Gabriel Kunze

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> Gabriel Kunze
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> ### Kanji Name
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> ガブリエル
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> ### Romaji Name
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> Gaburieru
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> ### Height
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> 178cm
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> ### Hometown
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> Münster, Germany
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> ### Birth Date
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> April 24th
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> ### Blood Type
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> A+
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> ### Status
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> Alive
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> School Information
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> ### Affiliation
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> Kuromorimine
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> ### Role(s)
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> Tank CommanderGunner
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> VK 16.02 Leopard
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> ***"Well yeah I've sent her a few texts already it's just... its not the same you know? It's not the same as having her in my arms, seeing her eyes, feeling her lips... God it's just so... so... I don't know..."***
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> * Gabriel, expressing his feelings for Ayuka to Kerno Kalju
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> ***"Keep your head up, because I'll always be there for you."***
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> * Gabriel to Ayuka Nishiyama
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## Profile

Gabriel Kunze is a relatively new member of the Kuromorimine Sensha-Dō team and resident of Japan, having moved from Germany only recently in order to attend Kuromorimine.

He is pretty much a nobody at Kuromorimine, holding no special positions, and has never fought in a battle under their flag. Despite this fact he feels a deep pride for his school which conflicts him as his allegiance is pulled back and forth between Kuromorimine, his school, and Count, the school and residence of his romantic partner, Ayuka Nishiyama.

He has no particular attachment to Kuromorimine itself but rather to the dream of his late mother who wanted him to attend Kuromorimine and join their Sensha-Dō team.

## Appearance

Gabriel is tall with white skin, brown eyes, and long brown hair. He is usually seen wearing sweat pants, tenis shoes, and a large green coat, usually left unzipped with a t-shirt underneath. He owns an amethyst necklace, a crystal attached to a piece of string that he wears around his neck. His hair extends about half way down his chest before being tied off in a bun. (See Tsubasa from Beyblade)

He wears a pin of the Kuromorimine iron cross just below his left shoulder to signify his alignment with Kuromorimine. Though it is important to note that he has carried around a pin from Count ever since his first trip there.

## Personality

Gabriel is generally a laid back and surprisingly sincere person. He tries his best to keep his composure and does a decent job at it. If it's something more important however, like Ayuka or his mother, that is when his facade begins to crack.

He tends to lean more towards pragmatism, though meeting a literal vampire shook things up for him he still has a love of science and deductive reasoning.

Gabe is also as he himself describes it, a "hopeless romantic." He loves open displays of romance and affection, openly giving them as well as enjoying receiving them. Infact he often enjoys romance genre literature and t.v shows though he has less need from them now that he himself has a partner.

In terms of his relationships there is only one living person he really cares about, that being his girlfriend and love of his life, Ayuka Nishiyama. He finds it hard to make connections with other people and so he doesn't hold much of anyone else close outside of Ayuka who was able to charm him out of his shell.

## Backstory

His story starts with his mother, a Japanese woman who attended Kuromorimine and was quite an exemplary member of the Sensha-Dō team. His mother after graduation immigrated to Germany where she met his father Mr. Kunze. They would fall in love, and so on March 24th 1996, he was born in Munich Germany.

He had a relatively comfortable first few years of life, being primarily raised by his mother who stayed home most days to care for him. It was his mother who would first introduce him to the art of Sensha-Dō. She trained him to ride in tanks ever since his first steps.

### Early Education:

Gabriel spent his first years of education in the German school systems, though he found the lack of impressive Tankery programs frustrating. So he took electives on mechanical engineering to give some semblance of familiarity with the beloved tanks his mom raised him to love.

### Move to Japan:

When he was in middleschool his mother began to get seriously ill. Gabriel who at this point had an extreme attachment to her stopped attending school to be by her side. However she would eventually pass away. On her death bed she gave him his amethyst necklace and told him of her dream for his future, to move back to Japan and join the Kuromorimine Sensha-Dō team, and so that's exactly what he did. Within the month his bags were packed and he boarded a plane to Japan.

### Kuromorimine:

Stepping off the plane into an unfamiliar country was hard, but Gabriel kept his cool and put his first step forward. He would quickly join Kuromorimine and after an exemplary evaluation he was assigned to drive a Tiger 1. Gabriel wasn't at all happy with this, finding the Tiger much slower and bulkier than the Luchs he was raised to ride.

One day when on a walk in the forests just outside the Kuromorimine campus he came across a VK 16.02 Leopard abandoned in the mud. After doing some research on the model he quickly retrieved it and fixed it up. Afterwards he submitted it to the team Commander and the vehicle was approved for use. From that point on he would command the Leopard, her agility being much more to his liking.

### Count:

Wandering the streets of Kumamoto city in search of a tank shop which carried a gun upgrade he was looking for, he instead encountered a mysterious woman from Count. Upon her leave he began to get more and more curious about her, and so traveled with another person to Michael's Castle in count,  in search for this mysterious woman.

## Trivia

* The name Gabriel does not have any specific significance, simply being a name I have used before and liked for him.
* His last name, Kunze, is derived from the German Cold War tank design called Kunze Panzer. It's turret was sloped downwards to allow for greater depression of the gun.
* His first Tank was a Luchs.
* A random number generator was used to pick his birthday, the date has no significance.