Kingdom of England [WIP]

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ArthurALANA KIRKLAND



"Turn back time.
You'll be fine - I'll get left behind"
--Breaking Benjamin: Unknown Soldier

Sometimes we get second chances

And sometimes we never make it past the first

Country: Kingdom of England

Human name: Arth Alana Kirkland

Apparent age: 18

Gender: Female, much to her confusion

Appearance: The world is larger to Alana that it was to Arthur, as she's six inches shorter than she used to be at just 5'3”. Her figure is thin and fine-boned, and all of her seems to be just a bit too small. Sand-blonde hair, worn most often in simple pigtails, frames fer face, highlighting her (moderately) dark brows and bright green eyes.

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It really makes you wonder why somethings happen when they do

It really makes me wonder why it wasn't me instead of you

Strengths:

• Language - Arthur always had a peculiar talent for picking up different languages. This skill was ultimately necessary for building such a vast Empire, and there are very few European languages that he can't at least follow in conversation.
  
  
• Sewing - Needlepoint, sewing, embroidery... However specific or obscure, if a needle is involved, Arthur's hands are more than capable. A necessary skill he acquired while working on ships.
  
  
• Durability - Put simply, this guy has been through absolute hell of every kind. He considers it a miracle that he's even still alive after some of the things he's seen.
  
  
• Magic - Despite the strange looks this one gets him, Arthur is a firm believer in the various powers that be - Christian and otherwise. He always has various trinkets on him, and after centuries of practice, being immersed in the craft from a very early age, can perform a few very useful (if simple - after all, they serve the purpose well enough) spells almost without thinking.
  
  
• Sailing/boating - Being an island nation has its advantages, to be sure. However, the sea which provides a barrier to invaders also serves as a barrier to the nation itself. After centuries of experience with the water and ships, that barrier has been transformed to a seemingly endless path to almost anywhere in the world.
  
  

Weaknesses:

• Moodiness - Arthur's moods go from bad to worse to almost cheerful in no time flat. His mercurial nature gets on people's nerves, and can cause some interesting issues on his more extreme days.
  
  
• Children - Specifically, his "children." Even more specifically, America. Against Alfred F. Jones, the embodiment of the Kingdom of England, the British Empire, is helpless to do anything.
  
  
• Rum - Alcohol in general, really. He doesn't drink often, but when he does, it's to excess. By a large margin.
  
  
• Women - Perhaps not in the sense one might expect, but Arthur truly does have a terribly soft spot for women. Through his whole life, he has been a feminist, quietly asserting respect, dignity, and independence for the ladies he has known and those he hasn't.
  
  
• Control - In the simplest terms, Arthur is a control freak. The way that shows itself most prominently is in his relations to other people - if someone he loves is in need, and there's nothing he can do about it, it drives him absolutely insane.
  
  

Fears:

• Abandonment - He can't stand the thought of someone leaving him. More often than not, he'll try to run people off himself, rather than wait for them to leave him.
  
  
• Planes - And loud whistles, really. And he doesn't do such a good job with bonfires, either.
  
  

Personality: Blunt and honest with a nasty streak of sarcasm, Arthur was never the person to go looking for the answer you want to hear, and Alana still isn't. She'll either tell you exactly what she thinks, whether you like it or not, or make someone homicidal. Or try to be, at least. She generally picks some middle-ground.

She is an individual that really didn't like people to know about her issues. Clarification - she doesn't want you to know she considers it a problem. Her business in an open book; just don’t look for a reaction from her. Depending on the subject matter and how tired she was of hearing about it, she’ll either snap and lash out, or just not say anything. In the case of the latter, it’s normally because someone is berating her over something, and her lack of reaction generally means that she’s agreeing, far more that one would consider normal, or healthy.

For all her exterior roughness, though, Alana is really rather sensitive. Quieter by nature that she was when back when she had testosterone, if she pesters and pokes, it's not because she doesn't like you. Quite the contrary, she wouldn't bother with you at all if she didn't like you. Behind the mask of snark and even (occasionally) seeming cockiness, she’s extremely insecure, and ultimately does worry about others’ opinions.

