You forgot doing things. Science is nothing but philosophy without action.
Did you mean "with action"?
She's a cool character from what we've seen so far, but I wonder how and when she will get involved in the plot. If she constantly hangs back and just observes I personally will get bored with her quickly.
She's a cool character from what we've seen so far, but I wonder how and when she will get involved in the plot. If she constantly hangs back and just observes I personally will get bored with her quickly.
Me too, thoough I don't think I'll get bored of her, at least until the information she learns and shares gets boring too. Sometimes plots need an exposition fairy.
She's a cool character from what we've seen so far, but I wonder how and when she will get involved in the plot. If she constantly hangs back and just observes I personally will get bored with her quickly.
I'd have the opposite reaction. I *want* her to be more of a laid-back character, exploring the mysteries of the multiverse rather than getting caught up in world-changing drama and personal vendettas. I think there should be at least one planeswalker character who's set apart from all the intertwining story strands being woven together from plane to plane.
I'd have the opposite reaction. I *want* her to be more of a laid-back character, exploring the mysteries of the multiverse rather than getting caught up in world-changing drama and personal vendettas. I think there should be at least one planeswalker character who's set apart from all the intertwining story strands being woven together from plane to plane.
A laid-back character would be great, but if we don't get a plot or development of any kind, it's just not that interesting. I don't need her to fight the Eldrazi, but some sort of involvement with something is necessary for a character.
A laid-back character would be great, but if we don't get a plot or development of any kind, it's just not that interesting. I don't need her to fight the Eldrazi, but some sort of involvement with something is necessary for a character.
As I've been saying, I'd love it if she simply shows up on various planes from time to time without being involved in the block's plot. Maybe she bumps into another planeswalker and helps them find something they're looking for if it coincides with whatever she's researching at the time. But other than that I don't really want her getting involved. I just want at least *one* character who isn't tangled up in plots and schemes and agendas.
As I've been saying, I'd love it if she simply shows up on various planes from time to time without being involved in the block's plot. Maybe she bumps into another planeswalker and helps them find something they're looking for if it coincides with whatever she's researching at the time. But other than that I don't really want her getting involved. I just want at least *one* character who isn't tangled up in plots and schemes and agendas.
How does she develop, though? Or is her job to remain a static character?
How does she develop, though? Or is her job to remain a static character?
Does she really need much development? She seems fine the way she is as a "guest star" making an occasional appearance, doing her thing, and that's that. If she's not part of an ongoing plot she doesn't need to be evolving over the course of a character arc.
Does she really need much development? She seems fine the way she is as a "guest star" making an occasional appearance, doing her thing, and that's that. If she's not part of an ongoing plot she doesn't need to be evolving over the course of a character arc.
I am with you, I'd actually have her as such. Forcing a character to appear just so that he/she can evolve is such eye-roll inducing. I find this a right direction for Creative to demonstrate that not all planeswalkers are going to be active in the plot (and such won't battle for the lulz of it).
It would be funny to see her to be a randomly popping character though: *appears on set after Return to Ravnica* "OH HAI~! I heard of such good things in this plane to research~!"
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Okay, after reading the last few posts, now there are more things I'd like to add to the question pool regarding Tamiyo. First is about her friends, second is about her visits, and third is about her spark.
About friends, it would be nice to know which planeswalkers she has made friends with. I like the idea if she makes friends with Chandra considering that they are similar in a way: Tamiyo is a knowledge hunter, while Chandra is a treasure hunter. With Jace... possible, since Jace himself also travels around a bit. Obviously I doubt she has been in contact of Nicol Bolas and any of his henchmen, nor has she with the Mirrodin planeswalkers (but how about Venser?), nor has she with the ones in Innistrad (two of them are busy playing cat and mouse and the other one is a shy guy). Depending on how close Gideon is to Jace, if she is friends with Jace she may be friends with Gideon too. And that's before counting the rest of planeswalkers I can think of.
I don't think she's "friends" with any of the known walkers. Largely because it isn't required of her character.
And how well-travelled is she? I'm just worried that if she has gone to some... ugly places it may affect her initial cheerful persona. Think of it; What would an observer think if they set foot in a place like Zendikar?
