Gunter Hesse's profile is basically complete. There may be future changes as plot updates or new details occur, but this is it for now. It hasn't been checked for typos.

This is a rather heavy bulletin, so proceed with caution. No spoiler tags as I'm coding by hand.

Please note if you give Hesse a look, WARNING that he is an antagonist--a literal Nazi--who is treated rather sympathetically at points. He's a complicated character in that I'm attempting to show an especially nasty bad guy who nonetheless truly believes he's doing good, and actually does do some good acts. IMO too many bad guys are presented as two-dimensional "monsters" which makes it all too easy for a reader to think of them as an inhuman "other" and believe there's no way they would ever act the same...a mindset which bad guys like Hesse themselves promulgated. Most bad guys started out as regular people, not monsters. They were not some inhuman "other."

I DO NOT condone/excuse Hesse's choices or actions...I'm merely trying to illustrate that once, he was a regular person who never believed he could become a monster. I. e., I wanted to understand how a once decent person could become radicalized toward hatred and violence.

Regarding the "In Heaven" section of the profile: I realize this could be particularly controversial, though that wasn't the intent. The Trench Rats is not a religious story, though religion and spirituality of different types do play a part. Without going into too much detail about my own beliefs (which are rather hazy anyway), I find it difficult to believe that a loving God would condemn any of His children to eternal damnation, so long as they sincerely seek forgiveness for their wrongs--even if only after death. Therefore, the Christian concept of Hell makes little sense. This was combined with a coping mechanism I've utilized to deal with characters whose deaths bothered me greatly, especially given the recent painful loss of my own father. Some of these deaths I had not planned, and I felt rather cheated by them, by things left unfinished. The "In Heaven" scenarios presented a means of dealing with this sense of loss and grief by imagining a sort of "alternate reality" of what could have been, the main difference between this and an AU being that "In Heaven" is canon. It simply occurs outside the bounds of the storyline itself, since, as I said, this is not a religious story.

Given that only certain character deaths bothered me inordinately, only a handful of "In Heaven" scenarios have been thought out. As a result, most profiles will not have this section filled in for a long while, if ever. They'll still be considered as essentially "complete," however.

Most profiles should be nowhere near as long as Hesse's, though Otto Himmel's may come close. If you made it through all this without concluding I'm a horrible person, thanks!--and feel free to subscribe, favorite, ask for an invite code, follow my art Tumblr, whatever! I'm painfully shy and may not always respond (sorry ;_; ) but I always appreciate knowing that someone has enjoyed something I created, even if what they enjoyed was a particularly icky character. (Don't get me started on Ernst Dannecker...ugh.)