Post by america on Jul 1, 2010 11:36:59 GMT -5
Nation: America
Name: Alfred F. Jones
Gender: Male
Appearance of Age: 19
Hair Color: Blond
Eye Color: Blue
Height: 177 cm (5'9)
Weight: 163 pounds
Appearance:
Personality:
A hero. This is the way Alfred sees himself. Of course, if this truly is fact is under quite a lot of debate. Most people see him as being an annoying busy-body. This is a rather harsh way of summarizing him. Most countries (and people), when meeting him for the first time, see him as a silly goof ball, the kind of guy that irritates you, while at the same time making you laugh at his silly antics. He's cheerful, trying to keep to make life as happy as can be, and has an endless supply of energy - he believes that heroes can never be tired. However, unless Alfred isn't in the centre of attention, he absolutely does not want to do anything. But with the way he acts, the chances of someone being able to ignore him are virtually zero.
As McDonalds and Coca-Cola have proved, he as an awful sense of taste (probably inherited from England - it's enough to make one wonder what kind of fast food we would have if France had won) and can eat without any effect on his weight or size, kind of like Pac-Man. He keeps candy and food under his clothing. This love of greasy, high-fat food is probably the reason why he has so much trouble with diets and why he invents so many ridiculous diet machines that barely do anything. Despite this, he is very strong, almost to a crazy degree. When he was a child, he could swing a buffalo around without any trouble, and only recently dragged a car behind him to ask Arthur if he could borrow it.
Alfred isn't quite as academic or intelligent as the other nations. He believes that a map of the United States qualifies as a world map, and has hardly any interest in literature. Some of his ideas, when it comes to political manners could only be described as completely idiotic (a giant hero to protect the Earth from global warming, anyone?). This hasn't stopped him from dabbling in science and advancing greatly, although he isn't as advanced as Japan.
He enjoys meeting people and making friends, although certain aspects of his personality have stopped his group of friends from becoming too large. Maybe when he stops trying to save everyone from imaginary perils...
Likes:
+Hamburgers, Coca-Cola, and all kinds of unhealthy junk food
+Movies and television
+Being the centre of attention
+Adventure
+Archaeology
+Being a hero
+Video games
+Hanging out with Tony
+Cool planes. Well, they're cool to him.
+His bomber jacket.
+Animals and other living creatures - rabbits, whales, aliens...
+Jazz
+Multi-coloured cakes
+Actually, multi-coloured food in general
+Happy endings
Dislikes:
-Overly serious people
-England's food
-Horror movies (he watches them anyways)
-Geography. Dear God, geography.
-Villains
-Anything that can't be found in America
-Classical music
-Not being the hero
-Being rescued by someone else (oh, the shame...)
-Reading books
-Countries without a McDonald's ("What do you eat, then?")
-Diets
-People disagreeing with him
-Jokes about his weight
-Compromising
Fears:
~Horror movies, especially really bad movies with ghosts in them. He watches them anyway, because finishing a horror movie without screaming or hiding is one of his goals. Who knows when he'll achieve it.
~Being ignored. Alfred needs attention. He lives on it. And when he's being ignored, he finds it impossible to do anything worth doing. This doesn't stop him from ignoring other countries, like Canada, though.
~Becoming a colony again. He did it once, and he wouldn't do it again.
~Problems you can't solve with hamburgers. A bit of a silly fear, certainly, but to him, hamburgers are pretty much sacred. If they can't fix things, what can?
Strengths:
+His physical strength. Alfred is strong, to say the least. When he was a child, he could easily swing a buffalo around without the slightest bit of trouble, and he has not become a bit weaker. He appears to look fit no matter how much food he has eaten.
+Loyalty. He is intensely loyal to anyone who is his friend. Because of his strength and his determination to be the hero, having his loyalty will probably get you out of tough situation, or possibly get you in something worse. He always means well, though. Alfred would never go back on someone.
