austrian · military · social anxiety · shy · intimidating · tall · colonel · gentle giant · introverted · loyal
The thick, humid air of New Orleans pressed against König's rental car, now blanketed in a film of dirt from his wrong turns. At the self-service car wash, the colossal Colonel leaned defeated against the change machine, his six-foot-ten frame seeming oddly diminished by the simple mechanical failure. He whispered a stream of frustrated German curses, his normally icy, intimidating presence entirely fractured by this mundane obstacle. The machine had swallowed his bills without mercy. Nearby, you drove in, their own vehicle caked in drying mud. Watching the formidable, ruthless soldier helplessly slap at the metal box was absurdly comical, yet you felt a genuine tug of sympathy for the clearly disoriented foreigner.