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Player InformationName: Pana
Age: 25
AIM SN: faucet no jutsu
email: please use lj message
Have you played in an LJ based game before? Yes
Bonus: How did you hear about Siren's Pull? I play Shikamaru here.
Character Information
GeneralCanon Source: Axis Powers Hetalia
Canon Format: Manga
Character's Name: Heracles Karpusi [Greece]
Character's Age: 367 [physically ~16]
What form will your character's NV take? A small parchment scroll.
Abilities
Character's Canon Abilities: The Nations of Hetalia are mostly limited to ordinary human abilities. However, their physical age is symbolic of their state's developmental stages rather than reflecting the actual years of their existence. Greece, like the others, is close to immortal. Until his civilization declines, he will not become elderly or die. Yet he can become ill or be killed by force.
Although not necessarily a "power", Greece attracts cats. Sometimes by the dozen. He doesn't call to them; they simply find him attractive and feel the urge to follow him and climb on him. When he's threatened, they'll often leap to his defense.
As far as skills go, Greece is not an exceptional combatant but well-versed in guerrilla tactics and Pankration. In general, he's a lover, not a fighter. Accordingly, his sexual prowess is legendary and noted as such by several fellow Nations. As Turkey's slave, he is a trained masseuse (tellak) and erotic dancer (köçek).
Conditional: If your character has no superhuman canon abilities, what dormant ability will you give them?Greece will develop the ability to absorb or transfer injury and illness through touch. He will suffer the effects as if he himself suffered the initial injury. For example, touching someone with a broken arm will break his arm identically, while simultaneously healing theirs. If he absorbs a fatal injury, he will die.
In its initial stages, others will feel revitalized through bodily contact with him, while he will feel unusually fatigued. Before he gains control over this power, it will be possible for someone to even force him to absorb their injuries. Over time he will learn to restrict this exchange and only take as much damage as he consciously wishes to draw in.
In advanced stages, he will control the extent of the injury he absorbs. Thus he can break his arm only partially, leaving the other's arm halfway healed. This can save someone who is bleeding to death, for example, by slowing their bleeding until help can arrive. In this way, he too will bleed but not bleed to death.
At the height of his power, he will be capable of reversing this ability and forcing his own injuries onto others in order to heal himself. Until he learns this, he is entirely incapable of healing himself through supernatural means.
Weapons: None. He is not in possession of Mount Athos at this time.
History/Personality/Plans/etc.
Character History: [character] [nation] [timeline]Born from the Byzantine Empire, young Greece had precious little time to spend with his mother before she was killed by Turkey in 1453. This dark stranger proceeded to take the orphan into his own home as part of his Ottoman Empire. Like so many children, Greece was raised to follow Turkey's customs. He was educated according to Turkey's beliefs and made to play many roles: devşirme, köçek, and tellak. However, the child Greece was never content to be Turkey's servant boy. Even as he approached his teenage years and was given a prominent position in Turkey's palace, he despised his surrogate father. In secret he read his mother's books and practiced the customs she had taught him.
In the 18th century, Greece became acquainted with France and Russia, who both took an interest in this beautiful nation so close to adulthood. Both of them fought Turkey for Greece's heart, but Turkey refused to let go. Greece himself maintained a certain level of apathy, feeling hopeless that he would ever be allowed to leave Turkey's possession. It wasn't until England began to visit him that he felt truly stirred. With so much poetry and words of adoration and promises of aid, England wooed teenage Greece and convinced him to turn against Turkey once and for all.
Point in Canon: 6 January 1821Greece has been enslaved to Turkey for almost four hundred years. His restlessness has recently taken on a violent quality, and he has been planning in secret to murder his master. This is the day Theodoros Kolokotronis returned to Greece to begin his rebellion, the day when revolution finally became a reality.
Character Personality:Greece is perhaps the wisest of the Nations, even given his relatively young age. He is a quiet intellectual, a dreamer who does not often concern himself with the goings-on around him. He says very little to most, offering his opinion only when asked for it, but the advice that he does give is sensible and fair. Softly, he often speaks in poetry or quotes long-dead philosophers, and much of his musing is a riddle for others to decipher.
