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PLAYER INFORMATION
➤ NAME: Frudence.
➤ AGE: 27 (b. 1986).
➤ JOURNAL:frudence.
➤ CURRENTLY PLAYED: N/A.
CHARACTER INFORMATION
➤ CHARACTER NAME: Schuldig, pronounced Shu-ru-dee-hee by the Japanese characters - i.e. not "dig" at the end, just a soft -dɪχ.
➤ SERIES: Weiss Kreuz.
➤ CHARACTER AGE: 22.
➤ REFERENCE: Just to avoid any accusations of plagiarism, this Background/History will be a modified version of my other character application from the same series.
Unfortunately the series is so old that no one has devoted a fleshed-out wiki to it. The short version is that the Weiss vigilante group's 4 men are the protagonists of the series. Their principal rivals are the Takatori family members and the assassin group Schwarz. Schuldig is the unofficial 2nd in command of Schwarz, whose members all possess psychic powers. Schuldig is often the face of the group due to his charisma, silver tongue, and his empathic + telepathic powers. Their world is closer to early Power Rangers than Supernatural - where most people are unaware that supernatural elements exist, even though they do, but it's really only one kind of supernatural element - in this case psychics and a bit of Lovecraftian mythos on the outer reaches of the plot. Monsters are all genetic creations.
Little is known of Schuldig's backstory, but most of it is told as retrospective in (Dramatic Image Album III). He is German by birth, probably Bavarian region, and was discovered by Estet several years before the start of the series. Eventually, he was brought to the Rosenkrüs facility in the Austrian Alps - by force or by subterfuge with regards to his former guardians - so that they could cultivate Schuldig's psychic powers; they gave him the code name Mastermind. He arrived around the same time as Schwarz's leader, the American Brad Crawford, probably before Irishman Farfarello, and definitely before the youngest member Nagi Naoe. Soon enough Estet had enough psychics to start forming groups out of them. The three known groups are Schwarz, Rosenkreuz, and Farblos. Schwarz - Schuldig's group - would become the primary antagonists of Weiss Kreuz's early canon and reluctant allies to Weiss by the end. There was a little competition between the groups at first, but it only got worse as time wore on, to the point that even though they were all supposed to be working for the same bosses. The supervision at Rosenkrüs was also fairly minimal considering that we know Schuldig hooked up with Farblos member Sylvia at least once. Then the events of Dramatic Collect 1 happened, in which Nagi's powers returned and he became a proper member of Schwarz through Crawford's intervention.
During Kapitel (Season 1), Weiss's primary focus was eliminating the Takatori's family's corrupt influence in Japan, one target at a time. Schwarz was Reiji Takatori's personal bodyguards, which he sometimes sent to protect his sons as well as influential accomplices. One of his sons was Masafumi, a mad scientist specializing in genetic alteration and using unwitting civilians as test subjects, which eventually drew the attention of Weiss and more importantly the media. So, Schwarz went with Reiji Takatori to confront Masafumi about the disgrace in Schuldig's first appearance (ep 08). Masafumi had created his own bodyguard team instead of hiring them, called Schreient, and Reiji wanted Schwarz to watch all of them very closely. And if any of Masafumi's shenanigans should come back on Reiji, "you take care of it, Crawford." Thus, Weiss's first major confrontation was with Schreient and not Schwarz as Weiss investigated Masafumi's misdeeds. Nagi tried to help them out, but by then Masafumi had screwed up so bad Reiji insisted Crawford make plans. So, while Weiss and Schreient fought, Schwarz swung by just to make sure Weiss cleaned up Masafumi's mess for them and sure enough, Masafumi's manor burned to the ground at the end of episode 9.