+Intelligence (in certain areas). Although Alfred is lacking in the common sense department, and gets a headache when he sees a map of any other country than his own, he is incredibly good with computers, robots, and planes. Science is a breeze for him, but sometimes he gets caught up with making his inventions look cool. Sometimes they're so ridiculous that they don't do anything at all.
+Stubbornness. Alfred is blessed with the stubbornness of a mule, and will not back down from pretty much anything, from a silly argument to a full-on fight. If he wants something to happen, then by God, it's going to happen, or he'll die trying!
+Cheerfulness. It's practically impossible to find Alfred being depressed or gloomy, even at the worst of times. He'll always be smiling and optimistic, trying to get that happy ending that all proper heroes deserve.
Weaknesses:
-Food. Alfred needs food. He needs a large amount of food that tastes good (not including hamburgers) to be enthusiastic and cheerful. Unfortunately, if he doesn't have his food, he'll become tired and lethargic, and if he eats too many hamburgers (too many is a number with three digits) Alfred needs to sit down somewhere and take a nap. If he learnt about the virtues of moderation, this wouldn't be a problem, but he is unwilling to learn.
-His stupidity. Alfred is not exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer. He has no common sense whatsoever, he cannot read the atmosphere (he actually thought it was a book, but has not found it in a bookstore ever), and geography makes his head hurt. When it comes to political matters, such as global warming, he tries to help, but some of his ideas are just impossible and totally crazy, like his idea to make a giant hero to shield the Earth. Well, at least he's good at science. Not to mention the fact that he's constantly forgetting who his brother is.
-Procrastination. The times when Alfred gets serious and does all the work that he's supposed to do are rare. Most of the time, he leaves it until the last minute, then does it in a hurry, hardly ever finishing the whole thing. The politicians of America learnt very early that if the work is important, don't give it to him. Just don't. It will never get done, and you will never see it again.
-His desire to be the hero all the time. Sometimes it just isn't practical or possible to be the hero, but Alfred never realizes this. Also, it annoys everyone else when he keeps talking about being the hero.
-His nosiness. Alfred wants to know what's going on with everyone, and if there's something that he doesn't like, well then, he has to fix it. This has earned him a lot of enemies and kept him from getting friends. It's very hard for him to accept the fact that sometimes, people don't want him around. It's impossible.
History:
As the famous rhyme goes, in 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue and found America. After some other explorers from other countries came to America as well, French outposts and Spanish settlements were created. The first successful English settlements were created in 1607 (the Virginia Colony in Jamestown) and in 1620 (the Pilgrims' Plymouth Colony). By 1634, New England had a population of 10,000 Puritans, and during the late 1620s and the American Revolution, Britain had shipped out 50,000 convicts to the American Colonies. The Dutch settled along the lower Hudson River in 1614, but in 1674, ceded their territory to England. New Netherland became New York.
African slaves became the main source of bonded labour by the turn of the century.
The thirteen British colonies were established with the division of the Carolinas and the 1732 colonization of Georgia. They had local governments, with most free men being able to vote. The sense of self-government stimulated support for republicanism.
The colonial population grew very quickly, what with the high birth rates, the low death rates, and the steady immigration.
There was tension between the colonies and the British, leading to the American Revolution. It was fought from 1775 through 1781 by American forces with French help (it became the subject of much fanfiction in the future). The Declaration of Independence was drafted on July 4, 1776, a day now celebrated in America. In 1777, a weak confederal government was established by the Articles of Confederation. It operated until 1789. Great Britain recognized the independence of the United States after the British defeat.
The first president took office in 1789. The Bill of Rights was created, which forbade federal restrictions of personal freedoms, and was adopted in 1791. The way people saw slavery was changing as well, with the Northern states abolishing it between 1780 and 1804 – the South continued to defend it.
