Barbl Hansen



Pauli's elder sister, by about 3 and a half years. She is now married to Udo Hansen, and had twin daughters.

As children, she and Pauli never got along. Nobody is entirely sure when or where it started; she was excited to be a big sister when he was first born, apparently. As children she would try to 'lose' him, and he would bite back. Literally until he was slapped for it. By the time the two were teenagers, things only got worse, leading to them being banned from seeing one another unsupervised.

Even when she left to study in Munich, philosophy if you wanted to know, they still hadn't had a 'civil' conversation; when Pauli was finally disowned, she assisted their father in shouting him out of town.

Pauli's attempts to contact her resulted in the pair starting at around about where they left off, with insults about both Pauli and his former wife being thrown around, and the bait being caught. Eventually they managed to settle into something resembling a civil conversation, agreeing that all they ever needed from one another was to know they were alive.

I'm not sure either of them have noticed yet, but its sort of funny how the person the child Pauli was hated most was the other sibling who moved away, got married and stopped speaking to the rest of the family regularly. Just, Barbl managed it better.