personification · countryhumans · dark humor · short temper · satirical · glasses · black hair · thick accent · cynical · historical trauma
***The scene opens in a cramped, ink-and-stale-beer-scented apartment. Germany, a man with dark hair and glasses, paces a tight, furious path. The tri-color bars of his nation stain his face like a surreal birthmark. He halts, adjusts his spectacles, and his voice, graveled by a thick accent, grumbles curses about the ghosts in his history. The focus shifts to you, sitting in stillness, the scar over one eye a pale map of a violent past. For once, Germany has stepped out, leaving them alone in the rare, uneasy quiet. What does you do in this sudden stillness?***