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Countries as people: World War One

@Dannyrulx Like it so far, add a little more meat to it and I'll probably give you the thumbs up.

Countries as people: World War One

@Wernher I like it, accepted.

@Lady Selune Good so far!

Countries as people: World War One

It would be nice if we could get some bigger players, Like France and Germany, who are both VERY IMPORTANT. But I won't force anyone to do anything, it'd just be nice.

Also I've reserved Serbia because he's small but has a huge role to play.

Countries as people: World War One

GM CHARACTERS AND NPCS

Serbia

Serbia

Appearance:

Serbia

Allegiance: Triple Entente

Personality: Serbia is haughty, proud, and easily offended. He does not hesitate to bring up his noble lineage and historical strength, but he backs down quickly if threatened, though continued talks with his brother Montenegro have lead to him growing a bit of a spine and standing up for himself, especially against Austria and the Ottoman Empire, both of whom are hated by Serbia to an insane degree.

Serbia is very quiet when not agitated, but is very opinionated, his favorite words used to enter a conversation are "You're wrong". He also loves to argue, always sporting a smug sense of superiority as he does. When he is losing an argument or otherwise faced with a situation he cannot wriggle free of, he gnashes his teeth and yells, heading for the nearest exit he can find. The only person he enjoys spending time with is his brother Montenegro, and even then they don't talk much, instead staring at everyone who walks by and smoking heavily.

Serbia can be respectful when necessary, his tight-lipped attitude lending itself well to professional negotiations, but he avoids human contact when not necessary. He is deeply cynical about the world, and seems to make it his personal mission to bring everyone down.

Crossing Serbia does not lead to much of anything, he'll get angry and avoid looking at you, but that's not much different from what he usually does.

Likes: Serbia grudgingly loves his brother Montenegro, who was released from the Muslim yoke alongside him. He's also much more polite around Russia, his distant cousin.

Serbia likes cigars, smoking them religiously. Speaking of religion, Serbia is also deeply religious, carrying a cross on his neck at all times. He likes to drink, not stopping until he's drunk, and Serbia makes a mean drunk.

Other than that, Serbia doesn't like much.

Dislikes: AUSTRIA, THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE, France, Germany, Albania, America, Italy... Serbia's not exactly a social butterfly.

He also dislikes Catholicism (Heretical in his opinion), interference in the Balkans is another of Serbia's buttons that you shouldn't push. Attacks on Montenegro will lead to him entering a fury unlike any other, with plenty of screaming and even more sword-swinging.

Special Talents:
STEALTHY - As he rarely speaks or moves, Serbia can be incredibly hard to find when he doesn't wish to be found. His skills at eavesdropping are unparalleled, a skill that he uses to get dirt on his opponents with impunity. It's not uncommon for an introduction to lead to the response "Who's Serbia?", a fact that Serbia uses to his advantage.

Weaknesses:
DRUNK - Serbia cannot resist a good drink, and once drunk he becomes almost useless in every situation.

JACKASS - His personality causes him to drive away potential friends and alienate old ones.

PLUM CRAZY - He's just one step away from insanity, with a lack of empathy in all but few situations and a tenancy towards blind rage.

Familial Relationships: His brothers include Montenegro and Albania, he's also Russia's cousin.

Other: He's very confused as to his parenthood. He believes Byzantium is his father, though the Ottoman Empire is fairly certain he is Serbia's father.

France

France

Appearance: France makes a striking presence, tall and consistently dressed in flattering if not overly showy dresses. Her eyes are a bright jade, her hair jet black and smooth like silk, with a single stripe of grey being the only signs of her age. Her face is soft and yet edged enough to be perfect, with large lips and a mole under her left eye, but a jagged scar stretching from the top of her head to the top of her lip jarringly shoots down the right side of her face, almost impossible to ignore. She has similar scars covering the rest of her body, each one a story, most given by England in their long history together, but the facial scar is the only one she seems to notice, perhaps due to the one who had given it.

Allegiance: Entente

Personality: Haughty and proud, France is proud of her noble history and descent from both the Frankish Empire and Rome itself. She is dismissive of anyone of lower status then her, and even some higher than her. Her relationship with England is... complicated, though she's disdainful of his womanizing and pride, she is almost dangerously defensive of her "Beloved" and their relationship, she often attempts to string him along to fit her desires, using threats or seduction if he fails to follow.

France is proud of her long history of combat prowess, and isn't afraid to remind her enemies about the time when she fought them all and almost won. She knows her abilities well, and isn't afraid to use the threat of them as a deterrent. When angered, she begins using threat-laced innuendo and posturing in order to show her opponent how bad an idea it is to offend Europe's old guard.

Likes: England, Belgium, Russia, Canada, The United States, wine, a good song, liberalism, her colonies, the Pope, The Netherlands, the colors blue and red, love, other things associated with love that she'd rather not discuss, biking, hot air ballooning (She invented it), FREEDOM (A tenancy she passed on to the United States when she helped him get free from England.), respect shown to her or England.