Actually, she'd probably enjoy Zendikar and all its mysteries pre-eldrazi release.
As for her spark, now I'm really curious. Planeswalkers ignite their spark usually by suffering from something big or doing something intense, so how would a happy-going lady like her ignite her spark? Granted, there are some planeswalkers whose way of igniting their sparks are still a mystery (especially Jace; Lili, Nissa, Gideon and Koth probably ignited theirs while doing some dirty business), but considering how cheerful Tamiyo is, it's hard to imagine she has been hurt...
Jace's spark ignited months before he realized it. His teacher knew before he did.
Gideon survived a fight in which he curbstomped an opponent and then came to the realization he probably shouldn't have won. That realization caused his spark to trigger.
Nissa's spark actually triggered when she was a little girl. Which... ended poorly for her because it made her "different." "Different" gets exiled from the Joraga. Her own PARENTS kicked her out for being different.
I dunno. I don't like her too much. She is too... "hipster" to me. A character that just planeswalk just for the sake of planeswalking to study moons? She doesn't really add anything to the plot of Innistrad. It just feels like a cop out instead of making an interesting planeswalker from the plane itself. I'm hoping the Devil Planeswalker makes up for it or whatever it is going to be. Almost all of the previous blocks, the third set has had their plane ruined [Eldrazi and Phyrexia] so I don't see how her cheery attitude can be so great to see those planes ravaged.
I wouldn't mind her as a minor legendary creature card but as a planeswalker... meh.
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So what you're saying is she's essentially Gordon Freeman, leaping through time and space to silently observe the collapse of lesser civilizations before moving on to the next load screen?
I'll accept that, if only because she's actually dressed like a traveler and not random bunny geisha number 4.
So what you're saying is she's essentially Gordon Freeman, leaping through time and space to silently observe the collapse of lesser civilizations before moving on to the next load screen?
I'll accept that, if only because she's actually dressed like a traveler and not random bunny geisha number 4.
But you essentially just described The Doctor since she's not interested in collapses.
I dunno. I don't like her too much. She is too... "hipster" to me. A character that just planeswalk just for the sake of planeswalking to study moons? She doesn't really add anything to the plot of Innistrad. It just feels like a cop out instead of making an interesting planeswalker from the plane itself. I'm hoping the Devil Planeswalker makes up for it or whatever it is going to be. Almost all of the previous blocks, the third set has had their plane ruined [Eldrazi and Phyrexia] so I don't see how her cheery attitude can be so great to see those planes ravaged.
I wouldn't mind her as a minor legendary creature card but as a planeswalker... meh.
She's on Innistrad to study Innistrad's moon. From her description, she goes to planes to learn anything and everything about them - on Innistrad, it just so happens that the most interesting things she can learn are related to the moon.
She's a traveling scholar, in the vein of the natural philosophers of the 1700s or maybe a modern sociologist.
As for adding anything to Innistrad's story: Innistrad's story is essentially done, as far as we know. Avacyn has been released and things are once again as right with the world as they can be. It makes sense to have a positive, almost naively curious planeswalker in an ending that is pretty uplifting. Yes, she may not have driven the plot of Innistrad, but then neither did Garruk - aside from stalking Lili, he hasn't had any impact on the plane that we can see, and Lili successfully evaded him this time. Tamiyo is actually more connected to the plane of Innistrad than he is, mostly because she's there to learn about it, while he's just there to chase Lili (who has since moved on, having accomplished what she came for - and without Garruk really doing anything to her or the plot).
EDIT: My one gripe is that her abilities feel only loosely connected to what her guide description says about her. Her -2 feels like she's studying the creatures in question, but her +1 feels like someone who's captured a specific specimen and is keeping it caged up for observation, which doesn't seem like her at all. As for her ultimate, no maximum hand size makes sense for someone pursuing knowledge for knowledge's sake, but getting cards back? Is it meant to show she never forgets things she's seen or cast?