Then, as eldest son Hirofumi's political acquaintances - also Reiji's supporters - died by Weiss's hands on Hirofumi's watch, Reiji started to lose patience with Hirofumi too. Unfortunately, a girl named Ouka got romantically interested in the youngest Weiss member Omi just as Weiss got closer to Hirofumi and thus Reiji as well. While Hirofumi was ecstatic about the prospect of a long-lost brother returning to the family, Reiji was not, and Schuldig eventually found out. The problem was that they soon found out that Omi was a long lost Takatori child and then Ouka invited Omi to a party to meet her father - Reiji Takatori of all people, though Omi didn't find out that night. After Hirofumi confronted Omi, Schuldig took it upon himself to "help" Hirofumi out by kidnapping Omi in front of Ouka. Weiss showed up to rescue Omi, allowing Schuldig to see all 4 of their faces up close - which was his plan all along - then quickly skidaddled before Weiss could gang up on him. However, he caught up with Omi soon after to continue wearing him down - confronting him with his moral duplicity of going on dates with Ouka after killing his own brothers. Then, he went to break the news to Ouka that she was dating her own half-brother, encouraging her to look into the matter herself; people riled up by emotion are easier to lead astray, of course. To further the dissent in Weiss over Omi being born Mamoru Takatori, Schuldig even convinced Nagi to photoshop an image together of Omi meeting with Reiji, then sent it off to the rest of Weiss. Before Ouka went on her movie date, Schuldig appeared to deliver more "evidence" that Omi was out to get her father - which was actually truth. That's usually Schuldig's most powerful weapon - the harsh truth that most "decent" people conceal from their loved ones. The lie he told that night was to Omi - he insisted that the rest of Weiss was trying to assassinate Ouka. In the midst of Weiss's internal fighting, Schuldig continued to prey on Omi's fear for Ouka's life and concern that Weiss was lying to Omi. Farfarello was on hand to help Schudig fend off Weiss while Ouka told Omi herself that they were half-siblings and Reiji was her father. Just as the 2 Schwarz members were retreating, Farfarello tried to take a snipe at Omi, but ended up killing Ouka instead.
Reiji's mistake was that he thought he could order Schwarz around, when in fact they still reported to Estet - the organization that provided Reiji with access to Schwarz in the first place. So when Reiji took a golf club to Schuldig (and Farfarello) at the start of episode 13 in retaliation for Ouka's death, that didn't endear Schuldig to his temporary master at all. Crawford interceded to direct Reiji's anger at Weiss instead, so now Schwarz's full-time job was taking out Weiss, and they started with causing terrorist mayhem and leaving spray-paint tags giving credit to Weiss. Things came to a head in episode 14 when Reiji's ground forces attacked Weiss and Schwarz's Crawford and Farfarello attacked Aya when he tried to kill Reiji. Unfortunately for Reiji Takatori, just as he had ascended to Prime Ministership, by Mission 15 Reiji had stopped being useful to Estet's grander schemes, and so Schwarz left Reiji to his death at the hands of Weiss after he turned on them.
The rest of the season was devoted to Schwarz more directly carrying out Estet's experiments and instructions, in addition to conflicts with Schreient. The women attempted to revive Masafumi, but were defeated in a plan that Schwarz concocted to get Weiss to do it. Estet had been putting pressure on Schwarz to deliver Aya-chan (Aya of Weiss's younger sister) to them for a certain ritual they were planning to perform - bringing a Lovecraftian "Master" in from the outer reaches, for which Ayay-chan would be the new vessel. Schwarz left with the upper hand and with Aya-chan, whom Schreient had first kidnapped from her hospital room to draw out Aya and the rest of Weiss. Through a conflict among all 3 groups, Farfarello killed Töt, and Nagi brought down Schreient's warehouse hideout in rage. (Mission 22) Weiss confronted Schwarz and their 3 leaders of Estet, who were trying to create a new world where only psychics would live - mankind's next evolution - with that Master revived. In the end Estet was stopped, largely through an internal conflict between Schwarz and the 3 leaders. For their own self-interest, Schwarz ended up leaving Estet in the same state they had Reiji, believing the Estet members to simply be too old to carry out the grand ambitions they'd molded Schwarz to accomplish. Schwarz was thought dead when the headquarters collapsed. Weiss considered it a victory, especially since they were no longer public targets of the police under Takatori rule.
Verbrechen & Strafe (OVA 1 & 2) do little to advance Schwarz's story except to prove that they are not dead, just scattered. Weiss spent the OVAs in a fractional disagreement that helped resolve Aya's conflict with Omi's Takatori heritage, only to have it brought up again in Gluhen. It was during this time that the events of Dramatic Image Album III & IV took place involving Schwarz. Basically they were hiding out in Germany when a girl named Sally got them re-involved with Estet, through the Austrian facility Rosenkrüs where Schuldig and the others had once trained. Schwarz chose to fight Sally's pursuers, the Farblos whom they were formerly acquainted with, and eventually Farfarello left with her - leaving Schwarz in the same moment - to pursue a normal life.
