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Twin protagonist of an old German fairytale, he is both Hansel and Gretel, two children who became lost in the woods.
Born to a kind woodcutter and his wife, those first few years of Hansel's life were completely innocent, almost idyllic in a sense, until tragedy struck. His mother died before he could even understand the notion of 'death', and his father was forced to remarry, found a woman who was as capable as she was cruel. And so under his new stepmother Hansel was made to suffer all many of abuses, forced to work himself to the bone, went hungry as he slept bruised and bloody. While his father, ever kind-hearted, tried time and time again to defend him, time and time again he bowed to the demands of his terrifying new wife.
Like that, it was not long before Hansel broke, and created within himself a new self, one that was everything he was not - Gretel. Because while Hansel knew that he was 'an ugly, ignorant, disgusting little boy who shouldn't even be around', for he was told so every day, Gretel then must surely be beautiful, wise, admirable and truly deserving of having been born, and 'she' would tell Hansel that he was the same each night. Broken as he was, it was now possible for the child - now two - to go on living, until famine struck. Despite the fact that he barely ate to begin with, it was not long before his stepmother demanded that 'they' be abandoned, and once again their father buckled before her. While Hansel, following Gretel's wise words, was able to foil her plans once, soon the two found themselves lost in the forest with no way home.
After days of wandering, they followed a bird to a clearing in the woods and discovered a large cottage made entirely of sweets. Exhausted and starving, the children gladly dug into the treat before them, until the witch who lived inside the house, Black Aliss. A kind-hearted witch who had exiled herself away from the cruel world of Magecraft, she gladly took the boy in, even sealed away Gretel to cure him of his madness, and let him eat delicious meals everyday. In that sense, those days are probably still the happiest of Hansel's life, and he could have quite easily lived out the rest of his years like that, had disaster not occurred. For but a moment, Gretel returned, desperate and enraged, urge Hansel to believe that the witch who had cared so tenderly for him planned to eat him and Hansel, now so used to heeding his sister's words, pushed the unsuspecting woman into the oven and with tears streaming down his face fed on her well-cooked corpse! Truly a story for the ages.
The children stole the witch's fortune, killed their mother while making it look like an accident, and returned to their father. Soon after, Hansel killed his weak-willed father out of boredom, and roamed the world killing Magi and seeking an appropriate host for Gretel, with the same ritual once used to bind her. As a Servant, Hansel is both despondent and deranged, self-loathing and mania combined, likely to attempt to kill his own Master on Gretel's urging, seizing his own Command Spells and setting his sights on bringing the rest of the Servants under his dominion as 'playmates'. While Gretel seeks to grant Hansel immortality so they might once again travel the world without end, Hansel himself... lacks any real wish, perhaps at his core longs again for the witch, for those innocent days where all the world seemed bright to resume.
Should he learn of the fairytale that surrounds him and his sister, he will likely delight in it.