Ezekiel Hollenfeuer

* Human
* Undead

### Rank

Oberoffizier / Senior Officer / All star (Mercenary Corps), Army Psychologist, Battalion Commander (The German Heer)

## Fate

### Cause of Death

Shot in the head by Gomer Rosenberg as an act of sacrifice

## Characteristics and personality

### Traits

Wisdom, Humbleness, Energy (Persona), Egotistical, Vengeful, Evil (Real)

### Moral status

Lawfully Evil (Before 1944), Morally Recovering (1944)

### Confidence Level

Egotistical Mastermind (Before 1943), Demolished, Discouraged Ego (1943-44)

## Social life

### Hobby

Cooking, Psychological Research, Philanthropy, Helping Friends and Family, Courting Serene Ziegler, Honorable Fighting

### Family

Erwin Hollenfeuer (Younger Brother), Nikolas Klinge and Zacharias Klinge (Cousins), Otto Hollenfeuer (Father)

## Miscellaneous

### Goals

To have his feelings heard by Serene, To make his final action a heroic sacrifice, To make Erwin a better person through any means, To prevent his family's death in the war (All succeeded). To marry Serene, To get married, To start a family, To have children and successors, To become a politician, To become a national hero (All failed)

### Interests

Girls, Romance, Psychology and Philosophy

**Ezekiel Angelo "Panzer/Zeke" Cornwell Hollenfeuer** is the Deuteragonist of **Descendants of Calamity.** The elder brother of Erwin Hollenfeuer and oldest son of **Otto Hollenfeuer.** For all his life, he had worked and sacrificed everything just to feel loved in order to escape from his abusive family only for it to end with 12 rejections. He works as a Colonel for the **German Heer** and leader of the Mercenary detachment or battalion **"Descendants of Calamity"**. In secrecy, he is a serial killer whom took the lives of people he resents or deems "immoral" or simply just to satisfy his ego. He has an outstanding philosophy of life, psychology and romance. His knowledge upon human emotions give him an advantage to put up a persona, as a leader, he needs to inspire others so he puts up said persona in order to not sound as an evil villain. But then, it is because he also does not want others to become like him. In reality, because of certain circumstances in the past, his philosophy turns and gives him ill motivation to get whatever he wants by doing whatever needs to be done.

* History
* Appearance
* Personality
* Abilities and Kinetic Arts

## **Origin**

As the eldest son of a political figure, he was the chosen successor. As a child, he was quickly empathetic but then also clumsy, a naturally born leader inheriting the traits of his father. His mother, who would still see him as useless would regularly reprimand him and overrule his judgements in arguments, this traumatizes and depresses Zeke as his own mother sees him as a lowlife. He would regularly try doing new things such as new chores, new activities but then his mother would insult him and call him stupid for focusing on his creativity and talent instead of studies. Yet, he remained happy as his brother was then born, then his 2 younger sisters. He would serve as a leading figure to all of them, he would teach morals, preach, and guide them in school while also giving protection. In problems, he always gives them freedom of speech and remain neutral because he doesn't want to be like his mother. He sees the stuff, the emotional abuse and insults to him given by his mother as normal, yet he still loves her unconditionally. Because of his persistence, Otto quickly favored him, which made Erwin envy him.

Because of the lack of female unconditional love, Zeke started adventuring in romance as young as **7 years old.** He fell in love with a young woman named **Serene Ziegler**, his best love interest. She served as his major influence in socializing and morals. He shortly sparked major feelings for her personality of course. But because their friendship kept turning on and turning off, so did his interest. He wasn't demotivated as at that time he had a lot of female friends he had interest in but Serene really stood out. By 13, he started courting girls, until 19, he would end up with 11 rejections. Despite caring for them, giving them anything like advice and chocolates and whatnot. He really showed his true personality and care, he was very nice at the time, no evil manifested. **He did this because girls kept saying personality is the game**, but then he still gets rejected. Nonetheless, the girls are also LGBT members, which makes the whole thing even more questionable. He desperately wanted to win people's hearts but then to no avail. At this point, him and Serene had a good friendship, he didn't want to ruin it with a confession, but because Serene also stated that she was **aromantic-asexual**, he didn't want to offend Serene. We can see the duality between Zeke and Erwin here, Zeke was focused on his love life during the Martial Law period whilst Erwin is focused on surpassing him.

