FEURST, adelina

ADELINA (KÖNIGSBERG KALININGRAD) FEURST


{Forget the fear it's just a crutch
That tries to hold you back
And turn your dreams to dust
All you need to do is just trust}

I Feel Like We're Summoning The Devil

[/color]:[/b] adelina feurst
Nickname/Alias: addy, leeny
Gender: female
Character Type: Capital
Country or Country of Origin: Prussia, Kaliningrad Oblast
Canon or Original: original
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When I look into all of your stupid faces

I think how fun it will be to pound them into dust

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Hair: auburn
Height and Weight: 5'5" 130 lbs
Other Distinguishing Features: large scar trailing from her right knee to her inner thigh

Overall Appearance:

Adelina is a tiny girl with a sweet face. She stands a bit short at five foot five, and her build is lithe and a bit plump. Though she is my no means overweight or heavy she does have her womanly curves. Her skin is pretty and pale, and very soft. Her limbs may seem slightly elongated, though it is only her legs that are a tad longer than the rest of her. She holds herself carefully and moves with purpose, not finding much time in her busy life to hold her frame at a relaxed position. When no one’s looking she always has a troubled frown on her face, and her gaze may seem stormy. Upon making eye contact though she places a worn and careful smile on her face, and her eyes clear and become attentive. Her overall disposition is very sweet, though exhausted.

Her eyes are large almond shaped pools of green, sparkling in the light often. Her eyes are a sort of open book, even when the rest of her isn’t. They portray her emotions easily, and tend to tint with them as well. The one thing most noticeable about her eyes is the exhaustion in them and the shadow of doubt that seems to hang over her. More often than not her eyes tend to glow when talking to other people, and her eyes radiate a deep forest green.

Adelina’s hair is a soft deep auburn color, and is quite long. Her bangs hang in her eyes, and sweep down to frame her face gently. The rest of her hair trails down her back in tendrils, and fall below her hips. It isn’t always neat, and more often than not will be mussed up due to her scratching her head or twirling her hair. She never really cuts it, merely trims it since she attributes long hair as a firm standing icon of femininity which she will always be forceful about keeping.

Her skin is very pale from not getting to go outside that much, and she has dark circles under her eyes from sleeplessness and stress. Her curves are soft and plump, her hips slightly wider than her chest but still well proportioned. Her one noticeable flaw is the large scar on her right knee that trails up and curves into her inner thigh. Though the scar has mostly healed over time it still remains paler than the rest of her skin. A less noticeable flaw of hers is a small scar in the shape of an x on the back of her left hand.

Typically Adelina likes to wear tank tops and skirts, the skirts usually being plaid. She isn’t one to dress up too much, since she already has so much work already, and would much rather be comfortable. She isn’t one to be a stranger to sweatpants and dressing down in general. High heels will be the death of her, since she broke her ankle trying to walk in them one day, and much prefers wearing knee high boots with a smaller heel, or flat shoes.

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Man up or I'll beat you with my peace prize!

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• cooking
  
• taking baths
  
• reading
  
• gardening
  
• making paper lanterns

Dislikes:

• paperwork
  
• her boss
  
• feeling so guilty
  
• being ignored
  
• feeling like a last resort

Strengths:

• rational
  
• caring
  
• persistent

Weaknesses:

• cares too much sometimes
  
• physically weak
  
• easily startled

Fears:

• dying
  
• being forgotten

Secrets:

• is an insomniac
  
• misses the prussian empire
  
• enjoys being held
  
• refused to talk after the fall of the prussian empire and is now considered a mute

Any Quirks/Habits:

• twirls her hair when she's happy
  
• messes up her hair when she's stressed
  
• chews on her lip when thinking

Overall Personality:

Adelina is a paranoid and stressed mess. After the fall of the Prussian Empire she became an insomniac, her thoughts and worries eating away at her and not allowing her to sleep. All she does is work seemingly day in and day out, paperwork constantly seeming to land on her desk. She takes all of it without complaint, though she personally just seems to go downhill constantly. She inwardly seems to think it’s punishment for something she did in the past.

