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Name: Poland/Feliks Łukasiewicz
Fandom: Axis Powers Hetalia: Manga Version
Timeline: Post Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth end- the beginning of the January Uprising, 1863
Age: 18ish
Appearance:
About 173-ish cm, slim and fairly muscular. Poland has catlike green eyes and chin length light blond hair, which seems to reflect how he’s feeling at the time- it seems to stand out and become messy as soon as he gets grouchy or tired. He’s quite pale and has been shown with a sun-umbrella, indicating he probably gets sunburned quite easily.
He’s commonly seen cross-dressing, which is a hobby of his. His outfits when in drag veer towards cutesy as opposed to provocative, and he prefers frills, and pastel colors. Notably, whenever he cross-dresses he makes no attempt to appear more feminine in figure, and wears no make-up or wigs, just the clothing, with no obvious attempt to appear female, preferring to just be a “man in a skirt“. When not cross-dressing, his clothing is flamboyant, and often quite intricate, from battle to everyday: notably the fighting garb of the Hussars, in which he donned giant angel-type wings.
Abilities: Nothing spectacular, only the same powers as most Nations within the Hetalia-verse. Though Poland specifically hasn’t yet been proven to have any unique abilities, Nations in general are capable of several 4th Wall defying feats, such as eating punch lines and also eating sound effects. Aside from that he has the general durability that comes with being a country, and has ejected himself from a plane midflight with no visible damage.
Aside from that, Poland has been an extremely strong power in Europe for around about 300 years before his partition, and so he would still be proficient in fighting on horseback, and probably fair at hand-to-hand dueling, (And when I say fair I mean ‘average talent’, not ‘honest play.’) and would have the basic idea of how to use a gun. He knows how to play chess (Though his attention span means he rarely finishes games without a riot.), and quite a few musical instruments, thanks to the Renaissance. Poland is also multilingual, able to speak Polish (Funny that), Latin, Lithuanian (though he won’t admit it), a fair smattering of French, and Russian although he’ll never use it
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Personality: Poland behaves very differently towards two types of people, the people he trusts, and the people he doesn’t trust. He has a strong anxiety towards strangers, and finds it very hard to talk to them, and as a result not many people get to know him well. Even when he does know someone as an acquaintance, he finds it hard to talk to them in a proper conversation, or assert his own opinion around them, even if he feels strongly about it. In these situations he will panic, and then hide away, often behind his partner, Lithuania.
Towards people he does know, and people he doesn’t know, however, he retains one common characteristic, which is a somewhat superficial, bimbo like facade. Poland adores pretty things, clothing and animals, and his like of ponies is an on-going joke in the series, as they seem to appear now wherever Poland is, including inside his house. That, combined with his accent, which is the slang of a California girl, or Valley-boy in Japan, gives off the impression that he isn’t very smart, or deep at all. However, Poland is really a lot more sensitive than people think. He plays on his apparent lack of intelligence in many ways, and it is hard to tell whether he actually is dim-witted or not, leading to the general conclusion that he’s a lot smarter than he appears.
When a person does manage to get close to Poland you seem to have gained him for life, and it’s a tossup as to whether that’s a good thing or not. He’s very physical in showing his affections, and people who are liked by him find themselves jumped on, hugged often and forced to give piggy-backs to him, whether they like it or not. He has a bad habit of being quite forceful with his opinions onto his friends, although often not intentionally. He doesn’t stop to consider whether anyone else wants to know or not, but thinks that they must agree with him, because to his mind- why wouldn’t they? He can be very clingy, and enjoys being around someone all the time, and often tries to show off in order to impress everyone, in ways that are bizarre to say the least.
Poland possesses an imaginative mind, which has the ability to put a spin on everything, in an almost childlike way. Often these ideas are poorly thought through, and make little sense, and are just as equally simply all talk. Ideas like these range from an ejector seat in an aeroplane (which backfired badly on him) to attaching an engine to his land (the country of Poland) in order to make it fly and attack Russia. Because of this, he’s quite bothersome to spend time with, if eventful, as you never know what he will come up with next. Chances are, it won't be logical, or have any benefit to anyone at all, and it's likely to be quite dangerous, if not purely ridiculous. These dense ideas are the framework of his life, and he lives by the results of them, backfiring or otherwise. If something goes wrong, well, there's a more impractical idea to solve that problem, one which may defy the laws of physics, gravity or any other kind of scientific, sane guidelines. Or someone else can clean it up.
The attitude that someone else can tidy up after him is borne of an important part of Poland, his ego. Vain, and often superficial, Poland believes he is "awesome", and that his opinion is of utmost importance to everyone else. He can be forceful with it, and insistent that everyone does things Poland's way. Speaking his language or eating his kind of food are things he forces on people when the whim takes him.