To not leave it unmentioned, Zeke also heavily focused on his kinetic art, to which, he would master it and use it to also produce crystals for Serene. **He's such a simp, it's incomprehensible.** HIs superiority over Erwin also made Erwin envy him even more. He also developed his philosophy to consider love as the highest point of emotion as it combines fear, joy, sadness and anger. He continued this to the point he gets interested in psychology and would continuously encourage, motivate and lead people to emotional glory. On the **ousting of their family**, he would stick with this motivation and during his time in Luxembourg he worked as a therapist and psychologist for locals and especially, Erwin and **Hannah**.

### **Return of the Hollenfeuers and before PANZER**

As Ezekiel and Erwin return from their exile, they go their own ways. Ezekiel manages to get a job as an army psychologist, treating PTSD, Trauma and Anxiety. He loved his job and was beyond financial stability. During this period, him and a girl named **Aina Hanabira** fell in love with each other. During this stage, Ezekiel and Aina's relationship was developing drastically. That caused Aian to be possessive and obsessed with Ezekiel, which forced Ezekiel to not interact with any other girls other than Aina, it was his choice but this was the first step to his drastic downfall. Ezekiel would then keep writing letters, which Aina assumed to be love letters for other girls, but then it was just paychecks he paid his battalion for their service and because he wants to do so. More toxicity kept showing as Aina gaslighted **Serene, Zacharias and other of his friends** into taking her side just in case drama ever broke out. Eventually, Aina and Zeke were playing a board game with friends where Aina lost to Zeke which turned into an argument. Aina eventually antagonized Zeke, which made him look bad in front of Serene and his friends. He would then live in fear of Serene, fearing he might scare her. This started the toxic relationship as Aina kept seeing Zeke as a cheater because of his absence.

This absence was actually a little evil, he eventually gets involved in a crime organization, alongside **Felix Heisenberg**. Both wound single-handedly and unhonorably take down the organization without the orders of their commanders. The crime organization fell as they kill the leaders in an operation. And during his service, he would meet **Sivart Nachtnel** and further his relationship with **Zacharias Klinge.** He invested more time into them after the drama between Aina and Zeke so both can take a break. However, as soon as Zeke comes home Aina assumes him of having affairs. This then resulted in an argument and a break up, despite Aina being pregnant. From here, Zeke is damaged and eventually falls into desperation. He then befriends Serene again and further develops their friendship.

### **PANZER period**

Ezekiel changes his name to Panzer in order to forget his past and to move forward. During the period of PANZER, he would shortly give away his ethics in order to keep his honor and reputation as a notorious one-man militia. He fully strays away from his military battalion and turns into a Mercenary leader. In this mercenary corps, he schemes to start a small petty war with **The Political Sentinels of Erronzein.** Although he would consider his position, he wants to move further. Eventually, **killing a politician** with Wassersaule in order to prevent a dishonorable discharge**.** Alongside him also being genuine to the people he cares about, at this stage, while also starting a **war**, it can be considered that this is the full transition of Ezekiel into Panzer.

## **Appearance**

Zeke appears to be an able-bodied man, however he's a little flabby. He wears a **dark green pea coat** and **M40 Feldbluse.** He wears rank-identifying pads on his shoulders, which showcases that he is a Colonel and upholds command over people. He has untucked black slacks and wears black shoes. His hair resembles a middle part, as a little detail, Zeke is incredibly passionate about it. Similar to Erwin, he is simple and semi formal. However, Serene finds his fashion sense funny, and you should too.

## **Personality**

Zeke is an **empathetic person,** meaning while being evil he still regards human morals and emotions. He's rather a combination of Anti-Villainous and Anti-Heroic, but he's also not neutral. Most of his actions to get his goals require killing people. When he was courting or chasing **Serene Ziegler,** his love interest, he had a lot of competitors, to which he all neutralized through sabotage. He made their deaths a quick one in order for them to not suffer. Asides from evil, he also has a good side. He believes that emotions are the epitome of humanity and therefore, should not be played with. He had never manipulated someone as he saw it as a sin and highly immoral. To his friends and his men, he shows an example of positivity and would regularly cook them food, give them stuff and do anything to keep them happy. He genuinely cares for the people he see as good, as long as they do not do something *personal* to him.

