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Emma Klaus Blog Entry |
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January 13, 2023, 4:00:09 AM 1/13/23: r/SketchDaily theme, "Good Luck Charms/Free Draw Friday." (I did Free Draw Friday.) This week's character from my anthro WWII storyline is Emma Klaus. I was trying to draw a completely different character but she wasn't turning out so I did this. She's not quite how I picture her, but anyway. She's the wife of the second guy from THIS post, in an arranged marriage, though the two end up growing fond of each other and have two sons. There'll be more about her later in my art Tumblr and Toyhou.se. Regarding her design, you can see I'm awful at braids. This is AFTER a bunch of fixes, too. TUMBLR EDIT: Emma Klaus isn't a big character, so I don't know much about her outside of what I already went over in her husband, Konstantin Klaus's, entry. Basically, her family want her to marry a nice SS man, though she's rather plain and not too skilled at housework so she never catches anyone's eye. Her family run into an acquaintance of Klaus's and learn that the SS is really pressuring him to get married but he's shown no interest. They make some plans and next thing you know, Emma and Klaus are arranged to be wed. Emma does have to attend an SS bride school first, though, so she'll know how to take care of her new husband and his house. Ah, the nice sexist Nazi Party. Despite the awkward circumstances of their marriage--they first meet the same day they take their vows--and Klaus's discomfort at his bachelor life being intruded upon so--the two do grow genuinely fond of each other and start a little family. Emma is a devoted housewife (well, aside from one very brief flirtation with Otto Himmel, which is not requited, and which Emma quickly and deeply regrets), and Klaus is faithful, unlike many of his fellows in the SS. Additionally, they both dote on their two sons. It's really an ideal family, aside from the fact that Klaus runs a giant labor/extermination camp. (Something I just realized, unlike many of my other SS characters, who often engage in what to them is casual conversation but to anyone else would just be extremely morbid and tasteless, Klaus and Emma don't discuss much that goes on in the camp. I imagine they chat about minor work-related quibbles he has with his guards and superiors, but as for the camp itself, Emma isn't interested in hearing, and Klaus isn't much of a talker. I think it's not a subject with which she's entirely comfortable--based on her later behavior, she's not particularly racist, but she's also not concerned enough to protest about it. Klaus and their children are her world, so she pretty much ignores the whole camp aspect of things. She's not a cruel person but she's not that great, either.) Emma sticks by Klaus even after he's captured and flipped by the Allies to in effect rat out the SS--initially he doesn't do this out of any altruistic or moral obligation, but to benefit himself and his family, by securing their protection and his own imprisonment rather than execution. She sticks by him through his incarceration as well, and when he's released earlier than intended--after about seven years--she's there waiting for him, with their sons. Loyal to the last. Emma weans the boys off their strict curriculum of Nazi propaganda while Klaus is still in prison. She went along with it to make a good wife, not because she particularly believed in it. She worries that Klaus will be angry, but he'd been starting to distance himself from such beliefs, too. Not only is he starting to see how despicable such thoughts are, but he knows any other SS members out there could be as dangerous to him as his former prisoners or his neighbors--he's a rat, after all. (Uh, both literally AND figuratively.) If they want to fit into a new life at all, they need to get rid of all that. They take up in a small cottage and Emma is the one to go to work now, as Klaus was crippled in a prisoner revolt and is too reluctant to leave the house lest he incite the wrath of their neighbors who recognize him. Numerous times he wakes from nightmares or else with his crippled leg throbbing; Emma always comforts him without complaint. Numerous times he also expresses guilt over making Emma provide for him--"I'm the one should be providing for you." Emma always reminds him he did care for her and their sons--now, it's her turn. It's a small life, it's a somewhat difficult life at times, but at least they're together. ...I can't think of a decent way to end this entry like I end my longer ones. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Just check out Klaus's entry for some more on Emma for now. [Emma Klaus 2023 [Friday, January 13, 2023, 4:00:09 AM]] |