Post by ddn on Aug 26, 2010 10:59:10 GMT 1
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Country: Prussia
Real name: Gilbert Beilschmidt
Personality: Once a great empire and nation, Prussia has never forgotten this and feels that the world should never forget it either. His diaries are a library of his own history, a testament to his own reign, even if most are just filled with how awesome he was that particular day. He likes to keep them though, the records that he existed as a European power and should still be recognized today, even if he's technically occupied by other countries, although mainly by his brother.
Crude, rude, and rather self-centered, Prussia adores the word awesome and will use it at any given opportunity, especially when talking about himself or an accomplishment. He also can be very blunt, pointing out flaws like they're the most obvious thing to do, although if someone does that to him, then he's back on the defensive because no one should be able to see his flaws. After all, how can someone so awesome have any flaws that are visible to others at all?
However, even though he acts out around others, he can't stand being alone, for the fear that he'll finally disappear starts to settle in when he is alone, and he doesn't want to disappear. This fear made him go to war in times past, with anyone that looked at him funny, to prove that he did in fact, deserve to exist and would fight for it. In order to make sure that he was never alone, he started to keep little yellow birds around, because he couldn't disappear if he wasn't alone, and he wasn't alone as long as he had the little birds with him at all times.
Likes:
Dislikes:
History: Doing mostly bullet points and elaborations where needed, starting with the Teutonic Knights eras as the history before that is mostly about those that immigrated within Prussia's borders and how they didn't want to convert into Christianity. Also, this is going to be long...as I thing everything can be important. I apologize in advance.
1249: The Christburg Peace Treaty forced the Prussians to recognize the rule of the Teutonic Knights. Within about 50 years the Teutonic Knights and Knights of the Cross had overcome most of Prussia and established German as the dominant culture and language. (Although the main language is Low German instead of High German which is mostly spoken in the Southern region of the empire while Low German is spoken in mostly the northern part.)
1255: Konigsberg (Kaliningrad) was founded on the Baltic Sea by the Bohemian King Otakar II.
1324: The pope officially chastised the Knights of the Cross for ill treatment of Catholics and for pushing pagans away from Christianity. (The Knights did such things as 'Prussian' hunts and would slaughter people like animals for the sake of 'conversion' which actually reminds me a lot of the Spanish Inquisition and German Witch-hunts. Since most of the native Prussians were of Baltic decent, lived in tribes, and had pagan practices.)
1336: The Knights of the Cross sieged the Pilenai Castle in Samogitia. The defenders burned all their goods and committed suicide.
1401: The 1st Samogitian uprising supported by Vytautas took place against the German knights.
1410: Lithuanian-Polish forces defeated the Teutonic Knights at the Battle of Tannenberg, Prussia, thereby halting the Knights’ eastward expansion along the Baltic and hastening their decline. (And thus, Prussia begins to become less religious crazy. Yay.)
1454: Casimir proclaimed the attachment of Prussia to Polish rule. This began a 13-year war over Prussia. (All I can hear is Poland shouting 'Your capital will be Warsaw!')
1466: The peace of Torun ended the 13-year War of the Cities between the Teutonic knights and their own disaffected subjects in Prussia. Poland was given Pomerelia and West Prussia, and the knights retained East Prussia, with a new capital at Königsberg (Kaliningrad).
1525: Albert von Brandenburg, the leader of the Teutonic Order, assumed the title “Duke of Prussia” and passed the first laws of the Protestant church, making Prussia a Protestant state.
1656: Prussian Duke Frederick Wilhelm withdrew ties with Lithuania and Poland and acknowledged vassal status with Sweden. (Prussia seemed to be a lackey a lot due to the fact that it's people never really had an identity and could easily be confused for a part of another state, as most of Prussia was just based on geographical boundaries instead of cultural ones. Although they did have Old Prussian as a language, that's about where the similarities ended. Hence, rule and alliances changed like the wind during this time.)
1716: Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm I gave the Czar of Russia an elaborately carved amber chamber. In exchange, he received his wish: 55 very tall Russian soldiers. (Prussia also tried it's hardest to keep Russia happy seeing as it was always a weak state and didn't need the enemies. Plus, this historical fact made me smile.)