Evidenced by some of her hobbies and literary choices, Alana is quite the romantic, though she rarely gets the chance to show this. To an extent, she wants to give that side of herself more room to show. The few times in her first life that she’d tried, though, the responses were… less than favorable, in her opinion. So really, generally, don’t expect her to be particularly ostentatious with her affection.

She is, however, going to need a little while to adjust to being made to wear dresses in court. Anywhere else, though, she will insist on breeches and a cap to put that ridiculous amount of hair under.

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And when you say it doesn't matter, well it does

And all it takes is a mistake to eat your words

Family: Modern times: Arthur never really had much "family." His former colonies were all he really had for most of his years, and whatever his claim on them (or lack thereof), he would kill to protect them.

Friends: Modern times:Once again, as an individual and as a nation, he never really went out of his way to make friends. In the modern world of complex networks of alliances, though, he had pseudo-allies in almost all of Europe.

Enemies/Rivals: Modern times: France, of course, is the first nation that comes to mind. Honestly, Francis has been there for so long that England wouldn't know what to do without him there. And, despite the "family" label he mentally puts on America, Arthur knows that there's no getting away from the competition in their cooperation.

History: The slow, painful decline of the economy of the United Kingdom at the end of the twentieth century and beginning of the twenty-first was a hard thing for Arthur to watch. Ultimately, there was nothing he could do, and he knew that it was probably going to be the end of him, as well as his brothers - the United Kingdom would die in its entirety. That was a reality he was prepared to face. After all, it wasn't as though he had any choice in the matter.

When he woke up and Henry was king again, and he was suddenly a she, she wasn't quite sure how to react. However, this... strange, unexpected, God-given opportunity is the second chance she had wished and hoped to have for centuries. There were so many things that had been done or said the first time, so many people hurt... that she's grateful for the chance to fix it.

Even though the whole “being female” thing is going to take some getting used to.

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Modern England's roots trace back to the period just after the fall of Rome. The locals wasted no time in dispatching almost all traces of the Christians, restoring the ancient religion and shrines. For a while, everything was great, basically.

Then the eleventh century happened. In a typically convoluted succession disagreement, both the Norman French and the Norwegian royalty claimed that they had the right to the throne of England, and the breadcrumbs lead us right to a dual invasion. After the English repelled the Norwegians, though, William the Conqueror happened, and then the French owned England.

After the usual post-conquest uprisings settled down, things were great again, for a little while. Then there was another succession crisis and civil war, which was interesting. In the end, the current king stayed king, and he passed his succession rights to Henry of Anjou, later known as Henry II, and the reign of the Plantagenets began.

To summarize the Plantagenet rule of England, Henry II spread his influence all over the place, Richard I tried to defend it and mostly succeeded; England became a vassal state to the Holy Roman Empire after the Third Crusade; King John made England a tribute-paying vassal, and all of Henry's hard work securing land in France was undone. The Magna Carta happened, then the Pope undid it, which started more civil wars, which resolved rather uneventfully.

At the beginning of the fourteenth century, England had a parliament, Wales was conquered and became part of the Kingdom of England and, to top off the reign of Edward I, there was a failed invasion of Scotland. Edward II, however, was widely considered a disaster. The nobility hated him, Robert I of Scotland and William Wallace completely kicked out the English and undid all of Edward I's hard work, then the angry nobles killed his gay lover. (Yes, really.) Poor Edward's life got even more interesting when his wife and her lover went to vacation in France and came back with a small army and gathered support on the way to London. Edward's second gay lover was publicly tried and executed for treason, the king was deposed and imprisoned, then murdered less than a year later.

Then Edward III emerged. His notable achievements are improving the legislative system, the government in general and, most importantly, starting the Hundred Years' War. That's a whole essay waiting to be written, though, so I'll summarize.

