Post by Scotland on Jan 1, 2011 18:20:56 GMT -8
Character Information
Country Name: Scotland
Human Name: Aidan
Gender: Male
Appearance:
Personality: Drinks Hard, Smokes often and takes delight in reminding people of little facts that they would much rather erase. He detests it when people have selective memory about the past, especially when it is his brother. He tends not to think about what he says before voicing his opinion on something. He will unintentionally hurt peoples feelings since he will voice the initial thought that comes into his head more often then not. He truly wished people that he has known forever, would be more understanding about his absence of mind to mouth filter because he truly doesn't mean to hurt them. He is not as bad as he once was about it as he was in the past having not even care if his opinion hurt others.
He can be charming when he wants but rarely bothers unless he feels it the only way he will get his way. Scotland is a social drinker and loves having a good time with whomever he can get to agree to come out with him. Mostly in the past, he would party with France, who he thinks of as a good friend. He tends to get overly sentimental when he has had a few drinks in the right company, he might even tear up over happier memories. It really hinges on the company because sometimes he can be cruel and nasty while drunk depending on the mood of the other people around him.
His sense of humor tends more toward sarcastic or crude though witty at times, not really enjoying some of the more 'modern' humor at times where it's funny just because someone hurt themselves. Scotland is not above being dramatic when it suits him, he will pout, sulk or maybe even whine when it might get someone to give into his whims. If it will irritate one of his brothers, he will do it. He loves making his brothers irritated because usually they act indifferent toward one another. Having them scream at him in his mind is better them pretend he doesn't exists. One strange habit he has is he will take apart something on a whim trying to figure out how something really works. His curiosity knows no bounds when he has truly found something of interested. He took apart one of England's first cars out of purely wanting to know how it all worked. He genuinely just wanted to know how the thing worked. Most times he gets things back together in working order, he did with the car it just took him longer than expected, much longer.
Likes:
+ Drinking it keeps him from thinking too much on how much he's been abused and abused those he loves.
+ Smoking its become a habit that started as a way to tick England off... he loves it how it drives the man nuts if he lights up in his house.
+ Ticking off England it has become one of the few ways he can get his brother to pay attention to him. That and it's just plain fun and amusing.
+ Roses/Gardening he just does... don't ask him why
+ Fighting just for the hell of it he does this mostly when drunk well because, it reminds him when things where simpler in the world.
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+ Magic it really does have it's uses, rubbing the fact he's better at it most of the time in his younger brother England's face is just the icing on the cake
Dislikes:
+ Being Ignored dismissed by anyone but especially England
+ America when he takes up England's time in pointless ways and that the kid keeps hurting England. He hates that about the kid. Other than that he doesn't mind America if England isn't involved. Everything that involves the three of them tends to degrade into some type of fight.
+ Being Alone
Strengths:
+ Loyalty he doesn't abandoned those thinks of as family or as his friends.
+ Well-Educated/Ingenuity he is far from stupid, come on people many well known things have been created or improved by the Scotsman's people. If he had too he could figure out how fix something that was broken. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_inventions_and_discoveries
+ Drinking he doesn't get drunk easy, he could drink most people under the table. But then again he doesn't know when to stop sometimes.
+ Fighting He enjoys it and he's good at it, he made those Roman's build that wall and he's not one to give up fighting it has to do with family/people. He also has no issues using guerrilla warfare if that is what it takes.
+ Magic He can be down right dangerous with it if he wishes he liked to send cursed stuff to England for fun and to teach him how dangerous it could be. Nessie is in the lock just an over grown Kelpie with a sense of humor. He also is fallowed around by a Unicorn older then he is, there is a reason the Royal Coat of Arms of Scotland has a Unicorn on it.
Weaknesses:
+ Drinking while it sounds like a cliche he woken up more time than he can count not recalling the night before and how he got home, or didn't get home and not knowing where he's at. If someone could get him to drink enough they could do a number of things to him without him even knowing it.
+ Smoking it's become a habit he started out doing it to annoy England and now it's become a full blown addiction, smokes are far and few between in a post apocalyptic world sometimes he wants one so bad he'd forgo feeding himself for just one when he's stressed enough.
+ Family/England As much as he fights with his siblings he freaks out if someone other than family hurt his family which means he will try to protect them even if those trying to hurt his love ones are much stronger.
+ His Temper While normally Scotland is passive and good-natured if someone insults his family or finds something that annoys him and picks at it long enough he will blow up and rage and not think about what might happen after the dust has cleared.
Fears:
+ Losing his family is one thing he's worried over for years as there has been so much infighting with his siblings. Again and again they fight, too much of it.
+ Being truly alone & forgotten about
+ Being controlled/dominated again by force He hates when people try and control him by force, he's not big on having to listen to England but at least England lets him have his own opinion well sometimes.
+ Never being truly independent ever again. While right now he's okay with what was going on in the ruling of his country he really does long to be out of his little brothers monitoring gaze who gives him dirty looks every-time he makes even a smallest mistakes.
What happened before and shortly after the apocalypse?: Aidan was out drinking right before the apocalypse hit.
What are your character's top priorities and goals? Making sure his family is okay along making sure his people as whole are as stabilized as possible before he goes to check on with the rest of the world. He's worried with all the chaos going on that other countries might invade that have more stable government in search any possible resources that might be available not matter how small. He hopes that he can find someway to prevent this from happening. But if that is not possible at least give his people a good amount of time to prepare to fight for their lives.
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Misc. Information
Timezone: USA, California AKA Pacific Standard Time
Did you read the rules? England must I stroke your ego? You know I love you~ even though you push me away.
Favorite Pairing: DenSwe... I love this for so many reasons.
ScotEngScot they don't really hate each other they just like seeing how much they can tick each other off.
PruEng in my head makes baby Germany... I'm strange don't ask why or go do some history for the answer.
GerSwiss, I like rare pairings and this was almost cannon go read Swiss wiki trivia for the answer. It also has some basis in history of WW2 and how Switzerland stayed neutral.
JapSwiss not truly overly rare but not done enough.
NethJapSwiss or just NethSwiss, come on can't you see Japan showing pictures/drawings of Swiss in a loli dress to Netherlands? I could see Netherlands enjoying the chase too.
NorScot history based like the PruEng but any NordicScot pairing I could see since Scandinavian/Viking people have had long history with Scotland good and bad.
FrScot and FrEngScot history based again~ I'm not picky in the order of how it happens