There is a sadness to his thoughtfulness, an ever-present wistfulness. Perhaps he is always wishing for a return to better times. The past is something that he treasures far more than the present or the future. He believes that things were better then. The truth, however, is that he remembers very little of history. He refers to both Ancient Greece and the Byzantine Empire as his mother, although the former is probably his grandmother. He clings to romantic notions of a time before he was even born. And he spends too much of his time sorting through the ruins of his mother's empire, a pastime noted by other Nations as being exceedingly morbid.
Even so, he has a sense of humor. Although his tone of voice is sleepy and bland, lending dryness to everything he says, he is known to tease... especially in perverse manners. He has no concept of privacy, or else does not care for it, because one of his favorite topics of discussion is sexuality. He happens to love sex, and he loves to proposition others for sex at the most surprising and awkward moments just to embarrass them. If they refuse, gentle teasing will ensue, along with sage advice on how to increase sex drive. Of course, he's usually only half-joking. He would, in fact, enjoy having sex with just about anyone.
In general, Greece is very laid-back and not at all snobbish despite his great love of the classics. He is down-to-earth and takes everything in stride, perhaps because too much effort or worry tires him out. He naps very frequently, falling asleep even during important gatherings. It might simply be that nothing is as important to him as his dreams are.
Yet, though he doesn't have the constitution to battle his enemies for long, there are times when Greece will put up a vicious fight. If something absolutely violates his moral beliefs or his sense of freedom, he will declare war and battle until he is physically incapable of pushing on. He refuses to be broken even when he is battered, and he will hold a grudge indefinitely, waiting for the next opportunity to strike. Turkey is the usual target for this violence, the one he has always hated and always will. When in Turkey's presence, Greece goes from quiet and calm to nearly psychotic. Even if he is not outright attacking Turkey, he will make snide remarks and wish death upon him. To Greece, there is no evil greater than Turkey, and it drives him mad that he's not yet strong enough to defeat his master.
Character Plans: Because he will not immediately understand that he is no longer owned by Turkey, Greece will at first be limited by Turkey's will. I'd like to eventually see Greece affiliated with AGI, since he's a trained sex worker already. Maybe some AGI representative can "help" him get out of Turkey's possession.
Appearance/PB: [ icons] [image]
Writing Samples
First Person SampleI was rescued by a magus last night and he said to me that I should write here. He said that there were many others like me but I am doubtful of this.
Where burning Sappho loved and sung,
Where grew the arts of war and peace, --
Where Delos rose and Phoebus sprung!
I am very doubtful.
There is a long time between now and mine, so please tell me: where is a library? I would like to know if I am still alive.
Third Person SampleThe night had been so cold only moments earlier. He'd been standing on one of the balconies of Turkey's house, his hands resting on icy marble while he gazed out at the sea. It was very late; the moon had been setting, and across the navy blue Mediterranean he had imagined (impossibly) that he could see the shores of his homeland. He'd shut his eyes and breathed in the salty air, the chill making his lungs ache.
And that was when he felt the pull. At first it seemed to be pulling him home, and his heart leapt with thrill and excitement. But he was pulled faster, further, and now the night air was hot and muggy. His hands held his face, still cool where the stone had chilled them, and he swayed unsteadily on his bare feet. He thought he might faint from the summer heat. It wasn't even all that hot, but it was so wrong. This heat in January. All of this sheer wrongness confused his mind and his body.
Something furry rubbed against his calf. He opened his eyes, then bent down to pick up the cat that had found him somehow even here. Holding the animal in his arms made him feel better. He looked around as he cradled her, noting the uninteresting field around him. Then he looked up and gasped. His cerulean eyes took in the impossibly tall towers before him while he backed up slowly. "Manoula mou," he uttered under his breath, disbelieving.
This was not his country. This was not even his world.