Since we're still lacking Hermann and Newt's bios, I try to look at Guillermo del Toro's other work for ideas of what he might have had in mind for them - because if the man really likes an idea, he'll inevitably revisit it.
Today I took a quick gander into the Trollhunters novel (written by Guillermo del Toro and Daniel Kraus) and saw this little bit that I think Hermann Gottlieb enjoyers might like:
She came from across the pond. Oh, I forgot to mention that. Claire Fontaine came from the UK. That’s right—the girl had an accent. I think you’re starting to get the picture here.
All I can say is that Europeans must be way ahead of us in math. That’s the only explanation for the way Claire tore apart equations. You could see the chalk crumbling to dust in her fist. When she was done—it never failed—she slammed a period on the end of the equation like she was finishing a sentence.
“Punctuation remains unnecessary,” Pinkton said. “But nice job, Claire.”
She exhaled like she’d just pinned an opponent. As she took up the eraser and wiped the board clean, Pinkton wrote a new line of gibberish and began surveying the class for the next casualty.
