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• current timeframe: 1880's, Copenhagen, Denmark
• born in the 1840's to a mother in Schleswig, then Danish territory, but when his mother died soon after of postpartum complications, his father - a German coachman who already had a wife and two other children - took him in and raised him "as his own"
• when Schlewig-Holstein became German territory after the Danish defeat in the war of 1864, Anton officially became a German citizen and forbidden to speak Danish
• he has learned to work with horses, coaches and carriages from his father and can handle any wagon without problems at this point in his life, he can ride anything, he likes to say • his father died in 1864 during the war and since his stepmother had no love left for him, Anton deserted and started wandering Northern Germany for work at the age of 20-ish
• there is not any kind of manual labour he can't perform, he's strong, fast and smart enough to do anything necessary to make a living
• makes friends fast in the criminal environment and makes a name for himself as someone who is willing to do anything for anyone for the right price
• will eventually meet Jonathan, devoting the rest of his life to securing his business partner and lover's success and smooth operations
• is ragingly queer, mostly male-leaning, and completely devoted to Jonathan • is called "der Jagdterrier" by his enemies and subordinates alike
• backtagging is good
• no ooc triggers or warnings
• warning for period-appropriate homophobia etc.
• open to timey-whimey jamjar interaction and the good ol' historical scenarios
• not interested in shipping or smut, but always open to generic and platonic interaction!
• pm for contact, cest/cet time zone
His mother was of a Jewish family that she had lost young, and she would get by working as a maid from the tender age of 13. That was how she met Anton's father, Artur Neumann, for whose family - wife, two daughters - she worked until he impregnated her when she was 19. She understood her position, if she demanded his acknowledgement of the child as his, she might be dismissed from her job; she was lucky enough as it was that she hadn't already been, simply by being with child. Artur was not a cruel master; he had the other maids at the farm look after her when she could no longer work for her condition and when she gave birth, too. She was not alone when Anton came into the world. And she was not alone when she died, she held the baby in her arms.
Artur heard of her death and against his wife's wishes, perhaps because the child left behind was a son, he adopted Anton into his household and brought him up alongside his two ten year older half-sisters, fully acknowledging him as his own offspring. Anton never felt like he belonged in this family, never held any love in his heart for the stepmother, the half-sisters or even his father, the coachman who taught him everything he himself had learned, in the exact same way he's learned it.
The hard way.
From the age of 14, he worked in his father's small coachman business, driving rich people where they needed to go, always having horses ready, always polishing up carriages, always available, always at hand. Then, at age 20, the same age his mother had when she died, Anton's father died of a stroke while they were cleaning the stables, he died in the dung which Anton found pretty fitting. Knowing in that moment, his stepmother would give him a difficult time, he didn't wait for the funeral before leaving his childhood home, beginning to roam the whole Schleswig-Holstein area for work, then most of Northern Germany afterwards.
Wherever there was work, he would go.
That was how he met Jonathan.
Eventually, after getting involved with Jonathan, he will move with him to Denmark and set up business there, living in the shadows as his secret weapon and right hand man, while Jonathan marries the actress, Margrethe, to keep up appearances and take the attention off himself, off his expanding business and criminal dealings.