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PLAYER INFORMATION

Player Name: Kit
Are you 18+?: Yes
Preferred Contact: poetanarchy
Current Characters: Ubbe Ragnarsson

CHARACTER INFORMATION

Character Name: Sabine Faber
Canon: X Company
Canonpoint: Post series finale after Sabine has joined the resistance.
Character Age: Unstated in canon, she is married and likely in the 22-27 range.

Background/History: wiki

The article is sparse and so here is some additional information about Sabine that was displayed in season 2 and 3. Sabine is not only the wife of Franz Faber who is a high ranking official but is the daughter of an even higher ranking Nazi. She grew up rich, privileged and sheltered. She appears to have been well educated both in book learning and society.

Sabine also argues against her husband working with Canadians once she finds out. Her views start to change when they are moved from Paris and closer to where death camps are located. As she volunteers with the Ladies' Auxiliary she discovers bullet holes in dresses, valuables sewn into hems. This causes her to question what is actually happening and is behind her initial decision to agree to the allied spies plans.

Her father brings her an orphan girl named Ania, after murdering the girl's mother. Sabine does not ask questions at first. She struggles to connect with the quiet child, still mourning the death of her son, Ulli.

When she confronts her father about Ania, he speaks of the girl as if she is a thing that can be returned and not a human. Sabine finally sees her father for the monster that he is, and even more largely the weight of what the Nazis are doing becomes more real and more personal to her. She throws herself into mothering Ania after that. She tries to get Franz to leave with her to Spain and abandon Germany and the Nazis. He refuses.

In the end, Franz does end up making a sacrifice for the allied spies with his life. It is after this that Sabine takes Ania and joins the resistance fighters.

Strengths:

The most prevalent and reoccurring strength that Sabine shows is that she is family oriented. She cares very deeply about her marriage and her child (biological and adopted). Her family's wellbeing is at the heart of almost everything that she does. When Sabine finds out that Franz is working with Allied spies she pushes him to stop because of the danger that it puts their family in. She is shown to be a loving mother to her son Ulli. They kept Ulli secret because he had Down Syndrome and would have been sent to a camp to be experimented on and/or killed. Franz and Sabine make the difficult decision once he is discovered to kill him in a peaceful way to spare him what would happen if he was taken from them. This decision haunts Sabine and pushes a wedge between her and Franz. It was not a good decision but it was one that was made out of love. Even though they go through this trial and it could have easily broken her loyalty to Franz she seeks to keep their marriage, their family together. She fights for Franz and pushes him to do what she believes are the right things.

Later on, she is brought an orphaned girl named Ania by her father. Her father is trying to make her get over the death of Ulli despite Sabine saying that she is not ready to move on. At first, she has trouble looking after Ania and a lot of it falls on Franz who tries to make the girl feel safe and comfortable while in an impossible situation. However, when Sabine's father begins to say he can take Ania back and get Sabine another child if she is unhappy with her, Sabine's motherly instincts and her humanity kick in again. She accuses her father of being a monster, realizing that he had murdered Ania's mother. After that, Ania is her daughter and Sabine spends every moment possible caring for her and trying to make her feel safe and loved.

Sabine is very independent of mind. She is dependent upon her father and then her husband for financial situations but she thinks for herself. There are many times throughout the series that Sabine stands up to Franz and pushes his decisions when they would affect the both of them. She makes her own decisions about who she is friends with. When Sabine discovers bullet-ridden clothes of Jewish women she finds one of the Allied spies, Aurora and wants to know more. She decides without Franz' permission that this is worth the risk. She cannot do nothing when there are things that the Allied spies could use her for.

Sabine is brave. At first, this is a harder trait to see with her. She is very much a woman of her time but that's just the surface. Sabine had the courage to stand up to Franz, to stand up to her father -- these things simply weren't done in her culture. When her husband died, she didn't stay in the lap of luxury on the Nazi's dime. Sabine left the only life that she had ever known to join the resistance, living in the forest without much luxury at all. She does this with no complaint. She does it because she has a daughter still and she wants the world to be better for Ania than it was for Ulli and Franz. Her bravery to make the harder decisions, the decisions to rebel against the Nazis, to go against powerful men in her life for her beliefs cannot be overstated.

Weaknesses:

The easiest and clearest weakness that Sabine has had for the majority of her life is her self-absorption. Sabine ignores the suffering of others when she could in the early stages of her life and early in the season. She is absorbed in her grief (to the ignorance of her husband's), her family (to the ignorance of others being torn apart). Her first compassion comes toward Aurora who had a tailored story made to evoke companionship to Sabine to give them a bonding moment. But Sabine shows little care for anything that does not directly impact her before her eyes are opened later on.

Sabine is very privileged. She comes from a life of wealth and status. She has grown up with a father who is high ranking in the military and government and marries a man who is on the path to higher ranks as well. She does not know hunger and she has everything she needs. She does not really understand those who don't and neither does she think about them for the most part.

Sabine is spiteful. Her spite is not always unwarranted. She resents Franz for acting like he doesn't care about Ulli, she lashes out at him spitefully until he does break down to her. She's spiteful of Aurora for lying to her. She insults her and does not try to understand anything Aurora says or what she has done. Sabine shows up to a Nazi gala drunk and nearly blows the cover of the spies and the very fact that her husband is working for them. Her spite is almost always delivered with a saccharine coating unless directed toward Franz.

Fatal Flaw: Sabine's fatal flaw is willful ignorance. She fights against the truth and tries to shield herself from it because once she knows she cannot let it go and she knows ignorance is often more comfortable.
Driving Force: Sabine's driving force is undoubtedly family. Her moral compass is wrapped up in what is best for her family even if it means doing something terrible. She is willing to sacrifice her son in peaceful death to spare him torture. She wants to protect her husband at all costs. And when it comes down to it, she is willing to sacrifice a life of luxury for her daughter to have a better world.

Patron: I believe that Vesta would be the best choice with Sabine. Sabine is well-mannered and hospitable. She welcomes Aurora into her home and treats her as a sister initially. She is very well-mannered, with high standards of etiquette that were expected of women in the early 20th century. She's very dedicated to things or people that she loves or believes in. She is also aloof, perhaps because of status and partly because for most of the series she is in a foreign country and part of an occupying force. Sabine is very demanding of those around her, mostly her husband. I think that perhaps also the sacrifice of her seat in privileged society for one that is for the betterment of mankind would be something of note.

GAME INFORMATION

Setting Suitability: Sabine would accept the call because she believes it would be for the greater good. At her canon point, she cares for that very deeply and she wants to help others in a way that she had never considered earlier in her life. Living with the resistance she already has grown accustomed to living without amenities and she would not find it too difficult to make another adjustment to a new living situation.



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