As much as can be gleaned from the OVAs and the Drama CDs, it seems that Crawford and Schuldig stuck together while Nagi separated prior to Gluhen (Season 2). Somehow Omi (the new Persia, director of Weiss missions) convinced Nagi to form an alliance.It seems like much in the way that Crashers has no allegiance to Weiss, Nagi became an independent agent that has no direct loyalty to Weiss or any of the other teams, but doesn't have any other "clients" outside of Omi. Gluhen shows that Nagi for his part was ambivalent to the change, like his new position wasn't much different than how he served Schwarz. This is pertinent because when Schuldig and Crawford came back into the picture during Gluhen, Schuldig didn't bear a grudge towards Nagi - more like an older brother who was happy that his kid brother got a better shot at life than he did.
Through whatever networks remained to them - or perhaps Crawford's clairvoyant powers - Schuldig and Crawford found out that fellow Rosenkrüs alumni group Rosenkreuz was on the move and showed up to the site of the plot action on a whim, basically, for a "reunion" with Rosenkreuz - not really considering until they got there that they'd get to reunite with Nagi too. They entered the scene just as the combined might of Esset (Gluhen's primary antagonists) and Rosenkreuz started to fight with Weiss. They interceded, with Schuldig in particular taking on the pyrokinetic Rosenkreuz member, Geisel, allowing the younger trio of Weiss to move deeper in. While Nagi, Schuldig, and Crawford occupied Rosenkreuz, Weiss was able to stop the Z Class leaders: some female scientists and Esset's leader - apparently a computer system called Epitaph. Most notably, while Schuldig was able to get the upper hand through his telepathic confusion methods, he actually snapped Geisel's neck on raw physical strength alone. Schuldig and Crawford disappeared into the shadows again, leaving Nagi to continue working alongside Omi, who'd reclaimed the public mantle of Mamoru Takatori. (Last Mission 13)
➤ CANON POINT: End of Gluhen minus that godawful redesign. Call it going back into his closet and pulling out the old wardrobe.
➤ SEXUALITY: Schuldig is sexual, we know that from canon, but he doesn't have the kind of moral hangups that would dissuade him from changing his mind on a whim. He doesn't owe an allegiance to a family or a business that could affect his life whether he slept with everyone or no one, of any gender, young or old, alien or human.
➤ PERSONALITY:
Due to being a non-native speaker of Japanese - and it's probably at least his 3rd language anyway after German and then English - his speech pattern comes out very nasally and informally clipped. On the other hand, due to being a sociopath, being informal could be one of several layers to how he presents himself to others.
The most superficial layer is an unflappable, confident young man. He can appear very charming and helpful to those he thinks are useful now or might be later. Even civilians will pick up on how attentive he is to small details, or how good his hearing is as he catches the edges of conversation; this isn't necessarily true, it's just him using his powers and civilians interpreting it in non-supernatural ways.
However, when in the presence of other psychics or people aware of the Supernatural, he will get a bit more sassy and confrontational. In particular, while he still exudes confidence in his own abilities, he has no problems backing out of a fight in order to preserve his own life. He is not a skirmisher; he relies on using other people as meat shields, pitting opponents against each other, psychologically diminishing opponents willpower through his powers or his words alone, and other tactics reserved for someone who genuinely does not care that much about humanity as a whole. They are a sub-class of humans to him, the lot of them, not unlike how White Supremacists see non-Aryans. He does not, in reality, ever try to be decent, or caring, or moral - when he's bored he'll tease fellow Schwarz members, and prefers their company to that of regular humans, but it's not exactly friendship so much as camaraderie by circumstance. Thus, when toying with normal humans as opponents, he finds great joy - true schadenfreude - in making them mad or frustrated by pinning them in moral quandries. When someone does manage to bruise his ego (or his cheek with a golf club), he can get very prideful, spiteful, and look for revenge.
The problem, for Schuldig, is that apart from those like Schwarz who experienced life with him, he doesn't share meaningful pieces of information about himself. By default he distrusts everyone around him and guards his own thoughts. Almost everyone around him is an open book - so he shamelessly "listens" in on conversations where he's not invited so that he can never be snuck up on or deceived. That cautiousness occupies him, but all he hears is also a constant white noise in the back of his mind turned up to 11.
