Category:Karlheinz

Karlheinz (カールハインツ Kāruhaintsu), also known as Tougo Sakamaki (逆巻　透吾 Sakamaki Tōgo) and Reinhart (ラインハルト Rainharuto), is the husband of Cordelia, Beatrix and Christa. He is the older brother of Richter and the father of all six of the Sakamaki brothers. Karl is also the current Vampire King, leader of all the vampires,unchallenged for his throne for the past 2000 years. In the human world in Japan, he is a famous politician whose known as a prominent philanthropist and at Ryoutei Academy, he is a school doctor, using a different appearance.

Appearance
Karlheinz is over 2000 years old. In More,Blood (fandisc), he is portrayed with pale skin, long white hair and golden eyes. In his Reinhart disguise, his hair is pinkish-blonde and he wears glasses.

It is stated that he can change his apperance and take any looks he wants that even his own family wouldn't recognize him if he doesn't want.

Personality
Karlheinz is one of the most powerful creatures in the demon world,viewed by the bat clan ( the vampires) as a “God”. He holds enormous amount of magical powers and knowledge,and he never stops persuing more. Karlheinz is extremely intelligent but also very manipulative ,and even though he possesses great physical and magical powers, rarely dirties his hands on his own,usually manipulating the others to do his bidding.

Karlheinz is incapable of affectionate feelings and doesn’t understand love at all even for the frames of his demonic sub-species. He thinks that just like him the others from the demon-kind cannot feel true love either and therefor starts to admire and glorify the mortal human way of feelings even if he is incapable to feel them himself.

Karlheinz views his wives as test subjects for his experiments in creating a new race,and also his sons from them too. He uses everything in his advantage and views his family solely as tools for his utopia goal of a “new race” that he wants to replace the current demons with,in the Demon World,believing this is the only way for that world to be “saved”.

Being extremely intelligent and powerful and lacking deep feelings of affection towards anyone, he has no remorse at all while using his family and hurting them. ,While at the same time,he can feel confused and can show hesitations if his experiments begin to fail. Still, he will be merciless and will dispose of any failed experiment by himself,even if that is his own sons.

Karlheinz appears to be also charming ,and great in manipulating women, promising them everything until he obtains them,as he does to Cordelia wanting to use her as the last remaining First Blood woman .He courts her from very early age and hides from her her true heritage ,even though her existance is part of his plans. He gives her false love and spoils her until she becomes his,and then starts to mentally abuse her and push her to her limits in order for his experiments of cross breeding and then later wanting to use her heart in a human vessel.

To push her to give him children faster he even takes a second wife (Beatrix) to force a competition on her ,and later even marries his close blood relative that he was viewing as direct sister, Christa in order to create also an incest born child for the sake of his experiments again.

Karlheinz is very strict and cruel to his sons,and while he is neglecting them completely through their childhoods,he can order for their punishments if they do something that displeases him. Including imprisoning Laito, sending Shu to the North Pole for repeating a year in high school, or tossing in the middle of the ocean Subaru for breaking a statue. Therefor and mostly because of the neglection and emotional abuse Karl does to their mothers ,most of the Sakamaki hate him deeply.

Karlheinz can show more concern for people who aren’t his own sons,like to the Mukami he saves in order to make them serve him willingly for his experiment.

Karlheinz becomes more and more fascinated and obsessed with the humans during the years ,while punishing endlessly his own kind for their own nature ,even though he realizes they are that way because they have his genes.

History
While we have in the Diabolik Lovers (game) ,the original conception of Karlheinz to be - him being too strong and unchallenged for way too long,hoping to finally have someone strong enough to defeat him in a true battle. Therefor trying to create the strongest offspring .Mentally abusing his wives to break their own sons later so they to become the perfect monsters that can hate and grow strong,and one day one of them through awakening a sacrificial bride to grow strong enough to defeat him.Dreaming for his own death and even trying to push Cordelia to give it to him,but while she loves him deeply,she never does it, even if always speaking about doing it.So he mostly hopes that one of his sons to be able to do it.

In the later AU fandiscs his idea slightly changed. Karlheinz was turned into this scientist who wished to make a project of creating a new race of hybrids between demons and humans,his project that involves one of his sons becoming the “Adam” and awakening the blood of the “Eve” who is a human vessel with the heart of the demon king’s daughter (what we had in More,Blood fandisc).

In DARK FATE, Karl’s history and plan was further explained.

When Mene went to seek a cure for the Endzeit disease from Karlheinz, Karlheinz started to research the genomes and origins of the disease that made the First Blood– ancestor of all the clans of demon races– extinct. Karl predicted that the disease would spread amongst the entire demon race so he searched for a way to stop it. This resulted in the decision to create a new demon breed, one that was more enduring.

Thus, in order for him to create this new race, he decided to mix his blood with the blood of a First Blood woman. However, because Mene was dying from the Endzeit, Karlheinz couldn’t use her and hence sent her to the Demon King. Afterwards, the Demon Lord and Mene had a daughter that inherited her mother’s blood but not the disease- Cordelia. Karlheinz was planning to use her for him to become the first Adam of the new demonic sub-race.

