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- "I am the Sleep Prince."
- ―Kaspar's imagined mantra
Kaspar Blankenheim, codenamed Third Sleep Prince, was the Marquis of Toragay in Elphegort and the husband of Margarita Blankenheim. Happily entering an arranged engagement, Kaspar soon became depressed by his loveless marriage. After befriending Gatt Coulomb, he joined Père Noël. Once he acquired the formula for Gift, Kaspar experimented with the poison before enacting a massacre of his hometown with his creation. He was one of Adam Moonlit's incarnations.
History[]
Early Life[]
- "Indeed... Everyone, everyone was asleep. From the very beginning."
- ―Adam Moonlit
Following the death of the infant Kaspar Blankenheim in EC 593, the Clockworker's Doll was activated and Adam Moonlit assumed the baby's identity. Growing up in the Blankenheim Family's household in Toragay, Kaspar never tired or slept, and was examined by his father, Dr. Kaidor, for a medical cause for his "condition". With no explanation forthcoming, Kaspar remained perplexed by his sleepless condition and sometimes tried to sleep in vain. Later on, as part of an alliance between the Felix and Blankenheim families, the young Kaspar was brought to the Felix Mansion to live with them; there she met and fell in love with her planned betrothed, Margarita Felix.
During their time there, Margarita offered him a wooden ring and promised they would get married once they grew up. Later, Kaspar returned to the Blankenheim estate and, growing up, helped his father with his work as the local doctor, eventually earning a medical license, himself. Years later, Kaspar and Margarita were engaged after she had become the Marchioness of Toragay and were married in June of EC 608, at the local Levin church. During their subsequent honeymoon, Margarita bought Kaspar a bed for his new room in the Felix manor, although once she discovered his sleepless condition she refused to have him in her room while she slept.
Marital Despair[]
- "She was scum. While Kaspar was her husband, she'd play around with men from the outside every day— I'll say it again. That woman was total scum."
- ―Rita Flohn regarding Margarita
Soon after their marriage, Kaspar watched as his wife began taking on men, forbidden from entering her room whenever they visited. He was also devastated to learn that Margarita had forgotten their childhood promise and had in reality courted numerous other boys, marrying only for his fortune. While keeping silent about his hurt, Kaspar began to regularly visit the local Charity Institute run by Margarita's midwife, Rita Flohn, to cook meals for the orphans there.
Kaspar later consented to his wife selling off his personal possessions as their finances dwindled due to Margarita's wasteful spending. As their finances continued to diminish, Kaspar began taking up the jobs of their former servants in cooking and cleaning. Margarita then started up a new business to help alleviate their financial decline, really working for Père Noël; later that year, Kaspar was introduced to her "business partner," Gatt Coulomb, using the alias "Kiril Clockworker".
Taking a liking to "Kiril," Kaspar confided his troubles to him often when he visited; he furthermore learned that Kiril was allegedly a mage. Eventually, he joined Père Noël himself under the codename Third Sleep Prince. In EC 609, Kiril tasked Kaspar with creating a curative medicine using sap from the new Millennium Tree. Converting a room in the mansion's basement into his personal laboratory, he refined the sap into an energy tonic. During one of Kiril's visits, Kaspar brought him along to help him at the Charity Institute. Gradually, Kaspar noticed Margarita beginning to suffer insomnia and stress from work.
On August 24, Kaspar accompanied his wife to Aceid for King Soil Elphen's birthday celebration. The next day, he overheard Kiril and Margarita quarreling over Père Noël and the black market; after Kiril left the room, Kaspar received instructions to create and refine the Gift poison into an airborne pathogen along with receiving vials of the failed Third Gift.
First Killings[]
- "Kaspar did that without my permission... But yes. She broke the organization's rules and tried monopolizing the underground market's profits for herself. It certainly couldn't go ignored. So I passed Gift onto Kaspar. Because he wanted it."