The only character that Schuldig has canonically been in bed with is reeeeally unlikely to ever show up as she was a Drama CD-only character - Sylvia of Farblos. That being said, he's probably not straight in the classic sense - if anything he's probably sexual but not romantic. Romance once again demands a kind of morality and caring about another person on at least the same level as yourself and that's going to be darn near impossible for anyone outside of Schwarz to achieve - and that's before sex even enters the equation. Any members of Weiss will definitely know how to get under his skin in terms of annoyance, but they still didn't exactly part as friends; they've never hung out and gone for coffee. Anyone who does try to hook up with him will definitely have to be able to hold their own in verbal sparring or at least take everything Schuldig can dish out. He has said before that people's thoughts taste like honey, so anyone with different thought patterns could prove entertaining to him at least, enough to catch his attention. Actual psychic blockades might even frustrate him enough to want to tear them down; he does enjoy a challenge. Lastly, Ouka and the Takatoris are kind of like children to him, even Reiji - they think on a much more mundane level than he and Schwrz do; they think on the scale of individual relationships and countries, but Schwarz is concerned with the whole world and humanity's next level. In that sense, Schuldig can thus miss the forest for the trees, so to speak. Schuldig is also aware of Nagi's crush on Töt, which he thinks is adorable in the naïve sense that it'll never work out.
➤ POWERS:
➤ SUITABILITY: Schuldig is an adult in every sense, so at the very least he's not unsuitable. However, I think with how intimate sexuality is - even with one-night stands - on a psychological level, it's a very good setting to encourage some character development over months instead of years for a character so firmly set on the side of an antagonist in his canon.
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➤ NAME: Frudence.
➤ AGE: 27 (b. 1986).
➤ JOURNAL:
frudence.➤ CURRENTLY PLAYED: N/A.
CHARACTER INFORMATION
➤ CHARACTER NAME: Schuldig, pronounced Shu-ru-dee-hee by the Japanese characters - i.e. not "dig" at the end, just a soft -dɪχ.
➤ SERIES: Weiss Kreuz.
➤ CHARACTER AGE: 22.
➤ REFERENCE: Just to avoid any accusations of plagiarism, this Background/History will be a modified version of my other character application from the same series.
Unfortunately the series is so old that no one has devoted a fleshed-out wiki to it. The short version is that the Weiss vigilante group's 4 men are the protagonists of the series. Their principal rivals are the Takatori family members and the assassin group Schwarz. Schuldig is the unofficial 2nd in command of Schwarz, whose members all possess psychic powers. Schuldig is often the face of the group due to his charisma, silver tongue, and his empathic + telepathic powers. Their world is closer to early Power Rangers than Supernatural - where most people are unaware that supernatural elements exist, even though they do, but it's really only one kind of supernatural element - in this case psychics and a bit of Lovecraftian mythos on the outer reaches of the plot. Monsters are all genetic creations.
Little is known of Schuldig's backstory, but most of it is told as retrospective in (Dramatic Image Album III). He is German by birth, probably Bavarian region, and was discovered by Estet several years before the start of the series. Eventually, he was brought to the Rosenkrüs facility in the Austrian Alps - by force or by subterfuge with regards to his former guardians - so that they could cultivate Schuldig's psychic powers; they gave him the code name Mastermind. He arrived around the same time as Schwarz's leader, the American Brad Crawford, probably before Irishman Farfarello, and definitely before the youngest member Nagi Naoe. Soon enough Estet had enough psychics to start forming groups out of them. The three known groups are Schwarz, Rosenkreuz, and Farblos. Schwarz - Schuldig's group - would become the primary antagonists of Weiss Kreuz's early canon and reluctant allies to Weiss by the end. There was a little competition between the groups at first, but it only got worse as time wore on, to the point that even though they were all supposed to be working for the same bosses. The supervision at Rosenkrüs was also fairly minimal considering that we know Schuldig hooked up with Farblos member Sylvia at least once. Then the events of Dramatic Collect 1 happened, in which Nagi's powers returned and he became a proper member of Schwarz through Crawford's intervention.