EDIT: My one gripe is that her abilities feel only loosely connected to what her guide description says about her. Her -2 feels like she's studying the creatures in question, but her +1 feels like someone who's captured a specific specimen and is keeping it caged up for observation, which doesn't seem like her at all. As for her ultimate, no maximum hand size makes sense for someone pursuing knowledge for knowledge's sake, but getting cards back? Is it meant to show she never forgets things she's seen or cast?
This is one of the Moonfolk we're talking about.
Those of us who love knowledge simply refuse to let it be lost.
I'd have the opposite reaction. I *want* her to be more of a laid-back character, exploring the mysteries of the multiverse rather than getting caught up in world-changing drama and personal vendettas. I think there should be at least one planeswalker character who's set apart from all the intertwining story strands being woven together from plane to plane.
A laid-back character would be great, but if we don't get a plot or development of any kind, it's just not that interesting. I don't need her to fight the Eldrazi, but some sort of involvement with something is necessary for a character.
As I've been saying, I'd love it if she simply shows up on various planes from time to time without being involved in the block's plot. Maybe she bumps into another planeswalker and helps them find something they're looking for if it coincides with whatever she's researching at the time. But other than that I don't really want her getting involved. I just want at least *one* character who isn't tangled up in plots and schemes and agendas.
Even if she's not fighting or actively involved in one of the massive quests against the eldrazi/phyrexians or anything, she needs to at least interact with the other planeswalers (even if it's only something as simple as giving other people info).
Having a character show up just to be there is annoying. People often forget that Chekhov's Gun is about not leaving unfired guns lying around. if Wizards isn't going to use her significantly in the storyline (or for mechanical purposes), then they shouldn't have created or included her.
Right now it just seems like she was included for little or no plot reason. But I expect them to fire this gun in the next two blocks or so.
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I dunno. I don't like her too much. She is too... "hipster" to me. A character that just planeswalk just for the sake of planeswalking to study moons? She doesn't really add anything to the plot of Innistrad. It just feels like a cop out instead of making an interesting planeswalker from the plane itself. I'm hoping the Devil Planeswalker makes up for it or whatever it is going to be. Almost all of the previous blocks, the third set has had their plane ruined [Eldrazi and Phyrexia] so I don't see how her cheery attitude can be so great to see those planes ravaged.
I wouldn't mind her as a minor legendary creature card but as a planeswalker... meh.
...you are aware that a given character isn't going to follow the EXACT SAME PATH that we, the players looking in from outside, follow, right?? Or that she'd necessarily show up at the same time everything collapses, right??
EDIT: My one gripe is that her abilities feel only loosely connected to what her guide description says about her. Her -2 feels like she's studying the creatures in question, but her +1 feels like someone who's captured a specific specimen and is keeping it caged up for observation, which doesn't seem like her at all. As for her ultimate, no maximum hand size makes sense for someone pursuing knowledge for knowledge's sake, but getting cards back? Is it meant to show she never forgets things she's seen or cast?
I'm pretty sure that it's just a standard stasis spell to keep something at bay. Just because collecting knowledge and observing novelties is her modus operandi, does not mean she wouldn't prepare some means of protecting herself. And as for the ultimate, bear in mind that a game of MtG in a real setting is going to be very different from how the game itself plays out; the ultimate is likely some kind of super mnemonic/cognitive enhancement that enables focus to the point that no focus is lost. It doesn't mean she'd never lose access to anything in the long run, the actual Tamiyo isn't going to remember everything she comes across forever.
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Ya know, I gotta revert one of my questions about how she got her spark. Okay, so she has done some field research, perhaps in a dangerous locale. But hey, going back to the fact that grief can ignite a spark, can't it be possible that a simple loss of family might have ignited her spark? It would definitely be soul-crunching for her, but not too epic compared to the other planeswalkers' traumas for igniting theirs. It certainly would also be nice if a laid-back character like her has a relatively 'normal' past like us mere mortals (hope that doesn't bring back your own bad memories though; sorry bout that ^^;)
The more I read this thread, the more I'm supporting luminum in hoping that she's just a guest star wherever she pops up. It would be even funner if she ends up inadvertedly giving hints to other planeswalkers (You know, like "Oh, hey, I think I've seen this case before" kind of thing) considering how much of a scholar she is. Considering that other nigh-omniscient planeswalkers we have so far are unpleasant fellas (Nicol Bolas is our evil overlord, Sorin doesn't seem good with people), a semi-all-knowing character with light predisposition indeed can be fun. It helps that she shows up in the most lighthearted set of the Innistrad block, which makes me wonder even more about what can happen in Ravnica if we are going to go there again...