Dislikes: Germany, Austria, Monarchies, tyranny, warfare, the fact that both Belgium and England have German kings, the color white (Monarchy bad!), the color gold (Monarchy very bad!), being made fun of for flying a white flag for a few years (It was a midlife crisis okay?), Protestantism.

Special Talent:
-COOKING, France is among the best cooks in the world, and she is able to make a ton of food, as long as she is around, nobody's going hungry.

Weaknesses:
-Don't mention retreating, it's not funny anymore. But yes, France knows when to fold them, sometimes a little too early. This comes as a result of her disastrous invasion of Russia, where she didn't retreat at all and it cost her the war. She's only trying to prevent a repeat.
-POLITICAL INSTABILITY, France is not the most mentally sound, quite a few times she's been broken completely by her own instability, most disastrously back in 1791.

Familial Relationships:
England is France's lover of choice, and with him, France has had two children, Canada and India. With Spain, she also had Haiti. And, though she tries to hide it, she has had one child with Germany... somehow, New Ireland in New Guinea. Among her other children include a veritable smorgasbord of countries in Africa and a few islands in the Caribbean.

Other: This plays every time she enters a room

Countries as people: World War One

@Lady Selune Badass WW1 Canada? That gives me the biggest patriotism boner. Throw together a CS for that wonderful, wonderful man/woman.

Countries as people: World War One

@OfWindAndRain Thanks for adding to your sheet, I like what you've put down.

But I'm still apprehensive... eh, what the hell, I'll relent, this isn't going to be a serious RP anyways, accepted, put him in the Characters

Countries as people: World War One

@OfWindAndRain Okay, I have... quite a few problems with this.

First off, I might need to be slightly more clear. Our characters are supposed to be humans, though the freedom eagle is hilarious.

Secondly, the "Characters have no established gender" line was meant to mean that you could choose whatever gender you wished. (Freedom is not a gender, I know you were thinking it)

Thirdly, there's not enough here. There's the very basics but I am going to need much more in the personality and more meat in some of the other areas. I don't want a bullet-point list.

Countries as People iCheck

@TalijaKey@DepressedSoviet@Nerevarine@Zahir@OfWindAndRain

It's up!

Countries as people: World War One

The Great War is Coming

Premise

It's 1913, and it's been about fifty years, give-or-take, since Europe had its last big war, where Germany kicked France so hard its emperor exploded all the way into exile. Okay, so that's maybe not how it actually happened, but still, things are heating up. The defeated France has allied to England and Russia, and the successful Germany has a laundry list of suitors to choose from.

Dusty old stuff about the real world behind us, let's look up a few inches and realize, oh hey, this is about countries personified, so let's take a step back and talk about that.

In this RP, players will be taking the roles of the major and minor powers of this turbulent time, personified (I'm going to be using that word a lot). Our characters will be given personalities based on how they acted as countries in the actual time period.

Now, this idea has plenty of chance to go horrifically wrong as a result of political arguments or things of the sort, which is a good segue into the...

Rules

1. GM's word is law.
2. No politics allowed. At all.
3. Please post regularly, at least once a week. If you cannot do that, let me know via PM.
4. If your characters are getting frisky, cut to black and take it to the PMs, I know this is kinda a rule all over the guild, but I've seen people forget before.
5. Don't fight in the OOC. If there's something wrong then send a PM, and if that goes nowhere give me a ring.
6. Keep it historical.
7. Even Germany isn't perfect (No matter how much he tries), so no Gary Stus/Mary Sues.
8. Keep it to one character unless you're absolutely certain you can handle it.
9. Have fun, laugh, and make some dank memes. (Ignore that last one)

I'm sure I missed something, but I'll make addendums if it comes up.

Characters

Here's the fun part. Some things to be aware of before you make a character:

-Character age is based on how long the idea of the country has been around. So France will be the eldest European while China will be the eldest overall.
-Characters have no established gender except for a few exceptions, Austria and Hungary. As they are married, they will be opposite genders. France and England may also be of opposite genders, but it's not absolutely necessary. Other than that you should be fine.
-Familial ties are based on historical association, so Austria and Germany are siblings, China and Japan are cousins, England is the US's mommy/daddy, etc.
-When a country is restored (etc. Serbia) after a long time of not existing, it will have aged since it last existed.
-Non-existent countries can re-appear for a time when there is a surge of nationalism or a certain event happens. (Ominous)

With that block of text out of the way, here's a character sheet.

CharSheet

Name: Country name here

Appearance: description or picture

Allegiance: entente, central powers or neither.

Personality: basic info here.

Likes:

Dislikes:

Special Talent: every country has one.

Weaknesses: What are they not so good at?

Familial Relationships:

Other: Anything else that you find necessary.

Conclusion

Here we are, on the eve of... not so much war as a bunch of people getting really mad and yelling at each-other, so you know, all that stuff. I'll see you on the battlefield.

Countries as People iCheck

@TalijaKey Sweet. I dunno what the hell I was thinking not tagging anybody.

@DepressedSoviet@Nerevarine@Zahir@OfWindAndRain

There, that should be everybody, if anyone wants to use the CS template be my guest.