Name: Gilbert Beilschmidt/Prussia
Age: 25 years old
Gender: Male
Birthday: January 18th
Hometown: Hannover


Appearance: Gilbert Beilschmidt is an albino, and therefore possesses almost no pigment in his skin, eyes, and hair. Although in certain lights his hair can pass as a very light blonde and his eyes a dark, dark blue-black. He oftentimes tries to play this to his advantage, being very sensitive about being an albino due to constant teasing and bullying as a child. Gilbert's attempted to dye his hair several times over the years as a teenager and young adult, but his guardian has always refused to let the unnatural colors stay for long, and even shaved his head completely bald once - to be fair though, Gilbert had picked out a rather bright shade of blue... Today, however, he's more confident in his appearance and settles for his natural hair. His wardrobe consists of mostly jeans/sweat pants, dress shirts/T-shirts, with a mix of combat boots and plaid. This is not to say Gilbert is unfashionable (despite how odd those clothing choices seem) he is, infact, a bit of a hipster. He always has to be fashionable to an extent.

Gilbert is lean, with compact muscle that he constantly keeps in shape with working out or jogging, and even does armature mixed martial arts, if he gets the chance. Despite this, Gilbert is actually rather underweight for his age and height, and his health is not the best due to poor eating habits. He has sharp, strong features and a ruler straight nose with red eyes that seem to peer at everything. He looks rather cocky most of the time due to his overly arrogant attitude and ever present smile. Gilbert is a bit shorter then your average guy, and its something Gilbert takes offense too. But whatever, what he lacks in height his personality usually makes up for ten fold.

Personality: Gilbert outwardly is very arrogant and egotistical, almost to the point of narcissism. Under this, however is a very shy and militant man, who, is arrogant in alot of ways, but also very lacking is self esteem. Over the years, Gilbert has made up these two inner and outer cores of his personality in order to compensate for qualities he feels he is lacking in, along with the need to kindof distance himself from others. So they don't get too close and hurt him again, willingly or not, Gilbert can't bring himself to trust people and put alot of effort into long lasting human relationships. This often leads to him to claim to like being alone so others don't have to worry over him. Gilbert has debated going into the military due to his behavior, and the sheer order and discipline that comes with it has always gained his respect. He specially admires the German military and its history (minus, of course, the Nazism), mostly due to his late guardians involvement (the older man having been in service for almost 15 years before turning to his later bird watching profession), and even owns an iron cross that was given to him by Fritz for his birthday. Today, he clings to it fervently and never takes it off, and seems to draw strength from it.

However as much as Gilbert says he likes being alone, he actually is terrified of being alone. He actually can't go for more then twenty four hours alone before cracking and having to call, text, or downright drive to a friend's place just to have company. He'll deny it vehemently, but he really does deeply care for those around him, hence why he many seem downright rude and annoying at times. Although his self esteem is lacking, he still boasts about being the best and 'awesome' at almost everything. Mostly because he thinks that if he says it, it'll come true. Though truth be told, Gilbert is rather good at many a things, he's just lazy and gets bored way to easily. He also has a tendency to nap or snack on the job, which his boss was never very fond of to begin with... Gilbert loves cute things, and has a tendency to blow entire paychecks on trivial things if they're cute enough. he even has a cute little pet bird he so aptly named Gilbird, whom he dots on as if it were his own child.

Strengths:

- Gilbert is very strong for his weight and stature, and often plays this to his advantage.

- He is also very flexible, and its this thats prevented him from breaking a few bones...

- Gilbert is like a walking encyclopedia of any paranormal occurrences. Having studied it so much throughout his teens, he is well aware of any legit thesis' and investigations out there.

- Gilbert knows how to deceive to get what he wants, and has no qualms in cheating people.

- He is surprisingly well disciplined, having taken a martial arts class with old Frtiz when he was seven and stopped at his red belt, when his old man died. Gilbert tells himself he'll go back one day....

Weaknesses:

- He has very poor eye sight due to his albinism.

- Tends to get too caught up in himself, so Gilbert often abuses other's needs.

- Doesn't like to share.

- Has a sick obsession/fear with decapitated limbs. To the point where he shudders even at the sight of cheap prop appendages.

- Gilbert tends to let his emotions rule him sometimes, specially whilst drunk.

