User blog:SiRenfield/Germanus (Lenfield/Mistress of the Heavenly Yard Amalgam)

The following is a fanmade article

"I am sorry. I really shouldn't be alive."

Germanus is a peasant of the Kingdom of Marlon, hated due to her lineage to Sateriasisa Venomania. He is a close friend of Kyla and, following her death, joins a Levin Monastery of the Held sect. He nearly commits the Deadly Sin of Wrath.

Early Life
Born in the Kingdom of Marlon in EC 479, Germanus was despised and abused by the people of Aspel, unaware of why he was so hated. At some point, he was adopted by a foreign magician who loved and took care of him. At a young age, his foster mother taught him how to read and write. As he grew older, he learned that his lineage, earned him everyone's disdain. Due to her clumsiness, he was only further hated, called a "demon child" and threatened to be tied and burned on a cross. Sometime later, Germanus' mother contracted the Goula disease. With his foster parent weak and ailing, Germanus worked hard to help take care of them both.

Blue
In early EC 499, Germanus went out to the Millennium Tree Forest  to pick trauben fruit. Injured from his town's cruelties, he murmured how sorry he was for being alive. While working, he found a small, blue robin by the lake with an injured wing on the ground. Pitying the creature, he took it home with him and tried to bandage its wing before returning to his work. With a basket full of fruit, Germanus arrived home to find his mother up and about, tending to the robin. The sullen man told his mother to rest in her poor health but she retorted it was also unhealthy to be in the sun for so long, mentioning that the bird he found was now awake. After his mother tried and failed to feed the robin worms, Germanus offered some of her fruits.

The robin immediately began to eat it and his mother wondered if it was an incarnation of a forest spirit. Germanus told his parent that she spoke nonsense, repeatedly denying their and God's existence. Frustrated, he asked why his mother was so sick if they were real, relating that the trauben he picked were also not good enough to sell and he had wasted his time. Forcing himself not to cry, he turned to the bird and, seeing it, said birds had less problems than humans. As he prepared to leave, his mother asked where he was going. The frowning man responded the village had called him out and left.

Over the course of two weeks, the condition of Germanus' mother worsened and Germanus took care of her. Naming the robin "Blue" due to its feathers, Germanus constructed a cage for it out of junk he collected. He would come home everyday, smiling as he told the robin about his day and all his bad experiences getting scolded for his clumsiness. One day, he chose to place the bird cage by the window on a sunny day. Later, while working in the fields, the other workers purposefully bumped into him and trampled over his work; ignoring the bullying, he continued before coming home and smiling at Blue.

The next day, Germanus put the robin's cage by the windowsill again before heading out to work. Confident in his relationship with the bird, he thought she could possibly makes friends with other humans. After making up his mind, he invited his neighbor to dinner, hoping to build a relationship with a human. Instead, he was verbally abused and turned down, breaking his confidence again. When he returned home, Blue had already escaped from her cage. Heartbroken and in despair, Germanus visited the Millennium Tree Forest and prayed at the Held, telling her he had no friends before explaining his story. Afraid to be left alone should his ailing mother die, Germanus begged God that, if she did exist, to have a friend.

Chance Encounter
Three months later, Germanus found a blue-haired woman unconcious by the Millennium Tree. Realizing she had a fever, Germanus took the girl home and laid her to rest in bed. When she regained conciousness, Germanus told the girl to lie down, explaining where he found him. He asked the girl to accept his treatment, despite being from Beelzenia, until her fever was gone. Thanking him, the girl asked where they were and Germanus described Aspel village to her before apologizing for his small, filthy house. The girl introduced herself as Kyla and Germanus did likewise, asking why she had fainted in the forest.

The girl elaborated that she had been travelling to Jariti from the Kingdom of Lucifenia. Germanus stated she never heard of a Marlon living in the country and Kyla replied that Lucifenia was inhabited by different races of people. In disbelief at the peculiar story, Germanus sat their quietly with tears building in her eyes. Embarassed, he wiped them, shouting apologies to Kyla for living. Interrupted by his mother, Germanus was lectured for disturbing their "patient". Surprised by his ill mother's attempt to get seasonings for Kyla's soup, she took the bowl from him and seasoned it before giving it to Kyla.