• England won at sea
  
• England won on land at Caen, Crécy and Calais
  
• Fighting stopped for the Black Plague
  
• England won at Poitiers and captured King John II of France
  
• The French signed a treaty to get King John back in exchange for Aquitaine
  
• England invaded again while France is in chaos
  
• A few more years of peace after a French civil war
  
• Charles V became king of France and won back most of the territory the English took
  
• Break for more civil war in France and issues with Scotland, Wales and Ireland in England
  
• Henry V took the throne and resumed the war, winning at Agincourt and allying with the Burgundians, who had captured Paris
  
• Henry V and Charles VI signed the Treaty of Troyes, in which Henry was set to marry Charles' daughter and his heirs to inherit both England and France, and the Dauphin was declared illegitimate
  
• Henry V died and his one-year-old son Henry VI was immediately crowned king of England and France
  
• Joan of Arc appeared, convinced Charles VII that she was on a mission from God, and got named Commander of the Armies of France, right before she, seemingly without trying, ended the siege of Orléans
  
• The French won at Patay
  
• England captured Joan of Arc and proceeded to “dispose of the problem”
  
• The French continued to make progress and push the English back, causing the Burgundians to change sides, leaving the English high and dry
  
• In 1453, the Battle of Castillon happened, pushing the English out of the European continent

Thus ended the Hundred Years' War.

Immediately afterward was a series of civil wars, called the Wars of the Roses. It all started with, surprising no one, a succession dispute between the Yorks and Lancasters.

I'll summarize this by saying that the Lancasters won and Henry Tudor was crowned king. He married his cousin Elizabeth of York, then merged the two houses and emblems.

Then Henry VIII inherited the throne. He then dragged England and Spain into a pointless war with France, and Scotland by extension. The Scots were soundly defeated, with most of the Scottish nobility killed, including King James IV himself. All while Henry was herping and derping in France.

He did make his own church.

The other thing people remember him for is his wives. To keep it short, there was Catherine of Aragorn, who had one daughter before the marriage was declared invalid and she was banished, sent to live in a manor, never to see her daughter again; Anne Boleyn, who produced another daughter, Elizabeth, before she was put in the Tower of London on charges of witchcraft, then executed along with five men accused of adultery with her and her daughter disowned; Jane Seymour, who gave birth to a healthy boy, Edward, and died ten days later; [color=teal=Anne of Cleves

[/color], with whom Henry never even consummated the marriage before he divorced her, allowing her to stay in the country as a kind of adopted sister; Catherine Howard, who proved to be a bit loose and ended up on the scaffold, and the marriage was declared invalid; and Catherine Parr, was more of a nursemaid than anything.

After Henry completely lost his mind and executed tens of thousands of people, he died, and Edward VI became king. Oh yeah, and he was nine years old. Brilliant.

Edward's uncle, Edward Seymour, tampered with the will and managed to get himself way too much power in just a few months. In only two years, this ended up in major crisis, so Uncle Ed was out and the new guy, John Dudley, was in.

As he grew, the king himself started to show great promise. However, he died of tuberculosis just before his sixteenth birthday. Dudley made plans to place Lady Jane Grey on the throne and marry her to his son; however, the whole thing fell through, Jane Grey was beheaded, and Mary took the throne.

Mary forcibly returned England to Catholicism, burning hundreds of Protestants at the stake and imprisoning her sister on the way. Then she married Phillip II of Spain. No one in England really liked Phillip (except Mary), so he spent as little time there as possible. When Bloody Mary died in 1558, the event was celebrated with huge parties in the streets of London.

Following her death, her half-sister Elizabeth took the throne, and that was rather more peaceful than either Edward or Mary had managed. She re-established the Church of England, and had much success in balancing the interests of both the Puritans and the Catholics.

Elizabeth is notable for the lack of significant internal conflict during her reign. The population of England grew significantly, the economy was stable and her claim to the crown was secure. She became known as the Virgin Queen, as she never married. She somehow managed to avoid war with France, instead starting a rivalry with the Spanish. Remember the Spanish Armada? She was the one in charge when it was drowned.