The citizens of America really wanted to expand, prompting a large variety of events, such as the Indian Wars and the Louisiana Purchase. The War of 1812 strengthened nationalism. Loads of other things happened as well, with the country getting lots and lots of new land. Spain ceded Florida, and the United States annexed the Republic of Texas in 1845. America received the present-day American Northwest after the 1846 Oregon Treaty with Britain, and the U.S. won the Mexican-American War, causing the 1848 cession of California and a lot of the present-day American Southwest.
Manifest Destiny was quite popular at the time.
Much western migration occurred during the California Gold Rush of 1848-49.
Many arguments occurred over the spread of slavery into new states. Before Abraham Lincoln (candidate of a largely antislavery Republican Party) took office in 1860, seven slave states declared their secession – apparently illegal – forming the Confederate States of America. The American Civil War began with the confederate attack upon Fort Sumter, and four more slave states joined the Confederacy.
In 1863, Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 said that the slaves in the slave states were free. After the Union victory in 1865, three amendments were added to the U.S. Constitution, ensuring freedom to the former slaves. This war led to an increase of federal power.
In 1867, Alaska was purchased from Russia.
Then came World War I in 1914. America remained neutral, but joined the Allies in 1917. After the war, America did not ratify the Treaty of Versailles. It had a policy of unilateralism, almost isolationism. In the 1920’s, things were totally awesome, what with the flappers and the slang and the jazz, but all good things must come to an end. In 1929, the Wall Street Crash happened. The Great Depression began. Franklin D. Roosevelt tried to fix the economy with the New Deal. However, the Dust Bowl of the mid-thirties starved loads of farming communities and started a new wave of western migration.
America was neutral during the early stages of World War II, but did begin to supply materiel to the Allies in March 1941. Japan launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, and the United States promptly joined the Allies. This lead to much internment of Japanese Americans. The participation in the war helped the economy, and among the major countries, it was the only nation to become richer because of the war.
After WWII, America had another problem to deal with – the Soviet Union. During the Cold War, the U.S. and the Soviet Union ‘jockeyed for power’, with America promoting capitalism and democracy, and the Soviet Union promoting communism and a centrally planned economy. Joseph McCarthy was practically the personation of the strong anticommunist attitude in America at the time. When the Soviet launched the first manned spaceflight in 1961, America was the first to land a man on the moon, in 1969. The civil rights movement was growing at the same time, using nonviolence to achieve their goals and stop segregation and discrimination. Another movement grew as well, promoting opposition to the war, black nationalism and sexual revolution. A new wave of feminism was led.
The collapse of the Soviet Union led to the end of the Cold War.
Now it is the present day!
[I'm very bad at summarizing historical events, I know. Thank goodness it's a relatively young country.]
Allies: England, Canada, Lithuania, Japan, Russia, France, China
Enemies: Russia, Cuba, England
Sample Post:
"So much fun! But I'm tired! I'm going to rest now~
To the last, I'm so cool!"
Did you read the rules? Sure did!
Name: Alfred F. Jones
Gender: Male
Appearance of Age: 19
Hair Color: Blond
Eye Color: Blue
Height: 177 cm (5'9)
Weight: 163 pounds
Appearance:
Personality:
A hero. This is the way Alfred sees himself. Of course, if this truly is fact is under quite a lot of debate. Most people see him as being an annoying busy-body. This is a rather harsh way of summarizing him. Most countries (and people), when meeting him for the first time, see him as a silly goof ball, the kind of guy that irritates you, while at the same time making you laugh at his silly antics. He's cheerful, trying to keep to make life as happy as can be, and has an endless supply of energy - he believes that heroes can never be tired. However, unless Alfred isn't in the centre of attention, he absolutely does not want to do anything. But with the way he acts, the chances of someone being able to ignore him are virtually zero.