## **Psychological Evolution**

### **1917-1938**

His main traits during these times were:

**Personification of Good, Working for career and family, Genuine, Empathetic, Humbly Powerful, Immense Motivation, Sane**

Ezekiel before the war and before the break up with Aina is a force for good. He forgave anyone who sinned against him and saw everyone as humans are equal, but must be treated with equity and fairness. He is currently working as a loyal and working military officer, providing for Aina and the rest of his family and currently trying to help Erwin get out of hustle and early life of crime. During this period, he was showing genuinity and his real personality in order to be known as **the family man**, in order for his future children and nephews to trust him and rely on him as he likes being a parental or older figure. In terms of genuine, he forgives others, shows them his feelings and is beyond honest. He's empathetic. As a leader he shows empathy in order for him to understand his subordinate's feelings and to keep unity and subsidiarity within his column. Not exclusively to subordinates, to his family too. He uses his power for pure defense and protection, he refuses to use it for offense or attack. In terms of power, his authority and kinetic art. He is purely motivated, he is motivated by the tranquility of retirement and the fact that if he continues, he gets to see his family and the people he loves and respect. Therefore, he works for them and is insanely motivated as he knows that giving up is practically suicide. He is sane and completely normal

### **1939**

His main traits during these times were:

**Morally Compromised, Career and Family focused, Dishonest, Empathetic, Abusively Powerful, Compromised Motivation, Descending to insanity**

At this point, **Zeke has changed his name to Panzer.** Panzer is currently morally compromised. He is now doing bad things if it benefits him and the people he cares about, it of course highlights murder and intimidation. Instead of just working, he's ***fully focused .*** This means that he currently highlights his career and his family over his own life, which on paper is good if it was only family. He's currently lying to everyone and his superiors in order to hide the fact that he's dishonorably being vigilant and **taking down a crime organization for reputation and power.** He does this to hide his true self. He considers his position as a leader and tries to show a positive example that others should follow. He's still empathetic, and always will be. He uses his power for things to go the way his battalion and team wants, not exclusively for himself, *yet.* His motivation is mixed with ill motivation and pure motivation. He's motivated to keep the good by doing bad and to make his path by doing bad. Due to these circumstances, he is slowly turning insane and psychopathic.

### **1940-1942**

His main traits during these times were:

**Lawfully Evil, Career obsessed, Deceptive, Empathetic, Falsely Heroic and Authoritarian, Ill-motivated and Egotistical, Split personality disorder**

Panzer at this state has descended to his worst self. **He started a war, created a false personality and killed more than 15 people.** He is incredibly petty at this point instead of being moral and wise. At this point he's evil but still recognizes human emotions, common workplace ethics, feelings, emotions and loyalty and he heavily condones and supports this. It's shown as he observes and promotes loyalty and empathy towards **Descendants of Calamity** and toward his family and friends. However, apart from these good traits he secretly condones murder to people he thinks are not good or doesn't respect, therefore you must earn Panzer's respect before making moves outside of his control, which makes his whole battalion Authoritarian. He deceives people through words, lies and falsified evidence. Panzer commits chicanery in order to maintain his reputation and power. As said above, Ezekiel's trait of empathy forever lives, even in the evil Panzer. At this point he makes himself look like a hero by doing actual vigilant heroes' work to cover up his unlawful and petty killings of Serene's admirers, this also shows his dictatorial urges, similar to Otto but less logical. He's motivated to keep his power and motivated to unlawfully earn and have Serene as his romantic partner. Panzer here now has 2 personalities, a persona to show his genuinity and nice personality and his real side of evil and ego. We can observe that he's not affected by the deaths of the current arcs but motivated by his love interest and his ego, this kind of contradicts with his empathy but he sees the villains as **less than him, because they are villains working for the socialists.** This eventually changes after the **revelation of Serene's sexual identity and the disappearances and betrayal of Erwin.**

### **1943 and until his death**

His main traits during these times were

**Morally recovering, Family obsessed, Reasonably Genuine, Empathetic, Heroic, Mildly Discouraged yet still Egotistical, Sane**

Panzer slowly revives Zeke. He slowly realizes his mistakes and lives in regression and guilt. Due to this, he slowly shows morality again and starts being good as he practices Philanthropy and Clinical Psychology again. He now cares less about his career and wants to reunify himself with Erwin and to keep his family glued together. He's slowly starting to be genuine and show his real feelings again, which leads to a confession to Serene, where he finally gets his feelings heard after 26 years of living in fear. As a leader, he now promotes free choice and freedom and now forces Wassersaule to give the men freedom, which also inspires Wassersaule's democratic transformation. He's a little down and demotivated, yet if the sees it as bright, his ego manifests. He's sane now.