1719: Frederick William abolished serfdom on crown property in Prussia.
1740: King Frederick II of Prussia ended torture and guaranteed religion and freedom of the press;He also ascended the throne this year.
1741: Austria ceded most of Silesia to Prussia by Treaty of Breslau. (aka-Austria's vital regions.)
1745: Prussia and Austria signed the Treaty of Dresden. This gave much of Silesia to the Prussians.
1756-1763: The Seven Years War. France and Great Britain clashed both in Europe and in North America. France, Russia, Austria, Saxony, Sweden and Spain stood against Britain, Prussia and Hanover. Britain financed Prussia to block France in Europe while her manpower was occupied in America.
1770: Prussia issued the first covered bonds. They were paid back from the issuer’s cash flow and were secured against a pool of assets.
1779: Frederick II of Prussia issued a manifesto in which he bemoaned the increased use of coffee and called for more consumption of beer. (Most likely why Prussia the personification loves beer so much.)
1792: France declared war on Austria, Prussia, and Sardinia, marking the start of the French Revolutionary wars.
1793: Prussia and Russia signed an accord on the 2nd partition of Lithuania and Poland. The 2nd partition of Poland. Polish patriots had attempted to devise a new constitution which was recognized by Austria and Prussia, but Russia did not recognize it and invaded. Prussia in turn invaded and the two agreed to a partition that left only the central portion of Poland independent.
1805: Napoleon defeated Austria and Prussia.
1813: he Russians fighting against Napoleon reached Berlin. The French garrison evacuated the city without a fight;In the Battle at Leipzig Napoleon faced Prussia, Austria and Russia and suffered one of his worst defeats;The Prussians introduced the Iron Cross during the Napoleonic wars.
1815: British and Prussian troops under the Duke of Wellington defeated Napoleon Bonaparte and his forces at the Battle of Waterloo in Belgium;Russia, Prussia and Austria signed a Holy Alliance. "Justice, charity and peace" were to be the precepts that guided the Holy Alliance as envisioned by Czar Alexander I of Russia. The alliance of Russia, Austria and Prussia was formed after the downfall of Napoleon and later all European rulers signed the agreement except the prince regent of Great Britain, the pope and the sultan of Turkey. With no specific aims beyond mutual assistance, the provisions of the Holy Alliance were so vague that it had little effect on European diplomacy (Basically: “Lets beat Napoleon!” treaty.).
1866: Prussia attacked Austria; Treaty of Prague ended the Austro-Prussian war. (Seriously, the whole thing was done in like, two months.)
1870: The Franco-Prussian War began.
1871: After Napoleon III was defeated in a coup; France, under a provisional republican government, continued the war against Germany, but was forced to surrender in the Franco-Prussian War. Surrounded by Prussian troops and suffering from famine, the French army in Paris surrendered.
1914: Russian troops invade Eastern Prussia. (Hello WWI)
1927: Prussia lifted its Nazi ban, Hitler was allowed to speak in public.
1928: Prussia forbade a speech by Adolf Hitler.
1932: In German national elections the NSDAP/NAZI won 36.3% in Prussia. (Which gave Prussia the bad name of being all for Nazism. Even though they fought it off to where the party had to make its headquarters in Munich. Seems the people wizened up a bit after the elections and realized that they goofed up.)
1934: Prussia is abolished (de facto), or unoffical.
1947: Prussia is abolished (de jure), or official, mostly by paper work/law means the just word of mouth.
Role Play Example: The basement was lighter than normal, Prussia noticed as he slowly woke up. He liked the days that West was away at meetings and boring crap like that; it let him sleep in. Stretching, he looked at the clock that sat on a small nightstand next to his bed, grinning at the time. It was well into the afternoon, which was fine by him. He hated getting up at the ass crack of dawn when his brother made him, insisting that he ate breakfast.
Letting his chicks out of their cages, they nested in the mess that was his 'room', although Gilbert essentially took over the whole basement, mostly because he wanted to know what he could get away with. He trudged back up the stairs, plopping down in front of the television, a few of the birds making their way next to him as he began to play his video games at full volume.
“Take that you filthy vermin,” he yelled in triumph, another zombie turning into dust at the will of his gun.