This high opinion of himself is what causes his selfish attitude. Without a doubt, he's the most important person in his own life, and what he wants he will get. While this isn't malicious, and he wouldn't go as far as to deliberately hurt the majority of people to achieve his own happiness, he will disregard other's feelings in order to gain what he wants, if sometimes unknowingly. He can turn possessive as a result of this, and he hates to loose. When it happens, he'll pretend it didn't, choosing to remember the one battle he did win over the other nine he lost, or he'll bend the rules to get his own way.
A good example of this is Poland's attitude in a game of chess with Lithuania (In the strip Checkmating Poland) wherein he finds himself cornered and loosing the game. Instead of playing on, he invoked 'Poland's Rule' meaning that it is always his turn, ruining the chess game and just throwing chess pieces around. His inability to accept failure, and his ego combined with his odd suggestions make him appear a dense jerk a lot of the time, regardless of how well you know him.
One of Poland’s most crippling attributes is a strong anxiety towards strangers. Upon meeting someone he is incredibly shy, tries to hide at times, as shown in the personality section. He’s also very impulsive, and not very good at preparing for the future, the type of person who will find himself in a desert with a bottle of water for a week, and drinks it straight away if he’s thirsty. Other nations take advantage of him because of this, despite the fact he clearly has his own opinion.
Pride is another one of his downfalls, because he doesn’t seem to know when to back down, even at points when it’s really quite necessary. Poland appears to consider himself twice the size and strength that he really is, and because of this he doesn’t understand that there are people he should probably respect and be afraid of, which gets him hurt a lot.
He’s also got very serious denial issues, it seems, from several strips, such as the scene in Chapter 5 where he refuses to see the oncoming World War Two as a serious problem. Every time something seems to go wrong, he will repress it, at the cost of his own safety and others, to the point of lying and hurting other people’s feelings in an attempt to pretend that everything really isn’t happening.
History:
The place named Poland has been inhabited for over 7500 years, but Poland as a named state and consequently as the character has only existed since about 966. Through a series of political agreements, and a rapid expansion of land, over the succeeding years Poland would become one of the strongest European nations, and also one of the most advanced as a country. He was considered high class, and particularly well learnt, especially compared to that of his neighbours, who often sent important noble figures to his land to become educated. However, this couldn’t last, and whilst remaining an educated and sophisticated land, Poland found himself in an increasingly difficult situation with neighbouring country Prussia, and the Teutonic Knights, who became aggressive towards Poland and other neighbouring countries, and claiming land.
In order to remedy this Poland turned to not fighting, but diplomatic relations, with the country of Hungary seeking a union, a poor decision which lasted for only 12 years, and ended in war. This paved the way for a different union, with the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, organised by the two Nation’s diplomats of the time. It was to be an alliance by marriage, between Poland’s King (technically Queen, but rules of the time dictated she be considered a King) Jadwiga and Lithuania’s Grand Duke Jagiello. This caused stress for Poland, a painfully shy Nation at the time, and his initial reaction caused Lithuania to doubt how successful their union would be. However, the two nations grew closer, and began to seek stronger ties, forming the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1569.
This Commonwealth is widely regarded nowadays as the Golden Age of both the countries, and Poland is strongly loyal and nostalgic also to it, sometimes living in the past in his mind as it is the time when he was strongest, most prosperous and also happiest. Mostly a peaceful nation, the Commonwealth was strong in Europe mainly due to its farming industry, although they were strong fighters when the need called them. Their defeat of the Teutonic Knights in the Battle of Grunwald weakened the Order of the Knights severely, and it was unable to recover from it. Poland was the more dominant of the two nations in their ‘marriage’ and often bossed Lithuania about, doing little of the work as he preferred simply to laze around instead. The main fighting unit of the Commonwealth would become the famed Polish Hussars, a group of fighters which would don large feathered wings to fight in, almost like angel wings in appearance. As a result, Poland became a hussar, and wore the wing accordingly.
However, this life couldn’t last, and the huge empire that they had become eventually fell, with the three Partitions of Poland. The three enemies of their State, Prussia, Austria and Russia combined to pull apart the couple, and in the final battle Lithuania was taken away by Russia as Poland lay on the ground unmoving. When spoken to he managed to roll over in the snow, and tried to laugh and mock the expression on Lithuania’s face, in a characteristic show of denial, pretending that life wasn’t going to suddenly get a whole lot worse.
