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Biography
A teutonic man of medicine with a tenuous adherence to medical ethics, who hails from an alternate timeline.
In this timeline, the Spring Offensive of 1918 devestated French and British lines, causing Britian to open negotiations for armistace. Public support for the war crumbled, leading to a British withdrawl followed by the French government negotiating a settlement. Both Britain and France agreed to territorial concessions and reparations for the war, while the U.S. agreed to withdraw all forces from Europe.
In the end, Germany annexed Bulgaria, parts of France, Italy, and Russia, and solidified its influence over Austria-Hungary, eastern Europe, and what was left of the Ottoman Empire.
Following the war, the Second French Revolution saw the government overthrown by an angry and resentful population, and replaced with a new militaristic government. In the latter 1930's, they struck back at Germany, seizing the territories they had previously given up using a strategy of "guerre éclair" or "lightning war" while Russia attacked from the eastern front. The surprise attack resulted in several early victories, but without British or American support, and with Germany's economy and military reinforced by gains in the previous war, the German armies were able to hold both fronts. After almost a decade of fighting, first Russia and then France collapsed.
While Germany solidified its hegemony in Europe, Imperial Japan was able to conquer China, establishing its own sphere of influence.
The following decades saw the world divided between three superpowers - Germany, controlling nearly all of Europe, Japan, controlling eastern Asia and the Pacific, and the United States, with close ties to Canada and South America.
The fragile three-way balance of power saw all sides in a technological and economic arms race. Rapid technological and industrial advances came at the cost of human rights and freedoms. Rebels were harshly dealt with, and prisoners and criminals were used in human experimentation, and each superpower developed ever more deadly weapons of mass destruction under the threat of attack by one of the other two.
Tensions came to a head in the early 20th century, as the Japanese Empire began exerting pressure on U.S. territories in the Pacific. The situation exploded into full-out war as Japan launched a sneak attack with both conventional military and weapons of mass destruction. The U.S. responded in kind. The bloody war in the Pacific saw Japan, with the superior naval power, pushing the Americans back. The German Empire, which had maintained relatively friendly ties to the U.S. and Britain since the last war, provided material support, and ultimately entered the war on the side of the Americas.
The fallout from this third World War saw Japan defeated, crushed, and all but Annihilated. The Japanese empire crumbled, with individual regions gaining independence or falling under the sway of one of the two remaining powers. When the dust settled, however, the German Empire remained the clear dominant force in world politcs.
The 21st century saw technological development and social changes. With the German Kaiser now ruling the most powerful empire on Earth, a new Germanic nobility arose. In this social environment, Specialist clones, first engineered early in the century, became increasingly common, enabling normal humans to live a life of luxury on the backs of specialist labor. These specialists were seens by most as slaves, and by others as litte more than animals.
After a century and a half of exploitation, the Specialists rose up in result, resulting in another bloody war which ultimately saw the Specialists crushed, the agitators and ringleaders tried and publicly executed, and the rest returned to servitude.
Fritz, born in Stuttgart, Germany, and genetically altered to be of exceptional intelligence and 'perfect' lineage - a common practice among the ruling class - was but a young boy when this uprising occurred. His father, Reichsgraf Klaus Von Wulfenbach, took him to see the public trials and executions which had a profound effect upon a boy already beset with a curiosity for the gritty inner workings of the human body, launching his curiosity beyond healthy into morbidity.
A complacent man when it came to his son, Klaus overlooked the many deaths his son was responsible for amongst their specialists in his pursuit to learn more and more about the biological workings of living creatures in a fruitless effort to sate his unending curiosity. It mattered little to Klaus, who saw his sons interests as a healthy distraction - besides, there were always more specialists.
While Fritz was educated in all the standard academic fields expected of nobility, his interest was always greatest when dealing with anatomy, a subject which no tutor could adequately teach, Fritz's knowledge already exceeding them. When he came of age to enter into an institute of higher learning, he was rejected admission into the medical programme offered at the Stuttgart University not for his lack of academic prowess, but due to the gross lack of compassion for the sick and respect for human dignity he showed.
This did not deter Fritz, for his father was quite accommodating, encouraging him to enter into another field while at the same time promising to bring his son more subjects for Fritz's further study and experimentation. So it was that Fritz instead entered into a degree in Music History, focusing upon the Baroque era, all the while continuing his self-study in medicine. Upon his graduation, his father gifted him with an estate, upon the grounds of which Klaus had a laboratory built during the years in which Fritz had been completing his study.
With the power granted him due to his elevated noble status, Fritz opened his laboratory to serve as a doctor's office as well, though it was work to which he didn't show as much enthusiasm, healing people considered to be an unfortunate side-effect of his morbid curiosity.
Personality
A Reichgraf - Count of the Empire - Fritz was born into noble priviledge, and therefor is very much a spoilt child of such. His utter disregard for the sanctity of human life, or much by way of compassion for the suffering of others is the most major way in which this priviledged upbringing manifests itself. He is a monarchist, proud of his direct lineage leading back to the Kaiser - he is the Kaiser's 14th cousin - far enough down the line not to have been a candidate for rulership, but still close enough to have been given some extra leeway in light of his less than ethical activities.
He is brilliantly intelligant, holding a doctorate in music history with a great love of the Baroque era and great appreciation of other classical eras in music. Classically educated as befitting a noble, he has also been tutored in literature, dancing, singing, violin, mathematics, history and philosophy - a man of culture and grace.In addition he greatly enjoys classical films, his favourite two being Das Cabinet Des Dr. Caligari(The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari) and Die Tausend Augen des Dr. Mabuse(The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse).
His greatest joy, however, is experimentation on live subjects, cruel work which often ends in death or dismemberment for the subject, or sometimes in worse cases, horrific genetic mutations, or grafted, unwanted additions such as extra limbs, heads, organs and so on.
A bit of an inventor, he will sometimes take time away from his work in biological science to create a device befitting of a future project he'd like to accomplish.
Pets
Out of all living creatures, Fritz shows a great fondness for white doves, having a pair which aren't often far from him. Usually they can be seen perching on his shoulders and frequently accompanying him into the surgery. Their names are Erasistratus and Herophilus.
Quotes
Dement murmurs something as he drinks his beer, glancing back across the tavern at the patrons. "Var ist zie /hot hot/ ladies?" he curses, "Door!" he cries, hand juttering a little and spilling his drink across his wrist, "HEY LADIES!" he cries, "Keine Elephanten in der Bar nach 8 Uhr!"
"Zie ladiiiiiiiies." Fritz echoes enthusiastically moments before taking a deep draught of beer und whisky, and setting it down after. Gesturing in such a manner to simulate bouncing some big ol' titties, he adds, "Vi are needing zie grobe bruste!"