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player info.
name/handle: Lisa
contact info: AIM: kareiniouen
personal journal: sunflowerraven
previous characters: N/A
character info.
character name: Alfred F. Jones (America)
canon & medium: Axis Powers Hetalia
age & species: Appears 19, is actually 234. He's a nation, but he appears human.
appearance: Here
previous rpg memories: None.
timeline: 2010, during the Gulf Crisis
background/history link: Hetalia Link
Once upon a time, there was a little blond boy running around in what was only known as the 'New World'. He ended up being fought over between France and England, but ended up going with England because he pitied him. England raised this little nation, naming him 'America', though primarily left him alone in his big, scary house, to fend for himself. Occasionally he'd visit and bring him clothes, but after his first 'growth spurt' (meaning: when the 13 original colonies were formed), he had to start bringing bigger clothes. Of course, England, like a good father, had no idea that America was growing up so fast. Or how he was changing since he primarily lived so far away and focused mostly on his affairs across the ocean. Gradually, America's people began to feel unrest and resentment for the crown, and America was fueled by that, primarily feeling jealousy and loneliness. This cycle completed until finally America rebelled, and after a simple protest to get England's attention (Boston Tea Party, of course) it ended in his Revolutionary War. And the Declaration of Independence, of course, which was America's whiny way of saying he wanted to be recognized by England as his own, separate nation.
It was a heavy price to pay, and nearly completely destroyed America's relationship with the nation who raised him. But now he was on his own, and focusing on his own internal affairs. His bosses encouraged him to stay isolated from the world and to stay protected, and for a while he agreed, still bitter over the way he was treated. He expanded his territory westward, and experienced his second growth spurt, as well as a Civil War, which he doesn't like to talk about as it deals with his personality splitting in half and.. yeah. Gradually, his relations with England improved (despite him supporting the Confederacy, seriously, who does that), and by that I mean they were able to talk, though he did a good job at sticking his nose in England's business and enforcing treaties like the 'Most Favored Nation' policy that made it mandatory for nations that traded to England trade with him as well. Which more or less results in 'HEY JAPAN, I WANT YOUR WHALES'! Because that is what America's boss meant when he said 'go to Japan and gain access to your whales'. It had nothing to do with whaling in general. Oh, and 'westernizing' Japan occurs here as well, because nothing says 'lets be friends' than forcing your policies on someone.
World War I occurs, and initially, America is torn. Though he doesn't want to help out England, he does want to help out the rest of the world. America's bosses let him enter later on, though since his resources weren't as worn out as the rest of the world's, he was able to sweep in and 'claim victory'. The first taste of winning a war was exhilarating, and America wanted more of it. He'd have his chance during the second World War, when once again his bosses were delaying due to multiple reasons and torn perspectives.
When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, however, it was on. American pride took hold, and once again America got to play the hero, rushing into war late and beating the stuffing out of what remained of the Axis powers. Of course, this involved the whole 'bombings' thing, which while he was 'proud' of it at the time, inwardly it pained him to watch bombs fall on his old friend and to be the cause of it, too. Oh, if only he had enough red paint. (Reference to, of course, him being sent to Japan's to paint Mount Fuji red to deter Japanese from fighting back) Regardless, America forces Japan to surrender and the war is won! America is now twice as awesome because he has won two world wars for Europe, because they are useless without him. He has also managed to secure himself as the world's Hegemon, rightfully taking it from England, and becoming a super power. His bosses do wonders at egging him on, and it is no surprise that America is the lovable, loud, arrogant and ignorant nation he is.
Second world war is over, and Germany gets a slap on the wrist by the allies. A pretty hefty slap on the wrist, of course, which involved losing his military and most of his territory bye, Prussia to Russia, since Russia lives in the area anyway and he's technically a good guy even if he's a bit psychotic, so sure, why not?
Only this proves to be a really bad idea, because despite being an Ally, Russia is also powerful, also technically vying for super power status, and is also communist. Plus, he's intent on turning everyone into a Satellite State, and making them communist. Which America doesn't allow, because everyone should obviously be capitalist and a democracy, because that's what he is! And, as history has shown him before, he is always right. Even if he is wrong, which he never is because heroes are always right.
