Splendor Application
The Application Player Information:
Name: Aly
Journal: emo_viking_jil
Method of Contact: my AIM is adaniellec
Previous characters: N/A
Character Information:
Full Name: Ivan Braginsky | Rossiyskaya Federatsiya | the Russian Federation
Series: Axis Powers Hetalia
Canon point: Russia’s being taken from modern times, around mid 2011.
Age: Appears 21, but is actually really, really, old.
Species: Nation-person.
Appearance/PB: Official Uniform, Modern Clothes, and varying others
Appearance upon arrival: This
History:
Previous RP memories: I’m bringing Russia from Vanishing Point, so he’ll have around a year worth of memories from over there.
Bringing someone along?: N/A
Character History: Wikipedia page, Hetalia-wiki page, and Hetalia shoutwiki page.
For about a year, Russia was taken to The Vanishing Point. This was an island suspended in time. The people who landed there had somehow managed to corrupt their timelines and had to find a way to fix it so that they could leave. The people were taken from times and worlds of every kind, and while a few nations did pop up (America, France, Germany and Estonia) they didn’t stay for very long. In the end, Russia and Estonia were the last two nations there. Russia became a sort of hermit through this, he played his cello, talked to a few people, and practically lived among the small field of sunflowers that the Island had.
That said, Vanishing Point still had some very strong influences on Russia. While he was there he quickly managed to meet several people who weren’t afraid of him off the bat and even managed to form a strong friendship with Firo Prochainezo, going so far as to adopt him as one of his ‘children’. Firo ended up being the strongest influence on Russia because he was a constant. Being so close to each other in distance they ended up talking and spending long periods of time with each other. Eventually Russia took it upon himself to take care of Firo, mothering him in various ways and even attempting to teach him life lessons- some of which are not completely moral in a sense.
In turn, Firo took care of Russia and showed him how it felt to have someone who believed in you fully. In fact, even though he had barely met him, Firo stood up for Russia when America- thinking he was acting in one of own his citizen’s best regards- warned him away, going so far as to pull a knife on the nation. Russia wasn’t there to see this in person but when told of this later on he found it hilarious, mostly because even though he’s been told by his bosses to behave he’s still a jerk and likes to mess with people. And one of America’s citizens turning on him and defending his enemy definitely classes as messing with people. America and Russia wound up only messing with each other a few times before America left, but while he was there, Russia took it upon himself to taunt the other nation. France too, left fairly quickly, but Russia had enough time to creeper at him and gather information about the island.
It seemed that in no time at all, the peaceful island was gone. Vanishing Point took it upon itself to test its occupants in either an attempt for them to figure out the problem with their timeline, or because it just liked messing with people. No one was sure which it is exactly. That said, the first bit of fun left half the occupants de-aged one week, and taking care of the new group of de-aged people the next. Russia found himself taken from the grasp of the Golden Horde. While his smaller self was running around, being a teary eyed not-yet-nation and finding out all sorts of new inventions the future held (Such as cameras, gramophones, radios, and even faucets that bring people water) he also made a few friends in a younger Leonardo Da Vinci, and Firo.
Firo, as I said before, was the main effect on Russia, throughout the events and various freak outs Russia went through, he managed to still stubbornly cling to his side. In essence he became something like Russia’s support. This continued throughout his stay in Vanishing Point and when they went home and all he could remember were blurred dreamlike memories of his year there he still subconsciously knew he had someone there. Because of this he was able to form a sort of less insane life for himself. He’s still not all there, however, but that’s another story for another day.
Personality:
Russia is not an easily overlooked character. This is mostly because despite his “sweet and innocent face” he’s always got a semi-creepy aura around him. In the comic and anime this is shown by purple waves emanating from his body. These waves are usually accompanied by a crazed look and a chorus of an odd ‘KolKolKol’ laughter. Even when he isn’t going crazy like this he gives off an uneasy vibe which-when coupled with his sometimes childlike personality- seems almost worse.