During the death of Panzer, he returned to being Zeke. After sacrificing himself to ensure Erwin's and Serene's safety and to protect them from involvement during **The Battle of Stuttgart** to prevent their possible deaths. Upon his death, he acknowledges his guilt, lets his feelings be heard and died doing what he loved and also succeeded his goal to turn Erwin into a force of good and heroism.

## **Abilities and weaknesses**

**Geokinetic Art capabilities -** Ezekiel uses and possesses **Geokinesis,** on his part, a kinetic art capable of producing and utilizing minerals and earthly materials on his body, specifically, on his arms. This usually uses his ego levels and confidence, which is very potent, making him a powerful being. He utilizes this by making cone shaped arms and lunging towards his enemies. On the other hand (literally), uses it to make a Rocky fist and sometimes rocky body armor in general to act as a literal human tank, sometimes, body slamming people by using his mild weight. Mostly, he utilizes area of effect burst attacks and takes a while to recharge, and is unable to participate that efficiently in brawls.

**Corrupt Charisma -** His intense authority over his men, ruling them by fear but then by also friendliness, loyalty and equality make Ezekiel a very literal powerful person. He can easily order them to do anything given his wealthy and kind spirit, making his men loyal for his fortune, niceness and closeness.

**Psychological Advantage -** His extensive knowledge on human thinking give him knowledge and initiative on manipulation, usage of emotions and outsmarting.

**Emotional Intelligence -** Ezekiel's extended knowledge upon human emotions allow him to easily manipulate, befriend and deceive his victims for his own gain. He can also get out of situations given the right words and actions performed. This also helps Ezekiel avoid manipulation from an enemy or opponent.

**Enhanced Durability -** His durable armor allow Ezekiel to become a literal human tank

**Immense Destructive Power -** The chaotic nature of Geokinesis allows Ezekiel to perform overly destructive, severe and lethal attacks

**Unbreakable Ego -** His chaotic drive and confidence to win a battle, motivated by ego and pride, allows Ezekiel to keep going and persist during battles even if the chances of winning are slim. He also uses this to deceive his enemy into thinking he's too egotistical for them to underestimate him.

**Masochism -** Ezekiel sees pleasure within pain, emotional and mental. He finds it rewarding, this allows Ezekiel to want to nullify and overcome the pain, thus feeding his ego. Feeling pain also stimulates his desire to win, buffing his kinetic art.

**Aggressive tactics -** Ezekiel always uses full power in offensives or attacks, this is so he can wear down the enemy as quick as possible, although it might use up all his energy, it would be enough to wear them both down mutually.

### **Weaknesses**

Ezekiel is immediately weakened when you have a closer relationship with Serene. He easily gives into these circumstances and gets demotivated. He'll eventually get angered when this continues, so you must immediately notice his weakness in order to win against him. He is heavily empathetic and other's emotions, if he sees them as *valid* at least, acts as a blow to him and will definitely hurt him inside and make him hesitate because of his loyalty to morality and emotions. He doesn't want to stand up against people who he sees as more powerful than him and people who have more authority than him and will submit to them if he sees them as respectable.

Power-wise, he is inferior to **witchcraft, gothic powers, wizardry, magic, ghosts, apparitions, poltergeists, darkness and spirits.** Notably, witchcraft and magic reminds him of Serene, therefore, sees any witchcraft practitioners as another Serene. Therefore, he cannot hurt them and such. Because of his cowardice or fear towards anything that can overpower him, he fears things he cannot see but can fully feel or interact, mainly because of Serene as well.

## **Kinetic Art Techniques**

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**Power Rush -** Panzer rushes forward, hoping to at least pierce or launch someone away with a powerful and forceful lunge, afterwards shaking the ground and causing a small earthquake

**Succession Strike -** Panzer leaps and body slams his opponent

**Ballistic Geode -** Panzer launches his explosive cone projectile towards his enemy

**Groundbreaking Invention -** Panzer uses his cone as a drill and spins, drills through the ground to travel

**Ground's Climax -** Panzer slams the ground and makes a few large spikes in front of him

**Aerial Bomber -** Panzer leaps upward and launches a barrage of explosive cones and rocks toward the ground while maintaining altitude