- Gilbert has a bit of an alcohol problem. And by a bit i mean he's a raging alcoholic.

Specialty: As Gilbert grew up, he became aware that he could pick up on paranormal activities and the like, and even was able to communicate with 'ghosts' and ...other less pleasant things during his ballsy 'lets poke at the dangerous spirit thing when i have no idea what i'm doing!' moments during his teenage years. Needless to say, after a few scary encounters, he became intertwined with the Christian (protestant) and other organizations, finding out any information he could and applying it to himself, and basically learning through trial and error. Today, Gilbert is fairly good with the dead and other creatures he sometimes encounters, although he still has some scares ever now and then.

History: Gilbert grew up in the town of Hannover, being the oldest son of two ordinary people, and having an ordinary (but totally awesome and cute) little brother brought into his life when he was just three years old. Before the disaster, Gilbert's family was pretty much close to his entire life, having found it very difficult to make friends due to his appearance and shy, almost reserved behavior.

Due to this, he was very close to both his parents and baby brother, and Ludwig especially. As he grew older though, Gilbert did seem to branch out a bit socially, but also built up a rude and arrogant personality to put up a bit of a buffer between him and others. All in all, despite Gilbert's social awkwardness, he had a happy five years of life in the beginning, with a few close friends and a loving family in an ordinary, if not mundane town.

...Then the power plant exploded, causing chaos that Gilbert didn't really fully understand. All he knew was that people were dropping dead left and right, and that some of the ones who weren't getting really sick were acting really funny. It wasn't until his parents told him they were fleeing the town did reality finally catch up to him. Gilbert's had become chronically ill to the point where he couldn't get out of bed, and it was at this point that his parents decided to move them out of town before it was too late for their son and the equally increasingly ill father.

At the time of his mother's death, Gilbert was emotionally torn up, but was told to 'man-up' and take care of his little brother by his father. Eventually, his old man died as well, leaving him and little Ludwig all alone in an orphanage, where neither of them could get the affection -or in Gilbert's case, therapy. Seeing your mother's decapitated head is not the most soothing thing in the world- that they needed and craved. At this time, Gilbert felt like he was losing everything, and had sobbed for days when only his little brother was adopted and not him.

He was, however, eventually adopted by an old man that went by Fritz, an old ornithologist that was living in a neighboring town (at the moment) and whose heart went out for the little boy when he heard he was all alone. Afterwords, the two moved to Germany, where Gilbert lived most of his life in Dusseldorf, learning to speak German and becoming a bit of a Germanphile as it was. But as he grew up, he noticed that the old house that he and Frtiz lived in didn't only house them... He realized that he couldn't interact with the supernatural on a certain level when he was about nine years old - he figured this out by a very terrifying experience of something 'pressing' on him and having the feeling of being licked and breathed on during the night for about a week by seemingly nothing. At which point, he decided to make use of his empty afternoons - since he reverted back to his anti-social behavior, with arrogant bastard tendencies still in tact.

As he grew, so did his ability and the amount of 'accidents' Gilbert's had with the supernatural, some of which have caused him to have a greater fear of being alone. At the age of 18, he devoted himself to his Christian/protestant belief (and eventually becoming priest when he was 23), believing that would help him with old emotional scares an the recent death of Old Fritz. Afterwards, he spent the next few years in Dusseldorf, living as a library clerk and investigating 'haunted' houses. Some of them weren't so haunted, others had full-blown infestations of the nastiest sorts.

It wasn't until a few short months ago that he started having dreams of his little brother, of his life before Fritz. He wanted to see his only living relative again, Gilbert had decided that he wanted to try to find his little brother again and to see his own town. Besides this, something for years seemed to be calling him back to Hannover, and he just couldn't resist anymore. So, Gilbert rented out Fritz's old house and moved in to the Manson in the middle of town, where Gilbert has become rather curious as to whats been going on in the past years....



Player Info
Name/nickname: Norrus/Nicky/Nicole
Timezone: EST
MSN/AIM: AoiKitsune@live.com/I don't have an AIM, but I do have I skype: Schnitzelbear
You read the rules, right?: I like pumpkin pie with Dr.Pepper kthxbai.
Any last words?: I wanna kitty.

Ah, Excellent job! I know you had to retype this, so good job for putting effort into it all the while! I can't wait to roleplay with my brother! You are Accepted! Please feel free to start posting!