Flag (Earth-3)

*"These two empires that we fight for, they are little more than sandcastles, only the tides are forever."*
—Inspector Kido
**Hank Keller** is a man who was born and raised on a farm in Germany where he spent his early years of his childhood. After his father's death, he joined The Third Reich in Germany and moved his way up the ranks. He later developed technology that allowed individuals to travel to parallel earths, which he used to take himself and his son to Earth-1.

Keller had a stint in prison courtesy of the Almanac, and after he escaped he began to covertly fill in his counterpart's role as the sheriff of Neo Arcadia.

## Biography

### Early Life

*"I've learned one thing about life, it goes on."*
—Hank Keller
Hank Keller, while as a child, was often called "little Hankie" by his parents and close friends while on an isolated farm somewhere in Germany. He was close to his parents while growing up and lived an enjoyable childhood. He loved playing games but there was one game that little Hankie enjoyed playing the most with his friends and sometimes with his father. On a normal Sunday, after finishing playing with his friends and doing his schoolwork, his mother would bake a treat for the family to enjoy together. Little Hankie's favorite treat would be his mother's homemade cinnamon rolls with some cold milk.

During his teenaged years, Hank grew out of the name "little Hankie" and began helping more on the farm. His father taught him most of everything he needed to survive in the world and taught him how to be a man. As Hank grew more, so did his connection with his parents as he began to relate to them more, through the difficult times and enjoyable times.

### The Great Nazi Reich

*"I think this world is already dead."*
—Flag
When he was a young adult, Hank Keller served in Nazi Germany's Third Reich where he took on the codename of "Flag" or "Flaggge" (German). He was trained to be a soldier and moved up the ranks quickly as he excelled in his science and math studies. He was recruited to be a scientist for The Reich, he worked with a team to continue the advancement of technology and create the ultimate ubermensch. His team worked on several other projects, including the creation of 917. While working as a scientist, Hank fell in love and married and unnamed woman, who later birthed a baby boy named Maverick. Before Hank could enjoy the family life, his wife was found to not live up to the Reich's health standards, and was sentenced to execution, leaving Hank to raise the child on his own. During his time in Nazi Germany, he mysteriously lost his left eye but the incident was covered up by the chain of command.

### The Specters

Flag was sent on a mission to go to America as a spy to uncover the advancements of NASA in a competition between the two countries. During his time in The States, he was recruited by Orcus and forced into criminal activity, he also met Rath, Ben, and Tiresias. They formed a terrorist group known as the Specters. Each member of the group had little trust in each other and pushed for their own agendas, including Flag. Despite the fragile trust, Flag was most disturbed by the group, He despised the treatment of each other but mostly the treatment of Benjamin. He couldn't imagine his own son being treated the same way Ben was, let alone any other child. Because of this, he became more determined to finish his mission and see his son again.

After Flag successfully connected the two countries mutually, He was promoted again to take lead in the project for traveling to alternate worlds. The project was codenamed Operation E.O.T.W. which focused on discovering other worlds similar to their own. The first world they made contact with was Earth 1.

### Earth One

Upon entering a portal over to Earth 1, Flag's first impression of the world was himself, Flag from Earth 1 staring back at Flag. He thought of himself as a rugged, modern, older American cowboy with worn down, unpolished, scratched up dented gray armor, not to mention a black rifle hung on his back. The image of himself gave Flag the impression that this world lacked standards. He quickly hypothesized that he stumbled upon a war zone, and this world's version of himself was a rebel fighter, which could explain his rugged features, but Flag couldn't identify an oppressive authoritarian force in this world like there was in his home world.

Putting himself aside, Flag began to unravel his plans for the new world as he made way for the rest of his super soldiers to enter the portal from Earth 3 to Earth 1.

## Personality

*"There comes a time where all men must bear the weight of their responsibility."*
—Inspector Kido
Hank Keller is a scientist as well as a soldier. He is strong willed and determined to follow out his mission. He holds himself to high standards as well as high morals. He loves to pursue science and perform experiments to advance humanity. Due to his service in the Nazi Regime, he can also be cold hearted and cruel, he knows plenty of methods to torture and interrogate victims. However he has an easy weakness, children are his Achilles heel. He strongly believes in the innocence of children and even young adults. He never sends orders that could cause serious harm to children or families because he often worries of his own son being in those scenarios. Even when he views some older teenagers like Lincoln and Ben as enemies, he still treats them the same as he would any child. When the two boys accidentally became exposed to a toxic gas in the same cave Flag was operating in, Flag placed them in his own medical center at one of his bases and personally ensured they got the antidote.

## Abilities

* **Peak Human Condition:** Hank, as a soldier, is in top physical condition. His physical fitness was increased during his stint in prison.
* **Expert Scientist:** Hank is a highly intelligent experimental scientist. He notably produced Wild Bear, a sentient grizzly bear capable of speech, and gave Captain 917 his aerokinetic abilities.
* **Bilingualism:** Hank speaks fluent English as well as German.
* **Indomitable Will:** Like his primary counterpart, Hank is a strong-willed and determined man.

## Equipment

### Weaponry and Gadgets

* **Wrist Guns:**
* **Walther P38:** Keller's sidearm is a 9mm semi-automatic pistol designed as the service pistol to replace the costly Luger P08.
* **Luger P08:** Keller's backup sidearm.
* **M1921 Thompson:** Keller owns a submachine gun.
* **Stielhandgranate:** Keller also owns ground-impact stick grenades.
* **Power Suppressors:** Keller has access to handcuffs designed to suppress superhuman powers.
* **Cane:** After his fight with King Crimson, Hank now has to walk with a cane to support himself.

## Relationships

* Victoria Keller - Mother
* Maverick Keller - Son

Allies* Flag Regime
	+ Captain 917
* Specters
	+ Rath
	+ Orcus
	+ Ben Jacobson
* Ben Jacobson
* Tia Calinao - Son's Babysitter
	+ Flag
* King Crimson
* Tiresias

## Music

 Dionne Warwick
 Leonard Cohen
 Johannes Brahms