Dot Barrett

Dot Barrett is a first-year student at Easton Magic Academy and one of the main characters of the Mashle series.

Appearance
Dot has spiky red hair and red-brown eyes. He wears an Easton Magic Academy school uniform. He also wears a black headband with three white plus signs across it. He has a single magic line.

Personality
Dot is hot-blooded and obnoxious, stating that he's the main character, loathing "hot guys", and constantly trying to one-up someone. But deep down, he's a nice guy and will apologize if he's wrong about something. He also is shown to fall in love easily and also is sensitive to getting rejected.

It also seems like he's has good house manners, gifting people a gift when he visits them in their homes.

Easton Enrollment Arc
Dot approaches, Mash and Lance claiming in a loud and audacious fashion that he's the protagonist of the story. He calls Mash some side character, but then the "side character" is approached by Lemon and Finn. Lemon talks with Mash while blushing and in retaliation, Dot spits on Mash's face. He then goes on a tirade on how jealous he is of people who attract women and vows to join the Bureau of magic to rid "Hot Men" from the world. Mash and the group, however, pay no attention to Dot who claims they're bruising his ego. The teacher of that class then orders both Dot and Mash to pipe down and explains the objective of that class. That is to hunt a Forest Scorpion and bring back it's corpse for a chance to be awarded a Bronze or Silver Coin. The teacher then starts the class and first to go into the forest is Dot, who flips off Mash and proclaims he won't lose to him.

Eventually, Dot appears and Mash smacks him and then comments that he wasted calories he'll never get back because of it. The two then hear a young woman scream and go to check what's wrong. Apparently, a female student is in distress by a male student and so Dot casts Explomb on the male student. Trying to keep his cool in front of the young lady, Dot fails after she touches his hand and thanks him.

Equipment
Wand: Dot wields a spiked wand.

Magic and Abilities
Explomb (エクスプロム, Ekusupuromu; Lit. Explom): Dot's personal magic. It creates exploding fireballs. The magic is highly destructive in nature and its explosiveness can be used in various ways.


 * Machinegun Explomb (マシンガン・エクスプロム, Mashingan Ekusupuromu): Dot creates multiple exploding fireballs and launches them at his target.


 * Explomb Bomb (エクスプロム・ボム, Ekusupuromu Bomu): Dot creates a magic circle that explodes after a set time.

Transeez: A magic spell that transforms a designated target into something different. Dot transformed a pot into a pot-mouse hybrid that attacks good-looking guys during lesson. He dubbed it "Iron Mouse".

Immense Magic Power: Initially, like all single-liners, Dot only possesses an average amount of magic power. He, however, was born with a rare warding cross, the Ira Kreuz. When his emotions spike, his true magic power unleashes, making him a battle demon. When the power of the Ira Kreuz is activated, Dot's hidden mark on his forehead begins to glow. Kreuz is german for "cross". During his battle with Epidem, Dot gained a second line which immensely increased his magic power. With the Ira Kreuz acting as a third line, Dot was able to perform a Summon as well as a Thirds, that possessed enough power to overwhelm even Epidem's Thirds.

Immense Endurance: Dot's most notable physical trait is his incredible tolerance to pain and injury. He continued to fight Lévis and Galuf despite his visible exhaustion and pain.

Enhanced Strength: Dot possesses a great amount of strength, enough to smash his friend Lance through a solid wall.

Self-Healing: With his emotions at his peak, Dot is capable of healing himself through the power of the Ira Kreuz.

Summon
During his battle with Epidem, Dot was able to unleash his wand's true form but the name of his god is currently unknown. Dot's wand transforms into dual gauntlets, each in the shape of a cross. Dot is able to rapidly fire shots from the stem of the crosses that are able to destroy orichalcum, the strongest metal in the world. Dot can further expand the arsenal of firearms from his gauntlets that can launch a numerous amount of firepower towards his target.


 * Explomb Thirds (エクスプロム・サーズ, Ekusupuromu Sāzu): The Thirds of Dot's Explomb. Dot fires off two charged shots at a target. It's currently unknown what appearance the entity Dot conjures takes or if he conjures an entity like other users of Thirds at all. The full name of his Thirds also has yet to be revealed.



Relationships
Older Sister: Dot has a good and caring relationship with his older sister.

Mash Burnedead: Although they had a rough start, Mash and Dot became friends after he beat Silva in his place.

Lance Crown: Dot has an intense rivalry with Lance.

Battles

 * Dot vs Silva Iron
 * Dot vs Gehtsk Xuan
 * Dot & Finn vs Love Cute & Fourth Fang
 * Dot vs Monsters
 * Dot & Lance vs Sitter Baby
 * Dot vs Lévis Rosequartz & Galuf
 * Dot & Lance vs Orter Mádl
 * Dot & Lance vs Epidem
 * Dot & Lance vs Doom
 * Dot, Lance & Finn vs Innocent Zero

Trivia

 * In the official English translation, Dot’s name was originally written as ‘Daut’. However, it was later changed when series creator Hajime Komoto clarified that it was spelt ‘Dot’. This mistake was likely due to the katakana that Komoto used not having a direct translation into English.
 * This character was originally supposed to be the main character of another manga Komoto was making. However, because his editors though that he would be unlikable, they decided to implement him into this series instead.