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Information
Name/Nickname: Schavitz (first name never given)
Gender: Cisgender male
Birthdate/Age/Sign: NA; forties/fifties; Aries
Orientation: Aromantic heterosexual
Relationship Status: Single
Race/Ethnicity/Nationality: Caucasian; Germanic descent/Ashkenazi Jew; German
Class: Upper(?)
Religion: Atheist
Profession: Semi-retired general in the Wehrmacht
Birthplace/Residence: Germany (deceased during the main story)
Personality/Characteristics
[Coming soon.]
Appearance
Schavitz is of tall height; with a slightly stocky, muscular body type bordering on heavy; has blue eyes; and has warm/dirty gray fur.
Schavitz is missing his left eye, which was shot out by Sgt. Black Rat; he usually wears a patch to cover up the healed wound, which looks merely like his eye is tightly shut. [NOTE that he's drawn with his eye still intact simply for portrait reasons.] His left ear is somewhat tattered. He has various scars on other parts of his body. He usually wears the traditional field-gray Wehrmacht uniform with peaked general's cap and dress sword, though he often adopts a more casual appearance by removing his cap, rolling up his sleeves, unbuttoning his collar, etc. He has a rather hulking, intimidating appearance and an amused smirk.
Family & Relationships
Dorothea (Employee/Sexual Partner/Victim)
[Coming soon.]
History
[Coming soon.]
Schavitz In Heaven
[Coming soon.]
Trivia
*Schavitz's original (completely made-up) character name was Schavich. I eventually changed it to a more German-looking spelling. It was unintended and coincidental, but the real name "Schavitz" (or alternate spellings) has possible Jewish connections.
*I recently went down a weird Wikipedia rabbit hole regarding two different SS officers both named Ludolf von Alvensleben. Ludolf Jakob von Alvensleben, a dispossessed Junker, tortured Poles and Jews in the cellar of his former manor house--similar to some of Schavitz's activities. Ludolf-Hermann von Alvensleben, the other Ludolf's relative and commander who also killed many Poles, inherited a property which his family had bought in the 1700s, called Schochwitz Castle. This has no relation to my story, I just find the parallels--and the similarity of the castle's name to Castle Schavitz--interesting.
*He's one of the story's oldest antagonists, holding the same place on the rodent side that Louis Dobermann (yes...Dobermann) was originally intended to hold on the canine side. He doesn't appear in the oldest surviving written version, though I believe a prototype of him was meant to appear later in the story.
*With the current reboot, Schavitz was originally going to be revealed to be half Jewish; this has since been changed to fully Jewish.
*He's not based on or inspired by any actual figure, though he shares one similarity with SA leader Ernst Röhm; as described in Heinz Höhne's The Order Of The Death's Head, Röhm often sent out an associate of his to trawl for sexual partners at boys' schools. (According to Wikipedia, "His friend Peter Granninger procured young men between 16 and 20 years old and brought them to apartments owned by Granninger and Karl Leon Du Moulin-Eckart for sexual encounters.") In this story, Schavitz sends out Sgt. Eisen to pick up teenage girls from girls' schools and bring them back to his castle.
*[Coming soon.]
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