She hates to drink, since she had a history of getting smashed earlier in her life. She considers those times “The Dark Times” in her life, and would never want to go back to that. So, she won’t even have a beer occasionally, too afraid of what she thought she used to be. She also blames alcohol as the stem of a lot of the anger she used to harbor towards others and in general, so avoids it for the sake of herself and not feeling so negatively.

Speaking of such, she doesn’t generally feel negatively towards others. She likes to see most people (who deserve it) in a good light and in good standing. She feels as though anger and aggression are only draining toward her and unnecessary, since if she didn’t like anyone there was barely an instance where she would be forced to see them for an extended period of time. Therefore, in her mind it was always best to just ignore what others said, if it was rude or ill meant, and let them be.

She feels nostalgic a lot, prone to think a lot of what Prussia used to be and how great it felt to be associated with the powerful nation. She would never voice her opinions to anyone though, unless she was speaking privately to Gilbert. She knows that thinking that way could get her into a lot of trouble with other nations or people in general, and is paranoid about people finding out that she thinks that way.

One small thing about her which she doesn’t enjoy voicing, is that she loves to be held. Something about being held in someone’s arms (even in a non-romantic way) immediately seems to calm her down and melt all of her stress away. She enjoys the small displays of affection that a simple hug can bring, though feels awkward initiating such displays herself. Because of this fact she tends to fidget around others who she has shared displays of affection before, as a sign that she wants a hug, but she won’t say it aloud.

Being friendly to new people is important for her, since she tries to treat everyone different and not always be influenced by outward appearances. Though her attempts at conversation may only be half-hearted due to exhaustion or being over worked, she also tries to make herself seem open and willing to talk. Making new friends and connections is always a priority, even if it’s someone who used to be her enemy. Second chances are common with the small girl, but she knows when she’s being used or has been betrayed.

Adelina cares deeply for those who get close to her, much like a motherly figure. She enjoys taking care of people, which helps with her love of cooking since she loves to have people over. If someone is in need of help she’s always prepared to answer the call, and is a great pillar of emotional support. When someone needs a shoulder to cry on she’s one of those people whose arms and door is always open.

Despite seeming strong enough to withstand a massive bombing, she’s actually really fragile. She’s easily hurt by icy or stinging comments, and takes insults to heart. Even when she tries to make it seem like she isn’t hurt at all, especially with her eyes being an open book to her emotions it can be obvious. She’s taken many blows to her ego and insulting her is an easy way to (theoretically) shut her up. It was her fragile nature that actually caused her to stop talking entirely after the fall of the Prussian Empire, and because of that she is now considered a known mute.


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I'm the hero!

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• The later location of Königsberg was preceded by an Old Prussian fort known as Twangste (Tuwangste, Tvankste) as well as several Prussian settlements. During the conquest of the Prussian Sambians by the Teutonic Knights in 1255, Twangste was destroyed and replaced with a new fortress known as Conigsberg. This name meant "King's Mountain", honoring King Ottokar II of Bohemia, who paid for the erection of the first fortress there during the Prussian Crusade.
  
  
• The Teutonic Order used Königsberg to fortify their conquests in Samland and as a base for campaigns against pagan Lithuania. Under siege during the Prussian uprisings in 1262–63, Königsberg was relieved by the Master of the Livonian Order.[
  
  
• Within the monastic state of the Teutonic Knights, Königsberg was the residence of the marshal, one of the chief administrators of the military order. The city was also the seat of the Bishopric of Samland, one of the four dioceses into which Prussia had been divided in 1243 by the papal legate, William of Modena. Adalbert of Prague became the main patron saint of Königsberg Cathedral, a landmark of the city located in Kneiphof.
  
  
• Königsberg joined the Hanseatic League in 1340 and developed into an important port for the southeastern Baltic region, trading goods throughout Prussia, the Kingdom of Poland, and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The chronicler Peter of Dusburg probably wrote his Chronicon terrae Prussiae in Königsberg from 1324–1330.
  
  
• After the Teutonic Order's victory over pagan Lithuanians in the 1348 Battle of Strawen, Grand Master Winrich von Kniprode established a Cistercian nunnery in the city. Aspiring students were educated in Königsberg before continuing on to higher education elsewhere, such as Prague or Leipzig.
  
