Body 1
Coordination 2
Sense 1
Brains 4/8(2 hard)
Command 1
Cool 3/7 (1 hard)
Skills:
Endurance 1(use cool)
Dodge 2(+2)
Pistol 2
Cryptohraphy 1
Education 1
Electronics 1
First Aid 3
Medicine 3
Tactics 3
Navigation 1 (Land)
Language 1 (Yiddish)
Language 1 (German)
Language 1 (English)
Language 1 (Italian)
Mental Stability 2
Bluff 1
Lie 1
Talents:
Hyperbrains 3: 2 hard dice, 1 regular [12]
Hypercool 3: 1 hard dice, 3 regular dice[9] (+2 to base will, +2 to width for combat initative)
Hyperdodge 2: 2 regular die [2]
Base Will: 10
Backstory:
Zindel Kessler lived through the first world war. The sound of artillary fire day in and day out left him somewhat hard of hearing. The smell of the trenches has permanently dulled his sense of smell. His ability to empathize with people was invigorated by the war; indeed he abhors violence, but it stunted his ability to express it. When he returned home from the war to end all wars, the Great War, he was only 19. He had managed to survive at the 100 Day Offensive, and although Germany had lost the war, he was content knowing that he had served his country to the best of his ability.
Fast forwad 10 yearrs, and Zindel had gotten married. His parents had set him up with a nice Jewish girl, and after years of courtship, they had gotten married. He was still distant, but he was a loving husband, despite the German economic collapse. The Beer Hall Putsch distressed him, but he foolishly assumed the best of his fellow countrymen. To hate his fellow man would be unconscionable. Nevertheless, Zindler grew uneasy.
Another 9 years, and that brings us to 1938. Zindel is now 38, and remains childless with his wife Rosa. Zinler had been saving money to move to America since Hitler had been elected Chancelor, but he only had the funds to send one person. Hearing rumors of the impending Kristallnacht implimentation, he sent Rosa ahead with all of his savings. It was at this point that he was captured, and put in a concentration camp.
This veteran of war, a peaceful man, bright, but with only a mild education, did not do well in the camps. His thick glasses were removed from him, and he was beaten frequently. Not long after arriving, he became deathly ill. He was not issued food or medicine, but somehow he still survived. More than that, a change had come over him. Things that had not previously been clear to him now were laid bare in his mind, and his already formiddable will became still stronger. He studied the patterns of guards around the sick tent, and through his fierce desire to see Rosa again, managed to escape.
He barely remembers how he made it to France, and from there, England. His mind and body were feverish the whole time, kept moving by a strong desire to see his beloved wife one more time. By the time he made it across the English channel, the Nazi's had invaded Poland. Torn between his own desires, and his disgust at his home country, he did what he never thought he would do again; enlist in the army, and fight his former countrymen. Always under suspicion for being a former German, ostracized for his age, for his reserved nature, for his seemingly biting wit, and capacity learn, Zindel bore with it. He knows that he will probably not survive this war, especially not now that his mental fortitude has been classified as a talent. Bent but not yet broken, he holds out hope that his letters written to the Americas might one day help him find his beloved Rosa, and gain some comfort in reading about her new life.
