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Heinrich Blog Entry |
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August 23, 2024, 12:00:21 AM 8/23/24: r/SketchDaily theme, "Free Draw Friday." This week's characters from my anthro WWII storyline are: Unnamed City Clerk; Herr Heinrich (no last name ever given); Frau Bartz (no first name ever given); and Private Etienne Laurent. So many this week as the first two are completely new characters who popped up as I was writing the Tumblr entry for Frieda Orchudesch and her father (last week), yet I wanted to still check a couple off my list. The clerk and Heinrich, the Orchudesches' manservant, help Josef Diamant start his career as document forger. Frau Bartz is in charge of a maternity home and is always trying to coax Lt. Hesse into settling down with one of the women. And Laurent is an older undeveloped character from my character list, a French partisan whose background I need to develop some. The clerk and Heinrich are already described in Frieda's Tumblr entry. There'll be more about them all later in my art Tumblr and Toyhou.se. Regarding their designs: The clerk is a leucistic doberman; Heinrich is a fawn boxer; and Frau Bartz is a blue doberman (I'm iffy on her hair, she's supposed to look more severe). I wanted to try something different with Laurent's colors. TUMBLR EDIT: The rest of this will be modified for each entry to avoid repetition. Please see FRIEDA ORCHUDESCH'S ENTRY for info on Herr Heinrich. I don't know much about him, really the only reason he got a first name is because Josef Diamant needs to refer to him as something, and his name ("friends of Heinrich's") inadvertently ends up becoming code for people who wish to obtain forged IDs to escape the Third Reich. I struggled even coming up with a word by which to refer to him; he's kind of like an errand boy, kind of like a housekeeper, kind of like a butler, yet not quite just any of these things, so I settled on "manservant." He keeps house, does chores, runs errands (such as going to a clerk to fetch the Orchudesches' new ID papers), makes meals, cleans and presses clothes, all that stuff. He's an older, gentile, live-in servant who has no family of his own, has worked for Herr Orchudesch for many years (he refers to finding things Frieda Orchudesch placed in a hiding spot as a child, meaning he's worked there at least since she was little and probably longer, and likely helped raise her), and obviously cares deeply for the Orchudesches, as when Diamant arrives looking for them after they're taken away by the police, he finds Heinrich weeping uncontrollably over the loss. Heinrich breaks down crying multiple times as he explains to Diamant what happened, and repeatedly blames himself for not getting back with the ID papers in time to help them. Heinrich is too late to do anything for the Orchudesches (they're already on their way to the camps when Diamant arrives, and neither survives long), though he does manage to help indirectly, by handing over the ID papers to Diamant when requested; Diamant studies the papers and uses them as the starting point in his scheme to forge IDs for other Jews unable to obtain their own papers to leave the country. Heinrich, for his part, says there is nothing left for him in his homeland, and decides to leave as well, urging Diamant to do the same. The city clerk (see HIS ENTRY) with whom he puts Diamant in touch, when suggesting that a desperate family of Jews visit Diamant's shop for assistance, tells them that if all other entreaties fail, to say a friend of Heinrich's sent them; they use this reference when sending a telegram to Diamant to let him know his forged IDs worked and they escaped safely. I don't know what becomes of Heinrich; he successfully leaves the country, but after that disappears from the plot. I'm assuming he ends up okay though he never does quite vanquish his guilt over being unable to help his informal adopted family. [Herr Heinrich 2024 [Friday, August 23, 2024, 12:00:21 AM]] |