Post by wangzi on Jun 20, 2011 15:35:29 GMT -5
(((My Reflection)))
Nation: China
Name: Eastern - Wang Yao or Western - Yao Wang
Gender: Male
Appearance Age: around 23
Hair Color: Dark brown or black, depending on the lighting
Eye Color: Dark Brown
Height: 169 cm
Weight: 56 kg
Appearance: Yao is a rather accurate representation of his people, though he is the tiniest bit taller than a regular male citizen, who is around 168 cm tall, and is much lighter than the average male, who is around 65kg heavy. Despite his low weight for his height, he actually seems well-built rather than twiggy. Depending on the lighting, his eyes can be anywhere from a light auburn to a deep brown. His hair is dark brown with the slightest red undertone, and he often pulls most of his hair to the back of his head in order to form a loose ponytail. His forehead is devoid of bangs, except for the few short bangs that seem to frame his face.
Most of the time, Yao wears a deep green military uniform. The military uniform shirt has two rectangular pockets on the chest and two square pockets on the bottom. All the flaps for the openings of the pockets are obtuse triangles and are closed using small black buttons. He has a black belt around his waist, but it does not keep his pants up. His pants lack any sort of decoration or pocket; though, from the knee down, his pants are hidden by white cloth strips that wrap up to his knees. He wears black slip-on shoes with his cloth bandages acting as his socks.
For his other outfits, he has a variety of choices. Whenever he wants to wear something Western and formal, he chooses a snazzy black suit with a white button-up shirt and a tie that is either red or black. When he wants to wear something Eastern and formal, he wears a xuanduan, which is a dark blue formal robe tucked into bright red skirt. The skirt has wide alternating strips of white and red hanging from the top. His sleep attire consisted of a very large shirt that has a picture of Hello Kitty saying “Every day the good day with Hello Kitty,” and baggy, light gray sweatpants. Although he has all these other clothes he can wear, he much prefers his regular military uniform.
(((Know Thyself )))
Personality: In Yao’s head, he is undoubtedly every Asian nation spirits’ big brother; but, sadly, most of them do not see him as their big brother in return. He tries his best to be in charge of the other Asian nation spirits, too, but they never listen to him. Whenever he tries to be the leader of the other Asian nations, he only receives a curt “No thank you.”
He tries his best to stay cheerful and upbeat all of the time, and he usually manages not to show his gloomy side. But he sometimes descends into a deep depression whenever he thinks about all the time he spent isolated from the world and how far technology had advanced without him. Despite his attempts to stay nonchalant, he can be agitated quite easily, especially when his ‘brothers’ and ‘sisters’ deny that he is their older brother or when he is being ordered around by the other nation spirits.
Yao is incredibly prideful. He is set in his ways and he does not plan on changing anytime soon. His pride usually does not make him a jerk, but instead confident and stubborn. Yao often mistakes his pride as honor, though to many other nations there is no difference. His pride can cause him to start wars or believe that he is the reason that some of his siblings are prospering. Though his pride can bring him success in the things he does, it can also lead to his downfall. Often, if he lets his pride get in the way, it will become hard for him to win the war he is fighting in war later.
Yao appreciates all forms of art from literature to dancing. He himself is a great writer, painter, and dancer, but he does not have many chances to show off his talents. He is proud of his artistic abilities, but most of the other countries don't understand how his arts are beautiful.
Concerning religion, Yao would most likely be either agnostic or Christian, and he never feels the need to push his ideals onto others. He does not really believe in all of his old myths anymore, but he does find that they are fun stories to tell his ‘little’ siblings. He is, however, extremely superstitious. He follows all of the superstitions he hears, not matter how silly they are. He often asks other nation spirits about their superstitions so he can make sure not to break any of them.
He is an extremely hard worker. It’s not that he does it because he takes pride in his work – although he does—it’s more that he does not want to look back at something and regret that he had not put in a hundred and ten percent of his efforts. Even if he might not be good at something, he will try his best to not shame himself.
When he has to be serious, Yao can be extremely determined and stubborn. He does not enjoy fighting with his fellow nation spirits; but, if he is forced to, he will; but sometimes, if the other nation has picked on him first, he will start a fight to get them back. He will try his best to just help out other countries instead of fighting. He tries his best to avoid getting mixed up with other countries’ battles, but if it involves one of his little brothers or sisters, he will most definitely try to meddle.
Likes:
★ Hello Kitty
★ Pandas
★ Shinatty-chan
★ Chinese New Year (In China around New Year's, the people spend two weeks just partying.)
★ Li Bai (Arguably the best and most famous poet in China)
★ Hong Long Meng or Dream of the Red Chamber (One of the four great works of China, but it's actually a harem story...)
★ Journey to the West (Another one of the four great for China, except this one is about a monk traveling to the west and his monkey-god companion.)
★ Festivals
★ Red
★ Dragons
★ Phoenixes
★ Ping Pong
★ Tea
★ Dry brush paintings
★ Dumplings, rice cakes, tofu, fish, and rice
★ His 'siblings'
Dislikes:
✖ Dishonoring himself
✖ Not giving 110% of his effort
✖ Not offering to pay for the bill at a restaurant
✖ Being sued for copyright infringements
✖ The number 4
✖ Expensive things that he can easily ripoff
✖ Feeling isolated
✖ Wars
Fears:
☣ America never paying back his debt
☣ Two of his siblings fighting again
☣ His people starving to death due to lack of resources
☣ Being forced into war.
