Hans

## Hans Annemieke

"I'm not so sure what kind of things we might put on the agenda for today - I guess I'll do it myself." - Hans during a weekend

**Hans Annemieke** was the only human aside from Kendra in the Graelenncia Collective. Studious and serious, Hans was in charge of overseeing the academic health of his group, to (most of) their chagrin.

## Backstory

### Early Life

Hans was born in the Sandstream Flats with the purpose to inherit his father's role as an advisor to House Annemieke, which would entail becoming a butler, bookkeeper, doctor, and if necessary, head chef. Thankfully, Hans was lucky enough to have his roles slowly build over time rather than have him saddled with more than he could chew before he was even ten. By the time he was eleven, however, Talia's defiance against staying to fulfill some arbitrary fate lit a fire in him.

### Fighting Fate

Despite protests from the noble family and Odessa, Talia's sister and his then love interest, Hans set off to chase his dreams alongside the Graelenncia Collective, not knowing how much it had grown since the last time he had seen his best friend, Talia. Hans left behind his fate in the Sandstream Flats for an enriching adventure with his friend as the collective grew, hoping to find himself in a world that threatened to turn him on his head.

### The End of His Story

Despite the adventures and the times shared together, Hans's fate served as foreshadowing of what was to come for the rest of Kendra's friends, and the continent at large. Hans was summoned to lake in the middle of a forest, the same lake that he and Kendra always spent time together at for picnics and fishing. Little did he know that it was a trap for him. In broad daylight, Hans was slaughtered by Kendra's hands using his pen that he gave her a while back, and pushed into the lake. His death was written off as an accident for years.

## Personality

Hans enjoyed studying in general, having a penchant for writing that could only be rivaled by Talia. While writing was something he was extensively taught to do growing up, his family never expected him to outright enjoy what they considered the "arduous" task of studying. Still, Hans grew up with a fondness for books and writing. He dreamt of one day living amongst the stars and studying them, but while his feet were still on the ground, he filled his time with stargazing and reading books about outer space. Hans was fairly introverted and thus liked to spend time to himself, but he always appreciated the presence of his friends.

He was considered the lead writer for the group due to his way of weaving words together despite Synaptum's (and by extension, the overall group's) young ages. This was helped by him already being a teenager. Hans treasured knowledge like he treasured his friends, and would have probably been the very first to defend them from Kendra had she not snuck up on him like she did. He was also a romantic and found Odessa, someone two years older than him, to be a perfect lover. It is because of the overall youth and lack of exposure to romance, however, that he didn't have the language to describe how he felt about her, and thus couldn't bring himself to confess his feelings.

## Memorial

Hans is forever memorialized in the form of a statue in downtown Sandstream Flats. A miniature form of his statue can be found among many others in the Graelenncian Collective Memorial section of the Sandstream Flats Historical Museum in the same county. He is survived by Talia, Odessa, and a few Descendants in the Etheridge Collective; Ledger, Skye, and Myne.

## Abilities and Combat

* **Astrokinetic Combat -** Using the power of the stars, Hans could defeat his enemies with waves of stellar energy on clear nights when the stars were on full display. His abilities were dependent on sky clarity, meaning that his abilities were affected by cloud cover and light pollution. These waves of stellar energy could knock enemies off their feet for miles.
* **Spell Casting -** Being a mage, Hans could cast spells having to do with the stars. His most advanced spell that he mastered before his untimely demise was Constellation Empowerment.
* **Constellation Empowerment -** With just one constellation, however. Unsurprisingly, his constellation of choice was the crab. If it was visible in the night sky, his powers gained an extra boost.

## Trivia

* Hans, like others in his collective, had been gone for so long that his life energy has birthed Descendants over the years. Three of which belong to the Etheridge Collective:
	+ Ledger is the equivalent of Hans's immediate grandson
	+ Skye is the equivalent of Hans' immediate granddaughter. This makes Ledger and Skye the equivalent of siblings.
	+ Myne is a possible Descendant, and may be the equivalent of his great, great granddaughter
* Strangely enough, despite the sun being a star, he couldn't use its energy in combat. This implies that solar energy was not yet a thing he studied.