Russia’s past has not been the best, and because of the strain it held on him his mentality fractured. It was not until the “Bloody Sunday” horror, however, that his mind truly cracked. He reverted to a childlike persona to hide himself from the horrors he had seen and committed. This mask grew stronger and more prominent with the World wars and all the deaths he felt. However, it was not till Stalin’s reign that he succumbed to feelings of worthlessness and self-loathing. All of this compounded and his mentality fractured. His mind split into pieces. It’s during this time that he was at his cruelest. In the manga he was shown to have physically abused Lithuania but Russia himself is unaware of his malicious actions.
Either way, from this point on he swiveled from an extremely childlike persona, a meek, subservient one usually only brought on by his boss, a cold, sharp persona and a shadow of his former self. In fact, it’s quite possible that he had developed a form of multiple personality disorder. This disorder was heaviest while Stalin was alive, but continued on until the fall of the Soviet Union. After the fall his personality switches became less intense, and occurred less often. These personality switches still occur now days, and are usually brought on by intense emotion. He sometimes has flashbacks and slips into his childlike persona at times.
That said, Russia’s time in Vanishing Point served to mellow him out a bit. Mostly because of the friendship he found in Firo who promised to take care of him if he went crazy again. Because of his few flashbacks and personality switches seemingly never change the way Firo felt about his adoptive ‘mama’ Russia was able to grasp a better grasp on himself and try to stop these changes from happening as often or being as intense. However, he’s still a creeper and a bit of a jerk. He sometimes goes out of his way to tease others, especially if he knows them well.
Now that Russia’s crazy factor has been explained it’s easier to delve into the ‘man behind the mask’. Russia’s pretty good at pulling up a stoic mask, mostly because of the things that happened to him in the past and the fact that he’s been schooled to show no weakness. Lately he’s been able to smile a bit more naturally but he still keeps his emotions very tight to his chest. If he trusts you enough- something that’s pretty hard to accomplish- then he is willing to show his true emotions and not cover everything up with an ever present smile and twisting words. It’s rare, but it does happen every so often.
A major part of Russia’s personality are taken up by his abandonment issues and his want to have tons of people around him, unfortunately for him his past and his creep factor tend to scare away the others. His sisters too do not stay with him, Ukraine is often kept away because she owes him something (like gas money) or her boss has forbidden her from giving him anything. Belarus is a bit of a different issue, mostly because she has a strange, overbearing obsession for him and wants him to marry her. Russia is often scared away from his youngest sister even if he does still care for her. Despite these things his dream is to one day live with everyone in a warm place with sunflowers.
Russia is an intelligent nation-man, and mighty observant, but he can also be childishly naïve at times. He’s got a lot of childish possessiveness and if he has some one under his rule, so to say, he doesn’t like to share. He tends to hoard people in a sense, and is extremely protective of those he deems as his.
Russia learned to rely on himself after the Mongol invasion and thus, he trained extensively to become strong enough to protect himself, his sisters, and his people. Because of this he became a strong warrior and developed a calculating outlook on people. Russia was already quite intelligent, but through his training he started to develop a strategist side. He can look at people the way that chess masters look at pawns, and sometimes is a firm believer in “For the greater good.”
The cold war brought about a great amount of paranoia in Russia. This has not fully gone away, for instance, he still carries a TT30 on his person at all times. Another thing the Cold War truly drew out was Russia’s intimidation factor. Before hand he’d been regarded with suspicion and some fear, but that doubled during the Cold War. Even years after the Soviet Union’s fall, Russia is still regarded with suspicion and fear. This isn’t helped by the fact that despite being a part of Eurasia he was pretty much always separated from the other countries due to his land’s coldness and such. His lands are part of Europe, and part of Asia, but he doesn’t really seem to belong to either of them so he finds himself within his own little corner of the world. This helps to make it so he doesn’t really understand the other nations, and they don’t really understand him. He doesn’t really have good relationships with them, and they in turn distrust and scurry away from him.
Extra:
Character Abilities: He can withstand things that normal humans can’t and he can ‘feel’ his people. His healing is also faster than normal humans. But that’s about it.