Poland didn’t exist on the world map now, territory having been split between the 3 nations which had torn the kingdom apart, and as a result he took an army, the remainders of the Hussars, and fled, across Europe to form the Polish Legions in Italy. It was here he would meet his best friend North Italy, and it gave him a safe place to stay when he had no real home. The Polish Legions in Italy, and the Polish state became involved in Napoleon’s campaign, as the main enemies of Napoleon were Poland’s enemies also, Prussia, Austria and Russia. A promise that if Napoleon were to be successful in his wars France would bring back the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ensured Poland remained extremely loyal to Napoleon’s cause right until the bitter end, and formed a friendship with France, a friendship which is still strong today. After the fall of Napoleon, Poland remained split, but the Congress of Vienna presented a solution, if a poor one. Realising that Poland would continue to rebel and fight in his cause to become independent, a pseudo-state was formed, named the Kingdom of Poland. However, the Kingdom of Poland was to be controlled by Russia, something which boded well for neither side, as Russia refused to uphold the rules he had been given in looking after Poland, and abusing him severely. Poland responded with bloody rebellion almost constantly, and managed to combine with the also captured Lithuania in the two largest uprisings, the November Uprising, and the January Uprising. The January Uprising was the result of building tensions within the country, with Poland refusing to fight for Russia’s armies, and Poland being placed under cruel martial law as a result. Spontaneous protesting against conscription began and soon Poland himself began to fight once more for freedom, along with Lithuania, Belarus*, Latvia and Ukraine*- Poland’s former ‘family’ and the previous members of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
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* The January Uprising is currently not shown in Hetalia, though it definitely happened within Poland’s timeline, so it’s not clear on Belarus and Ukraine’s participation in this in the Hetalia setting- it’s unlike their characters as presented by Himaruya to rebel against their brother Russia, but historically it happened. I don’t believe it will ever come up within the Facility setting, but if you want to discuss it with me that’s fine~
Roleplay Sample - Log: Ugh.
There were a lot of other words Poland could have thought of to describe his life right now, but that was the one that kept popping back into his mind. It conjured up the right amount of disgust exactly. He was bored mindless with this place, tired of the white walls and the lack of sky.
Standing up and crossing over swiftly to the mirror, Poland tilted his head to one side and poked his tongue out at the face staring back at him, like a child. The heavy bunny ears flopping down over his hair were clearly some kind of Easter joke, and while he’d been fascinated for the first two days, skipping down the hallway and showing people his tail repetitively had lost its charm somewhat. And underneath the ears was a pale, homesick Nation. His cheeks were more hollowed than normal from the change of diet from his heavy Eastern European diet to the ‘cardboard bars’ that were standard fare here. But that didn’t matter, for what he was about to do
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This place needed some colour. And he was going to be the one to inject it
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Heels clicking sharply, he approached the Bio-dome, hiding the selection of tins and the large brush in his hands behind his back guiltily, scampering along in the shadows so as not to be seen. Slipping through the doors quietly, he scanned the verdant area with great satisfaction as the grin on his face widened. Nestled through the grass as far as the eye could see, were rabbits. He could hardly suppress the little squeal of glee that bubbled up in his throat as one hopped closer, and he outstretched his hand to it in response as he dropped to a crouch. Petting it softly, he took the lid off the tin with his free hand, and dipped his paintbrush into the vivid pink paint.
“Hey Flopsy, guess what…? You’re gonna look totally fab today~!”
Four hours later, the first of what would be hundreds of multi-coloured rabbits bounced into the halls as Poland flung open the doors and marched out of the Bio-dome, covered in strawberry pink, baby-blue and mint green paint. It stuck to his hair in blobs, dripped from his fingers onto the floor, and the mix of pastel colours even spread down onto his teeth, bared in a wide grin. They needed colour? You couldn’t get much more colourful than this.
Roleplay Sample - Journal: Hey, uh, guys? Listen up, 'kay?
I wanna apologise to you all. I know none of you will believe me, but like, whatever.
Seriously, I didn't like, mean to break the china! I know you like that teacup, and yeah, I know I said it was totally ugly -cause it is- but I swear that's like, not the reason I smashed it. So will you please stop cold-shouldering me? And omigod, I want the key to the stable back. All three of you know I get totally pissy when I can't ride!
Kay, I can't even see you, but shuddup.
Let me explain? I came up with this awesome idea, okay? I thought I'd make you breakfast in bed, Liet, and I just thought, like, how much cooler would it be if I wasn't even there to hand it to you? If it just whizzed in through the window? So,obviously a catapult would be so totally simple to make, I just nicked the string from Latvia's knickers, and....wham!
So, it missed. It was a like, fab plan though. Surely you've gotta see that?
...Please?
...C'mon...
Questions? Comments? Crazed and creative statements? Those go here. I’d like Poland to have partial memories of his previous time here if that’s okay? So, vague déjà vu and dreamlike memories, but nothing more significant than that.