  
• Although the knights suffered a crippling defeat in the Battle of Grunwald (Tannenberg), Königsberg remained under the control of the Teutonic Order throughout the Polish-Lithuanian-Teutonic War. Livonian knights replaced the Prussian branch's garrison at Königsberg, allowing them to participate in the recovery of towns occupied by Jogaila's troops.
  
  
• The Prussian Confederation rebelled against the Teutonic Knights in 1454 while seeking assistance of Casimir IV Jagiellon during his marriage to Elisabeth of Habsburg. Kneiphof supported the rebellion, although the rest of Königsberg reaffirmed its loyalty to the order.
  
  
• Grand Master Ludwig von Erlichshausen fled from the crusaders' capital at Castle Marienburg to Königsberg in 1457; the city's magistrate presented Erlichshausen with a barrel of beer out of compassion.
  
  
• When western Prussia was transferred to victorious Poland in the Second Peace of Thorn (1466), which ended the Thirteen Years' War, Königsberg became the new capital of the reduced monastic state, which became a fief of the Crown of the Polish Kingdom. The grand masters took over the quarters of the marshal.
  
  
• During the Polish-Teutonic War (1519–1521), Königsberg was unsuccessfully besieged by Polish forces led by Grand Crown Hetman Mikołaj Firlej.
  
  
• Through the preachings of the Bishop of Samland, Georg von Polenz, Königsberg became predominantly Lutheran during the Protestant Reformation. After summoning a quorum of knights to Königsberg, Grand Master Albert of Brandenburg from the Hohenzollern dynasty secularised the Teutonic Knights' remaining territories in Prussia in 1525 and converted to Lutheranism
  
  
• Königsberg, the capital of the duchy, became one of the biggest cities and ports of Prussia, having considerable autonomy, a separate parliament and currency, and with German as its dominant language. The city flourished through the export of wheat, timber, hemp, and furs, as well as pitch, tar, and ash. Königsberg was one of the few Baltic ports regularly visited by more than one hundred ships annually in the latter 16th century, the others being Danzig and Riga. The University of Königsberg, founded by Albert in 1544, became a center of Protestant teachings.
  
  
• The capable Duke Albert was succeeded by his feeble minded son, Albert Frederick. Anna, daughter of Albert Frederick, married Elector John Sigismund of Brandenburg, who was granted the right of succession to Prussia on Albert Frederick's death in 1618. From this time the Duchy of Prussia and Königsberg were ruled by the Electors of Brandenburg, the rulers of Brandenburg-Prussia.
  
  
• On 1 November 1641, Elector Frederick William persuaded the Prussian diet to accept an excise tax. In the Treaty of Königsberg of January 1656, the elector recognized his Duchy of Prussia as a fief of Sweden. In the Treaty of Wehlau in 1657, however, he negotiated the release of Prussia from Polish sovereignty in return for an alliance with Poland. The 1660 Treaty of Oliva confirmed Prussian independence from both Poland and Sweden.
  
  
• In 1661 Frederick William informed the Prussian diet he possessed jus supremi et absoluti domini, and that the Prussian Landtag could only be convened with his permission. The Königsberg burghers, led by Hieronymus Roth of Kneiphof, opposed "the Great Elector's" absolutist claims, but Frederick William succeeded in imposing his authority after arriving with 2,000 troops in October 1661. Refusing to request mercy, Roth was imprisoned in Peitz until his death in 1678.
  
  
• The Prussian estates, which swore fealty to Frederick William in Königsberg on October 18, 1663, refused the elector's requests for military funding, and Colonel Christian Ludwig von Kalckstein sought assistance from neighboring Poland. After Kalckstein was abducted by the elector's agents, he was executed in 1672. The Prussian estates' submission to Frederick William followed; in 1673 and 1674 the elector received taxes not granted by the estates and Königsberg received a garrison without the estates' consent. The economic and political weakening of Königsberg strengthened the power of the Junker nobility within Prussia.
  
  
• Königsberg was long a center of Lutheran resistance to Calvinism within Brandenburg-Prussia; Frederick William forced the city to accept Calvinist citizens and property holders in 1668.
  