Secrets:
♦ He doesn't actually know that he says '-aru' at the end of every sentence. When someone tells him that he says it, he might stop for a while, but then he'll forget soon enough and start saying it again.
♦ He is not actually that good at Kung Fu. He just pretends that he is so people don't get into fights with him
♦ He brings Shinatty-chan everywhere. Shinatty-chan is usually in the corner, lurking and eavesdropping as Yao goes about his business.
Strengths:
Quick Learner - After his isolation, Yao had to learn very quickly what was going on in the world and everything he missed. He is still doing a bit of catching up, but he has learned a lot.
Stubborn - Yao can be stubborn to a fault. He will not change his mind if it's already made up.
Good at Faking - Yao is incredibly good at faking things like being good at kung fu. He has yet to get into a street fight with someone and have them figure out that he doesn't actually know how to fight.
Hard Worker - This has already been said in the Personality section, but it really is one of Yao's strengths.
Weaknesses:
Prideful - Yao will never give up whatever he is doing. Even if he is going to die doing what he is doing, he will not stop in order to not lose face.
Arrogant - Yao's pride often makes him too proud and he feels superior to the other nation spirits. His arrogance usually makes him feel like he should be in charge.
Easily Annoyed - Whenever something doesn't go the way Yao plans, he will get frustrated. Even when he is in a good mood, he can still be agitated easily.
Hard for him to feel romantic feelings - Yao has trouble feeling romantically about anyone. He can feel like people are his brother or sisters, but not romantic partners. He generally tries to imagine what it would be like if he had a lover, but the thought of being romantic with someone makes him blush and feel awkward.
(((The Pages of History )))
History:
2100 BC – First recorded Dynasty, known as the Xia Dynasty, and Bronze Age begins.
1700 BC – Shang Dynasty begins, and Xia Dynasty ends
1400 BC – Capitol city moves, but is still not at Peking yet
1100 BC – Zhou Dynasty begins, but Shang Dynasty still has yet to finish
1000 BC – Shang Dynasty ends
600 BC – Laozi, founder of Daoism, is born
550 BC – Code of Law created, Confucius, founder of Confucianism, and Sun Tzu, great military commander, are born
500 BC – Common currency created
400 BC – Handan founded
360 BC – Qin Dynasty Begins, but Zhou dynasty is not yet over
300 BC – First dictionary created
250 BC – Zhou Dynasty ends, Seven Warring States come forth, and Ying Zheng becomes King of Qin
230 BC – Wars of Unification begin
220 BC – Qin state has conquered the other seven and has unified China under one dynasty, the construction of the Great Wall of China begins, and a writing system is established
210 BC – Emperor Qin begins the policy of burning of books and the burial of scholars. He later dies and is buried with 8,000 terracotta warriors to protect his grave.
200 BC – Han Dynasty begins and Qin Dynasty Ends
190 BC – Silk Road begins at Xi’an
130 BC – Sino-Xiongnu War begins
100 BC – Steel is introduced to China, and first domination of Vietnam
90 BC – Sino-Xiongnu War ends
9 – Xin Dynasty begins, while Han Dynasty ends
10 – Taxes are introduced
23 – Han Dynasty begins again
43 – Second domination of Vietnam
68 – First Buddhist temple in China founded
105 – Papermaking is invented
166 – Sino-Roman relations
220 – Three Kingdoms Period begins
265 – Jin Dynasty begins
291 – War of Eight Princes
304 – Sixteen Kingdoms
318 – Emperor Min is executed
386 – Southern and Northern Dynasties begin
420 –Jin Dynasty and 16 Kingdoms Period ends
581 – Sui Dynasty begins, and Southern and Northern Dynasties end
598 – Goguryeo-Sui (Korea and China) Wars begin
602 – Third domination of Vietnam
609 – Grand Canal of China built
618 – Tang Dynasty begins, and Sui Dynasty ends
635 – First Christian missionaries arrive
701 – Poet Li Bai is born
794 – Paddle-wheel ships are built
907 – Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period and Liang Dynasty begin, and Tang Dynasty ends
960 – Song Dynasty begins
961 – Huqiu Tower is built
993 – Goryea-Khitan (Korea and China) Wars begin
1010 – First complete atlas of China is made
1041 – Movable typing print is created
1044 – Gunpowder recipe is published
1125 – Liang Dynasty ends
1132 – First Chinese navy is established
1206 – Mongol invasions begin
1234 – Song Dynasty ends
1260 – Yuan Dynasty is started by the Mongols
1368 – Yuan Dynasty is overthrown by the Ming Dynasty
1371 – Overseas trading is banned
1420 – Beijing is made capitol of China and the Forbidden City is built
1590 – Journey to the West is written
1627 – First Manchu invasion of Korea
1636 – Second Manchu invasion of Korea
1644 – Qing Dynasty begins, and Ming Dynasty ends
1673 – Revolt of the Three Feudatories
1711—British company sets up trading post in Guangzhou
1791 – Dream of the Red Chamber is published
1796 – White Lotus Rebellion
1839 – First Opium War
1842 – End of the first Opium War, start of the Unequal Treaties
1851 – Taiping Rebellion
1856 – Second Opium War, and Panthay Rebellion starts
1860 – Unequal Treaties continue
1868 – Yangzhou riot
1870 – Tianjin Massacre
1873 – Panthay Rebellion ends