Country: Prussia
Real name: Gilbert Beilschmidt
Personality: Once a great empire and nation, Prussia has never forgotten this and feels that the world should never forget it either. His diaries are a library of his own history, a testament to his own reign, even if most are just filled with how awesome he was that particular day. He likes to keep them though, the records that he existed as a European power and should still be recognized today, even if he's technically occupied by other countries, although mainly by his brother.
Crude, rude, and rather self-centered, Prussia adores the word awesome and will use it at any given opportunity, especially when talking about himself or an accomplishment. He also can be very blunt, pointing out flaws like they're the most obvious thing to do, although if someone does that to him, then he's back on the defensive because no one should be able to see his flaws. After all, how can someone so awesome have any flaws that are visible to others at all?
However, even though he acts out around others, he can't stand being alone, for the fear that he'll finally disappear starts to settle in when he is alone, and he doesn't want to disappear. This fear made him go to war in times past, with anyone that looked at him funny, to prove that he did in fact, deserve to exist and would fight for it. In order to make sure that he was never alone, he started to keep little yellow birds around, because he couldn't disappear if he wasn't alone, and he wasn't alone as long as he had the little birds with him at all times.
Likes:
- (German)Beer
- Maple syrup
- His birds
Dislikes:
- Isolation
- Losing at anything
- American beer
History: Doing mostly bullet points and elaborations where needed, starting with the Teutonic Knights eras as the history before that is mostly about those that immigrated within Prussia's borders and how they didn't want to convert into Christianity. Also, this is going to be long...as I thing everything can be important. I apologize in advance.
1249: The Christburg Peace Treaty forced the Prussians to recognize the rule of the Teutonic Knights. Within about 50 years the Teutonic Knights and Knights of the Cross had overcome most of Prussia and established German as the dominant culture and language. (Although the main language is Low German instead of High German which is mostly spoken in the Southern region of the empire while Low German is spoken in mostly the northern part.)
1255: Konigsberg (Kaliningrad) was founded on the Baltic Sea by the Bohemian King Otakar II.
1324: The pope officially chastised the Knights of the Cross for ill treatment of Catholics and for pushing pagans away from Christianity. (The Knights did such things as 'Prussian' hunts and would slaughter people like animals for the sake of 'conversion' which actually reminds me a lot of the Spanish Inquisition and German Witch-hunts. Since most of the native Prussians were of Baltic decent, lived in tribes, and had pagan practices.)
1336: The Knights of the Cross sieged the Pilenai Castle in Samogitia. The defenders burned all their goods and committed suicide.
1401: The 1st Samogitian uprising supported by Vytautas took place against the German knights.
1410: Lithuanian-Polish forces defeated the Teutonic Knights at the Battle of Tannenberg, Prussia, thereby halting the Knights’ eastward expansion along the Baltic and hastening their decline. (And thus, Prussia begins to become less religious crazy. Yay.)
1454: Casimir proclaimed the attachment of Prussia to Polish rule. This began a 13-year war over Prussia. (All I can hear is Poland shouting 'Your capital will be Warsaw!')
1466: The peace of Torun ended the 13-year War of the Cities between the Teutonic knights and their own disaffected subjects in Prussia. Poland was given Pomerelia and West Prussia, and the knights retained East Prussia, with a new capital at Königsberg (Kaliningrad).
1525: Albert von Brandenburg, the leader of the Teutonic Order, assumed the title “Duke of Prussia” and passed the first laws of the Protestant church, making Prussia a Protestant state.
1656: Prussian Duke Frederick Wilhelm withdrew ties with Lithuania and Poland and acknowledged vassal status with Sweden. (Prussia seemed to be a lackey a lot due to the fact that it's people never really had an identity and could easily be confused for a part of another state, as most of Prussia was just based on geographical boundaries instead of cultural ones. Although they did have Old Prussian as a language, that's about where the similarities ended. Hence, rule and alliances changed like the wind during this time.)
1716: Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm I gave the Czar of Russia an elaborately carved amber chamber. In exchange, he received his wish: 55 very tall Russian soldiers. (Prussia also tried it's hardest to keep Russia happy seeing as it was always a weak state and didn't need the enemies. Plus, this historical fact made me smile.)