  
• By the act of coronation in Königsberg Castle on January 18, 1701, Frederick William's son, Elector Frederick III, became Frederick I, King in Prussia. The elevation of the Duchy of Prussia to the Kingdom of Prussia was possible because the Hohenzollerns' authority in Prussia was independent of Poland and the Holy Roman Empire. Since "Kingdom of Prussia" was increasingly used to designate all of the Hohenzollern lands, former ducal Prussia became known as the Province of Prussia (1701–1773), with Königsberg as its capital. However, Berlin and Potsdam in Brandenburg were the main residences of the Prussian kings.
  
  
• The city was wracked by plague and other illnesses from September 1709 to April 1710, losing 9,368 people, or roughly a quarter of its populace. On June 13, 1724, Altstadt, Kneiphof, and Löbenicht amalgamated to formally create the larger city Königsberg. Suburbs that subsequently were annexed to Königsberg include Sackheim, Rossgarten, and Tragheim.
  
  
• On December 31, 1757, Empress Elizabeth I of Russia issued a ukase about the incorporation of Königsberg into Russia. On January 24, 1758, the leading burghers of Königsberg submitted to Elizabeth. Five Imperial Russian general-governors administered the city during the war from 1758–62; the Russian army did not abandon the town until 1763.
  
  
• After the First Partition of Poland in 1772, Königsberg became the capital of the province of East Prussia in 1773, which replaced the Province of Prussia in 1773. By 1800 the city was approximately five miles in circumference and had 60,000 inhabitants, including a military garrison of 7,000, making it one of the most populous German cities of the time.
  
  
• After Prussia's defeat at the hands of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1806 during the War of the Fourth Coalition, King Frederick William III of Prussia fled with his court from Berlin to Königsberg. The city was a center for political resistance to Napoleon. In order to foster liberalism and nationalism among the Prussian middle class, the "League of Virtue" was founded in Königsberg in April 1808. The French forced its dissolution in December 1809, but its ideals were continued by the Turnbewegung of Friedrich Ludwig Jahn in Berlin. Königsberg officials, such as Johann Gottfried Frey, formulated much of Stein's 1808 Städteordnung, or new order for urban communities, which emphasized self-administration for Prussian towns. The East Prussian Landwehr was organized from the city after the Convention of Tauroggen.
  
  
• In 1819 Königsberg had a population of 63,800. It served as the capital of the united Province of Prussia from 1824–1878, when East Prussia was merged with West Prussia. It was also the seat of the Regierungsbezirk Königsberg, an administrative subdivision.
  
  
• Led by the provincial president Theodor von Schön and the Königsberger Volkszeitung newspaper, Königsberg was a stronghold of liberalism against the conservative government of King Frederick William IV. During the revolution of 1848, there were 21 episodes of public unrest in the city; major demonstrations were suppressed. Königsberg became part of the German Empire in 1871 during the Prussian-led unification of Germany. A sophisticated for its time series of fortifications around the city that included fifteen forts was completed in 1888.
  
  
• The extensive Prussian Eastern Railway linked the city to Breslau, Thorn, Insterburg, Eydtkuhnen, Tilsit, and Pillau. In 1860 the railroad connecting Berlin with St. Petersburg was completed and increased Königsberg's commerce. Extensive electric tramways were in operation by 1900; and regular steamers plied to Memel, Tapiau and Labiau, Cranz, Tilsit, and Danzig. The completion of a canal to Pillau in 1901 increased the trade of Russian grain in Königsberg, but, like much of eastern Germany, the city's economy was generally in decline. By 1900 the city's population had grown to 188,000, with a 9,000-strong military garrison. By 1914 Königsberg had a population of 246,000; Jews flourished in the culturally pluralistic city.
  
  
• Following the defeat of the Central Powers in World War I, Imperial Germany was replaced with the democratic Weimar Republic. The Kingdom of Prussia ended with the abdication of the Hohenzollern monarch, William, and the kingdom was succeeded by the Free State of Prussia. Königsberg and East Prussia, however, were separated from the rest of Weimar Germany by the creation of the Polish Corridor. The Ostmesse (Eastern Trade Fair) at the Königsberg Tiergarten was held annually starting in 1920; it was intended to compensate for the geographical distance that handicapped the economic development of East Prussia and Königsberg.
  
  
• In 1922 the first permanent airport and commercial terminal solely for commercial aviation was built at Königsberg-Devau. In 1929, Königsberg amalgamated with some surrounding suburbs.
  