1884 – Sino-French (China and France) War
1893 – Mao Zedong is born
1894 – First Sino-Japanese (China and Japan) War
1898 – Hundred Days’ Reform
1900 – Boxer Rebellion
1910 – Huanghuagang Uprising
1911 – Xinhai Revolution
1912 – Dynasties end and Republic of China emerges
1915 – National Protection War
1916 – Warlord Era begins
1927 – Chinese Civil War
1928 – Warlord Era Ends
1931 – Chinese Soviet Republic is established, and Japan invades Manchuria
1934 – Long March takes place
1936 – Xi’an incident
1937 – Second Sino-Japanese (China and Japan) War
1945 – Second Sino-Japanese War ends
1947 – 228 Incident takes place
~-- People’s Republic of China only --~
1949 – People’s Republic of China is founded, and Mao Zedong takes office
1958 – Great Leap Forward Campaign begins
1960 – Chinese Soviet Republic is dissolved
1962 – Sino-Indian (China and India) War
1966 – Cultural Revolution begins, and The Little Red Book is published
1969 – Cultural Revolution ends
1972 – Richard Nixon visits China and improves relations
1976 – Tiananmen incident takes place, and Mao Zedong dies
1978 – Chinese economic reforms begin
1979 – Border-war with Vietnam
1984 – Sino-British (China and England) Joint Declaration is signed
1989 – Tiananmen massacre takes place
1997 – Hong Kong is returned to China
1999 – Macau is returned to China
2003 – China’s first space mission
2008 – China hosts the 2008 Summer Olympics
2009 – Urumqi riots
2010 – Shanghai hosts the 2010 World Expo
Allies:
World War I – England, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Russia, France, Belgium, Italy, Romania, United States, Japan, Brazil, and Portugal
World War II – France, Britain, Poland, Netherlands, Soviet Union, United States, Brazil, and Mexico
Present – America, Russia, Pakistan, Iran, Cuba, North Korea, Cambodia, Greece, and Chile
Enemies:
Opium War – England, France, and America
World War I – Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria
World War II – Germany, Japan, Italy, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria
Present – India, Italy, Iceland, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Norway, Ireland, Poland, Sweden, Canada, Britain, Australia, South Korea, and Japan
Sample Post:
– March 1839, Beijing –
The street was littered with bodies. They were not dead, but simply unconscious or dazed. More and more bodies appeared on the streets each day. It did not used to be like this, but then the English came in with their opium. Almost every citizen is addicted to the drug, and now Yao is, too.
Yao was not addicted before; but as more and more of his citizens used the drug, he figured it might have not been as bad as it seemed. The first time he tried it, he thought it was just like smoking a cigarette; but it turned out to be much more addictive. At first he coughed a lot and got throbbing headaches, but the high he experienced afterwards was well worth the pain. After the first time, he just kept buying more opium. The pain that he felt when he first smoked opium lessened with the more he took. Eventually, it came to the point where he would do nothing but smoke all day.
He was lucky enough to have a permanent home in the Forbidden City and only had to spend money on food, but the emperor was getting tired of seeing his nation’s spirit high all the time. When it got to the point where Yao would spend the entire day high and not helping out at all, he was kicked out of the Forbidden City. Now, he just wanders around the streets, looking for free drugs.
He lay on the sidewalks around Tiananmen Square, moaning and thinking about the state of his nation. How was he supposed to be a good role model for the other Southeast Asia nations if all he did was smoke and sleep all day? The simple answer was that he could not. He had to get his act together and regain his honor. He knew of a couple ways he could stop his citizens from doing drugs. But that would mean that he would have to stop first.
It was hard for him to quit suddenly, but he had to clean up enough so he could present himself to the emperor and tell him his thoughts. He examined his appearance in a store window. He noticed that his usually clean military outfit had drool stains and opium traces on it. He had large, dark bags under his eyes, his hair was messy and oily and had traces of trash from lying in the gutter, and his bangs fell in front of his face. He felt dirty--disgusting, even. He would need a good shower before he confronted the emperor.
The clouds gathered and started to pour, and the rain washed away most of the dirt on his body and the mud in his mind. He tried to look up at the clouds, but the water droplets kept hitting his eyes. He knew exactly what he would have to do. He would have to clean himself up so that he could look somewhat presentable. He looked back at the window and studied his reflection once again. He was utterly soaked. The trash was still there. The stains were still there. The bags under his eyes were still there. Almost everything was the same as before, except now he knew that he would be able to handle the oncoming pain of undergoing withdrawal.
He brushed his bangs from his eyes and thought to himself how hard it would be to convince the emperor that they needed to go to war.
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