During Kapitel (Season 1), Weiss's primary focus was eliminating the Takatori's family's corrupt influence in Japan, one target at a time. Schwarz was Reiji Takatori's personal bodyguards, which he sometimes sent to protect his sons as well as influential accomplices. One of his sons was Masafumi, a mad scientist specializing in genetic alteration and using unwitting civilians as test subjects, which eventually drew the attention of Weiss and more importantly the media. So, Schwarz went with Reiji Takatori to confront Masafumi about the disgrace in Schuldig's first appearance (ep 08). Masafumi had created his own bodyguard team instead of hiring them, called Schreient, and Reiji wanted Schwarz to watch all of them very closely. And if any of Masafumi's shenanigans should come back on Reiji, "you take care of it, Crawford." Thus, Weiss's first major confrontation was with Schreient and not Schwarz as Weiss investigated Masafumi's misdeeds. Nagi tried to help them out, but by then Masafumi had screwed up so bad Reiji insisted Crawford make plans. So, while Weiss and Schreient fought, Schwarz swung by just to make sure Weiss cleaned up Masafumi's mess for them and sure enough, Masafumi's manor burned to the ground at the end of episode 9.
Then, as eldest son Hirofumi's political acquaintances - also Reiji's supporters - died by Weiss's hands on Hirofumi's watch, Reiji started to lose patience with Hirofumi too. Unfortunately, a girl named Ouka got romantically interested in the youngest Weiss member Omi just as Weiss got closer to Hirofumi and thus Reiji as well. While Hirofumi was ecstatic about the prospect of a long-lost brother returning to the family, Reiji was not, and Schuldig eventually found out. The problem was that they soon found out that Omi was a long lost Takatori child and then Ouka invited Omi to a party to meet her father - Reiji Takatori of all people, though Omi didn't find out that night. After Hirofumi confronted Omi, Schuldig took it upon himself to "help" Hirofumi out by kidnapping Omi in front of Ouka. Weiss showed up to rescue Omi, allowing Schuldig to see all 4 of their faces up close - which was his plan all along - then quickly skidaddled before Weiss could gang up on him. However, he caught up with Omi soon after to continue wearing him down - confronting him with his moral duplicity of going on dates with Ouka after killing his own brothers. Then, he went to break the news to Ouka that she was dating her own half-brother, encouraging her to look into the matter herself; people riled up by emotion are easier to lead astray, of course. To further the dissent in Weiss over Omi being born Mamoru Takatori, Schuldig even convinced Nagi to photoshop an image together of Omi meeting with Reiji, then sent it off to the rest of Weiss. Before Ouka went on her movie date, Schuldig appeared to deliver more "evidence" that Omi was out to get her father - which was actually truth. That's usually Schuldig's most powerful weapon - the harsh truth that most "decent" people conceal from their loved ones. The lie he told that night was to Omi - he insisted that the rest of Weiss was trying to assassinate Ouka. In the midst of Weiss's internal fighting, Schuldig continued to prey on Omi's fear for Ouka's life and concern that Weiss was lying to Omi. Farfarello was on hand to help Schudig fend off Weiss while Ouka told Omi herself that they were half-siblings and Reiji was her father. Just as the 2 Schwarz members were retreating, Farfarello tried to take a snipe at Omi, but ended up killing Ouka instead.
Reiji's mistake was that he thought he could order Schwarz around, when in fact they still reported to Estet - the organization that provided Reiji with access to Schwarz in the first place. So when Reiji took a golf club to Schuldig (and Farfarello) at the start of episode 13 in retaliation for Ouka's death, that didn't endear Schuldig to his temporary master at all. Crawford interceded to direct Reiji's anger at Weiss instead, so now Schwarz's full-time job was taking out Weiss, and they started with causing terrorist mayhem and leaving spray-paint tags giving credit to Weiss. Things came to a head in episode 14 when Reiji's ground forces attacked Weiss and Schwarz's Crawford and Farfarello attacked Aya when he tried to kill Reiji. Unfortunately for Reiji Takatori, just as he had ascended to Prime Ministership, by Mission 15 Reiji had stopped being useful to Estet's grander schemes, and so Schwarz left Reiji to his death at the hands of Weiss after he turned on them.
The rest of the season was devoted to Schwarz more directly carrying out Estet's experiments and instructions, in addition to conflicts with Schreient. The women attempted to revive Masafumi, but were defeated in a plan that Schwarz concocted to get Weiss to do it. Estet had been putting pressure on Schwarz to deliver Aya-chan (Aya of Weiss's younger sister) to them for a certain ritual they were planning to perform - bringing a Lovecraftian "Master" in from the outer reaches, for which Ayay-chan would be the new vessel. Schwarz left with the upper hand and with Aya-chan, whom Schreient had first kidnapped from her hospital room to draw out Aya and the rest of Weiss. Through a conflict among all 3 groups, Farfarello killed Töt, and Nagi brought down Schreient's warehouse hideout in rage. (Mission 22) Weiss confronted Schwarz and their 3 leaders of Estet, who were trying to create a new world where only psychics would live - mankind's next evolution - with that Master revived. In the end Estet was stopped, largely through an internal conflict between Schwarz and the 3 leaders. For their own self-interest, Schwarz ended up leaving Estet in the same state they had Reiji, believing the Estet members to simply be too old to carry out the grand ambitions they'd molded Schwarz to accomplish. Schwarz was thought dead when the headquarters collapsed. Weiss considered it a victory, especially since they were no longer public targets of the police under Takatori rule.
