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Full name: Adrik Reinhard Dieter Stahl

Date of birth: 25 April, 1991

Fluent in German and English, knows some French

(He has 3 "Vornamen" (first names); the first is a Russian name, his mother was half-Russian. Reinhard is not particularly proud of being part Russian, and his grandfather was terrible towards him about it, making Reinhard slow to bring it up.)

Reinhard is about 25 years old

He almost certainly has BPD - what this means for him is that he has a terrible sense of identity/self, unstable relationships with others, and tends to split quite a bit on people (thinking they're wonderful one moment and terrible the next). He feels emotions very intensely, is self-sabotaging, and has explosive emotional outbursts (typically anger).

This sometimes causes delusions, namely in his relationships with others (to a chosen few, Reinhard becomes too involved too fast, considering an aquaintance a close friend) and his abilities (thinking he's capable of doing things he wouldn't have the first idea how to do).

His hometown is Düsseldorf, Germany

He was raised by his grandfather (after being abandoned by his father), who passed on shitty VERY conservative political views to Reinhard.

He's incredibly misogynistic, but will also criticize men on a number of things. He's just a lot worse to women than men.

He's very picky about beer.

Due to Project Fugue's effects on his memories, Reinhard has large gaps of time he has no memory of, or has false memories implanted. He will sometimes have flashes of his "real" memories come back to him, but because of his delusions these are often not close to reality. He's a very unreliable narrator.

After his grandfather's death, Reinhard moved to London, England, after being contacted by his father, Peter Stahl, who was the CEO of a software company. Due to business decisions Peter's partners did not agree with, a contract killer named Dalton Jacobs was hired to pose as an employee of the company and stage an "accidental" death for Peter.

Peter pulled strings to get Reinhard a job, and asked Dalton, posing as an English citizen named Harry Jeffries, to train him. Reinhard became friends with "Harry" very quickly, unnaturally latching onto him quickly. One night, after Harry declined Reinhard's invitation to hang out after work, Reinhard became enraged and broke into Harry's apartment, where he discovered Harry's true identity, line of work, and the assassination orders to kill Peter Stahl. Instead of seeing this as horrific, Reinhard quickly realized the way to get Dalton to see his worth was to become Dalton's partner, and he decided he'd take Peter's death into his own hands. Dalton returned home just in time to find Reinhard in his apartment, clearly aware of his true nature, and kind of flipped out.

They raced each other to the office building, where Peter was staying late, working alone. Reinhard confronted Peter with a gun he'd stolen from Dalton's apartment. Dalton attempted to convince Reinhard to stop, but this only allowed Peter time to set off a security alarm. Reinhard fired at Peter, killing him, but the two were apprehended by security before they could escape the scene.

After quick convictions (both pled guilty), Reinhard and Dalton were scouted by the government to take part in a criminal rehabilitation program known as Project Fugue. Project Fugue used a newly-developed drug to induce a fugue state in criminals, who were then open to suggestion and could easily have past memories of criminal behavior overwritten by hypnotic suggestion. The goal was to quickly and effectively rehabilitate criminals by changing the memory of and desire to perform criminal acts. Reinhard was selected for the first round of human testing, and his memories were overwritten about Dalton and the murder of his father. He was given false memories and sent to live in America, where he was monitored for a number of years.

Reinhard was settled in his home in Philadelphia, working a good job, for a few years with no memory of his involvement in his father's death. Eventually, however, monitoring on him began to go lax, focusing on other more pressing responsibilities. Reinhard was sent on a business trip to Winnipeg, Manitoba in Canada, Dalton's hometown.

After his own rehabilitation, Dalton was sent back to Winnipeg and opened a bar called "Off Ice". Because his crimes were more numerous and his motivation to commit them more ambiguous, he was being watched more closely - in fact, the head of the project, Dr. Katelynn Angus, was posing as Dalton's girlfriend to monitor his progress. Reinhard happened to stumble into Dalton's bar one night on his trip, and things started to come crashing down in his head.

He felt a pull to Dalton that he hadn't ever felt before, and the poor memory programming the project had instilled on him began to crumble away. Instead of being replaced with the correct memories, Reinhard remembered a reality closer to what he wanted - where Dalton recognized him as a partner, where they'd killed Peter Stahl together. Reinhard remembered Dr. Angus, too, and confronted her, killing her.

For whatever reason, Dalton's programming holds a lot better than Reinhard's, and when Reinhard tries to tell him the truth, Dalton doesn't buy it at first, but he can't shake the feeling that something is strange and familiar about Reinhard after all. Reinhard tells Dalton what he did to Dr. Angus, and Dalton is caught in a confusing loop between anger that she hadn't had any real emotional attachment to him and was only posing as his girlfriend and horror that the woman he'd loved was dead. Reinhard was able to convince Dalton of the truth of the program and their shared memories, and manipulated Dalton into staying with him to try to uncover the truth together. Dalton helped Reinhard dispose of Dr. Angus' body.

Reinhard began to feed Dalton back memories of before the Project, because he was having a much easier time remembering things than Dalton. Part of Reinhard knew that what he was telling Dalton was maybe not entirely true, but if he told Dalton they were partners and had worked together and cared about each other, what was the harm in that? After all, wasn't it closer to reality than the memories he'd had implanted in a lab?