Post by Vietnam - Nguyen Thi on Mar 13, 2019 23:12:12 GMT
SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM  general info FULL NAME • Nguyen, Thi AGE • ~2,300 year (appears 26) BIRTHDAY • September 2nd GENDER • Female SEXUAL ORIENTATION • Bi FACE CLAIM • N/A appearance HAIR COLOR • Brown EYE COLOR • Gold HEIGHT • 5'0" WEIGHT • ~100 lbs TATTOOS • None OVERALL APPEARANCE • She is one of those people who is smaller than you expected when you first meet her - her small sizes belies her rather strong personality. She's only about five feet tall and barely over a hundred pounds, her figure being even more slender than this sounds because she's also more muscular than many would expect. She has very long brown hair, which she normally pulls back into a ponytail or sometimes a braid to keep it out of her way. • In her facial features she strongly resembles the rest her family, though her eyes are far more gold than the rest of them. Her expressions tend to be rather muted unless she's smiling on purpose - and even then she smiles more with her eyes than with her mouth. She tends to project an air of being mild-mannered, enough that those who don't know her very well can easily be surprised by how sudden and strongly expressed her emotions can be. • Unless she's doing something that absolutely does not permit it, she almost always wears an áo dài, preferring the traditional clothing over anything more modern - though the material and designs have changed over time to keep up with current trends. In fact, she tends to wear the áo dài version of whatever everyone else is wearing. And she often pairs it with a nón lá - what she calls the conical hat that not just she but all of her siblings are known to wear, though she tends to wear it even more often than they do and that is perhaps because she's located more in the tropics than most of them. personality LIKES
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OVERALL PERSONALITY • According to legend, the people of Vietnam are descended from the one hundred sons of a dragon named Lạc Long Quân and a fairy named Âu Cơ - and that to this day they carry the blood of the dragons and the charm of the fairies within them. Like all legends, it's easy to automatically assume that it's not true, but those who know Vietnam well can certainly see the truth to it. • When she chooses to use the gentler side of her nature, it's easy to see her charm - some would say she is beautiful, though she's quick to hold the opinion that her beauty is one of her least important traits. She knows how to be soft-spoken and kind, peaceable and very loyal. Even when she's not being forced to follow someone else's orders, she knows that she can often get what she needs and wants with words that are said politely and with true feelings and intent. • But then there's her other side... When she chooses to be fierce always fought with the spirit of an untamable dragon - never giving up and never surrendering even if her cause seems hopeless unless and until she is actually defeated. A dragon that keeps finding itself captured and forced to be subject to someone else. But her spirit remains unbroken - at best one can tire it out from time to time, but it never goes away. Perhaps she's a little dragon in a world full of larger dragons and that's why she keeps finding her independence stolen from her, but that doesn't mean that she won't still fight and that doesn't mean that she doesn't dream of becoming what she knows that she was always meant to be. • Which of these sides she uses at any given moment depends on which she thinks is best. Her dragon side is at best a precision tool, especially during times such as these where she must be subject to someone else - something to only let loose when the opportunity seems right. But when she must depend on someone else's good graces for her life and livelihood, her fairy side should do her well. history IDENTIFIABLE PARENTS • Unknown GUARDIAN(S) OR MENTOR(S) • She was raised by China. SIBLING(S) • China, Japan, Taiwan, North Korea, South Korea OTHER IMPORTANT RELATIONSHIPS • China, France, and America - the three nations much larger than herself who she has defeated in war. She has not forgiven them. OVERALL HISTORY Childhood • For Thi's earliest years, she lived alone in the tropical swampland that she calls home. At least until this giant, bossy nation showed up who insisted that they were family and that she needed to live with him instead of in the swamp. She did her best to fight him off, but she was a small child so her efforts were fruitless. Therefore, for the vast majority of her life she lived with China. • But not continuously - she escaped whenever she could. And when she did she refused to quietly go back home each time - she likes her independence that much. But finally she became old enough and strong enough, and on top of that her brother China kept getting more and more busy and distracted by other things, so she was able