As McDonalds and Coca-Cola have proved, he as an awful sense of taste (probably inherited from England - it's enough to make one wonder what kind of fast food we would have if France had won) and can eat without any effect on his weight or size, kind of like Pac-Man. He keeps candy and food under his clothing. This love of greasy, high-fat food is probably the reason why he has so much trouble with diets and why he invents so many ridiculous diet machines that barely do anything. Despite this, he is very strong, almost to a crazy degree. When he was a child, he could swing a buffalo around without any trouble, and only recently dragged a car behind him to ask Arthur if he could borrow it.
Alfred isn't quite as academic or intelligent as the other nations. He believes that a map of the United States qualifies as a world map, and has hardly any interest in literature. Some of his ideas, when it comes to political manners could only be described as completely idiotic (a giant hero to protect the Earth from global warming, anyone?). This hasn't stopped him from dabbling in science and advancing greatly, although he isn't as advanced as Japan.
He enjoys meeting people and making friends, although certain aspects of his personality have stopped his group of friends from becoming too large. Maybe when he stops trying to save everyone from imaginary perils...
Likes:
+Hamburgers, Coca-Cola, and all kinds of unhealthy junk food
+Movies and television
+Being the centre of attention
+Adventure
+Archaeology
+Being a hero
+Video games
+Hanging out with Tony
+Cool planes. Well, they're cool to him.
+His bomber jacket.
+Animals and other living creatures - rabbits, whales, aliens...
+Jazz
+Multi-coloured cakes
+Actually, multi-coloured food in general
+Happy endings
Dislikes:
-Overly serious people
-England's food
-Horror movies (he watches them anyways)
-Geography. Dear God, geography.
-Villains
-Anything that can't be found in America
-Classical music
-Not being the hero
-Being rescued by someone else (oh, the shame...)
-Reading books
-Countries without a McDonald's ("What do you eat, then?")
-Diets
-People disagreeing with him
-Jokes about his weight
-Compromising
Fears:
~Horror movies, especially really bad movies with ghosts in them. He watches them anyway, because finishing a horror movie without screaming or hiding is one of his goals. Who knows when he'll achieve it.
~Being ignored. Alfred needs attention. He lives on it. And when he's being ignored, he finds it impossible to do anything worth doing. This doesn't stop him from ignoring other countries, like Canada, though.
~Becoming a colony again. He did it once, and he wouldn't do it again.
~Problems you can't solve with hamburgers. A bit of a silly fear, certainly, but to him, hamburgers are pretty much sacred. If they can't fix things, what can?
Strengths:
+His physical strength. Alfred is strong, to say the least. When he was a child, he could easily swing a buffalo around without the slightest bit of trouble, and he has not become a bit weaker. He appears to look fit no matter how much food he has eaten.
+Loyalty. He is intensely loyal to anyone who is his friend. Because of his strength and his determination to be the hero, having his loyalty will probably get you out of tough situation, or possibly get you in something worse. He always means well, though. Alfred would never go back on someone.
+Intelligence (in certain areas). Although Alfred is lacking in the common sense department, and gets a headache when he sees a map of any other country than his own, he is incredibly good with computers, robots, and planes. Science is a breeze for him, but sometimes he gets caught up with making his inventions look cool. Sometimes they're so ridiculous that they don't do anything at all.
+Stubbornness. Alfred is blessed with the stubbornness of a mule, and will not back down from pretty much anything, from a silly argument to a full-on fight. If he wants something to happen, then by God, it's going to happen, or he'll die trying!
+Cheerfulness. It's practically impossible to find Alfred being depressed or gloomy, even at the worst of times. He'll always be smiling and optimistic, trying to get that happy ending that all proper heroes deserve.
Weaknesses:
-Food. Alfred needs food. He needs a large amount of food that tastes good (not including hamburgers) to be enthusiastic and cheerful. Unfortunately, if he doesn't have his food, he'll become tired and lethargic, and if he eats too many hamburgers (too many is a number with three digits) Alfred needs to sit down somewhere and take a nap. If he learnt about the virtues of moderation, this wouldn't be a problem, but he is unwilling to learn.
