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[ PLAYER INFORMATION ]
Player Name: Yukeh
Age: 23
Timezone: +8 GMT
Personal Journal: yukitsu
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Instant Messenger: AIM and YM: yukitsuyk
Email: yukitsuyk@yahoo.com
[ CHARACTER INFORMATION ]
Name: Germany, Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Age: A little under 200, looks about 27, human body is about 21 - 22
Gender: Male
Fandom: Axis Powers Hetalia
Timeline: June 7, 2009
History: Bundesrepublik Deutschland personified.
Character Personality:
There is one thing to remember about Germany: He is a country, not a human being, and being a country makes up the whole of his existence. Like most others of his kind, he is proud of what he is, his entire identity, and nothing, not a machine in another world or his own newfound mortality, will make him stop acting otherwise. To stop acting is to stop being.
Germany is an old soul in a young body. Like most nations that side of Europe, Germany embodies the very essence of resilience. Unlike most nations in the continent, however, Germany learned this resilience in an incredibly short amount of time -- as a nation, his own memory only goes back just under two hundred very explosive years, and those two hundred years have taken its toll into what otherwise could have been a more personable personification of Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
As a side note: While Germany himself is young, his lands are old, and his body has been with it every step of the way. He just doesn't remember it, and generally considers the Holy Roman Empire -- his first solid manifestation -- as another individual, outside of himself and therefore more or less a stranger to him. The few variations of Germany after the Holy Roman Empire but directly before his are what he considers his childhood and teenage years under Preußen's protection. He doesn't deny being the Holy Roman Empire, but he finds it difficult to relate to the weak, stagnant empire, and even more difficult to presume that he is aged and therefore subject to the small benefits every old nation enjoys.
One has to remember that as a country, these personifications don't really get a say in what they do or how they act or what they have to obey or sometimes even how they think. They don't have a choice in what the country decides -- the country makes the choice for them. Germany is able to distinctly read the pervading emotions of his people, and is inevitably subject to them whether he wants it or not, always swept away by what they want until he wants it, too. It just is. His people want war? Then Germany will want war. If his people want peace, then that is what he will work for to the best of his abilities, applying himself to his labor like he always does.
You have to wonder how he must have felt when his people turned from their fatherland in shame as an effect of the last World War.
But enough about Germany as the country. While it's true that he does what his country decides (they all do), Germany, like his kith, also retain some sense of 'self' that they carry through the centuries with them.
Understandably, from the standpoint of a country that has seen a lot of action, and being the one getting jerked around by the changes in human beings, Germany has a certain disdain for human folly bred from being unable to understand them. He's not always uncomfortable with people, even his own citizens, and he has trouble relating to them for the sheer fact that he and they have such varying differences in experience as country and person. They live short lives, to be sure, but they also live fully, both of which Germany only really comprehend in theory.
Germany is close-minded. Or to be more accurate, he is very limited in his views of what should be versus what things are, and it is natural to him to try to change what can be improved and adhere strictly to the higher rules that all his people are ideally subjected to.
Which also leads us to Germany as racist. He's not a violent racist, but he has a very rigorous set of beliefs of what a human being should be and how they should act. While he personally didn't approve of the Nazi regime, he did agree with the general do not want for the other races, not BECAUSE they were another race, but because he already had difficulty understanding his own people sometimes, and everyone else, with their unique cultures, were even more bizarre to him. Germany is just less likely to voice his thoughts about it and give his bosses ideas.
As mentioned before, Germany is firmly set in his ways. He is not unlike an authoritative rock that you cannot budge, and he is not given to showing either pleasure or displeasure on a normal basis. Coupled with a perfectionist streak (though not as bad as Österreich) and an industrious and pragmatic nature, Germany appears to others as extremely professional. His particular particular-ness with detail and method of forward planning (expect the worst to come) has given him a pessimistic view in life.
That isn't to say that he can't feel anything; it is just that there are many, many factors getting in the way of him expressing them properly. In a list, it is as follows:
1. He cannot identify what the more intense feelings are, which leads to ignoring, denying, or even outwardly disdaining them.
2. He cannot identify what the more intense feelings are, and he becomes crippled by his own confusion, leading to the wrong expression or no expressions at all.
3. He resists expressing his feelings because they are not appropriate. Unfortunately, his idea of appropriate expression is limited to stoicism and fortitude.
4. He fails to ascertain how to properly react to something, and thus fails to react entirely.
In truth, Germany is more or less a social retard. However, he is easy to confuse, which leads to his occasional bad temper and crabby disposition that he is known for through the realms. After all, if you don't understand something, aren't you also likely to be grumpy? The crabbiness is also brought on by Germany's general desire for everything to go the right way, and no one else really being able to match up to that. In terms of the other countries, his common sense is decent, which is why their constant acts of nonsense (especially Italy) perplexes him and drives him up the wall of angry flailing.