Having no heirs, Elizabeth named her closest Protestant male relative, King of Scots James VI, as the next monarch. In a Union of the Crowns, he became King James I & VI, the first monarch to rule the entire island of Great Britain. First thing he did upon taking power in England was make peace with Spain, then get out of continental politics.

Under James' rule and instruction, the East India Company flourished. However, the whole “peace with Spain” thing ended up not working out so much, mostly because A) Spanish didn't trust Protestants, which is what England was officially made of, B) the objects of discussion, Prince Charles of England and the Infanta, Maria Anna, hated each other and C) the Spanish pushed a treaty that said, among other things, that Charles would have to convert to Catholicism and that he would have to stay in Spain for a year as, ultimately, a diplomatic hostage. Once he got out of Spain with the new-found realisation that the Spanish were insane, he demanded that they start looking for a French bride instead, and declare war on the whole Habsburg empire.

To everyone's benefit, war with Spain and the Habsburg empire never happened.

James died in 1625, unfortunately, and the whole country mourned his passing.

Charles I didn't do such a good job keeping England out of trouble. Within just the first five years of his reign, he:

• told Parliament that they could collectively shove it,
  
• married a French woman and dragged England into France's latest civil conflicts,
  
• declared war on Spain,
  
• demanded a more aggressive expedition on the continent than Parliament was willing to fund,
  
• forced a large tax without Parliamentary consent,
  
• enforced martial law on civilians,
  
• imprisoned everyone who didn't pay the ridiculous taxes and
  
• quartered troops in civilian homes.
  
• Then, he made the French enemies, even though he was married to them.

Fast forward to 1642. The conflict between Charles and the Parliament comes to a head in the form of full-out civil war between the Parliamentarians (Roundheads) and the Royalists (Cavaliers). The whole country was in chaos for years. Then the Parliamentarians won and promptly tried Charles for treason. He was convicted and beheaded in short order.

It got worse. The Irish got involved. And the Scottish got more involved when Charles II was given the crown of Scotland. Oliver Cromwell thoroughly suppressed any Royalist uprising in Ireland, then in Scotland. After gathering an army in Scotland, he attempted to keep Charles II (henceforth known as Chuck in this history lesson) from heading north. First it didn't work, then it didn't work again, but third time's the charm, and Cromwell defeated the Royalist army, sending Chuck screaming for France.

Due to in-fighting, the Commonwealth that came from the civil wars didn't last long and Cromwell was named Lord Protector of England, which amounted to a military dictator. He died, his son started to take over, but then the Army decided they didn't like him and booted him out, pulling back the Commonwealth ruling group, called the Rump. However, the Rump hadn't changed a bit, so the Army told them to leave as well. Total anarchy was just around the corner.

In comes a Scotsman to save the day. General George Monck marched his army south from Scotland to 1) restate Chuck's claim on the crown and 2) organize the Convention Parliament. This Parliament, in short, allowed Chuck came back to England as king.

The primary difference between Chuck and his dad is that Chuck here had some respect for the Parliament. Mostly.

So Chuck is king and Parliament is a permanent thing now. Aside from the Great Fire, when most of the inner-city burned for three days in 1666 and ended the plague, nothing really noteworthy happened. Alliance with Portugal, war with the Netherlands, war with France and the British East India Company growing to what amounted to its own colony.

Eventually, he picked one too many fights with the Dutch. Parliament was none too happy with Chuck. Because his Portuguese wife failed to produce an heir, the heir presumptive was Chuck's massively unpopular Catholic brother, James. Chuck arranged a convoluted marriage of James' daughter to William of Orange, who was both Protestant and Dutch.

It became even more apparent that the people would be royally pissed about having a monarch who was even remotely Catholic, and considering that Chuck had no kids, there weren't many options. So Parliament proposes the Exclusion Bill, which would exclude the James from succession. To cut a very tedious tale short, Chuck died rather suddenly a few years later after stopping the Exclusion Bill several times, and James succeeded him on the throne.