-His stupidity. Alfred is not exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer. He has no common sense whatsoever, he cannot read the atmosphere (he actually thought it was a book, but has not found it in a bookstore ever), and geography makes his head hurt. When it comes to political matters, such as global warming, he tries to help, but some of his ideas are just impossible and totally crazy, like his idea to make a giant hero to shield the Earth. Well, at least he's good at science. Not to mention the fact that he's constantly forgetting who his brother is.
-Procrastination. The times when Alfred gets serious and does all the work that he's supposed to do are rare. Most of the time, he leaves it until the last minute, then does it in a hurry, hardly ever finishing the whole thing. The politicians of America learnt very early that if the work is important, don't give it to him. Just don't. It will never get done, and you will never see it again.
-His desire to be the hero all the time. Sometimes it just isn't practical or possible to be the hero, but Alfred never realizes this. Also, it annoys everyone else when he keeps talking about being the hero.
-His nosiness. Alfred wants to know what's going on with everyone, and if there's something that he doesn't like, well then, he has to fix it. This has earned him a lot of enemies and kept him from getting friends. It's very hard for him to accept the fact that sometimes, people don't want him around. It's impossible.
History:
As the famous rhyme goes, in 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue and found America. After some other explorers from other countries came to America as well, French outposts and Spanish settlements were created. The first successful English settlements were created in 1607 (the Virginia Colony in Jamestown) and in 1620 (the Pilgrims' Plymouth Colony). By 1634, New England had a population of 10,000 Puritans, and during the late 1620s and the American Revolution, Britain had shipped out 50,000 convicts to the American Colonies. The Dutch settled along the lower Hudson River in 1614, but in 1674, ceded their territory to England. New Netherland became New York.
African slaves became the main source of bonded labour by the turn of the century.
The thirteen British colonies were established with the division of the Carolinas and the 1732 colonization of Georgia. They had local governments, with most free men being able to vote. The sense of self-government stimulated support for republicanism.
The colonial population grew very quickly, what with the high birth rates, the low death rates, and the steady immigration.
There was tension between the colonies and the British, leading to the American Revolution. It was fought from 1775 through 1781 by American forces with French help (it became the subject of much fanfiction in the future). The Declaration of Independence was drafted on July 4, 1776, a day now celebrated in America. In 1777, a weak confederal government was established by the Articles of Confederation. It operated until 1789. Great Britain recognized the independence of the United States after the British defeat.
The first president took office in 1789. The Bill of Rights was created, which forbade federal restrictions of personal freedoms, and was adopted in 1791. The way people saw slavery was changing as well, with the Northern states abolishing it between 1780 and 1804 – the South continued to defend it.
The citizens of America really wanted to expand, prompting a large variety of events, such as the Indian Wars and the Louisiana Purchase. The War of 1812 strengthened nationalism. Loads of other things happened as well, with the country getting lots and lots of new land. Spain ceded Florida, and the United States annexed the Republic of Texas in 1845. America received the present-day American Northwest after the 1846 Oregon Treaty with Britain, and the U.S. won the Mexican-American War, causing the 1848 cession of California and a lot of the present-day American Southwest.
Manifest Destiny was quite popular at the time.
Much western migration occurred during the California Gold Rush of 1848-49.
Many arguments occurred over the spread of slavery into new states. Before Abraham Lincoln (candidate of a largely antislavery Republican Party) took office in 1860, seven slave states declared their secession – apparently illegal – forming the Confederate States of America. The American Civil War began with the confederate attack upon Fort Sumter, and four more slave states joined the Confederacy.
In 1863, Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 said that the slaves in the slave states were free. After the Union victory in 1865, three amendments were added to the U.S. Constitution, ensuring freedom to the former slaves. This war led to an increase of federal power.
In 1867, Alaska was purchased from Russia.
