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Professor Minotaur is a minotaur wearing red graduation robes and carrying a diploma. He usually appears in tutorials, help content, and sometimes "setup wizards" as a guide to the process.

Backstory

The broad strokes of Professor Minotaur's background were established in a March 2023 Q&A with Kim.

Professor Minotaur comes from a family that was in the maze-guarding business for many generations and faced many barriers to going to college, including doubt from his family and finding scholarships that would consider sponsoring fantasy creatures. He has overcome these many obstacles to become the foremost researcher in the field of RPR science.

Trying to do part-time work as a maze guard to pay for your textbooks is very challenging. No one wants a part-time maze guard, and even if you can work full-time, the pay is generally terrible because your room and board is considered part of the compensation. But if you already have a dorm room what does that help?

Professor Minotaur was commissioned for the help section in the first year of the site. At the same time, there were also RPR promotional bookmarks that had been printed to give out as prizes and also to distribute out fantasy conventions to advertise the newly minted site, that featured a much more traditional Minotaur - musclebound, glowing red eyes, emerging from darkness with a big ax. The idea was floated by the userbase that they were related. This caused Kim to imagine the backstory that they were related, and that Professor Minotaur was the odd-one-out in his family.