Possessions: Russia comes equipped with an iron pipe, a TT30 Like the paranoid nation he is, and an ever present scarf.
Anything else: He’s the anthropomorphic version of the Russian Federation. Aside from that, nothing really~
Samples:
Action/Communication thread or post sample: Here
Log/Prose sample:
It was a bit odd how the duality of nations worked sometimes. Russia stood at the large bay window, looking down at the crowd of his people. He heard their cries shiver past the window panes, just a faint brush against his hearing but within seconds he could lose himself in their minds, hear the roar of the crowd, the crush of bodies pressed together against the cold and the empire.
The guards were getting nervous- he could feel that too, the heady rush of panic settling in- and Russia wondered if his royal family would be taken away soon, protected.
Part of him whole-heartedly wanted that. Another part railed against the injustice of the Empire, the cruelty his (Their) rulers held against him (them). He brushed gloved fingers against his temple, winced at the frantic drum beat in his head.
His control was failing; it was always hard to keep himself separate enough when turmoil was on his people’s minds. With a growl he turned from the window.
He could still feel them, always would, and he knew what was happening. The protestors were peaceful he was sure, he had felt it, knew that they would flee instead of fight but the thrum of armed-guard-panic in his veins was a forewarning.
“Mr. Russia?”
Lithuania’s voice was always soothing, even though Russia could see the barely concealed fear in his eyes. It was hidden well behind his concern but Russia knew it was there.
“Lithuania, we don’t want children who can’t play nice, right?”
Russia turned from Lithuania’s rapidly paling face. He blinked the tears from his eyes and opened the window in front of him. Snow whipped inside and swirled around him as he grasped his rifle from against the wall where he’d left it. Vaguely he heard Lithuania’s worried protest, but he didn’t bother to acknowledge the other nation as he hefted the gun and aimed out at the crowd.
Why can’t they understand what I’ve done for them?
Russia felt the recoil of the rifle, and the phantom pain of bullets riddling his body as the guards shot into the crowd. But he’d never forget that he was the one who’d started it. That first bullet through the heart.
Name: Aly
Journal: emo_viking_jil
Method of Contact: my AIM is adaniellec
Previous characters: N/A
Character Information:
Full Name: Ivan Braginsky | Rossiyskaya Federatsiya | the Russian Federation
Series: Axis Powers Hetalia
Canon point: Russia’s being taken from modern times, around mid 2011.
Age: Appears 21, but is actually really, really, old.
Species: Nation-person.
Appearance/PB: Official Uniform, Modern Clothes, and varying others
Appearance upon arrival: This
History:
Previous RP memories: I’m bringing Russia from Vanishing Point, so he’ll have around a year worth of memories from over there.
Bringing someone along?: N/A
Character History: Wikipedia page, Hetalia-wiki page, and Hetalia shoutwiki page.
For about a year, Russia was taken to The Vanishing Point. This was an island suspended in time. The people who landed there had somehow managed to corrupt their timelines and had to find a way to fix it so that they could leave. The people were taken from times and worlds of every kind, and while a few nations did pop up (America, France, Germany and Estonia) they didn’t stay for very long. In the end, Russia and Estonia were the last two nations there. Russia became a sort of hermit through this, he played his cello, talked to a few people, and practically lived among the small field of sunflowers that the Island had.
That said, Vanishing Point still had some very strong influences on Russia. While he was there he quickly managed to meet several people who weren’t afraid of him off the bat and even managed to form a strong friendship with Firo Prochainezo, going so far as to adopt him as one of his ‘children’. Firo ended up being the strongest influence on Russia because he was a constant. Being so close to each other in distance they ended up talking and spending long periods of time with each other. Eventually Russia took it upon himself to take care of Firo, mothering him in various ways and even attempting to teach him life lessons- some of which are not completely moral in a sense.
