Edelweiss-KRDS Dev Diary #4 - Sabine Deckert [Social Democrat]
Welcome, everyone, to the fourth Dev Diary for Edelweiss. Today, we’ll be looking to the lands beyond the Danube in order to bring you our Social Democratic representative: Sabine.
Sabine Deckert was born shortly after the ending of the Weltkrieg to Hans Deckert, then a soldier returning home from war, and his schoolteacher wife, Sára. Sabine grew up in a rebuilding Temesvar, Hungary. Her father, a Danube Swabian, joined the powerful labour movement and, as Sabine and her two older started school, was elected to the Brewery Workers’ Union. In 1927, during the renegotiations of the Augsleich, Hans Deckert was a union representative attached to the Hungarian delegation. From there, his political star continued to rise, culminating in his current appointment to the Austro-Hungarian diplomatic mission in Bern, Switzerland.
Sabine, as the youngest of three sisters, was always doted on as a child by her father. With her father’s rising political statin, she lived a comfortable if not wealthy childhood. Her mother instilled in all her children the value of communication with others, and Sára taught her daughters German, Hungarian and French, as well as some Yiddish. Sabine, however, was always a lazy student, more content to play and read than to study. Still, her natural skill in languages helped her forge quick friendships in the disparate groups she often found herself in.
As she got older, Sabine discovered a passion for volunteering, both in Vienna and, more recently, Geneva. Besides that, her frequent displacements led her to develop a passion for novels, especially fantasy stories. Sabine is a firm believer in the worth of compromise. She is often found mediating between her classmates and friends’ disagreements.
Sabine was sent to the International School of Geneva in hopes that the relative isolation would correct her fleeting interest in schooling, but that has yet to happen. Still, in her short time there, Sabine has become an enthusiastic organizer of parties and celebrations, and she is the first to take any excuse to decorate, no matter how flimsy.
Sabine and a few friends celebrating Christmas together.
Sabine volunteering at a Geneva soup kitchen.
I am the lead writer for Sabine, and I'll be happy to answer any questions you might have.
Posted Mar 14, 2018, 4:26 PM UTC
If the NatPop guy is Romanian I can already imagine the tension between them (for the unaware, Temesvar is Timisoara, Romania OTL).
Edit: lol she speaks yiddish as well. NatPop is going to drive her to suicide. RIP SocDem.
Beware the Nice Ones, my friend...
Either that or hes gonna get both his legs broken by the SocLib and then kill himself for being an unworthy cripple.
SocLibs are cuddly, until you tread on them. Just look at Garner.
SocLibs = MarkLibs confirmed????
Yeah, I get the impression from the yiddish that her mom, at the very least, was born Jewish. Now whether her mom is secular or converted is a different aspect, but Hans Deckert is definitely not Jewish. Kinda reminds me of the childhoods of the Martians, the group of 20 or so Nuclear scientists of Hungarian-Jewish descent who all worked on the Manhattan project.
This actually brings up a good point: what happens when the Iron Guard goes for Transylvania?
Expulsion of hungarians and germans, clensing of jews and romani.
No no, silly! I meant in-game, how do the two characters react?
I can imagine NatPop talking about finally "cleansing" the lands, prompting her to respond with tranquil fury. If he continues without player intervention, Sabine snaps and beats the crap out of him, showing a much more different and disturbing side that no one expected.
So, I realize this will probably be largely irrelevant, but is she Catholic, Jewish, Protestant, or secular?
I know this is 20 days old, but technically speaking, ethnic cleansing refers to ANY removal of ethnicities from a land, whether mere expulsion or genocide (I am not sure if it includes the so-called population transfers).
If her mom is Jewish, she's Jewish. No ifs, ands, or buts. That's how it works.
HE WILL NOT HURT SOC'EM BOP'EM CHAN