Speaking of Ravnica, please, Jace, recruit her into the Consortium *shot'd*
Even if she's not fighting or actively involved in one of the massive quests against the eldrazi/phyrexians or anything, she needs to at least interact with the other planeswalers (even if it's only something as simple as giving other people info).
About friends, it would be nice to know which planeswalkers she has made friends with. I like the idea if she makes friends with Chandra considering that they are similar in a way: Tamiyo is a knowledge hunter, while Chandra is a treasure hunter.
That gave me an image of Chandra and Tamiyo flying Tibor and Lumia style.
How about something like this (pardon the apparent weeboo-ness. I couldn't help it. :p):
Chandra: *sees Niv-Mizzet guarding his aerie* All right Tamiyo, I'll distract him so you can sneak inside and-*sees Tamiyo gone* Whu-!? *checks back and sees Tamiyo interviewing Niv-Mizzet*
Tamiyo: Ahh... souka... you actually led this guild? :3 *writes on scroll*
Niv: Indeed. *bored* Before, my Izzets were the pioneers of arcane research, rivaled only by those blasted Simics. By the by, who is that stupid girl hiding over there? A friend of yours? 7_7
Tamiyo: Eh? Oh! You mean Chandra-chan. Yes, she's curious about your guild too.
Chandra: *facepalms, hard* X(
Tamiyo: *calls to her* Chandra-chaaan! Niv-dono wants to talk to you! :3
Chandra: *sees Niv-Mizzet guarding his aerie* All right Tamiyo, I'll distract him so you can sneak inside and-*sees Tamiyo gone* Whu-!? *checks back and sees Tamiyo interviewing Niv-Mizzet*
Tamiyo: Ahh... souka... you actually led this guild? :3 *writes on scroll*
Niv: Indeed. *bored* Before, my Izzets were the pioneers of arcane research, rivaled only those blasted Simics. By the by, who is that stupid girl hiding over there? A friend of yours? 7_7
Tamiyo: Eh? Oh! You mean Chandra-san. Yes, she's curious about your guild too.
Chandra: *facepalms, hard* X(
Tamiyo: *calls to her* Chandra-san! Niv-san wants to talk to you! :3
Chandra: Why me? T_T *curls in fetal position*
:D:D:D:D:D
Only thing I'd change in your dialogues is replacing Chandra-san with Chandra-chan. Hey' they're probably about the same age, ya know what? (in addition to being totally SILLY for rhyme-hunting Westerners :D)
How about something like this (pardon the apparent weeboo-ness. I couldn't help it. :p):
Chandra: *sees Niv-Mizzet guarding his aerie* All right Tamiyo, I'll distract him so you can sneak inside and-*sees Tamiyo gone* Whu-!? *checks back and sees Tamiyo interviewing Niv-Mizzet*
Tamiyo: Ahh... souka... you actually led this guild? :3 *writes on scroll*
Niv: Indeed. *bored* Before, my Izzets were the pioneers of arcane research, rivaled only those blasted Simics. By the by, who is that stupid girl hiding over there? A friend of yours? 7_7
Tamiyo: Eh? Oh! You mean Chandra-san. Yes, she's curious about your guild too.
Chandra: *facepalms, hard* X(
Tamiyo: *calls to her* Chandra-san! Niv-san wants to talk to you! :3
Chandra: Why me? T_T *curls in fetal position*
Niv-SAN?
If he isn't garnering a Niv-dono, or at least a Niv-sama then he would probably eat somebody.
Also, I now cannot help but imagine a high school drama where they all call him Niv-Sensei and he wears geeky glasses as he teaches.
