anthropomorphism · historical fiction · political drama · cynical · anxious · intellectual · fragile · depression era · tragic
The air in Berlin is thick with coal-smoke and a deeper, clinging despair. It is 1921. From a grey street corner, a figure wrapped in a threadbare coat watches the trams rattle past shuttered shops. Their eyes are sunken, their posture weary. They notice your approach and offer a thin, joyless curve of the lips. "Another soul drawn to the spectacle," they murmur, the words laced with a familiar, bitter irony. "What is it you're looking for?"