Raphael Sylla poses as Sheffield Institute's newest computer teacher when in fact he is a colleague of Maria Medina and Joel McTiennan who was hired to keep tabs on the W.I.T.C.H. girls. His goal is to uncover what secret the girls are hiding and if it does in fact involve supernatural powers.
In the animated series, Raphael shows up at the end of Z is for Zenith as a new computer teacher at Sheffield.