1719: Frederick William abolished serfdom on crown property in Prussia.
1740: King Frederick II of Prussia ended torture and guaranteed religion and freedom of the press;He also ascended the throne this year.
1741: Austria ceded most of Silesia to Prussia by Treaty of Breslau. (aka-Austria's vital regions.)
1745: Prussia and Austria signed the Treaty of Dresden. This gave much of Silesia to the Prussians.
1756-1763: The Seven Years War. France and Great Britain clashed both in Europe and in North America. France, Russia, Austria, Saxony, Sweden and Spain stood against Britain, Prussia and Hanover. Britain financed Prussia to block France in Europe while her manpower was occupied in America.
1770: Prussia issued the first covered bonds. They were paid back from the issuer’s cash flow and were secured against a pool of assets.
1779: Frederick II of Prussia issued a manifesto in which he bemoaned the increased use of coffee and called for more consumption of beer. (Most likely why Prussia the personification loves beer so much.)
1792: France declared war on Austria, Prussia, and Sardinia, marking the start of the French Revolutionary wars.
1793: Prussia and Russia signed an accord on the 2nd partition of Lithuania and Poland. The 2nd partition of Poland. Polish patriots had attempted to devise a new constitution which was recognized by Austria and Prussia, but Russia did not recognize it and invaded. Prussia in turn invaded and the two agreed to a partition that left only the central portion of Poland independent.
1805: Napoleon defeated Austria and Prussia.
1813: he Russians fighting against Napoleon reached Berlin. The French garrison evacuated the city without a fight;In the Battle at Leipzig Napoleon faced Prussia, Austria and Russia and suffered one of his worst defeats;The Prussians introduced the Iron Cross during the Napoleonic wars.
1815: British and Prussian troops under the Duke of Wellington defeated Napoleon Bonaparte and his forces at the Battle of Waterloo in Belgium;Russia, Prussia and Austria signed a Holy Alliance. "Justice, charity and peace" were to be the precepts that guided the Holy Alliance as envisioned by Czar Alexander I of Russia. The alliance of Russia, Austria and Prussia was formed after the downfall of Napoleon and later all European rulers signed the agreement except the prince regent of Great Britain, the pope and the sultan of Turkey. With no specific aims beyond mutual assistance, the provisions of the Holy Alliance were so vague that it had little effect on European diplomacy (Basically: “Lets beat Napoleon!” treaty.).
1866: Prussia attacked Austria; Treaty of Prague ended the Austro-Prussian war. (Seriously, the whole thing was done in like, two months.)
1870: The Franco-Prussian War began.
1871: After Napoleon III was defeated in a coup; France, under a provisional republican government, continued the war against Germany, but was forced to surrender in the Franco-Prussian War. Surrounded by Prussian troops and suffering from famine, the French army in Paris surrendered.
1914: Russian troops invade Eastern Prussia. (Hello WWI)
1927: Prussia lifted its Nazi ban, Hitler was allowed to speak in public.
1928: Prussia forbade a speech by Adolf Hitler.
1932: In German national elections the NSDAP/NAZI won 36.3% in Prussia. (Which gave Prussia the bad name of being all for Nazism. Even though they fought it off to where the party had to make its headquarters in Munich. Seems the people wizened up a bit after the elections and realized that they goofed up.)
1934: Prussia is abolished (de facto), or unoffical.
1947: Prussia is abolished (de jure), or official, mostly by paper work/law means the just word of mouth.
Role Play Example: The basement was lighter than normal, Prussia noticed as he slowly woke up. He liked the days that West was away at meetings and boring crap like that; it let him sleep in. Stretching, he looked at the clock that sat on a small nightstand next to his bed, grinning at the time. It was well into the afternoon, which was fine by him. He hated getting up at the ass crack of dawn when his brother made him, insisting that he ate breakfast.
Letting his chicks out of their cages, they nested in the mess that was his 'room', although Gilbert essentially took over the whole basement, mostly because he wanted to know what he could get away with. He trudged back up the stairs, plopping down in front of the television, a few of the birds making their way next to him as he began to play his video games at full volume.
“Take that you filthy vermin,” he yelled in triumph, another zombie turning into dust at the will of his gun.