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| “ | Anyone who goes against me is an enemy! even if this person...is my own child, understood? | „ |
| ~ Giesbach intimidating Carla while he tries to aid Krone after he hits her. |
Giesbach is a posthumous antagonist of the Diabolik Lovers series. The late King of the First Bloods and father of Carla and Shin Tsukinami, his pride and envy led him to a destructive path that culminated in the near-extinction of the First Bloods and death at the hands of Carla.
What makes him a Hate Sink?[]
- Since Carla's birth, Giesbach would torment and abuse him under the guise of training, all because of fear and paranoia that he could take the throne from him in spite of Carla looking up to him and seeking his approval.
- Through Shin was treated better, being sent to train in Banmaden, it was very likely because Giesbach did not see him as a potential threat to his rule.
- His lack of concern over Shin losing an eye after a incident on territory outside his control heavily implies this.
- While Karlheinz used to be his friend, Giesbach's pride and paranoia would lead him to madness, resulting in his decision to declare war out of petty envy.
- His hollow "affection" for Shin resulted in the development of an inferiority complex that caused a diplomatic incident where Carla humilhated himself to save his brother, and Shin lost his left eye, not showing any hint of sadness or horror later.
- When Carla shows off a new magical ability he developed, Giesbach angrily sends him to a dungeon.
- Plans to wage a war against Karlheinz out of envy, in spite of not only Karlheinz having more allies and a numerical advantage, but Endzeit, a fatal contagious disease that only affected First Bloods, beginning to spread, because of his arrogant belief that the Founders (and himself by extension) were invincible.
- When Krone calls him out for endangering the future of his own people out of jealousy, Giesbach angrily hits her and says anyone that contradicts his decision is an enemy, before ordering Carla to lock her in the dungeons.
- Plans to have Karlheinz and Carla killed in the war while not joining in the fighting himself.
- His disastrous decisions caused Krone to conspire against him, giving in her dying breath a knife covered with her Endzeit-infected blood to Carla so he can kill Giesbach and save the Founders.
- Giesbach's legacy as a king was the near-extinction (Or complete depending on player choice) of his people with his sons being the only survivors, all because he could not stand a "inferior" individual being more powerful and talented than him.
- His own death at Carla's hands portrayed his sons as sympathetic instead of him, as his actions caused deep psychological scars on them, Carla being overwhelmed with guilt and Shin turning into a sadistic social darwinist. Besides, Carla accidentally infected himself with Endzeit through the knife and is slowly dying when the events of DARK FATE begin, making Giesbach responsible for his own son's death posthumously in some endings too.
- In spite of his short screentime, Giesbach's egotistical personality, petty motives for his actions and having no likeable traits or mitigating factors establish him as a Hate Sink.
- In spite of the main characters of the Diabolik Lovers series often doing detestable acts, they are always portrayed as sympathetic with Freudian Excuses, can potentially redeem themselves or at least treat the heroine better, while Giesbach is shown only as a loathsome tyrant that doomed his people because of envy.
External Links[]
- Giesbach on the Villains Wiki
- Giesbach on the Diabolik Lovers Wiki