Franka Kleeberg

## Overview

**Franka Kleeberg** was a Polish ilegal inmigrant who worked as a bagman, car thief and ocassional liason for the **Sikorski Crime Family** based in the poorest urban areas of Northwest Longinus, within Longinus Special Administrative Region, United Kingdom. She served as the main protagonist from Adamah's Dimension.

Although born and raised in an small rural area of Plock in Poland, Kleeberg's family was extremely poor and vastly outsourced due to lack of job opportunities, therefore being forced to emigrate to the German Capital of Berlin during the beginning of the German Unification in 1990. Regardless of this, Franka left her family behind during 1990 and emigrate to Longinus, which was at the time an emerging city-state that promised financial success and employability.

From there, Kleeberg managed to succesfully provide her family with financial support in order for them to survive, nonetheless were mostly costed throught crime and clandestine activities which were unbeknown to them and were permantly covered by Franka.

Franka Kleeberg was characterized by her astonishing street smartness mainly due to her extensive criminal connections, including a vast knowledge of the criminal underworld of Northwest Longinus, were she resided since her arrival to the City-state Longinus during early 1990.

Due to her lack of higher educational certifications and proper professional skills at the time of her arrival, Franka's involvement within the criminal underworld was certainly premature and revolved around small criminal activities such as occasional shoplifting. Regardless of this, at the young age of 19 she was discovered and eventually fathered and mentored by Polish Mafia Boss, Mikolaj Karol, which provided enough

## Personality and traits

**Franka Kleeberg** was characterized by strong leadership qualities such as decision making, delegation, empowerment and a straightforward attitude for problem solving. Furthermore, she was also fluent and proficcient in English, which made her bilingual alongside her native Polish language.

Due to the harshness of her life marked by extreme poverty and lack of proper resources at an early age, Kleeberg's character development was rather chaotic and complex, which prompted her to create an strong character marked by a confrontational but rather down-to-earth approach, including a "free-spirit" influenced by an strong desire for independence and self-sufficiency.

It was these aforementioned traits that forced Franka to left her family behind during 1990 and emigrate to Longinus, which was at the time an emerging financial city-port that promised success and employability.

Franka nonetheless showed an strong emotional side, which unveiled her most inner fragility and the desire to protect and nurture those who were closer to her. It was widely believed by her mentor, Mikolaj Karol, that regardless of her strong character and tough personality facade, an extremely fragile and unstable girl was behind, which eventually proved to be unable to protect herself and others on a permanent basis.

Kleeberg's emotional fragility was several times unintentionally unveiled during her crime endevours, which prompted her to reinforce her attitude with extreme and dangerous resolutions in order to cover them from public and her respective inner circle. Furthermore, Franka was characterized by her accute emotional manipulations with those who were subjected to her psychological control, therefore using long-range strategies in order to convince and finally control others with the excuse of good charity and well-intentioned actions, which eventually were proven to be false and generated only for her own well-being.

Due to her association with Longinus-based Sikorski Crime Family, Franka Kleeberg was trained and highly skilled with small-arms, which she eventually mastered into a highly accurate markmanship with automatic and semi-automatic firearms such as SMGs and Assault Rifles provided by her crime associates. As the Steyr MPi 69 was Sikorski Crime Family's standard-issued SMG, at least one was quite often provided to Kleeberg for self-defense purposes.

## Assassinations

* Charlotte Foxley (Directly caused) Brutally murdered by **Franka Kleeberg** by bashing her head against the wall repeatedly in a fit of rage. Franka then gouged Charlotte's eyes out by pressing her thumbs into Foxley's sockets, slowly killing her while she screams in agony. (Chapter IX "Uroborous")

* Mikolaj Karol (Indirectly caused) (Chapter X "Neptune")
* Jerry McDowell (Indirectly caused)

## Appearances

* Chapter IV " Apollyon" (1991) - First appearence.

* Chapter V "Naamah" (1991)
* Chapter VI "Pluto" (1993)
* Chapter VII "Phobos" (1994)
* Chapter VIII "Deimos" (1994)
* Chapter IX "Uroborous" (1994)
* Chapter X "Neptune" (1995) - Final appearence.

## Curiosities

* Franka Kleeberg alongside Kolegium "A" Criminal Group's members were quite often called ***"The Planeteers"*** by Mikolaj Karol due to the young age of its participants. This was a clear reference to the 90s American animated series "Captain Planet and the Planeteers".
* During Chapter X "Neptune" and **Franka Kleeberg**'s final scene at the Longinus International Airport, the 1986 song from British singer-songwriter Peter Gabriel, Mercy Street, was playing at the end of her departure to Berlin, Germany.
* During **Chapter IX "Uroborous"** while Franka Kleeberg had her last beer at Nautilus Casino & Resort's Main Bar, at least three tracks are played consecutively during the scene. The first one is UB40 - Baby Come Back (1994), the second Undercover - Baker Street (1992) and the last one playing is Pearl Jam - Oceans (1991).
* Kleeberg's first name, Franka, was inspired by the German actress and singer Franka Potente, which portrayed Lola in the 1998 German film *Run Lola Run.*
* Franka's surname, Kleeberg, was inspired by Polish WWII General Franciszek Kleeberg.
* Scorpions and Bulls functioned as recurring Motifs during **Kleeberg - Albion relationship** by appearing as images and short-lenght videos. This a reference to the Scorpio - Taurus Axis which is largely studied by Contemporary Astrology.
* During **Chapter IX "Uroborous"** while Franka Kleeberg had her last beer at the Nautilus Casino & Resort's Main Bar, the 1994 FIFA World Cup Final was being played between Italy and Brazil.
* According to the author, Franka Kleeberg functioned mainly as an indirect characterization of the dangers of excesses in the pursuit of Liberty and its eventual negative consequences.