IN CAUDA VENENUM

Alphonse grew up with no mother and a good for nothing father who spends mornings half dead and evenings wasting away in alcohol, and grumbling about being poor. He was practically raised by the most poverty-stricken and crime-ridden neighborhood in Switzerland, where the only way to ensure survival was to become a criminal yourself.

He learned thievery at a very young age. it began with pickpocketing and lockpicking, small break ins and robbing the most mundane of things. But his crimes grew as he did and what began as meager acts of survival became big heists, organized crimes, bank robberies, drug trades, until it wasn’t just smuggled goods that were in his hands.

Blood – bright crimson and warm, staining his fingernails, covering every inch of his palms. Soon enough, Alphonse was stealing the very lives of people who get in the way. It made him feel powerful and unstoppable.

Through all the abhorrent and contemptible things he did to make a living, his best friend has always been there for him to come home to. And though she detested his wicked ways, she made Alphonse feel loved and delivered him the warmth of a home and a family nonetheless.

Alphonse hadn’t even celebrated the outpouring of wealth from a break in, when the news of his best friend’s own demise became the talk of the town. She fell in a ditch, they said; slipped on the frozen streets and stumbled. But Alphonse knew better. His streak of misdeeds has finally caught up to him.

And though revenge was his first plan of action, his best friend’s words in his head were far too loud for him to ignore. Her death was what prompted him to purge out all of the demons that he let take over his mind and his heart, and start anew. He enlisted himself in the Swiss Army and resolved to leave the life of crime he has lived all his life.

Due to his outstanding performance in the military, he was soon recruited by the Federal Intelligence Service and was later sent to train royal heirs in Operation Sovereign.

Alphonse is generally withdrawn and keeps no connection with anyone, this rooting from the trauma he acquired, losing his best friend. The only thing that matters is doing his job properly and having a few shots of whiskey every night before going to bed.