So starts the Cold War, which becomes this mud slinging ordeal between America and Russia over who is more evil. And the space race, of course, though America's convinced he won since he was the first to the moon. The Cold War is mostly paranoia and influence over aspects of the world that America does not understand, but since he's young and bold and brash enough, he's more than willing to kick Russia in the shins until he surrenders and becomes what America wants him to be. Of course, this is also during the start of the whole 'hippie' era, with freedom of expression and rights and drug use going on in his place that only encourages his selfish, reckless behavior.
Most of America's history has been him going from being sheltered and isolated to getting involved in everyone's business. And considering his 'winning streak', it's very easy to see how blinded he became by his own policies and ideals that they are correct. If they are all that you know, then of course they are correct.
The paranoia that Russia was evil and was going to turn the whole world evil was only encouragement. Thankfully, his 'commie search' didn't result in World War III, but as usual, it didn't take long before the Cold War calmed down and America grew bored chasing communists and focused on something else.
Time passed, and with it came a few more wars. Terrorists attacked his house, claimed the lives of his people, leaving new scars and opening new wounds and paranoia. A recession that leaves America sick, and countless of his citizens homeless and jobless. A new boss is elected, one that is just as revolutionary with his thinking as America is. One that is pushing him in a forward direction, while conflict begins to arise about his ways of thinking.
And then, the BP oil spill. One of England's oil companies 'spills' oil into one of America's gulf. The two nations were already on tight terms, but England wouldn't even acknowledge it was his fault. The CEO? Refused to answer questions. As if America wasn't frustrated enough.. now he had to clean up his mess again?
personality: America is the HERO. And he will not let you forget it, either. Of course, how he acts makes him come off as more annoying than heroic, and he tends to play up his 'accomplishments' to a degree that makes them far from the truth. He is loud, nosy, very 'in your face', and tends to brag about every little thing he does. Throw in the fact that he is very oblivious and ignorant to other nations, but gets involved with everyone else's problems as he is the hero, and fixing the world's problems is what he does.
He has a wild imagination, to the point that stuff that isn't scary to him freaks him out (ex: ghosts, pictures that should have ghosts but obviously don't), and stuff that should scare him doesn't (ex: Pyramid Head, Heartless, aliens, monsters that bleed from their eyes, etc). His imagination carries over into his 'plans' to 'fix the world', though he loves adding giant robots to everything.
He loves burgers, himself, and can bend time and space to access Google on a laptop, regardless of what year he's from. He also has a pet whale and an alien living in his house.
He also loves picking on England. There is so much tsundere involved it can't possibly be healthy. It's mostly because he doesn't want to admit he actually enjoys England's 'friendship', and acts like he'd do better without it, and yet.. still goes to him frequently for advice.
abilities: America's main ability is that his strength is super human. He can lift cars and buffalo without breaking a sweat, and actually doesn't know the extent of his own strength. (A pun on the country in reality.) Besides this, he is also a nation: he heals quicker, has a more durable immune system (nations only get sick when their economy suffers) and is extremely hard to kill off, despite looking like a human.
any plans for your character here? To be the hero, of course!
possessions: His bomber jacket, his military uniform, his dog tags, two guns, some bullets, and his glasses.
samples.
sample journal entry: Link from another RP
third-person sample:
America's view on the Cold War:
Boss was talking, as he tended to do, especially in front of his government and other important officials. And as America tended to do, he tried to stay focused and pay attention. Missiles. Russia was hiding missiles away. But why? How did he get hold of them? And why were they talking about it? America tried not to move too much in his seat as he listened to Kennedy discuss what the next plan of action was. At least listening to his bosses was infinitely more interesting than listening to England ramble on something that didn't even pertain to America or his interests, but it still involved too much talking and not a lot of doing.
America adored Kennedy, as far as bosses went. He was definitely up there, when it came to favorite bosses, and he's had many so that definitely said something. But even so, all this talk was boring. He didn't win two world wars for nothing! So what made Russia different? Why couldn't he just walk up to Russia and punch him in the face? Or shoot him or drop bombs on him or-
Well, the bombs were a last ditch effort. But they worked on making Germany behave, and made Japan significantly less crazy. Who really cared about the future ramifications of it all? It worked now. They could deal with the future when it came. Was it better to give the communists an advantage now, than force them to convert to the sane morals of democracy and capitalism and deal with other things later?
Why is there so much talking involved?
Tensions were high, and the young nation could feel it. America sighed through his teeth, and scribbled on the notebook in front of him, drawing little doodles of him being all heroic (self portraits, really) and a deformed, dead Russia on the ground at his feet.
