Hans Christian Andersen

『人魚姫』『マッチ売りの少女』は知らないものがいないと思われる。
1805年生、1875年に肝臓癌にて没。
今でこそ三大作家のひとりと言われるが、その半生は挫折と苦悩に満ちていたという。

It is deemed that there is nobody who doesn't know "The Little Mermaid" or "The Little Match Girl".
Born in 1805, died in 1875 from liver cancer.
Although he is now considered one of the three great writers, it has been said that half of his life was filled with setbacks and distress.

出典：史実
地域：デンマーク
属性：秩序・中庸　　性別：男性
「オレは流行には敏感だぞ？なにしろ楽に原稿を済ませる近道だからな！」

Source: Historical fact
Region: Denmark
Alignment: Lawful Neutral
Gender: Male
"You know I am sensitive to fashion? Since it is a shortcut for easily finishing a manuscript after all!"

自分の人生を嫌っていたからか、サーヴァントとして召喚された姿は見ての通り幼年期のものだった。
「子供時代が一番才能があったというワケだ！」と本人はヤケクソ気味に評している。

Maybe because he disliked his own life, the figure that he has been summoned with as a Servant is - as you can see - that of his childhood.
"This means my period as a child was when I had the most talent!"
Thus is his abandonment-like evaluation.

本人の意志や姿とは関係なく、風評によって真相を捻じ曲げられたものの深度を指す。
アンデルセンの場合は"読者の呪い"である。
彼は多くの読者から「こんな物語を書く男は血も涙もない男に違いない」と思われ、その結果、体のいたるところに「自分が書いた童話の主人公たちと同じ」傷を負っている。

Indicates the depths in which the truth was twisted by rumors, disregarding the intentions and appearance of the concerned person.
In Andersen's case, this is a "curse from the readers".
Many readers think that "for a man to write such a story, he must surely be heartless" and, as a result, he is sustaining "the same wounds as the protagonists of the fairy-tales he wrote" all over his body.

人々を観察し、理解する技術。
ただ観察するだけでなく、名前も知らない人々の生活や好み、人生までを想定し、これを忘れない記憶力が重要とされる。
厭世家で知られるアンデルセンだが、その根底にあるものは拒絶ではなく理解である。
彼にできることは物語を紡ぐ事だけだが、だからこそ誰よりも語るに真摯であろうと誓い続けた。

A technique to observe and understand people. Not only observing, but the capacity to conjecture about the daily activities, likings and even the lives of people whose name are unknown, and also the memory to not forget about these are considered important.
Andersen is known as a pessimist, but what lies at his foundation is not rejection, but understanding.
What he can do is only spin tales, but exactly for this reason he continuously vowed to remain more sincere than anyone else towards reciting.

ランク：Ｃ　　種別：対人宝具
メルヒェン・マイネスレーベンス。
彼が書いた自伝「我が生涯の物語」の生原稿。
観察した人物の理想の人生・在り方を一冊の本として書き上げることで、その人物を「理想の姿」に強化する。
……ただし、脱稿できればの話だが。

Rank: C
Type: Anti-Unit
Märchen Meines Lebens.
The raw manuscript of the autobiography he wrote, "A Story of My Lifetime".
By writing down the ideal life・way of being of the observed individual in a single book, said individual is strengthened into his "ideal figure".
...however, that is only if he can complete the manuscript.

一説によると想う相手はいたようだが、プライドの高さと自らの容姿へのコンプレックスで幾度となく告白の機会を逃したとも。
70歳にて肝臓癌にて死去。
肌身離さず身につけていた、初恋の相手からの手紙を握っての死だったとされる。

According to one theory, there was someone he had feelings for, but on countless occasions he let the opportunity for a confession escape due to a high pride and complex towards his own appearance.
He died of liver cancer at 70 years old.
Story goes that he died clutching a letter from his first love, which he always carried with himself.