Benedikt Schöne

**Benedikt Schöne** (ベネディクト・シェヌ, *Benedikuto Shenu*) is a character in *Story of World II: Flowers Bloom with You* and *Story of World II: Life is Like Flowers*.

## Characteristics

### Appearance

Benedikt has light skin with short straight blue hair and blue eyes. His spring and summer outfit consists of a white shirt beneath dark blue vest, black shorts with an auburn belt above it, grey socks with green stripe above, and blue leather shoes. For autumn and winter, Benedikt switches to a long-sleeved white shirt beneath light blue fur coat, denim trousers, and dark grey sneakers. Underneath his trousers are white socks, but those are rarely noticed.

### Personality

Despite being energetic most of the time, Benedikt can be clumsy sometimes and fairly competitive with girls, especially Haruno Aida. He actually cares for his friends and shows a hot-blooded side when dedicated. Benedikt easily forgives them, believing that he should hear the other person's side of the story.

## History

### Early life

Benedikt was born in Germany as the youngest child of four siblings to an upper class family. He grew up watching many adventure movies in his childhood. As a result, Benedikt and his family often travelled abroad so he could get more experience outside the world.

### The Blue Fairy in Love

Whilst in her fairy form, Mayuri meets Benedikt, who was chatting with several girls. At first, Mayuri disliked him because of his silly behaviour, but she opens up as the date goes on. In the evening, the duo are riding a ferris wheel with the other characters trying to help by setting the mood, but it causes an accident, leaving Mayuri to use her magic and save Benedikt. When Benedikt regains conciousness, he does not realise that the fairy is a girl he was dating. Near the end of the episode, he and Mayuri kiss each other.

## Etymology

**Benedikt** is a German form of the name "Bennedict".

**Schöne** comes from the German word *schön*, meaning "beautiful".

## Relationships

* Mayuri Kaido is the girl who loves Benedikt.
* François Cartier and Benedikt see each other whilst playing.
* Lucas d'Aviano gets along with Benedikt well as the latter often tells him adventure stories.
* Tobias Arklow: In order to communicate with Benedikt easily, Tobias tries to cheer Benedikt up by giving him a lollipop, causing Benedikt to smile at him.
* Per Sandholm always looks after him when he needs something.
* Holger Dahl finds his attitude cool. Both of them can be friendly when they see each other.
* Mathias Nielsen: Benedikt interacts with Matthias less than he does with other boys, but they are shown to be good friends.
* Gakuto Nishikigi: Although the two are in different classes, they seem to like each other.
* André Forstadt: Benedikt and André are good friends who appear polar-opposite. Their relationship is slightly similar to Chieri and Mayuri.

## Trivia

* **Zodiac sign**: Gemini
* **Specialties**: Jogging and football
* **Hobbies**: Hanging out with friends and discovering new places
* **Weakness**: Being alone in a dark room
* People first impression of him is that he will make fun of cheeky people.
* The first thing he does every morning is exercise.
* He deals with stress by sleeping.
* In Benedikt's report card, his teacher usually writes "he never hesitates to help everyone".
* Between sleep and meal, he prefers meal.
* He is good at all school subjects except Mathematics.
* One of negative things about him is that he gets emotional over the topic of his friends.