Character Data
Name: Siegfried Schtauffen
Alias: Nightmare
Age: Unknown
Sex: Male
Race: Human. Aryan, to be precise.
Occupation: Used to be a valorous knight, now hermit by day, bloodthirsty killer by night.
From: Somewhere in Germany.

Physical Stats
Height: 5'6''
Weight: 209 lbs.
Appearance: Just play Soul Calibur II... Okay, so a big mean dark armored knight with a huge sword and a freaked-up arm.
Miscellaneous: Please don't write him a German accent. It'll just be a pain in the ass to write and read.

Other Info
ISH-O-VISION™ Color: DarkMagenta (#8B008B)
Personality: By day, he's very agoraphobic, he doesn't want to be around people or hurt anyone, at least initially. But when night falls, Soul Edge takes control of him and sends him into an unstoppable killing frenzy, never to be satisfied in his quest for more souls to claim.
Family: Father - deceased.
Friends: He was part of a band of brigands known as the Schwarzwind for a time. He pretty much quit them when Soul Edge took him over, though.
Enemies: Most of the rest of the SCII cast, if we ever bump into those guys. Very likely to raise quite a few on his night escapades.
Background: His father died in combat. He started looking for a way to revive him, and thought he had found it in the cursed sword, Soul Edge. Unfortunately, Soul Edge took over Siegfried's soul and transformed him into Nightmare, who would go on mass-murder rallies all across Europe for years... That is, until he was defeated by a warrior wielding Soul Calibur, the "good" counterpart to Soul Edge. Soul Edge was fragmented in the battle, and several fragments were lost, making the sword considerably weaker (but still a force to be reckoned with) and also giving back to Siegfried control of his body in daytime. As soon as night falls however, Nightmare takes over and starts killing lots of people, towards the general goal of finding the scattered shards of Soul Edge.


Character Abilities
Skills: He's an early-medieval Germanic barbarian knight. He fights by swinging his immense sword around at everything in his path. His fighting style is therefore rather slow, but extremely destructive. Since he is gifted with superhuman strength (thanks in great part to his right arm being mutated by Soul Edge) however, he can swing it MUCH faster than any normal human could, his enemies are therefore likely to be deceived by his clumsy looks while they get swept away in two halves.
Armament: Soul Edge is all the armament he needs. Though Siegfried is conscious that he will be free if he leaves that sword behind, he knows much too well that anyone would then be free to take it, and he wishes for nobody to suffer his fate. If he's separated from his sword though, he still has the strength to punch through walls relatively easily with his mutated arm (the other arm has just about the strength you'd expect a German early-medieval knight to have: a lot more than you.)
Protection: He wears a full suit of dark armor that is very resistant to shock.
Style: I pretty much described it above. He's not a big fan of subtletly, so he'll more likely charge screaming into battle than sneak to the back of his enemy like a ninja. And he's quite a presence on a battlefield, too, he has struck more than one valiant warrior motionless with fear from only seeing him.