In turn, Firo took care of Russia and showed him how it felt to have someone who believed in you fully. In fact, even though he had barely met him, Firo stood up for Russia when America- thinking he was acting in one of own his citizen’s best regards- warned him away, going so far as to pull a knife on the nation. Russia wasn’t there to see this in person but when told of this later on he found it hilarious, mostly because even though he’s been told by his bosses to behave he’s still a jerk and likes to mess with people. And one of America’s citizens turning on him and defending his enemy definitely classes as messing with people. America and Russia wound up only messing with each other a few times before America left, but while he was there, Russia took it upon himself to taunt the other nation. France too, left fairly quickly, but Russia had enough time to creeper at him and gather information about the island.
It seemed that in no time at all, the peaceful island was gone. Vanishing Point took it upon itself to test its occupants in either an attempt for them to figure out the problem with their timeline, or because it just liked messing with people. No one was sure which it is exactly. That said, the first bit of fun left half the occupants de-aged one week, and taking care of the new group of de-aged people the next. Russia found himself taken from the grasp of the Golden Horde. While his smaller self was running around, being a teary eyed not-yet-nation and finding out all sorts of new inventions the future held (Such as cameras, gramophones, radios, and even faucets that bring people water) he also made a few friends in a younger Leonardo Da Vinci, and Firo.
Firo, as I said before, was the main effect on Russia, throughout the events and various freak outs Russia went through, he managed to still stubbornly cling to his side. In essence he became something like Russia’s support. This continued throughout his stay in Vanishing Point and when they went home and all he could remember were blurred dreamlike memories of his year there he still subconsciously knew he had someone there. Because of this he was able to form a sort of less insane life for himself. He’s still not all there, however, but that’s another story for another day.
Personality:
Russia is not an easily overlooked character. This is mostly because despite his “sweet and innocent face” he’s always got a semi-creepy aura around him. In the comic and anime this is shown by purple waves emanating from his body. These waves are usually accompanied by a crazed look and a chorus of an odd ‘KolKolKol’ laughter. Even when he isn’t going crazy like this he gives off an uneasy vibe which-when coupled with his sometimes childlike personality- seems almost worse.
Russia’s past has not been the best, and because of the strain it held on him his mentality fractured. It was not until the “Bloody Sunday” horror, however, that his mind truly cracked. He reverted to a childlike persona to hide himself from the horrors he had seen and committed. This mask grew stronger and more prominent with the World wars and all the deaths he felt. However, it was not till Stalin’s reign that he succumbed to feelings of worthlessness and self-loathing. All of this compounded and his mentality fractured. His mind split into pieces. It’s during this time that he was at his cruelest. In the manga he was shown to have physically abused Lithuania but Russia himself is unaware of his malicious actions.
Either way, from this point on he swiveled from an extremely childlike persona, a meek, subservient one usually only brought on by his boss, a cold, sharp persona and a shadow of his former self. In fact, it’s quite possible that he had developed a form of multiple personality disorder. This disorder was heaviest while Stalin was alive, but continued on until the fall of the Soviet Union. After the fall his personality switches became less intense, and occurred less often. These personality switches still occur now days, and are usually brought on by intense emotion. He sometimes has flashbacks and slips into his childlike persona at times.
That said, Russia’s time in Vanishing Point served to mellow him out a bit. Mostly because of the friendship he found in Firo who promised to take care of him if he went crazy again. Because of his few flashbacks and personality switches seemingly never change the way Firo felt about his adoptive ‘mama’ Russia was able to grasp a better grasp on himself and try to stop these changes from happening as often or being as intense. However, he’s still a creeper and a bit of a jerk. He sometimes goes out of his way to tease others, especially if he knows them well.
Now that Russia’s crazy factor has been explained it’s easier to delve into the ‘man behind the mask’. Russia’s pretty good at pulling up a stoic mask, mostly because of the things that happened to him in the past and the fact that he’s been schooled to show no weakness. Lately he’s been able to smile a bit more naturally but he still keeps his emotions very tight to his chest. If he trusts you enough- something that’s pretty hard to accomplish- then he is willing to show his true emotions and not cover everything up with an ever present smile and twisting words. It’s rare, but it does happen every so often.