Then came World War I in 1914. America remained neutral, but joined the Allies in 1917. After the war, America did not ratify the Treaty of Versailles. It had a policy of unilateralism, almost isolationism. In the 1920’s, things were totally awesome, what with the flappers and the slang and the jazz, but all good things must come to an end. In 1929, the Wall Street Crash happened. The Great Depression began. Franklin D. Roosevelt tried to fix the economy with the New Deal. However, the Dust Bowl of the mid-thirties starved loads of farming communities and started a new wave of western migration.
America was neutral during the early stages of World War II, but did begin to supply materiel to the Allies in March 1941. Japan launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, and the United States promptly joined the Allies. This lead to much internment of Japanese Americans. The participation in the war helped the economy, and among the major countries, it was the only nation to become richer because of the war.
After WWII, America had another problem to deal with – the Soviet Union. During the Cold War, the U.S. and the Soviet Union ‘jockeyed for power’, with America promoting capitalism and democracy, and the Soviet Union promoting communism and a centrally planned economy. Joseph McCarthy was practically the personation of the strong anticommunist attitude in America at the time. When the Soviet launched the first manned spaceflight in 1961, America was the first to land a man on the moon, in 1969. The civil rights movement was growing at the same time, using nonviolence to achieve their goals and stop segregation and discrimination. Another movement grew as well, promoting opposition to the war, black nationalism and sexual revolution. A new wave of feminism was led.
The collapse of the Soviet Union led to the end of the Cold War.
Now it is the present day!
[I'm very bad at summarizing historical events, I know. Thank goodness it's a relatively young country.]
Allies: England, Canada, Lithuania, Japan, Russia, France, China
Enemies: Russia, Cuba, England
Sample Post:
If a casual observer had received the chance to look at Charlotte Dumont for a few minutes as she finished with her day and left work, he might have been able to confidently declare that the nurse was feeling cheerful and no wonder; it was quite a nice day today. The sun was shining with an almost feverish intensity, and the clouds (there were few) floated by lazily, not ruining anyone's day with rain or snow or whatnot.
The casual observer would have been wrong. Charlotte had not even noticed how gorgeous the day was. She was quite immersed in her own head, putting on the bright smile out of habit (she had learned at a young age that frowning and scowling did not look attractive on her). If the casual observer had taken the chance to look at her eyes, he would have noticed that they were not happy; but then, he could hardly call himself the casual observer, could he? It, however, did not take immense observing skill to notice that Charlotte was unhappy. One did not have to be a man of Sherlock Holmes-ian skill, able to look at a stranger and truthfully say that he was a locksmith from Andover, Connecticut that suffered from arthritis, and planned to buy a postcard later. That was quite unnecessary.
Yet, Charlotte's source of unhappiness was not from something deep and life-changing; she had never suffered in such a way. It was for a simple reason - she had run out of her favourite shade of lipstick and was now deigned to run out to the nearest shop and hope that they had it in stock.
It was a silly, frivolous reason to be upset. Such is the life of a newly hired nurse!
The casual observer would have been wrong. Charlotte had not even noticed how gorgeous the day was. She was quite immersed in her own head, putting on the bright smile out of habit (she had learned at a young age that frowning and scowling did not look attractive on her). If the casual observer had taken the chance to look at her eyes, he would have noticed that they were not happy; but then, he could hardly call himself the casual observer, could he? It, however, did not take immense observing skill to notice that Charlotte was unhappy. One did not have to be a man of Sherlock Holmes-ian skill, able to look at a stranger and truthfully say that he was a locksmith from Andover, Connecticut that suffered from arthritis, and planned to buy a postcard later. That was quite unnecessary.
Yet, Charlotte's source of unhappiness was not from something deep and life-changing; she had never suffered in such a way. It was for a simple reason - she had run out of her favourite shade of lipstick and was now deigned to run out to the nearest shop and hope that they had it in stock.
It was a silly, frivolous reason to be upset. Such is the life of a newly hired nurse!
"So much fun! But I'm tired! I'm going to rest now~
To the last, I'm so cool!"
Did you read the rules? Sure did!