The people weren't pleased, to say the least. So Mary and William mounted the Glorious Revolution. In short order, William landed in England with an invading force from the Netherlands and successfully deposed James. The other major thing that happened during this time was that the Bill of Rights was passed, which limited the power of the Crown.

The Acts of Union between the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland dissolved both kingdoms in order to form the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707, giving the two former kingdoms the same monarch (Queen Anne, at the time) and the same legislature.

With the death of Queen Anne, the House of Stuart left the throne to be replaced by the House of Hanover and George I. With relatively little of note, George I died and left the throne to his son George II, who led the British in the War of Austrian Succession, which, as I'm certain we all know, was just a way of getting at France. He also got into the Seven Years War.

The end result is this:

• North America – British victory
  
• Europe – after much flip-flopping of alliances, little progress is made and it's almost a stalemate
  
• India – Britain gained almost total control of the subcontinent

Sadly, in 1760, King George II died, and his grandson, George III, ascended to the throne.

Over in the Philippines, a British force from India arrived in September 1762 in Manila Bay. In early October, they stormed the city, capturing it. Unfortunately for Spain, word of the capture of the colony didn't reach Europe until after the Treaty of Paris, so no provision was made for it. Instead, the Spanish paid out four million pounds to the British to get Manila back. The British finally left in 1764.

The same year that they took Manila, the British secured numerous holdings in the Caribbean, including Martinique, Saint Lucia, Grenada and Saint Vincent.

By 1763, England was broke, but France was broker, and everyone was ready for the war to be over. Considering that the British had taken the most overall throughout the war , the British held the dominant position at the negotiations. In order to appease the Spanish, who wanted to keep fighting, it was proposed that France cede their remaining North American (Louisiana) territory to Spain, which the Spanish didn't think was a bad idea, so talks could move forward.

In the end, the British were handed all of New France and all of mainland North America east of the Mississippi River, while they handed back Martinique and Guadeloupe.

Now, the American Revolution. I'll try to keep this as brief as possible.

Lead-up

• Royal Proclamation of 1763 – set a boundary on westward expansion, hoping that they would instead spread into Florida (Spanish) and Nova Scotia
  
• Taxes – the British began levying taxes on the American colonies in order to pay to protect them. After a century and a half of having almost no taxes, the Americans were less than pleased; if you asked them, it was because they had no seats in Parliament and thus no say in the matter.

In the midst of this, George was getting rather frustrated with his Prime Minister's (who was responsible for most of the more ridiculous taxes, by the way) habit of doing everything in his power to limit the King's powers. After his first choice (William Pitt, who ultimately won them the Seven Years War) utterly refused the position, George settled on a Lord Rockingham and told the old guy, Grenville, to get out, and don't let the door hit him on the way out.

Rockingham, with the support of William Pitt and the King, repealed the Stamp Act right before, in 1766, he was replaced by Pitt. However, not a year after becoming Prime Minister and the Earl of Chatham, Pitt fell ill and the Duke of Grafton took over. That one didn't last more than two years, either, his administration completely disintegrating in 1770.

Back to it, though.

• To try to calm things down, almost every duty was withdrawn, the exception being the tea tax. In George's words, that was “one tax to keep up the right [to levy taxes].”
  
• Boston Tea Party

[/b] – In 1773, a group of colonists dressed as Native Americans boarded the tea ships in Boston Harbor and threw every crate overboard.
[/li][li]The Intolerable Acts – Parliament and Lord North introduced what the colonists called the Intolerable Acts: the Port of Boston was shut down and the charter of Massachusetts was adjusted so that the upper house of the legislature was no longer elected by the lower house, but appointed by the Crown.[/li][/ul]

(Any American-educated individuals reading this should notice the distinct lack of input from King George here. He was behaving rather beautifully as a constitutional monarch, letting his cabinet ultimately decide everything, even when he doubted the effectiveness of their measures. George was hoping for a diplomatic solution, not military.)

