he encounters Shiva. She was sleeping in a forest, with a large book in her arms. Inside the book was a letter by Auntie stating that Shiva was abandoned.

Fearing that she might be killed the way the grandfather and his grandson was he urges Shiva to leave but out of guilt he fails to walk away from her.

Trivia

 * There is an ongoing gag in the series about Teacher's bad cooking.
 * According to Shiva, he's an inkpot