- ―Fourth Shadow regarding Margarita's death
Deciding that Gift would help his "sleepless" wife, Kaspar purchased supplies from the La Bula Pharmacy and ingested the failed poison to keep it hidden in his bloodstream. He then worked day and night to improve the Third Gift given to him, allegedly extracting the Gift in his bloodstream by cutting his wrists. Once he developed the Fourth Gift, Kaspar mixed his creation in trauben jam and, August 30, he "gifted" the poison to his wife and her lover "Elliot" as a birthday present.
Early the next morning, once Kaidor visited Kaspar they both checked on Margarita and discovered she was dead in his lover's arms. Kaidor soon after conceded to cover for his son's crime and reported Margarita's sudden death to the World Police. Kaspar stayed in another room while they awaited the police, out of sight from any potential visitors. Once the World Police arrived later that morning, Kaspar feigned any knowledge about Margarita's cause of death and after questioning he continued about his routine while a guard stayed as security. After the investigation formally ended, Kaspar regained his privacy.
Throughout the month, Kaspar developed the Fifth Gift and, on September 18, decided to use it on his own father after he warned him to stop associating with Kiril during dinner. He mixed the poison with trauben jam like before and served it to him during dinner; Kaidor fell into a coma upon returning home and was hospitalized in Aceid. Kaspar, meanwhile, continued to refine his Gift each day and night. On September 28, Kaspar attended his wife's funeral as the chief mourner and delivered a eulogy, which was only briefly interrupted when the Schuburg Newspaper reporter Hanne Lorre began laughing hysterically and had to be removed.
Visit from a Reporter[]
- "It’s a bit lonely in here, isn’t it?"
- "I used to have a lot of things in it. They’ve all been sold off now."
- ―Hanne and Kaspar painfully admitting the truth
On October 6, Kaspar received Hanne Lorre at his house and agreed to an interview for an article in remembrance of Margarita. Leading her into his empty bedroom, Kaspar admitted to Hanne how Margarita had sold all his possessions and insisted, when asked, that he wasn't angry at her over it. He afterwards went into explaining Margarita's new business, directing Hanne to Kiril for the details. The two then talked about "Kiril Clockworker," both the man himself and his relationship to Kaspar, as well as the oddity that the name Kiril Clockworker was already well known throughout history.
Afterwards, Kaspar took Hanne on a tour of the house at the reporter's request, bringing her to the dining room first and chatting about his cooking. During the chat, Kaspar pondered the strange feeling he had that he had met Hanne before. He later told Hanne about his work for the Charity Institute and even recommended the place for a meal. Kaspar then remembered aloud how he'd eaten with Felix in the room; as Hanne started to press her on the murders, Kaspar grew incensed, although he quickly brushed it off and continued their conversation.
Not long after, Kaspar led Hanne into Margarita's room; there, they talked about Kaspar's extraordinary sleepless condition and how, although there were figures who were short-sleepers, he was the only one to not sleep at all. During the conversation, Hanne suggested Kaspar could have made a contract with a demon to obtain his condition and Kaspar laughed the notion off, briefly bantering with Hanne about such an unrealistic concept. Afterwards, Kaspar and Hanne toured much of the house's first and second floor before moving into the basement.
Once inside, Kaspar related to Hanne how the basement used to be used as Margarita's warehouse and was usually locked, although not it was opened by the World Police. He led the reporter through the different rooms in the basement before coming to his makeshift laboratory, claiming it was where he made medicine using ingredients from the La Bula Pharmacy. After confirming that the World Police had found nothing suspicious about her medicines, Hanne and Kaspar eventually returned to the first floor, and Kaspar saw Hanne out.
A Sleep Called Death[]
- "There's no need to make an antidote. Because everyone— should be happy. In sleep, everyone forgets life's troubles and suffering. In unpleasant reality, their wishes can't come true. If everyone is in a dream, they can. So I made it for them. Gift."
- ―Kaspar Blankenheim
Once he finished his desired Sixth Gift, Kaspar administered the airborne poison to Toragay's environment, starting with the orphans in the Charity Institute. As he slowly regained memories of Adam's other incarnations, Kaspar began to refine a Seventh Gift that would awaken all his memories and finally grant him sleep. Meanwhile, on October 14, Kaspar departed for Aceid and visited King Soil over matters regarding succession for the Felixes. On October 17, he visited his father and ran into Yuzette Ora not long after the orphans and Rita had succumbed to his Gift.