Fighting finally broke out in 1775. After fifteen months of intermittent, but vicious, fighting, the colonies declared their independence on 4 July 1776. The Declaration of Independence amounted to, for the purposes of this writing, a list of things the colonists accused George of doing.

In George's opinion, he was defending Britain's constitution from usurpers, not opposing patriots who were, in their opinion, fighting for their natural rights. After the Battle of Saratoga, support for the war was high among the British. (Another note to people that took American history in high school – King George wasn't just stubborn. No monarch in their right mind would willingly give up that amount of territory during that time period.) The few political opponents were just very, very loud.

In 1778, France allied with the United States and the violence escalated again. In short order, the Americans and French were joined by the Spanish and the Dutch. By this point, Lord North really wanted out, but at George's insistence, he stayed in office. The war was costing a lot of money for the British and the opposition was growing.

News of Lord Cornwallis' surrender at the Siege of Yorktown reached London late in 1781. Lord North's support in Parliament disappeared slowly and he resigned in 1782. The King drafted an abdication notice (which was never delivered), finally accepting the defeat in North America, and authorised peace negotiations. The Treaties of Paris were ratified in 1783, officially recognising America's independence from Britain.

By the time John Adams had been appointed American Minister to London in 1785, George had become resigned to the new relationship between the two countries, telling Adams, “I was the last to consent to the separation; but the separation having been made and having become inevitable, I have always said, as I say now, that I would be the first to meet the friendship of the United States as an independent power.”

Things in Parliament weren't pretty in the between-times. After Lord North left office in 1782, Lord Rockingham became Prime Minister again, but died within a few months. The King's next appointee was forced out of office by the House of Commons to be replaced by the Fox-North Coalition of Lord North as the Home Secretary and Charles James Fox as the Foreign Minister under the Duke of Portland serving as the Prime Minister.

After a debacle pertaining to the government of India, the Portland ministry was dismissed to be replaced by William Pitt the Younger as Prime Minister and one Lord Temple serving as his Secretary of State. However, due to his part in the aforementioned debacle, Temple was forced to resign. This completely wrecked the stability they had managed to secure, and three months later Parliament was dissolved. The next election gave Pitt more hold as Prime Minister, though, so there's a good thing.

Pitt proved to be a good choice, both by George and by the public. During and after that particular administration, the King was extremely popular. Unfortunately, he was losing his mind. After much debate and disagreement and an attempt to give the Prince of Wales the right to act as Prince Regent, George III recovered.

In the following years, after surviving three separate assaults from three separate individuals of questionable sanity, the popularity of George and Pitt continued to rise. When France declared war on Great Britain in 1793, George allowed Pitt to raise taxes and raise armies, among other things. By 1800, Austria, Russia and the Ottoman Empire had been bowled over by Revolutionary France, leaving just Great Britain to fight Napoleon Bonaparte.

On 1 January 1801, Ireland was brought into the new United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. At the same time, he dropped his claim to the French throne right before falling back into his previous illness. In 1801, the new Prime Minister (Henry Addington) made peace with France and signed the Treaty of Amiens the next year. Predictably, it didn't last and the war resumed in 1803. In 1804 the King fell ill once again. Beyond this, George made no real decisions in his own reign as he never quite recovered this time.

At the height of King George's popularity, he was in constant pain from rheumatism, virtually blind with cataracts and getting sicker by the day. His favorite daughter, Princess Amelia, died, further exacerbating his condition and adding more stress to him. By the beginning of 1811, he was permanently insane and a regent ruled in his place. He was incapable of knowing or understanding either that he was declared king of Hanover in 1814, or that his wife died in 1818. George himself died in January of 1820, after the death of his fourth son. The throne was left to George IV, who reigned until his death in 1830. As he had no legitimate children, the throne was then left his brother William IV.