Surprisingly enough, he has some affection (willingly or unwillingly developed) for more people than you would expect from a character like him, and his personal loyalty to his brother, comrades, and citizens is second to none. Sure he doesn't really consider people as friends (rather, he cannot define it and misses the fact that he has quite a few), but they are something to him. It can be said that Germany can’t actually resist requests from these identified somethings, or can’t bear to drive them away even when they do so many things that annoy his rather obsessive-compulsive personality.
A funny fact is that Germany grew up the near complete opposite of his brother, Preußen. He is quiet where his brother is loud, he is more steadily industrious than Preußen’s bursts of genius and explosive super effoooort, he makes ten times more sense than his brother sometimes does, and Germany is necessarily diplomatic where his brother is not. One wouldn’t think that Preußen was literally the one who had raised him from the portions of German land, provinces, kingdoms, duchies and states that before that had refused to be united under one name. But there you go, that was what happened. For a while, all of Germany’s leaders were Prussia’s kings, and while Germany did not have trouble with this personally, it caused them near irreparable damage later on when, in Germany’s newfound independence, his people’s actions had caused his brother’s empire to be abolished.
Germany has some lingering guilt about his brother’s abolishment, although it has been some decades since the worse of the effects of the Second World War that he can reasonably say that they are both recovered well from it. At the moment, Prussia lives in his house and causes him endless headaches, but honestly? He wouldn’t have it another way.
Unity, justice and freedom are the most important values in his country, which is also reflected in him. As a militaristic country for a very long time, discipline, order and industriousness come to him naturally. Germany cannot defy orders from his bosses, which is unfortunate since this has put him in a lot of trouble before (read: World Wars). However, like most countries, Germany takes this with a certain detachment born of always acting on numerous and sometimes opposing decisions.
He's an incredibly thorough worker, and when Germany does something, he applies himself to it like three coats of primer, paint, and varnish. It’s always the long-haul with him, no shortcuts, only efficiency and effectiveness. Outwardly and to most of his citizens, Germany is cool and stern and the very example of what Germans should do. He is the epitome of German perfection, and he is number one in doing what is good of the whole of his country and his people.
Germany doesn’t like doing the wrong thing at any time. In the occasion that he doesn’t know what he’s supposed to do - something that happens often when he is thrust into bizarre social situations - he refers to higher authorities for advice, including but not limited to: Manuals, other countries, and other humans. Admittedly, the other countries are sometimes worse at it that he is, so he should really know better than to ask them.
In a way, Germany is an amalgamation of strange personality combinations. He’s polite but blunt, arrogant but modest, intelligent but close-minded, industrious but pessimistic, obedient but stubborn. He also loves food, may dabble occasionally in music, crafts, and baking sweet things, is fond of dogs, and has a particular fondness for wurst, beer, and cheese.
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[ WEAPON ONLY SECTION ]
Why your character should be a Weapon:
Germany is a weapon not because he is a tool or someone to be used, but because progress runs in his veins. Ever since his younger years as the young, unfortunate German Empire, Germany has always displayed extraordinary resilience but also the tenacity to overcome any hardship to eventually come out on top. This capacity for progress and rapid self-improvement is something that can be equated to the development that weapons must go through on their journey to become Deathscythes.
In any case, regardless of his status as a meister or a weapon, Germany does his best to function effectively and efficiently.
What is your character's Weapon form?:
Germany’s weapon form is the Gewehr Karabiner 98k. It’s a 5-shot, bolt-action shoulder rifle used first in World War I and was modified for use in World War II for the infantry. It comes with a bayonet permanently attached to the front.
Germany is a weapon who doesn’t do anyone any favors, someone whose full power needs to be earned. The rifle itself has recoil, needs to be cocked for every shot, and needs to be set up for accuracy. A meister has to learn how to shoot a rifle of his class before being able to use him to any effect, and he doesn’t lend his meister extra strength or speed or agility. His range is nominally around 500 yards.
He doesn’t really have any special abilities; however, like all gun-types in Soul Eater, his bullets will be made of soul wavelength and will only be limited to the stores of energy of both meister and weapon. His bullets also explode on impact for enhanced damage.
On full resonance, Germany’s function changes to that of a Panzerschreck, an anti-tank rocket launcher rather than that of a plain rifle. The recoil becomes bigger, the rate of fire becomes slower, each bullet requires more energy to use, and accuracy is reduced because of the bullet’s power. The ‘bullets’ become larger balls of soul wavelength that explode even more significantly upon impact. His range of fire becomes extended to 800 yards.
The rifle part of his weapon does not manifest in his human form. His hand turns into a blade as a partial form of the bayonet.
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