Welll... Tamiyo does rhyme with Cameo. I hope we see a tiny bit of her in every block. Just like one random card (not necessarily a new planeswalker but something to acknowledge that she is on the plane.)
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You forgot doing things. Science is nothing but philosophy without action.
Absolutely. Ask questions, look for answers, ask more questions, repeat ad infinitum.
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Did you mean "with action"?
She's a cool character from what we've seen so far, but I wonder how and when she will get involved in the plot. If she constantly hangs back and just observes I personally will get bored with her quickly.
Experimentation. Testing. Calculating.
Me too, thoough I don't think I'll get bored of her, at least until the information she learns and shares gets boring too. Sometimes plots need an exposition fairy.
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I'd have the opposite reaction. I *want* her to be more of a laid-back character, exploring the mysteries of the multiverse rather than getting caught up in world-changing drama and personal vendettas. I think there should be at least one planeswalker character who's set apart from all the intertwining story strands being woven together from plane to plane.
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A laid-back character would be great, but if we don't get a plot or development of any kind, it's just not that interesting. I don't need her to fight the Eldrazi, but some sort of involvement with something is necessary for a character.
As I've been saying, I'd love it if she simply shows up on various planes from time to time without being involved in the block's plot. Maybe she bumps into another planeswalker and helps them find something they're looking for if it coincides with whatever she's researching at the time. But other than that I don't really want her getting involved. I just want at least *one* character who isn't tangled up in plots and schemes and agendas.
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How does she develop, though? Or is her job to remain a static character?
Does she really need much development? She seems fine the way she is as a "guest star" making an occasional appearance, doing her thing, and that's that. If she's not part of an ongoing plot she doesn't need to be evolving over the course of a character arc.
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I am with you, I'd actually have her as such. Forcing a character to appear just so that he/she can evolve is such eye-roll inducing. I find this a right direction for Creative to demonstrate that not all planeswalkers are going to be active in the plot (and such won't battle for the lulz of it).
It would be funny to see her to be a randomly popping character though: *appears on set after Return to Ravnica* "OH HAI~! I heard of such good things in this plane to research~!"
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I don't think she's "friends" with any of the known walkers. Largely because it isn't required of her character.
Actually, she'd probably enjoy Zendikar and all its mysteries pre-eldrazi release.
Jace's spark ignited months before he realized it. His teacher knew before he did.
Gideon survived a fight in which he curbstomped an opponent and then came to the realization he probably shouldn't have won. That realization caused his spark to trigger.
Nissa's spark actually triggered when she was a little girl. Which... ended poorly for her because it made her "different." "Different" gets exiled from the Joraga. Her own PARENTS kicked her out for being different.
@Kyora-San: Gideon wasn't meditating, as above.
I wouldn't mind her as a minor legendary creature card but as a planeswalker... meh.
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So what you're saying is she's essentially Gordon Freeman, leaping through time and space to silently observe the collapse of lesser civilizations before moving on to the next load screen?
I'll accept that, if only because she's actually dressed like a traveler and not random bunny geisha number 4.
But you essentially just described The Doctor since she's not interested in collapses.
Having never seen Doctor Who, Half-Life was the only comparison I could think of, though Ema Skye is also a reasonable point of reference.
She's on Innistrad to study Innistrad's moon. From her description, she goes to planes to learn anything and everything about them - on Innistrad, it just so happens that the most interesting things she can learn are related to the moon.
She's a traveling scholar, in the vein of the natural philosophers of the 1700s or maybe a modern sociologist.
As for adding anything to Innistrad's story: Innistrad's story is essentially done, as far as we know. Avacyn has been released and things are once again as right with the world as they can be. It makes sense to have a positive, almost naively curious planeswalker in an ending that is pretty uplifting. Yes, she may not have driven the plot of Innistrad, but then neither did Garruk - aside from stalking Lili, he hasn't had any impact on the plane that we can see, and Lili successfully evaded him this time. Tamiyo is actually more connected to the plane of Innistrad than he is, mostly because she's there to learn about it, while he's just there to chase Lili (who has since moved on, having accomplished what she came for - and without Garruk really doing anything to her or the plot).
