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Nukeli Since: Aug, 2018
#1: Nov 17th 2019 at 5:02:08 AM

The main character of a superhero story i'm writing is afro-german (as in, descended from the illegimate children of French colonial troops and Rhineland women after World War I), and the family tree is important to the plot, so i had to come up with life stories for his grand-grandparents, grandparents, and parents. The English wikipedia was pretty vague about what exactly happened to them after World War 2, so i'm not sure if what i came up with is realistic enough.

Rapps and Raskopfs

The one ancestor that actually matters is Ruprecht Rapp, who's a metahuman with shadow-related powers. He and his sister Irene Rapp were born out of wedlock to a black French soldier and a white German, and abandoned. They became criminals to feed themselves and, when the Nazis started gaining more and more power and eventually ruled the country, Ruprecht started aiding refugees and fighting the Nazis, donning a scary mask and utilizing his powers for psychological warfare and was basically one-man Inglorious Bastards. While he succesfully became The Dreaded and is remembered to the modern day as the world's first superhero, he was just a man and was eventually killed in battle in 1944.

His sister Irene, who had been his contact with Liberty Wind (Which is pretty much like White Rose except that they didn't get caught and were still around during The Cold War), survived the Nazi era and was a messenger between the two Liberty Winds in different sides of the Berlin wall, and got shot several times while crossing, which eventually incapacitated her for a while. She met Rayner Raskopf, an African-American soldier in West Germany, during that time. The two had a brief thing, until she recovered from her wounds and rejoined Liberty Wind. She only stopped aiding them when she was injured badly enough to have a permanent, too incapacitating limp. Interracial marriages were forbidden, but Irene (Who was half black) was dark-skinned enough to convince the authorities she was black (Which made her life generally worse, though). Irene and Rayner managed to marry, and they had a child (Regina Raskopf). Rayner was forced to return to USA with the rest of the occupying soldiers when they left, but resigned from the military service and returned to Berlin later. They got out of the city after the blockade lifted and moved to Bavaria, where the family managed to make a living despite the persecution they endured. I don't know what kind of job could Rayner have gotten, though.

Brandts

Jan's father Johannes Maria Brandt is Afro-German in third generation (Descending from a French colonial trooper and a woman in Rhineland, + Their child and another Afro-German). He grew up in Austria, where his parents had run to with Liberty Wind's help in the final days of World War II, afraid of what would happen next. Johannes Maria, like his parents, grew up persecuted but his life was never in a direct danger. I haven't written much about his family because they don't really matter to the plot. I don't know what kind of job could his father have gotten, though.

Johannes Maria became a journalist. He met and befriended Regina Raskopf in Bavaria, and they stayed in touch before marrying sometime in 1990's, and had their first child (Priska) in the early 2000's, and the second (Jan, who shared Rapp's exact powers. The story is about finding out why) almost four years later.

Edited by Nukeli on Nov 17th 2019 at 8:01:43 PM

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DeMarquis (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#2: Nov 22nd 2019 at 4:00:24 PM

Realistic enough for what? What kind of superhero story are you telling?

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#3: Nov 23rd 2019 at 1:29:01 PM

Yeah, realism depends just as much as the context and setting than it does real-world facts. What sort of world is this?

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#4: Nov 23rd 2019 at 6:56:27 PM

If you're asking about historical accuracy, I don't think any of us here is knowledgeable enough on Afro-German history to say for sure. But it sounds like a plausible set of backstories, and that's what matters.

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Nukeli Since: Aug, 2018
#5: Nov 25th 2019 at 12:39:18 AM

It's mainly just about historical accuracy. Wikipedia didn't really tell almost anything, and i didn't know where else to ask.

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