Spuk von Hartmann

**Spuk "Spook" von Hartmann** is the leader of the Dawn Diamond Party. He was the first Suyukaz's Art OC and was formerly Suyukaz's persona OC.

Spook's primary concept is a ghostlike character with a rather confusing personality. His appearance contrasts, but sometimes resembles, very well his kind-or-cruel personality. Most importantly, his motives at times are most often unknown, making commonly be described as an unpredictable character.

## Spuk von Hartmann

### Aliases

Spook
Langsdorff (Pseudonym)
"German Ghost of the Northern District" (City lore)

### Affiliation

Dawn Diamond Party
German Air Force

## Additional Information

### Occupation

Soldier
Fighter Pilot
Military privateer (after the War)

### Rank

Commander (Dawn Diamond Party)
Flight Leader (German Air Force, Diamond Air Wing)

### Combat

MG 42 machine gun (WW2)
Bf 109 fighter (WW2)
Eurofighter Typhoon (21st C)

### Specialty

Strategic Intelligence
Art creativity
Physical Durability
Aviation
Philosophical Thinking

## Appearance

Character physical-wise, Spook appears to be an unnatural human character, featuring white skin and shadowy hair, while his eye is black with a light pupil. Spook's right eye is dysfunctional and is covered with an eyepatch. His body appears to be slender, but is deceivingly strong.

His default outfit remains similar throughout the years, never leaving his iconic cap-patch-jacket combination. As of mid-2021, he wears a dark grey baseball cap with a white bill, a black eyepatch on the right eye, and a collared white T-shirt overlapped by his never-zipped jacket. His jacket is dark grey with a white hood and purple sleeves, as well as featuring the number 027 on the left sleeve. He also wears a blue gem brooch identical to Yuki's.

## Personality

Spook's unusual personality forms the basis of the character's creation concept, as mist-hearted means his 'heart' (personality and feelings) is hard to see or define, as if it is in a mist. When younger, Spook was full of life, and enjoyed playing around, often going into careless situations. Growing up, he became emotionally withdrawn, appearing stoic and straight-to-the-book when dealing with problems. He also barely smiles, and tends to try remaining calm with most situations, developing the will to not regret any mistake and look forward. While his face barely shifts expression, he is emotionally fragile, sometimes unable to resist tears when he becomes heartbroken. His intolerance for negative tone in communication developed his firm control of ego, not easily angered at others and keeping revenge at the back of his thoughts, and putting justice in the front.

Spook seems ignorant for others' affection towards him, however he deeply cares for his allies, often hesitant to bring them into dangerous situations. Despite looking unapproachable and giving cold impression to others, he has a high level of Empathy and patience, and tries his best to not upset anyone. The most notable part of his personality is, Spook's motives or intentions at times are hard to determine due to his expression and the way he acts independently, making him an unpredictable character. Instead, he can detect or investigate others' moves first. He always appears grim, and receives almost all words similarly, only being a little more serious with things that concern him.

Behind this seriousness of the things around him, Spook also has his own personal thoughts, including handling his emotions and hidden long-term personal goals. Sometimes, he has a secret lack of confidence and questions his own decisions. However, he assures himself that he could only give the best of what he can to others, and often reminds himself to not be selfish or heartless.

Despite being German, Spook does not drink wine, and prefers tea. He also has a soft spot for bread and biscuits. He is not a big eater however, and eats minimally only to fill his hunger. Just like his siblings, Spook has great talent for art, in this case pencil or digital drawings. He sometimes build model vehicles, but not as often as Lily.  Spook shares his siblings' (and Corinett's) love for viewing beautiful scenery, especially sky and clouds.

## Lore

### Origin

Spook was born in Germany to British and Japanese parents as the first child. Before their leave, they left Spook to a family named the Hartmanns, which took care of him. Part of this Hartmann family is Japanese. As a young child, Spook had health problems, and received a treatment (varying across versions) which gave him side effects, altering his physical appearance by changing his skin to white and darkening his hair to black over time. It also caused the dysfunction of his right eye. Only after some time- and a lot of problems- he was recommended to wear an eyepatch. Spook would then study and receive military training in Britain and return to Germany to join his homeland's military. He would then fight a war, and in some versions, proceeds to lead the Dawn Diamond Party's operations.

### Corinett Lore

Spook would voluntarily fight the War since a young age as a soldier, eventually gaining a Young Officer rank in the Luftwaffe. In one event, he fought a battle in The City's Northern District, when he scored 13 kills in just 3 days of battle. This made him one of the earliest 21st century aces and also ace in a day, earning him the nickname "The German Ghost of the Northern District". and making him well-known.

After the War, Spook became a privateer and went to the City to sight the Occupier's crimes and help the citizens in danger, despite knowing the entire City's recognition of his face and identity. Ultimately, he saved Corinett and helped her to find her nomadic family. It is unknown whether he was still part of the German military at the time, but clues show his relation, such as the iron cross on his jacket.

### WW2 Lore

In the WW2 interpretation Spook was born in the end of the 1920s. His health problems are treated with an experimental serum, which successfully reduces the effects of the problems significantly, at the cost of altering his physical looks as well as disabling his right eye over time. Spook studied and received military training in Britain, accompanied by his British born sister Lily. As Germany had just lost World War 1 decades before, Germans are subject to discrimination, and Spook was bullied in his academy and even training camps, putting him into anxiety and depression and changing his personality. He returns to Germany to join the army just before the war began in 1939.