Where George IV was decadent and fond of over-extravagance, William was much more modest, discouraging pomp and circumstance; where George spent most of his time hiding in Windsor Castle, William was known, despite his age, to wander unaccompanied through the streets of London and Brighton. His Prime Minister stated that he did more business with William in ten minutes than he had done with George in as many days.


RP Sample:
"Thank God," England muttered to himself as he walked down the mostly-empty street, "that barkeep knows me as well as he does..." He had just come from the pub--his first trip out in what seemed like months--so his thoughts were just barely this side of muddled. But, bloody hell, he thought, mentally scowling (though he was at that point where he couldn't quite make his facial muscles function properly), I deserved some kind of break, didn't I?

It had really been a hell of a week, so it seemed rather natural to the nation that he would want to drown his frustrations for an evening... night... possibly even morning... Hell, it wasn't as though he was completely inebriated. Marc had seen to that, cutting him off and sending him home while he could still walk in a mostly-straight line, without falling over air or stumbling into people or other obstacles.

Of course, with the way he had been drinking in the last fifteen minutes before leaving... Well, he'd be feeling that within the hour.

Nearing the front gate of his home--No, not quite a home, he thought, almost bitterly--he scowled to himself (he had almost slipped past that point of lethargy and towards the one of near-manic action), eyes drooping as he lifted both hands and mussed his already unruly hair. He kicked the gate open, not moving his hands from where he had tangled them in his hair, massaging his scalp lightly, absently, but letting his elbows droop until his peripheral vision was completely obscured by the limbs. His reasonable side, the part that was still somehow disconnected from the alcohol that blurred his thoughts together and gave everything a reddish tinge, encouraged him to eat at least the chips from Wednesday night before passing out; the rest of him protested weakly, as though it were just for the sake of being disagreeable.

Even so, as he dropped an arm and started fumbling for the keys in the front pocket of his loose, comfortable jeans, he knew he would eat when he got inside.

The first step onto his porch almost seemed to attack England, his foot catching on the ledge as he tried to step up. "Aah, shit!" he growled, setting his foot deliberately on the stair, and the other foot on the next, taking a moment to shake his injured foot out behind him (he tottered slightly, not exactly what one would describe as graceful and well-balanced when sober even), blood rushing to the toes--he knew he should have worn his boots today... He set his foot on the next stair before looking up, pulling his hand and keys out of his pocket. Or starting to, at least.

On his porch, hijab missing (he had always thought her hair was too pretty to be kept covered like that to begin with, but he wasn't about to argue with culture. No, he'd done that for a while, and look where it had landed him...), a small-ish, worn-looking pack next to her, was a face he hadn't seen in a good long while (he still wasn't used to living alone; no, for almost a thousand years now--God above, almost an entire millennium! If he didn't feel old yet, he was certain he would soon--for his entire life, he could scarcely remember a time when there wasn't someone staying with him, or at least coming to visit rather frequently).

Though it sounded sober and natural, England struggled with himself for a moment before his tongue would work properly, his voice hardly above a whisper, but carrying clearly in the still air between them:

"Aani...?"

Sample from an active roleplay thread.

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Sometimes we never see the warning

And the voice in your head tells you not to go

[ OOC ]

Name: Daro, England, Iggy, Christine, w/e

Age: 20

Experience: I've been involved in organized roleplay for almost a year now, though I've been involved in many small-scale/private RPs for close to four years. In Hetalia, I have played the characters of England, Japan and Germany (extensively), in addition to a few original characters (not much), and Russia (very little), and am currently an administrator on two separate boards, one moderately large and one just starting.



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And when you look its gone its too late to turn around

And it's another day facing yourself and the things that you've done

This template was originally created by oli and tampered by Ophelia for Hetalia: True Destiny. Quotes are from Michelle Branch's "Second Chances."

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We've talked about this. Accepted!

Way too much history, but the fault lies with me. So, just wrap it up somehow, and it's perfect! France is saying he's enjoying this female version of you. Idek