Things would be so much easier if they did things his way.
name/handle: Lisa
contact info: AIM: kareiniouen
personal journal: sunflowerraven
previous characters: N/A
character info.
character name: Alfred F. Jones (America)
canon & medium: Axis Powers Hetalia
age & species: Appears 19, is actually 234. He's a nation, but he appears human.
appearance: Here
previous rpg memories: None.
timeline: 2010, during the Gulf Crisis
background/history link: Hetalia Link
Once upon a time, there was a little blond boy running around in what was only known as the 'New World'. He ended up being fought over between France and England, but ended up going with England because he pitied him. England raised this little nation, naming him 'America', though primarily left him alone in his big, scary house, to fend for himself. Occasionally he'd visit and bring him clothes, but after his first 'growth spurt' (meaning: when the 13 original colonies were formed), he had to start bringing bigger clothes. Of course, England, like a good father, had no idea that America was growing up so fast. Or how he was changing since he primarily lived so far away and focused mostly on his affairs across the ocean. Gradually, America's people began to feel unrest and resentment for the crown, and America was fueled by that, primarily feeling jealousy and loneliness. This cycle completed until finally America rebelled, and after a simple protest to get England's attention (Boston Tea Party, of course) it ended in his Revolutionary War. And the Declaration of Independence, of course, which was America's whiny way of saying he wanted to be recognized by England as his own, separate nation.
It was a heavy price to pay, and nearly completely destroyed America's relationship with the nation who raised him. But now he was on his own, and focusing on his own internal affairs. His bosses encouraged him to stay isolated from the world and to stay protected, and for a while he agreed, still bitter over the way he was treated. He expanded his territory westward, and experienced his second growth spurt, as well as a Civil War, which he doesn't like to talk about as it deals with his personality splitting in half and.. yeah. Gradually, his relations with England improved (despite him supporting the Confederacy, seriously, who does that), and by that I mean they were able to talk, though he did a good job at sticking his nose in England's business and enforcing treaties like the 'Most Favored Nation' policy that made it mandatory for nations that traded to England trade with him as well. Which more or less results in 'HEY JAPAN, I WANT YOUR WHALES'! Because that is what America's boss meant when he said 'go to Japan and gain access to your whales'. It had nothing to do with whaling in general. Oh, and 'westernizing' Japan occurs here as well, because nothing says 'lets be friends' than forcing your policies on someone.
World War I occurs, and initially, America is torn. Though he doesn't want to help out England, he does want to help out the rest of the world. America's bosses let him enter later on, though since his resources weren't as worn out as the rest of the world's, he was able to sweep in and 'claim victory'. The first taste of winning a war was exhilarating, and America wanted more of it. He'd have his chance during the second World War, when once again his bosses were delaying due to multiple reasons and torn perspectives.
When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, however, it was on. American pride took hold, and once again America got to play the hero, rushing into war late and beating the stuffing out of what remained of the Axis powers. Of course, this involved the whole 'bombings' thing, which while he was 'proud' of it at the time, inwardly it pained him to watch bombs fall on his old friend and to be the cause of it, too. Oh, if only he had enough red paint. (Reference to, of course, him being sent to Japan's to paint Mount Fuji red to deter Japanese from fighting back) Regardless, America forces Japan to surrender and the war is won! America is now twice as awesome because he has won two world wars for Europe, because they are useless without him. He has also managed to secure himself as the world's Hegemon, rightfully taking it from England, and becoming a super power. His bosses do wonders at egging him on, and it is no surprise that America is the lovable, loud, arrogant and ignorant nation he is.
Second world war is over, and Germany gets a slap on the wrist by the allies. A pretty hefty slap on the wrist, of course, which involved losing his military and most of his territory bye, Prussia to Russia, since Russia lives in the area anyway and he's technically a good guy even if he's a bit psychotic, so sure, why not?
Only this proves to be a really bad idea, because despite being an Ally, Russia is also powerful, also technically vying for super power status, and is also communist. Plus, he's intent on turning everyone into a Satellite State, and making them communist. Which America doesn't allow, because everyone should obviously be capitalist and a democracy, because that's what he is! And, as history has shown him before, he is always right. Even if he is wrong, which he never is because heroes are always right.
