Paul

Male. 43. 5’7” tall. Wiry build. Black hair. Blue eyes. Born april 2, 1904 in Stettin, northeastern germany. Grew up in a middle class family with a professor father and housewife for a mother. Became a medical doctor. Was working at the local hospital until world war 2 started. Got sent by the government to work in the local concentration camp. He was alright with it when they told him he would provide medical care to prisoners. Instead they forced to perform experiments on prisoners, working under an SS doctor. He was offered the choice to do that or join the prisoners in their fate. He hated himself for it and started using alcohol to cope. After the war he studied mortuary science while practicing medicine in a small practice in his hometown. Then he went to america, remaining in new york for some time. Moved to a small town in wisconsin where he opened a mortuary. He is socially awkward and depressed, also still an alcoholic. He lives in the building where the mortuary is located, and since he’s not making much money, he can’t pay to keep the building warm, nor can he afford a lot of food. Seeing his pliable state owing to his lack of finds and connections in town, he has been hired by local gangsters to help them get rid of opponents with poison, since paul knows about chemicals and has access to some at the mortuary. The gangsters use his business to hide bodies at times. Paul hates himself for not standing up to the “tough guys” for the second important time in his life, but one job he wants to do: kill the husband of a local woman he has fallen in love with, Eve Anderson. He ends up poisoning both of them, but he gets to the wife just in time to be able to administer medicine to reverse the poison’s effects. He decides to keep her with him, since he has to nurse her back to health after the poison nearly kills her, but he has to hide her because having her there would bring suspicion onto him for her missing husband. Paul is an intp type and a pisces. He is a nihilist and has a negative outlook on life. He drinks rum because it’s readily available and cheap. He is sometimes given venison sausage by locals who pay with food instead of money for his services. He rarely goes out, however s self loathing making him feel exceedingly self conscious. He is secretive and mostly quiet. He has dark humor. He has a strong german accent, and many locals steer clear of him because of rumors about his experiments during the war. There is question whether he was a war criminal and he got away. He convinced the authorities that he had been forced to do the crimes he did under threat of imprisonment or worse. Now he has the added guilt of placing poison in people’s sugar around town, killing some unsuspecting locals who the local mafia had considered problematic. Again, they threaten paul with the fate of their enemies, and he complies out of fear. He met eve when he was at a low point in his life and was going to the river to commit suicide. He saw a person struggling in the water and helped her. It was Eve, who had tried to commit suicide herself. Right away they understood each other. He took her to his home to recuperate. They both got into a conversation and he realized that she is terribly lonely and hates herself the same way he feels. Only, she hates herself because she thinks her husband finds her less-than, and she’s ignored and kept at arms’ length from his life. She ended up going back to her husband. Paul imagined himself as her rescuer, the man who could raise her from her virtual grave, seeing as she’s suicidal, just as he is. And in rescuing her, he hopes she can rescue him in return.