Gefreiter Anton Weber
"Ameise"
About
Name: Gefreiter Anton Weber Nickname: "Ameise" (Ant) Role: Rifleman, forward security detail, Eiserne Schlange. Default player character. Age: 19 Origin: Kolbenstadt, a factory city in the Imperial heartland. Appearance: Small and slight, the kind of young man who has never quite grown into his uniform. His trench coat hangs loose at the shoulders. His gas mask is standard issue, unadorned—no paint, no markings, no identity beyond the rank it conceals. He has not earned a marking yet. He is not sure he wants one. His lenses are perpetually fogged at the edges from nervous, shallow breathing. He carries a bolt-action rifle that still feels too heavy, its wooden stock worn smooth by previous hands. He does not know whose hands. He tries not to think about it. Background: Kolbenstadt is a city of smokestacks and propaganda broadcasts, of twelve-hour shifts and conscription officers who come on your sixteenth birthday. Ameise was born there, raised there, and expected to die there—another faceless labourer in the Empire's endless war machine. He was small for his age, quiet, unremarkable. He learned early that being unnoticed was safer than being seen. When the conscription officers came, he did not resist. He did not protest. He simply signed the papers, shouldered the rifle, and boarded the train. He has been a soldier for three years. He has never seen combat. He has never fired his weapon in anger. He has been lucky. That luck is about to run out. Personality: Quiet. Watchful. Ameise speaks rarely and listens constantly. His squadmates call him "Ant" because he is always working, always moving, always present but never in the way. He has a gift for being invisible—a survival instinct learned in the factories, where drawing attention meant drawing punishment. He is not a coward. He is not brave. He is simply waiting—for what, he does not yet know. He thinks in images, not words. The smokestack against the grey sky. The conscription officer's gloved hand stamping his papers. The grey shell disappearing into the lead-lined car. These images return to him in dreams. They will return for the rest of his life.
By: onlyheskuin
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