A major part of Russia’s personality are taken up by his abandonment issues and his want to have tons of people around him, unfortunately for him his past and his creep factor tend to scare away the others. His sisters too do not stay with him, Ukraine is often kept away because she owes him something (like gas money) or her boss has forbidden her from giving him anything. Belarus is a bit of a different issue, mostly because she has a strange, overbearing obsession for him and wants him to marry her. Russia is often scared away from his youngest sister even if he does still care for her. Despite these things his dream is to one day live with everyone in a warm place with sunflowers.
Russia is an intelligent nation-man, and mighty observant, but he can also be childishly naïve at times. He’s got a lot of childish possessiveness and if he has some one under his rule, so to say, he doesn’t like to share. He tends to hoard people in a sense, and is extremely protective of those he deems as his.
Russia learned to rely on himself after the Mongol invasion and thus, he trained extensively to become strong enough to protect himself, his sisters, and his people. Because of this he became a strong warrior and developed a calculating outlook on people. Russia was already quite intelligent, but through his training he started to develop a strategist side. He can look at people the way that chess masters look at pawns, and sometimes is a firm believer in “For the greater good.”
The cold war brought about a great amount of paranoia in Russia. This has not fully gone away, for instance, he still carries a TT30 on his person at all times. Another thing the Cold War truly drew out was Russia’s intimidation factor. Before hand he’d been regarded with suspicion and some fear, but that doubled during the Cold War. Even years after the Soviet Union’s fall, Russia is still regarded with suspicion and fear. This isn’t helped by the fact that despite being a part of Eurasia he was pretty much always separated from the other countries due to his land’s coldness and such. His lands are part of Europe, and part of Asia, but he doesn’t really seem to belong to either of them so he finds himself within his own little corner of the world. This helps to make it so he doesn’t really understand the other nations, and they don’t really understand him. He doesn’t really have good relationships with them, and they in turn distrust and scurry away from him.
Extra:
Character Abilities: He can withstand things that normal humans can’t and he can ‘feel’ his people. His healing is also faster than normal humans. But that’s about it.
Possessions: Russia comes equipped with an iron pipe, a TT30 Like the paranoid nation he is, and an ever present scarf.
Anything else: He’s the anthropomorphic version of the Russian Federation. Aside from that, nothing really~
Samples:
Action/Communication thread or post sample: Here
Log/Prose sample:
It was a bit odd how the duality of nations worked sometimes. Russia stood at the large bay window, looking down at the crowd of his people. He heard their cries shiver past the window panes, just a faint brush against his hearing but within seconds he could lose himself in their minds, hear the roar of the crowd, the crush of bodies pressed together against the cold and the empire.
The guards were getting nervous- he could feel that too, the heady rush of panic settling in- and Russia wondered if his royal family would be taken away soon, protected.
Part of him whole-heartedly wanted that. Another part railed against the injustice of the Empire, the cruelty his (Their) rulers held against him (them). He brushed gloved fingers against his temple, winced at the frantic drum beat in his head.
His control was failing; it was always hard to keep himself separate enough when turmoil was on his people’s minds. With a growl he turned from the window.
He could still feel them, always would, and he knew what was happening. The protestors were peaceful he was sure, he had felt it, knew that they would flee instead of fight but the thrum of armed-guard-panic in his veins was a forewarning.
“Mr. Russia?”
Lithuania’s voice was always soothing, even though Russia could see the barely concealed fear in his eyes. It was hidden well behind his concern but Russia knew it was there.
“Lithuania, we don’t want children who can’t play nice, right?”
Russia turned from Lithuania’s rapidly paling face. He blinked the tears from his eyes and opened the window in front of him. Snow whipped inside and swirled around him as he grasped his rifle from against the wall where he’d left it. Vaguely he heard Lithuania’s worried protest, but he didn’t bother to acknowledge the other nation as he hefted the gun and aimed out at the crowd.
Why can’t they understand what I’ve done for them?
Russia felt the recoil of the rifle, and the phantom pain of bullets riddling his body as the guards shot into the crowd. But he’d never forget that he was the one who’d started it. That first bullet through the heart.