Verbrechen & Strafe (OVA 1 & 2) do little to advance Schwarz's story except to prove that they are not dead, just scattered. Weiss spent the OVAs in a fractional disagreement that helped resolve Aya's conflict with Omi's Takatori heritage, only to have it brought up again in Gluhen. It was during this time that the events of Dramatic Image Album III & IV took place involving Schwarz. Basically they were hiding out in Germany when a girl named Sally got them re-involved with Estet, through the Austrian facility Rosenkrüs where Schuldig and the others had once trained. Schwarz chose to fight Sally's pursuers, the Farblos whom they were formerly acquainted with, and eventually Farfarello left with her - leaving Schwarz in the same moment - to pursue a normal life.
As much as can be gleaned from the OVAs and the Drama CDs, it seems that Crawford and Schuldig stuck together while Nagi separated prior to Gluhen (Season 2). Somehow Omi (the new Persia, director of Weiss missions) convinced Nagi to form an alliance.It seems like much in the way that Crashers has no allegiance to Weiss, Nagi became an independent agent that has no direct loyalty to Weiss or any of the other teams, but doesn't have any other "clients" outside of Omi. Gluhen shows that Nagi for his part was ambivalent to the change, like his new position wasn't much different than how he served Schwarz. This is pertinent because when Schuldig and Crawford came back into the picture during Gluhen, Schuldig didn't bear a grudge towards Nagi - more like an older brother who was happy that his kid brother got a better shot at life than he did.
Through whatever networks remained to them - or perhaps Crawford's clairvoyant powers - Schuldig and Crawford found out that fellow Rosenkrüs alumni group Rosenkreuz was on the move and showed up to the site of the plot action on a whim, basically, for a "reunion" with Rosenkreuz - not really considering until they got there that they'd get to reunite with Nagi too. They entered the scene just as the combined might of Esset (Gluhen's primary antagonists) and Rosenkreuz started to fight with Weiss. They interceded, with Schuldig in particular taking on the pyrokinetic Rosenkreuz member, Geisel, allowing the younger trio of Weiss to move deeper in. While Nagi, Schuldig, and Crawford occupied Rosenkreuz, Weiss was able to stop the Z Class leaders: some female scientists and Esset's leader - apparently a computer system called Epitaph. Most notably, while Schuldig was able to get the upper hand through his telepathic confusion methods, he actually snapped Geisel's neck on raw physical strength alone. Schuldig and Crawford disappeared into the shadows again, leaving Nagi to continue working alongside Omi, who'd reclaimed the public mantle of Mamoru Takatori. (Last Mission 13)
➤ CANON POINT: End of Gluhen minus that godawful redesign. Call it going back into his closet and pulling out the old wardrobe.
➤ SEXUALITY: Schuldig is sexual, we know that from canon, but he doesn't have the kind of moral hangups that would dissuade him from changing his mind on a whim. He doesn't owe an allegiance to a family or a business that could affect his life whether he slept with everyone or no one, of any gender, young or old, alien or human.
➤ PERSONALITY:
Due to being a non-native speaker of Japanese - and it's probably at least his 3rd language anyway after German and then English - his speech pattern comes out very nasally and informally clipped. On the other hand, due to being a sociopath, being informal could be one of several layers to how he presents himself to others.
The most superficial layer is an unflappable, confident young man. He can appear very charming and helpful to those he thinks are useful now or might be later. Even civilians will pick up on how attentive he is to small details, or how good his hearing is as he catches the edges of conversation; this isn't necessarily true, it's just him using his powers and civilians interpreting it in non-supernatural ways.