On October 21, Kaspar visited his comatose father in the hospital again before deciding to go see his dearest Kiril. Leaving Aceid, Kaspar approached Toragay and saw it blockaded by the World Police as his Sixth Gift spread through the town. Instinctively realizing Kiril was in the north, Kaspar approached Calgaround as his mental state degraded. Arriving in the town, he went to Gatt's mansion and, meeting with "Kiril" there, related everything he had done with his Gifts and his plans for the Seventh Gift.
Afterwards, Kaspar set up a new laboratory on the mansion's second floor and continued working on his concoction. Late that night, he again cut his wrist and bled into a vial, mixing the resulting poison with other ingredients. As he finished the Seventh Gift, Kaspar was interrupted by the real Kiril Clockworker, having shed his disguise as Hanne, and his apprentice Irina. As Kiril demanded that Kaspar craft an antidote to the poison, the boy firmly declared that he was giving people respite as the "Sleep Prince."
As Kiril insisted that his spirit had been eroded by a demon contract and he wasn't giving anyone happiness, Kaspar only laughed off his claims. He then revealed how he'd been regaining the memories he had lost, such as knowing for a fact that he, Kiril, had been alive for hundreds of years. Declaring that he wanted to sleep and become human, Kaspar completed the Seventh Gift and offered it to Kiril.
Nonchalant at the man's refusal, he drank it himself and collapsed. As Kiril tried to get him to vomit the poison, Kaspar's life ebbed away and he was relieved to at last finally sleep. As the last of his memories returned, he resolved to meet his "princess" Eve Moonlit in the forest. As he accepted his eternal sleep, "Kaspar" passed away and Adam Moonlit reawakened in the Clockworker's Doll.
Legacy[]
- "Kaspar, Margarita, and even Gatt―I've lost very useful pawns thanks to them."
- ―Julius Abelard
The genocide enacted on Toragay was followed closely by the Schuburg Newspaper and the World Police, with Julius Abelard and Père Noël's involvement heavily suspected. The Elphegort government later entrusted the Freezis Foundation with the matter and its investigation team arrived to find Toragay already in ruins; after the initial investigation, 72 survivors of the epidemic were discovered in the cellar of the Felix mansion and a cure was eventually derived by Dr. Puerick Rogzé.
Officially, Kaspar's serial killings were labeled as the result of a "mysterious epidemic" that plagued Toragay. With the creation of a cure to the disease, international panic subsided. After his death, Adam Moonlit continued to use hypnosis inside the Clockworker's Doll to masquerade as Kaspar when he met with Kiril Clockworker, only dropping the spell once the mage had determined the truth. Adam himself regarded Kaspar as having been deceived like everyone else, believing she was truly a human being.
After forcing Adam out of the Clockworker's Doll and into his soul, Kiril used Kaspar's name and identity to meet with Julius Abelard and join Père Noël as "Seventh Magician". When Kiril claimed to have recognized Sixth Venom's skill in assassination during his time in Calgaround months later, Hänsel argued that the real Kaspar lacked the necessary intelligence to make that kind of judgment about someone.
Centuries after his death, Ma and Elluka Sudou created a screenplay regarding the incident and it was subsequently reviewed by the Master of the Court. While organizing the "motion", Gammon deduced that Julius Abelard had given the Clockworker's Doll to the marquis and hypothesized that Kaspar was an incarnation of a demon. At the world's end, Michelle Marlon utilized Kaspar's appearance and identity following her contract with Adam.
Personality and Traits[]
- "I— yes, I am the Sleep Prince. The person who brought everyone sleep. The man who became everyone's hope. For the hope they wished—"
- "Shut up! What happiness! What hope! Those things are only for your own ego. You only want to sleep yourself."
