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Information
Name/Nickname: Josef Diamant; The Jack Of Diamonds
Gender: Cisgender male
Birthdate/Age/Sign: NA; thirties/forties; Gemini
Orientation: Heteroromantic heterosexual
Relationship Status: Single
Race/Ethnicity/Nationality: Caucasian; Germanic descent/Ashkenazi Jew; German
Class: Middle
Religion: Orthodox Jewish (lapsed)
Profession: Former jeweler/goldsmith and document forger; founder/leader of the Diamond Network; after the war, resumes his jewelry work
Birthplace/Residence: Frankfurt, Germany/WWII Germany
Personality/Characteristics
[Coming soon.]
Appearance
Diamant is an unknown/mongrel breed with dropped V-shaped ears and short fur. He's of tall height; with a fit/athletic body type; has dark brown eyes; and has tan fur and black hair.
Diamant has a scar on his right hand (the back of the hand through the palm), and a camp prisoner ID number tattooed inside his left forearm. He typically wears trousers with suspenders, long-sleeve button-up shirts (often with the sleeves unbuttoned and partly rolled up), a cap similar to a newsboy cap, and if out in public, a jacket or long coat with the collar up to partly hide his face. He occasionally wears disguises, such as a stolen SS uniform, when he needs to interact with others. He's righthanded, but due to the injury and nerve damage to his right hand, he's learned how to use his left hand. He usually carries a revolver which he uses to intimidate others with Russian roulette. He has a chameleonic ability to blend into the background and go unnoticed.
Family & Relationships
Inga Dobermann (Ally/Lover)
Wife of Junker Louis Dobermann; after revealing herself to be Jewish, she's introduced to the Diamond Network by Tobias Schäfer and Katharina von Thiel. Diamant convinces her to fully open the Dobermann estate to usage by the Network (they'd been using it without the Dobermanns' knowledge, previously). Dobermann discovers the plot when Inga kills an intruding Nazi in self-defense, and requests Diamant to take her to safety; Diamant helps fake her death. Inga develops feelings for him despite remaining loyal to her husband, and Diamant feels the same. In the Alpine Fortress, Dobermann asks Diamant to look after Inga.
Adelina Dobermann (Ally/Ward/Informal Adoptive Daughter)
Daughter of Louis and Inga Dobermann. Diamant introduces himself to her while disguised as an SS officer; her description of him to Lt. Gunter Hesse unwittingly tips him off to Diamant's presence on the Dobermann estate. Given his role in breaking up her family, Diamant feels protective of her, and keeps an eye on her from afar; Addy is initially resentful when she learns of this, as she's been groomed by Hesse to despise Jews, and also blames Diamant for breaking up her family. Her feelings change when Diamant reintroduces Inga, whom Addy had assumed dead. Addy eventually turns to Diamant as a surrogate parent.
Stephen Gerhardt (Ally/Informal Son-In-Law)
A Jewish-American Allied soldier who goes undercover in the Wehrmacht to observe the Dobermann estate and try to determine Louis Dobermann's true alliances. He struggles to earn Diamant's trust after getting in touch with the Diamond Network; this is further complicated after he and Adelina Dobermann develop feelings for each other. He juggles this with trying to keep the trust of Lt. Gunter Hesse and Louis Dobermann as well.
Margarethe Dannecker (Ally/Casual Lover)
Stepdaughter of former camp commandant Ernst Dannecker. She agreed to aid Diamant in killing Dannecker and escaping the camp so she herself could escape her stepfather's abuse. The two were very briefly involved but decided to remain friends only. Along with Diamant, Lukas Mettbach, and Arno Spiegel, she forms the core of the Network. Despite her petite size and childish looks, she's skilled with her stepfather's SS sword, which she took as a trophy.
Frieda Orchudesch (Fiancée) (Deceased)
A young upper-class woman whose family Diamant makes jewelry for just before the war. The two share a brief romance and become engaged, yet she and her father are taken away to the camps and killed before she and Diamant can marry. Diamant uses the ID documents they planned to use to leave the country to begin his side business of forging IDs for other Jews.
Herr Orchudesch (Father-In-Law To Be) (Deceased)
An upper-class businessman who hires Diamant to make a ring for his daughter Frieda; Frieda and Diamant grow close, and despite their difference in social status, Herr Orchudesch gives his blessing for them to marry. Before they can, however, the Orchudesches are arrested; Frieda is killed upon arriving at a camp, while Herr Orchudesch dies during his train journey to another camp. Diamant uses their ID documents to practice forging IDs for other Jews to escape.
History
[Coming soon.]
Diamant In Heaven
[Coming soon.]
Trivia
*[Coming soon.]
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