However, when in the presence of other psychics or people aware of the Supernatural, he will get a bit more sassy and confrontational. In particular, while he still exudes confidence in his own abilities, he has no problems backing out of a fight in order to preserve his own life. He is not a skirmisher; he relies on using other people as meat shields, pitting opponents against each other, psychologically diminishing opponents willpower through his powers or his words alone, and other tactics reserved for someone who genuinely does not care that much about humanity as a whole. They are a sub-class of humans to him, the lot of them, not unlike how White Supremacists see non-Aryans. He does not, in reality, ever try to be decent, or caring, or moral - when he's bored he'll tease fellow Schwarz members, and prefers their company to that of regular humans, but it's not exactly friendship so much as camaraderie by circumstance. Thus, when toying with normal humans as opponents, he finds great joy - true schadenfreude - in making them mad or frustrated by pinning them in moral quandries. When someone does manage to bruise his ego (or his cheek with a golf club), he can get very prideful, spiteful, and look for revenge.
The problem, for Schuldig, is that apart from those like Schwarz who experienced life with him, he doesn't share meaningful pieces of information about himself. By default he distrusts everyone around him and guards his own thoughts. Almost everyone around him is an open book - so he shamelessly "listens" in on conversations where he's not invited so that he can never be snuck up on or deceived. That cautiousness occupies him, but all he hears is also a constant white noise in the back of his mind turned up to 11.
The only character that Schuldig has canonically been in bed with is reeeeally unlikely to ever show up as she was a Drama CD-only character - Sylvia of Farblos. That being said, he's probably not straight in the classic sense - if anything he's probably sexual but not romantic. Romance once again demands a kind of morality and caring about another person on at least the same level as yourself and that's going to be darn near impossible for anyone outside of Schwarz to achieve - and that's before sex even enters the equation. Any members of Weiss will definitely know how to get under his skin in terms of annoyance, but they still didn't exactly part as friends; they've never hung out and gone for coffee. Anyone who does try to hook up with him will definitely have to be able to hold their own in verbal sparring or at least take everything Schuldig can dish out. He has said before that people's thoughts taste like honey, so anyone with different thought patterns could prove entertaining to him at least, enough to catch his attention. Actual psychic blockades might even frustrate him enough to want to tear them down; he does enjoy a challenge. Lastly, Ouka and the Takatoris are kind of like children to him, even Reiji - they think on a much more mundane level than he and Schwrz do; they think on the scale of individual relationships and countries, but Schwarz is concerned with the whole world and humanity's next level. In that sense, Schuldig can thus miss the forest for the trees, so to speak. Schuldig is also aware of Nagi's crush on Töt, which he thinks is adorable in the naïve sense that it'll never work out.
➤ POWERS:
- Empathy+Telepathy - Schuldig is able to read not just thoughts, but feelings too. Implanting thoughts and feelings is much harder, but he has done it in canon with weak-willed minor characters from a great distance - through a video conference of all things. What he is best at is catching the superficial thoughts that rush through a person's mind as a knee-jerk reaction to something shocking or crazy they encounter. Deeper thoughts and complex opinions are tougher to unravel, especially if the person is just walking by and he doesn't have enough time to probe. Additionally, with enough teamwork or willingness, he can create a kind of psychic link between several people so they can all talk to each other without speaking - and without blindly sharing all of their thoughts too.
- Agility - Schuldig is quite fast and dextrous on his own, but in the context of combat he also looks supernaturally fast to his opponents - this is actually due to utilizing his telepathy to anticipate his opponents movements and get out of the way before they can strike him or his allies.
- Strength - This is much more in the realm of human possibility, but it's worth noting - Schuldig has enough upper body strength to snap a man's neck.
➤ SUITABILITY: Schuldig is an adult in every sense, so at the very least he's not unsuitable. However, I think with how intimate sexuality is - even with one-night stands - on a psychological level, it's a very good setting to encourage some character development over months instead of years for a character so firmly set on the side of an antagonist in his canon.
➤ FIRST PERSON EXAMPLE: A strong example of your character over a network post. This can be an example from a previous game or a lengthy thread from another community. So long as it's a strong, first person demonstration of character voice. LINKED EXAMPLES CAN NOT BE OLDER THAN SIX MONTHS.
➤ THIRD PERSON EXAMPLE: A strong example of your character reacting. While we greatly encourage examples that show them reacting to sexual settings (Proxima Beta or otherwise), we also welcome previous third person threads that demonstrate a strong sense of voice of the character. LINKED EXAMPLES CAN NOT BE OLDER THAN SIX MONTHS.