- ―Kaspar and Kiril
Kaspar was a disillusioned boy in denial. While Kaspar had always considered his sleepless condition a natural part of life, he recognized sleep for others to be a natural respite from their troubles. Because of this, he made numerous attempts to induce sleep without success; as he slipped into depression, Kaspar equated her lack of sleep to lack of happiness and humanity. Breaking under Adam's influence, he decided death was the ultimate sleep and constructed the fantasy that he was the "Sleep Prince" granting respite to others before giving it for himself as proof of his humanity.
Because of his true nature, Kaspar felt a dissonance between himself and "normal" people which only increased with his sleepless condition, developing into an identity crisis and a sense that he was only a decorative doll. He furthermore began to resent the people around him that he blamed for his unhappy life and marriage; although outwardly kind and calm, he harbored a deep inner bitterness and sociopathy. Although playing ignorant to Père Noël's criminal nature and the destruction he was causing, he acted in large part to extract vengeance on the world for his unhappiness.
Kaspar's delusional state was largely influenced by Adam as he went into denial over his miserable life, growing worse over time. Not having the means to handle his problems, he first pretended to be content with his loveless life. As he experimented with her Gift, this delusion grew to incorporate his fantasy of being the Sleep Prince awaiting his princess; by the time he completed his Seventh Gift, Kaspar was completely consumed by his own sloth and more acting on instinct. He also came to consider the Gifts he made to be his own children as replacement for the ones he never had with Margarita.
Skills and Abilities[]
- "Through this failure, Kaspar was able to further refine the Sixth Gift. It is a wonderful thing. And one need not even drink it. By infection via the air, people are led to the sleep called death one after another―It's even more infectious epidemic than the Gula disease. He created something magnificent!"
- ―Gatt regarding Kaspar's Gift
While not particularly intelligent overall, Kaspar was very well-versed in chemistry and medicine due to his work for his father, earning a medical license while still a minor. His knowledge in pharmaceuticals extended to poisons as well, allowing Kaspar to experiment and perfect the Rogzé Gift formula over multiple attempts. Due to unknowingly using Adam Moonlit's magic, he could even make the Gift into an unnatural airborne pathogen. Kaspar was even able to hide the poisons in his bloodstream via ingestion, simply cutting his wrists to extract the poison from his blood.
Due to his sleepless condition, Kaspar was never tired and could constantly be on the move even during night hours, though lacking any exceptional athletic ability. He similarly possessed a rather impressive intuition as a result of his subconscious familiarity with the people and places Adam had encountered over the centuries.
Character Connections[]
Margarita Blankenheim: Kaspar's childhood friend and wife. Kaspar loved Margarita from when they were young, and this love continued even after she showed she didn't reciprocate his feelings. Convincing himself that being close to her was enough to make him happy, Kaspar endeavored to secure Margarita's happiness and affected a disinterest in her philanderous ways and abuse of his finances. Over time, however, the loveless marriage warped Kaspar's love into despair and eventually he snapped, murdering her.
Gatt Coulomb: Kaspar's friend. Knowing him as "Kiril Clockworker", Kaspar formed a deep and instant connection to the sorcerer and looked upon him as a source of comfort and a father figure, having felt as though he'd known him for him whole life. He later joined his criminal organization, Père Noël, and loyally followed his friend's goals while not understanding what they were.
Adam Moonlit: Kaspar's true self. Hypnotizing himself to believe he was the real Kaspar Blankenheim, the fake persona had no awareness of the slumbering Adam within him. Although only retaining the wizard's full memories upon being poisoned, these memories began to resurge shortly before his death.
Kaidor Blankenheim: Kaspar's father. Kaspar was close with his father and spent time with him often, convincing himself that he cared for his well-being and wished to relieve him of his stress. Despite this, he resented him for controlling his life and using him, as well as for trying to keep him from staying with his friend "Santa Claus," and felt no remorse when killing him.
Karchess Calgaround: One of Adam's past incarnations. The memories of Karchess began to resurge in Kaspar as well as those of Adam.
Platonic: One of Adam's past incarnations. The memories of Platonic began to resurge in Kaspar as well as those of Adam.