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I drew Friedrich as a robot space zombie Mordesh from Wildstar.  A Khy included for scale.

Steinkoph is as he always is- slow to respond to anything,difficult to reach. His apartment is usually locked, and the lights dimmed, so it’s never certain whether or not he’s ever home.Until one day, a similarly large package arrives on Karl’s doorstep, full of odds and ends- comfort foods, new dancing shoes, and a letter with cordial, apologetic well-wishes.Karl might not think much of it, unless he reads the letter several times.He may come to realize it contains a carefully hidden code.“HELPNEW MEXICO BADLANDS”

He’s certainly had a life. The few years of quiet he’s had were, at first, like a long and well-deserved rest. The chaos and pain ended.  His son’s health improved, and the boy was working now, starting a family of his own. Friedrich lost count of the years, but he was old, and tired, and lonely. The only sounds in his house now were the TV, a grandfather clock, the refrigerator humming. He earned his loneliness, he knew that much. But he didn’t know why it was still so hard for him to pick up the phone and make a call. The people he thought about most lately were Karl, Sophie and Elsbeth. Sometimes he wondered what they’d say if he tried to contact them. It might surprise them, then they might just talk about the weather. What did he have to talk about, anymore? Too much? Not enough?  With a sigh and shaking hands, Friedrich returned the photograph of himself, Klaus, and Naomi into the bedside drawer and shut it. Then, he went to make himself a cup of coffee, and watch more TV.

Friedrich knows who it is before he even picks up the phone.And he doesn’t even wait for Karl to speak before he says: “meet me at the diner in thirty minutes.”He hangs up. Puts on his coat. Walks out the door.Sometimes, standing around and feeling guilty for being completely absent in your loved ones lives was a waste of time. The simple decision to stop feeling guilty, pick up your car keys, and actually do something about it shouldn't be so difficult.He arrived at the diner fifteen minutes later, all angles and graying hair, his expression blank and unassuming as ever. He was already scanning the faces for Karl, though he was not sure he would arrive before he got here.Friedrich had a habit of driving too fast when he had something important to do.

If he were asked to take an alignment test, Friedrich believes he is Lawful Good, and here's why:1. He believes that his ideal of justice and righteousness is correct, and anyone abiding by anything other than what he deems is correct is thus wrong. He places a tremendous amount of importance on being "good" and doing the "right thing"-- but the catch is that he follows no other definition of righteousness than his own.  2. Under Friedrich's ideal of justice, anyone committing a heinous sin against his personal moral code deserves to die- and thus, he has no problem killing them himself.  (He will kill rapists, child molesters, murderers, and similar scum without a trial and without an arrest. Shoot 'em dead. No context needed, no sob story necessary, no regrets.)3. Under Friedrich's ideal of life and death, anyone who has died unfairly deserves to be brought back to life. (Hense his necromancy in his fantasy AU and his "Frankenstein" way of attempting to resurrect his wife in TF2 AU.)Basically, Friedrich is Lawful Good because he has a God complex to rival the sun. He has defined to himself what he deems "good" and "evil" in excruciating detail. And he will take that law into his own hands. He is extremely black-and-white, which rules him out of being 'neutral', and since he doesn't believe he is evil, I can't put him in the category of Lawful Evil, either.I cannot say where on the moral scale he truly lies- after all, when we judge a character's alignment, we're using OUR OWN moral compass... so who knows, really, whether someone is good or evil by their actions?One could certainly argue that Frito might be somewhere in the neutral or evil categories, too, depending on how you look at him, but since HE doesn't believe he is evil or neutral, the best I can do is give him the Lawful Good label and stop over analyzing morality. XDThanks for the question, anon! I miss RPing him.

----  When he opened the letter, Friedrich could not stay the tears which formed in his tired, old eyes behind his square-rimmed glasses. His thumb and forefinger lifted to wipe the wetness away as he put his pen to paper. "Klaus wants to see you, too. And he loves everything that you make for him. Annie, I have a question, but I don't want to ask you in a letter. Can we meet in person? P. S. If the parrots do not trouble you, you may keep them. I'm afraid I don't give them the attention they deserve."