to start living independently on her own without worrying about immediately being dragged back. Dynasties and Lords • Independence allowed her to have her own people and her own Bosses, and there were so many of them over about a thousand years. Sometimes she would end up with more than one Boss at the same time, and sometimes they got along but that was not usually the case. In any event, because Yao left her alone and she got along well with her neighbors, she was able to focus her attention primarily upon her own affairs for quite some time. And because of this she considers this period to be 'the good old days', which she remembers fondly. Then Came the West • It was during one of those many times when her Boss was attempting to defeat a rival who thought that he should be her Boss instead that she was first contacted by one of the newer Western nations that were out exploring the world at the time. France, specifically. When he arrived he offered to help solve the conflict between her Boss and his rival. Peace was preferable to her, so she took him up on that offer. • However, in spite of the fact that this was finished, he didn't leave. Which was a problem because he was quite strong at the time and she was much weaker - she couldn't force him to leave. And in fact he proceeded to do quite the opposite - he forced not only her but a couple of her neighbors to live in the same house and raised up a little sister to be in charge of it. Though she attempted to find a way out of the situation, she simply wasn't strong enough to deal with this Western incursion. A World War of Opportunity • Because she was busy being a mere servant in the house of French Indochina, she didn't pay too much attention to what was happening in the world at large until it brought her an opportunity - and when it did, she grabbed it with both hands. With the Europeans fighting each other, the power shifts could be felt on the other side of the world. Japan came to take over from France, but then he too was defeated. • That is when she struck, when the confusion of so many changes in power loosened everyone's grip on her. By the time France returned to reclaim her, she was ready for him and fought back ferociously. He was still stronger than her, but she dug in deeply and managed to keep about half of what was rightfully hers. Her War • Around the same time that she began her fight for her freedom, Yao had begun to seriously look into communism, and so did she. She found tales of the revolution in Russia to be deeply inspirational for her own fight and decided to embrace these new ideas. But because of this, two very powerful nations took an interest in her war with France and his sister as she tried to reclaim the rest of what was hers. • It seems that Alfred, in his infinite wisdom as a nation of only a couple hundred years of experience, thought that France's little sister was the rightful ruler of her lands just because he didn't like communism. But though he sent many, many soldiers, Ivan offered weapons and training for her men, and that is all she needed to teach the boy a lesson. This wasn't her first war against a stronger force, so she knew the proper tactics - instead of trying to beat him face to face, make every step as painful as possible until he questions why he is even there. So he gave up and went home. Modern Day • Able to finally put her gun away after so many years of fighting, she found her household in shambles. But that was okay, she could rebuild. She also found that pretty much every other nation wasn't interested in helping her. But that was okay, because Ivan felt differently. So she got to work, not just cleaning up the mess but also attempting to become more modern. As independent as ever, she's went about it her own way and didn't care what other nations thought. • At least she didn't until Ivan started having problems at home and couldn't help her for awhile - that forced her to care about other nations at least a bit, so that she could get along with them enough to trade. But that has also helped to establish herself as a country of international importance and influence, though she still feels like she gets treated like she's not as important as she feels that she deserves. • Especially by Yao, who seems to think that he's just as much of a big-shot who can push her around as ever, and has been getting worse and worse lately. And the fact that he's been being friendly with Ivan, who seems less inclined to help her than he used to, makes her worried that she won't be able to defend her interests. Which is why she's been, albeit a bit reluctantly, trying to be friendly enough with Alfred that he would care if Yao tried something. Alfred seems pretty eager to have an excuse to be mad at Yao anyway, so that doesn't seem to be like a difficult thing to do. roleplayer OOC NAME • Avalikia / Ava TIME ZONE • MST EXPERIENCE • Close to 20 years OTHER CHARACTERS • Germany - Ludwig Beilschmidt |
