Can't get this outta my head... [Spoilers]

[Jinrya-Geki]

Sorry, I don't know what IRL character in WW2 you are recalling

Hitler, he started out a painter. But was laughed at for it and became a political leader. Alphinaud is practically doing the same thing.

[Belhi]

Hitler, he started out a painter. But was laughed at for it and became a political leader. Alphinaud is practically doing the same thing.

Not really. Alphinaud was a child prodigy from a high class family who apparently learned to draw to impress girls, which would have probably been when he was between 11 and 14.

[Gilraen]

Hitler, he started out a painter. But was laughed at for it and became a political leader. Alphinaud is practically doing the same thing.

Practically isn't the same. Further, one started as a down-and-out painter whereas Alphinaud hasn't know a single down-and-out day in his life till 2.5 where his silver-spoons-everywhere upbringing reared it's head for all to see. Again, one is so very not the other... and the nanny spared the rod way too much.