Fritzgerald Hoffmann

> *"Hahaha, aren't I such a pervert, Nina? The worst kind of man."*
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**Fritzgerald "Fritz" Hoffmann** is a student at the St. Pavlov Foundation, being an Abnormal Child: Class S+.

## History

### Early Life

Fritzgerald was born in 1920s, Germany. As a child, Fritz often harmed others with no regrets. His parents and other adults praised his older siblings and left him in the shadows. Because of this, he became rebellious. His older brother, Klaus, one day caught him burning small animals and started lecturing him about the values of life, the value of understanding one's suffering, but Fritz's heart was not moved. Since then, he pretended to act normal in front of others and study their behavior.

Fritz recalls a memory from his childhood of how he nearly killed a hamster that Otto had bought, but was stopped by Henri, who angrily warns him that unless he changes his ways, he will spend the rest of his life alone.

## Appearance

Fritz is a young man with messy light blue hair and slanted orange eyes. He wears a white button-up shirt with light blue trousers and suspenders, brown shoes, and a gold pocket watch around his neck. He also wears large bottle-bottomed glasses that sometimes appear opaque.

## Personality

Fritz is an individual who many who would describe as quite mysterious and silent despite an almost constant smirk on his face. You can never quite tell what he's thinking, but the few people close to him do say he is scarily intelligent, and he likes to be fully informed before meeting someone, and thus hacks into social media accounts and such to learn about them.

He has also been described as somewhat crazy and obsessive, especially over Nina. He has a habit of groping her and calling himself a huge pervert, but, considering that he is a chronic liar, it could just be one of his many lies. Some would describe him as downright creepy, and he himself says he is nothing a big ball of trouble, and even told Nina that it would be best if she were to stay away from him. Fritz almost never gets angry unless it involves someone doing something to Nina, and even then, its more the type of anger where he has a smile on his face while considering in how many ways he can break every bone in your body. He often laughs at inappropriate times, finding things most people wouldn't find amusing.

Fritz most likely has Schadenfreude, the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of or witnessing the troubles, failures, pain, or humiliation of another. Fritz is a sociopath in the truest sense, withholding no understanding or comprehension of morality, affection, social interaction, or the value of life. Violent from childhood, his acts ranged from trying to beat a student to death in elementary school to mutilating animals. Many of his feelings of disdain for others stem from his cynical perception of *truth*, firmly believing that everyone else was hiding behind a mask, preventing him from seeing their 'true' personality, and effectively lying to him, something he took great offense to. This affectively makes him a hypocrite considering he himself is a proven liar. Eventually, Fritz became obsessed with this idea, and became convinced that only death would reveal a person's true side. Thus, he lusted to kill those around him. Due to his lack of understanding of others and the world, he created a false front that he projected out to the world after childhood, acting as a loner who preferred to sit on the sidelines and observe while he studied others and their interactions, ironically committing the same type of deception that he himself loathed. In reality extremely egocentric, if people truly wish to be involved with him, then he expects them to put him at the center of things, and 'care' about him in the way that his family 'didn't'.

However, bits of emotions such as pity, remorse, and guilt came from his interactions with Nina. It's through these interactions that he also admitted to himself that he'd hoped that helping Nina would give him some redemption and a means to atone for the terrible things he has done, indicating that he does at least hold some basic understanding of morals and knows, to a degree, that what he is doing is wrong.

## Trivia

* Fritzgerald comes from Fitzgerald, which means "son of the spear-ruler" in German.
* Hoffmann is a German status name for a steward on a farm or estate, coming from the German Hof(f) 'farm, manor farm, courtyard' + Mann 'man'.

## Quotes

* *"I know that. But what she doesn't know, can't hurt her, right?"*
* *"Ever since I was little, I've been unable to put myself in another man's shoes. I've possessed no sympathy, no empathy and no respect for life. Slowly but surely, my parents started to see me like I was some kind of devil. They shunned me. They ignored me... They'd focus all their attention on my older brothers. On my highly successful and generally upstanding older brothers. Everybody liked them, and I began to realize just how different life was for people who are well-regarded. And since my siblings had given up on me, those siblings were the only ones who ever looked after me. My eldest brother was particularly obnoxious, always flaunting his honor student status and trying to make me into a good little boy. It was sickening. He'd use his standing as my elder to boss me around, and would even follow me to make sure I was behaving. But I did fight back once. Back in elementary school... I stood up to my elder brother."*