So starts the Cold War, which becomes this mud slinging ordeal between America and Russia over who is more evil. And the space race, of course, though America's convinced he won since he was the first to the moon. The Cold War is mostly paranoia and influence over aspects of the world that America does not understand, but since he's young and bold and brash enough, he's more than willing to kick Russia in the shins until he surrenders and becomes what America wants him to be. Of course, this is also during the start of the whole 'hippie' era, with freedom of expression and rights and drug use going on in his place that only encourages his selfish, reckless behavior.
Most of America's history has been him going from being sheltered and isolated to getting involved in everyone's business. And considering his 'winning streak', it's very easy to see how blinded he became by his own policies and ideals that they are correct. If they are all that you know, then of course they are correct.
The paranoia that Russia was evil and was going to turn the whole world evil was only encouragement. Thankfully, his 'commie search' didn't result in World War III, but as usual, it didn't take long before the Cold War calmed down and America grew bored chasing communists and focused on something else.
Time passed, and with it came a few more wars. Terrorists attacked his house, claimed the lives of his people, leaving new scars and opening new wounds and paranoia. A recession that leaves America sick, and countless of his citizens homeless and jobless. A new boss is elected, one that is just as revolutionary with his thinking as America is. One that is pushing him in a forward direction, while conflict begins to arise about his ways of thinking.
And then, the BP oil spill. One of England's oil companies 'spills' oil into one of America's gulf. The two nations were already on tight terms, but England wouldn't even acknowledge it was his fault. The CEO? Refused to answer questions. As if America wasn't frustrated enough.. now he had to clean up his mess again?
personality: America is the HERO. And he will not let you forget it, either. Of course, how he acts makes him come off as more annoying than heroic, and he tends to play up his 'accomplishments' to a degree that makes them far from the truth. He is loud, nosy, very 'in your face', and tends to brag about every little thing he does. Throw in the fact that he is very oblivious and ignorant to other nations, but gets involved with everyone else's problems as he is the hero, and fixing the world's problems is what he does.
He has a wild imagination, to the point that stuff that isn't scary to him freaks him out (ex: ghosts, pictures that should have ghosts but obviously don't), and stuff that should scare him doesn't (ex: Pyramid Head, Heartless, aliens, monsters that bleed from their eyes, etc). His imagination carries over into his 'plans' to 'fix the world', though he loves adding giant robots to everything.
He loves burgers, himself, and can bend time and space to access Google on a laptop, regardless of what year he's from. He also has a pet whale and an alien living in his house.
He also loves picking on England. There is so much tsundere involved it can't possibly be healthy. It's mostly because he doesn't want to admit he actually enjoys England's 'friendship', and acts like he'd do better without it, and yet.. still goes to him frequently for advice.
abilities: America's main ability is that his strength is super human. He can lift cars and buffalo without breaking a sweat, and actually doesn't know the extent of his own strength. (A pun on the country in reality.) Besides this, he is also a nation: he heals quicker, has a more durable immune system (nations only get sick when their economy suffers) and is extremely hard to kill off, despite looking like a human.
any plans for your character here? To be the hero, of course!
possessions: His bomber jacket, his military uniform, his dog tags, two guns, some bullets, and his glasses.
samples.
sample journal entry: Link from another RP
third-person sample:
America's view on the Cold War:
Boss was talking, as he tended to do, especially in front of his government and other important officials. And as America tended to do, he tried to stay focused and pay attention. Missiles. Russia was hiding missiles away. But why? How did he get hold of them? And why were they talking about it? America tried not to move too much in his seat as he listened to Kennedy discuss what the next plan of action was. At least listening to his bosses was infinitely more interesting than listening to England ramble on something that didn't even pertain to America or his interests, but it still involved too much talking and not a lot of doing.
America adored Kennedy, as far as bosses went. He was definitely up there, when it came to favorite bosses, and he's had many so that definitely said something. But even so, all this talk was boring. He didn't win two world wars for nothing! So what made Russia different? Why couldn't he just walk up to Russia and punch him in the face? Or shoot him or drop bombs on him or-
Well, the bombs were a last ditch effort. But they worked on making Germany behave, and made Japan significantly less crazy. Who really cared about the future ramifications of it all? It worked now. They could deal with the future when it came. Was it better to give the communists an advantage now, than force them to convert to the sane morals of democracy and capitalism and deal with other things later?
Why is there so much talking involved?
Tensions were high, and the young nation could feel it. America sighed through his teeth, and scribbled on the notebook in front of him, drawing little doodles of him being all heroic (self portraits, really) and a deformed, dead Russia on the ground at his feet.
Things would be so much easier if they did things his way.