EDIT: My one gripe is that her abilities feel only loosely connected to what her guide description says about her. Her -2 feels like she's studying the creatures in question, but her +1 feels like someone who's captured a specific specimen and is keeping it caged up for observation, which doesn't seem like her at all. As for her ultimate, no maximum hand size makes sense for someone pursuing knowledge for knowledge's sake, but getting cards back? Is it meant to show she never forgets things she's seen or cast?
This is one of the Moonfolk we're talking about.
Those of us who love knowledge simply refuse to let it be lost.
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Even if she's not fighting or actively involved in one of the massive quests against the eldrazi/phyrexians or anything, she needs to at least interact with the other planeswalers (even if it's only something as simple as giving other people info).
Having a character show up just to be there is annoying. People often forget that Chekhov's Gun is about not leaving unfired guns lying around. if Wizards isn't going to use her significantly in the storyline (or for mechanical purposes), then they shouldn't have created or included her.
Right now it just seems like she was included for little or no plot reason. But I expect them to fire this gun in the next two blocks or so.
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...you are aware that a given character isn't going to follow the EXACT SAME PATH that we, the players looking in from outside, follow, right?? Or that she'd necessarily show up at the same time everything collapses, right??
I'm pretty sure that it's just a standard stasis spell to keep something at bay. Just because collecting knowledge and observing novelties is her modus operandi, does not mean she wouldn't prepare some means of protecting herself. And as for the ultimate, bear in mind that a game of MtG in a real setting is going to be very different from how the game itself plays out; the ultimate is likely some kind of super mnemonic/cognitive enhancement that enables focus to the point that no focus is lost. It doesn't mean she'd never lose access to anything in the long run, the actual Tamiyo isn't going to remember everything she comes across forever.
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The franchise MtG most resembles is Battlestar Galactica. Why? Its players exist in, at most, a dozen different models at any given point in time, with perhaps up to 3% variation, 5% if you're lucky.
The more I read this thread, the more I'm supporting luminum in hoping that she's just a guest star wherever she pops up. It would be even funner if she ends up inadvertedly giving hints to other planeswalkers (You know, like "Oh, hey, I think I've seen this case before" kind of thing) considering how much of a scholar she is. Considering that other nigh-omniscient planeswalkers we have so far are unpleasant fellas (Nicol Bolas is our evil overlord, Sorin doesn't seem good with people), a semi-all-knowing character with light predisposition indeed can be fun. It helps that she shows up in the most lighthearted set of the Innistrad block, which makes me wonder even more about what can happen in Ravnica if we are going to go there again...
Speaking of Ravnica, please, Jace, recruit her into the Consortium *shot'd*Considering the following posts...
How about something like this (pardon the apparent weeboo-ness. I couldn't help it. :p):
Chandra: *sees Niv-Mizzet guarding his aerie* All right Tamiyo, I'll distract him so you can sneak inside and-*sees Tamiyo gone* Whu-!? *checks back and sees Tamiyo interviewing Niv-Mizzet*
Tamiyo: Ahh... souka... you actually led this guild? :3 *writes on scroll*
Niv: Indeed. *bored* Before, my Izzets were the pioneers of arcane research, rivaled only by those blasted Simics. By the by, who is that stupid girl hiding over there? A friend of yours? 7_7
Tamiyo: Eh? Oh! You mean Chandra-chan. Yes, she's curious about your guild too.
Chandra: *facepalms, hard* X(
Tamiyo: *calls to her* Chandra-chaaan! Niv-dono wants to talk to you! :3
Chandra: Why me? T_T *curls in fetal position*
:D:D:D:D:D
Only thing I'd change in your dialogues is replacing Chandra-san with Chandra-chan. Hey' they're probably about the same age, ya know what? (in addition to being totally SILLY for rhyme-hunting Westerners :D)
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Niv-SAN?
If he isn't garnering a Niv-dono, or at least a Niv-sama then he would probably eat somebody.
Also, I now cannot help but imagine a high school drama where they all call him Niv-Sensei and he wears geeky glasses as he teaches.
... where am I? I blacked out for a moment...