Karlheinz courted Cordelia and tried to sweep her off her feet ever since her early age. He planned to use her for a cross-breeding genetic experiment for creation of the new race. Thus, he manipulated her to gain her trust and love. And because Cordelia lacked the knowledge of parental affection (because she was illegitimate of the Demon Lord and a dead mistress), Karl was able to teach her the false meanings of love. With his own example,he taught her that it was alright to have many lovers and that it was alright to have an incest relationship. He taught her to be cruel in love games as a part of true love.

Wanting to press Cordelia to give him children faster and also wanting to explore other experimentation with his own kind, Karl took a second wife - Beatrix. Failing to become the Adam, Karl indirectly blamed Cordelia; for being incapable to unlock in him deeper feelings and for loving him too ‘demon-like’.

As he was incapable of feeling love, Karlheinz decided that the demon race couldn’t love in general. He began to think that there was no point in saving the demon race at all, and wished to end it to create a new species. After all his vampire sons were born, he began plotting ways to use them as Adam and he began plotting Cordelia’s demise in order to use her heart. It is also revealed that he was working in conjecture with Richter to gain her heart.

Wanting to provide more option for his experimentation, he decided to have a child born out of incest. He decided to marry his close blood relative who was viewed as direct sibling, Christa ,and while her permission was never required for that,she still was happy to become her “older brother’s "bride, wanting to believe that she is the only one he loves and that he only uses his other wives.Which allowed him to have relations with her. When Christa found out about his experiments and she also being a part of them, the strong feelings of hate and love for her brother teared her apart and turned her insane.

As revealed by Karlheinz, everything he did towards his wives was on purpose. He made their lives miserable in order for them to break their own sons. This is because it was inadequate for the experiment to hinge solely on genetics, and therefore the next stage was to make his wives break their own sons in order for his sons not to make proper demonic bonds. This is all calculated so that they would one day learn "human feelings” through the Eve.

In this way, the sole reason Karlheinz had sons was for the benefit of the Adam and Eve Project. Once Adam and Eve awoke, the last stage of the experiment would be enacted: the destruction of the demon kind (as revealed in almost all DARK FATE Sakamaki endings), and the creation of a new race; one that felt and thought like mortal humans, but could use magic and the supernatural like the demon race.

Relationships
Cordelia

Cordelia stated that Karlheinz was the only man she truly loved, and claimed that he was the only man who could fulfill her heart, soul and body. In Dark Fate Cordelia said that when he married her she was happy, because Karlheinz always acceded to her requests and was gentle and kind with her.

However, in truth, Karheinz had planned to marry Cordelia simply to make her his Eve for the creation of a new race. Despite this, Cordelia’s personality was too much like her demon-kind mostly because that was how Karl himself taught her to be, and hence she failed to be Eve (which required the character of a mortal). As a result, Karlheinz started neglecting her, having given up on a failed experiment. According to Cordelia, he told her that he would visit but never came from one moon to the next(in the demon world one day/night period is equal near a month in the human world).

Despite the obvious and constant emotional abuse from Karlheinz, Cordelia refused to believe that Karlheinz didn’t love her, even entering a physical fight with Christa on the subject. This delusion is shattered in Ayato’s DARK FATE route when Carla Tsukinami tells her that Karlheinz could have resurrected her but didn’t, causing her to break down in tears,after he revealed her the whole truth of her heritage and the meaning for Karl’s experiments with her.

Beatrix

She was the first to conceive Karl’s eldest sons. Not much was said about his relationship with Beatrix, but because Karl was incapable of love, he probably did not love her. He probably only married Beatrix to push Cordelia to have children.

Christa

Christa was a close blood relative of Karlheinz,most likely his first cousin who was viewing him and loving him as a direct sibling (her big brother). Christa was revealed to have believed that Karlheinz loved her, and thus was happy to marry him. However, when she realized that she was used to produce a child born out of incest for the sake of Karl’s experiments, the conflict between her love and hate for Karlheinz drove her insane.At one side viewing him as her "kind beloved big brother” and at the other as “that man who dirtied and used her”.

In Subaru’s DARK FATE route, she is constantly seen calling for her 'nii-sama’ during her psychotic episodes, and as a result needs Subaru to calm her down. She constantly mistakes Subaru when he grows up for Karlheinz,which makes her either hate him or love him the way she does Karl.

Abilities
Karlheinz possesses all the racial abilities of a pure born vampire(bat clan). He also possesses the highest level of magic in the Demon World. His power is considered by his race and his sons as “God-like”. He is the creator of the “eternal flowers” ,and also the one that creates a new race of cross-breed between human and demons. Karlheinz’s unleashed magic can destroy the Demon World,setting it on fire and killing most of the inhabitants there. The only way to kill him is through cutting his head off with a special blade.

Time Manipulation- As proven in many Dark Fate routes, if Karl doesn’t like an outcome, he can keep rewinding time until he gets the correct outcome.

Shapeshifting- Karl is seen to be able to shape shift and change his appearance to any look he wants.