Spook fought the war as a fighter pilot on the Western Front, occasionally going to the Eastern Front. Whenever he stumbles across his relatives and acquaintances on the enemy side, he fights them with little hesitation. In the further-altered history version, he was also assigned to the Graf-Zeppelin class aircraft carrier, Peter Strasser. When he knew Germany is on the verge of defeat in 1944, Spook decided to fight the Pacific War with the Japanese, travelling with several other Germans via a blockade runner convoy. He joined up with Yuki and Yoake and flew the last months of the Pacific War in various battles, such as the battle of Leyte Gulf.

## Capabilities and Combat

### Strategic Intelligence

Spook is observant and has high analytical skills. He is able to formulate strategies and draw up plans for solving numerous problems with all available information and possibilities. This gets especially useful for war, when he leads his group- or the Dawn Diamonds- in the war room and the war itself. He also prepares backup and emergency plans should the unexpected occur, and is not hesitant to draw up a retreat operation if required. This ability is, however, sometimes hampered by his lack of confidence, most often due to incomplete and unconfirmed information.

### Capable strength

Spook admits to not be a very powerful soldier in the army, but has significant combat capability, as well as unusual durability and resistance to pain. He trains to be strong enough to carry the machine gun and pilot fighter aircraft. He can hold out on harsh situations for quite long or find ways to escape the mess carefully.

### Aviation capability

Spook's main combat potential comes to flying fighter aircraft, and is a potent fighter pilot, provided his surroundings are not too messy. He can withstand a number of maneuvers as well as perform carrier-based landings and takeoffs. In the World War II lore, he flies a modified Bf 109 with additional flight range. Meanwhile in the 21st century lore, he has been shown to fly the Eurofighter Typhoon fighter, which is used by the German Air Force in real life.

### Weapons

Spook also has his capabilities for ground combat. Due to a blinded right eye, Spook cannot use weapons requiring high visual precision, such as rifles. Therefore he is at best using a machine gun, which he has adequate skill with. In World War II lore, he uses the heavy MG 42.

Spook has another iconic weapon in his ground combat arsenal: A sword, which comes in handy though unusual for 21st C lore. His sword is said to be named "Schwarzfalken", meaning "Black Falcon".

## Relationships

* Yuki, Nully and Lily - Spook's younger siblings. He is very close to them, despite appearing otherwise neutral as he does not show any sign of extra love and affection. He does however concern their wellbeing, and helps with all that he can. When it comes to difference in opinions, Spook is open-minded to hear his siblings' thoughts and comment without putting much emotion. He dislikes fighting within his family and often breaks serious arguments with his seriousness, which often scares everyone. Spook is shown closes to Yuki, the second child of the family, as both are Irish twins and have similar maturity. He appreciates Yuki's work-oriented personality and has slight trust in her for performing tasks. Spook's rather unhappy personality often annoys (and entertains) Yuki, though she gets quite shocked with Spook's unexpectable decisions and ideas. Nully , the third child, shows extra care for Spook, with Spook being otherwise, often ignoring Nully's affection for him. He appreciates Nully's combat capability as well as humanitarian concern more than anything else. With Lily, the youngest child, Spook has slight annoyance for her over joyous personality. However, he trusts her when it comes to sailing and navigation, which he knows is her expertise. Spook also defends Lily in planning naval strategies as he respects her knowledge in the subject and does not want others to interfere unnecessarily.
* Noell and Fuleere - Spook's cousins. Spook is visibly annoyed of Noell's craziness, but compliments her scientific and technological expertise. Spook gets along pretty well with Fuleere. Despite Spook being friendly towards him, Fuleere describes Spook as "barely approachable", which happens to be true for most other people. Spook is astounded for Fuleere's great searching and hunting skill, and regards him as "more of a detective than an assassin".
* Corinett - Spook becomes Corinett's escort and protector in her lore, though Corinett has romantic feelings for him, which in turn Spook denies his own. Despite this, Spook allows Corinett's comfort herself with him, as he concerns for Corinett's feelings. Spook loves Corinett's deep thinking about world concepts and issues and both spend long times talking about philosophy. Corinett often sees Spook as unemotional and silently tempered, and gets extremely worried when she does something annoying to him, sometimes running away and crying. Spook however, remains calm for her mistakes no matter how big they are, often convincing her it's okay to make mistakes and learn.

## Trivia

* Spook has gone through various versions, and most of them were associated with ghost themes. When Suyukaz was in primary school, Spook became one of the characters of one of Suyukaz's Project Stories (This one was later known as Project Stellar) under the name Ace, until the fictional character was separated from the persona OC to become [Shadow Cavalier].
	+ This difference remained after Suyukaz went into middle school, only to be repeated when Spook became a character of yet another Project Story, Scherzo of Light inside Darkness, under the name Sevency before separating again (Sevency retained the name, Spook was left nameless again).
	+ It was after Suyukaz switched his username to his current one, did Spook receive his name (from Suyukaz's preceding usernames, SpookmexYZ and SpookyAZ). It was later specified to Spuk von Hartmann, relating him to the top fighter ace Eric Hartmann.
* According to lore, it is very likely that the gems worn by Spook and Yuki are cremation gems or memorial diamonds made from the ashes of their parents.
* Spook is the only main Art OC with a ghostlike theme and the only one of two whose surname is based on a historical figure (Eric Hartmann).
* With Fuleere, Noell and Nully having updated character designs with normal human skin color, Spook remains the only main Art OC to have white skin.

## Gallery

Spook's first art depicting his new design (Mid-2021)