  
• In 1935, the Wehrmacht designated Königsberg as the Headquarters for Wehrkreis I (under the command of General der Artillerie Albert Wodrig), which took in all of East Prussia. According to the census of May 1939, Königsberg had a population of 372,164. Prior to the reacquisition of Danzig by Germany in 1939, it was the second-largest Germany east of the present-day Oder-Neisse line, ranking below Breslau.
  
  
• Prior to the Nazi era, Königsberg was home to a third of East Prussia's 13,000 Jews. The city's Jewish population shrank from 3,200 in 1933 to 2,100 in October 1938. The New Synagogue of Königsberg, constructed in 1896, was destroyed during Kristallnacht (November 9, 1938); 500 Jews soon fled the city. After the Wannsee Conference of January 20, 1942, Königsberg's Jews began to be deported to camps such as Maly Trostenets, Theresienstadt, and Auschwitz.
  
  
• In 1944 Königsberg suffered heavy damage from British bombing attacks and burned for several days. The historic city centre, especially the original quarters Altstadt, Löbenicht, and Kneiphof, was destroyed, including the cathedral, the castle, all churches of the old city, the old and the new universities, and the old shipping quarters.
  
  
• Many people fled Königsberg ahead of the Red Army's advance after October 1944, particularly after word spread of the Soviet atrocities at Nemmersdorf. In early 1945 Soviet forces under the command of the Polish-born Soviet Marshall Konstantin Rokossovskiy besieged the city. In Operation Samland, General Baghramyan's 1st Baltic Front, now known as the Samland Group, captured Königsberg in April. A temporary German breakout had allowed some of the remaining civilians to escape via train and naval evacuation from the nearby port of Pillau. Königsberg, which had been declared a "fortress" (Festung) by the Germans, was fanatically defended.
  
  
• On 21 January during the Red Army's East Prussian Offensive, mostly Polish and Hungarian Jews from Seerappen, Jesau, Heiligenbeil, Schippenbeil, and Gerdauen (subcamps of Stutthof concentration camp) were gathered in Königsberg. Up to 7,000 of them were forced on a death march to Sambia; those that survived were subsequently executed at Palmnicken.
  
  
• On April 9 — one month before the end of the war in Europe — the German military commander of Königsberg, General Otto Lasch, surrendered the remnants of his forces following a three-month-long siege by the Red Army. For this act, Lasch was condemned to death in absentia by Hitler. At the time of the surrender, military and civilian dead in the city were estimated at 42,000, with the Red Army claiming over 90,000 prisoners. Lasch's subterranean command bunker was preserved as a museum in Kaliningrad.
  
  
• A majority of the German citizens remaining in Königsberg after 1945 died of either disease, starvation or revenge driven ethnic cleansing.
  
  
• At the end of World War II in 1945, the city was annexed by the Soviet Union pending the final determination of territorial questions at the peace settlement (as part of the Russian SFSR) as agreed upon by the Allies at the Potsdam Conference.
  
  
• After Königsberg's conquest by the Red Army, the name of the city briefly changed to a Russified form: Kyonigsberg (Кёнигсберг). While it was initially planned to rename the city "Baltijsk", it was renamed Kaliningrad on July 4, 1946, after the death of the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Mikhail Kalinin, one of the original Bolsheviks. The Soviet Union applied the name "Baltiysk" to the nearby port of Pillau instead. The German population was either deported to the Western Zones of occupied Germany or into Siberian labor camps, where about half of them perished of hunger or diseases.
  
  
• After the deportation, the city's former population was entirely replaced with Soviet citizens. Life changed dramatically: the city had a new name (Kaliningrad), and German was replaced by Russian as the language of everyday life. Parts of the city were rebuilt, although the former Altstadt remained an urban fallow with few buildings that survived the destruction. The city went through industrialisation and modernisation. As one of the westernmost territories of the Soviet Union, the Kaliningrad Oblast became a strategically important area during the Cold War. The Soviet Baltic Fleet was headquartered in the city in the 1950s. Because of its strategic importance, Kaliningrad was closed to foreign visitors.
  

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You've got it backwards! Backwards!

Hurry up and throw it! If you don't hurry up and throw it, you'll go "boom"!

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I Summon thee from far away lands, come forth!

You called?

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