| Sept 21, 2012 13:44:55 GMT -5 |
Post by CAROLINE "PARIS" DE BEAUMONT on Sept 21, 2012 13:44:55 GMT -5
CAROLINE(PARIS) DE BEAUMONT
{This fleeting world is like play-acting, just a transient container }
{This fleeting world is like play-acting, just a transient container }
I Feel Like We're Summoning The Devil
Nickname/Alias: Paris; Also answers by the name Caroline or other human names. She is also answers to other names, but you have to ask her for that. Also takes pride to be called as "La Ville-Lumière" ("The City of Light") sometimes.
Gender: Female
Character Type: Capital
Country or Country of Origin: France
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
Hair: Yellow; short and wavy
Height and Weight: 5'06"; 131 Lbs.
Other Distinguishing Features:
She is often seen carrying a large book or a doll (or two) with her and her appearance makes her look like a female version of France (except... she's not France). Though she is half-a-head shorter than France, it is noted that she is a bit younger than the old nation she serves (even though their age are somewhat near to each other).
Overall Appearance:
Like the country that she serves and loves so well, Paris is quite a sight to see, being one of the most beautiful and magnificent capitals in the world. The personification of such a wonderful capital, Caroline sports a short, wavy hair adorned by a red band, a light blue dress with white, short-sleeve blouse, red ribbons on her waist and a red scarf on her neck. She often wears white socks and ankle-high boots and is seen with either a book or a doll from time to time.
From time to time, she is seen wearing a different attire than her normal; in her case, a white or red dress with blue (or white) apron. As a young (pre-French Revolution) capital, she is often seen wearing a red dress with white collar and red bow on her head. It was also said that she used to have a long, golden hair before cutting it down around the French Revolution era.
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Man up or I'll beat you with my peace prize!
- France (who doesn't love their own country?)
- Fashion (very fashionable woman)
- Artworks; sculptures and paintings
- the Lourve
- Fluffy Omelettes (especially if they have cheese with it)
- Dolls (specifically stuffed dolls with elaborated dresses)
- Reading books
- Romance (more on the 'sweet, gentle, and pure' kind)
- Night time (with all the wonderful scenery and lights at these time)
- the Eiffel Tower (her pride and joy
- Snow (it's rare, but when it happens, she enjoys every moment of it)
- The opera (she sometimes spend the rest of her downtime watching them)
- Pastries (Specifically sweet ones)
Dislikes:
- War (First-hand experience)
- Some part of her history (inter-related to the 'war')
- Air pollution
- Freezing temperature every snow
- The French Revolution
- Napoleon Bonaparte (It's not like she does not like him, it's more of she is somewhat scared of him)
- Common misconceptions about France (No no no no! They are not like that!)
- Things that are 'ugly' (Not only physical-wise but also the metaphysical ones)
- Rallies & Protests
- Black Death
Strengths:
- Able to see the beauty in everything (Not just in their physical state but as well as 'the inside')
- Fashionable (French people are very fashionable people)
- Great cook (She's French, so...)
- Hospitable & Easily concern to her people or anyone she cares (She dotes them so much)
- Loyal and dedicated to France (Well, she IS the capital of France)
- Great actress (If she can pull off being a man, then her acting is very much her second nature)
Weaknesses:
- Easily Jealous to things prettier than her (It's a petty feeling, but it's there)
- Gets embarrassed when praised too much than necessary
- Anything Ugly (same with her nature to see the beauty of things, she does not like to see things that are ugly)
- Admitting that she is wrong, she made a mistake or that she is at fault (Pride issues)
- Somewhat amoral sense of justice when push comes to shove or when overcome to her feelings
- Revolutions, rallies and protests
Fears:
Non-existence - It won't be long before she, too, would disappear when France does, which is why she will do at any length to survive and not be ignored.
Ugliness - She go to great length just to be beautiful, both inside and out, but she fears that somewhere, deep in her heart, she is hideously ugly due to some part of her history.
Being found out - If anyone (especially France) finds out that she is sneaking out and pretending to be a man....
Nothing to wear - Minor fear; she is scared of not having anything to wear that will match her mood for the day.
Secrets:
- She is envious of Jeanne 'D Arc/Joan of Arc. However, to give respect to France who very much loves her so, Caroline held herself from expressing it, instead holding it to herself in hopes that, in time, she would find herself the will to accept the fact. Does France knows? No, not at all and it's going to stay that way.
- A few times, she have masqueraded as a male, and even helped her fellow French people to the revolution without revealing herself as the representation of the Capital. And, for that, she have cut her hair to make sure nobody (not even France) knew about it. She seem to be able to blend in as a young yet rebellious and charismatic persona a few times, most notable in the French Revolution. Probably why she has short hair right now.
- Unlike France, Paris is not exactly engages herself in free sex and believes more in the purer state of love. Must be one of the reasons why Paris is also called the 'City of Love'. Again, she's not going to tell him that since he thinks that she also shares the same ideals as he is when it comes to 'free love'. She's ashamed, actually, to tell him that.
- Actually sleeps with her dolls from time to time. She doesn't tell that to anyone, of course; they think she only brings her dolls around was because she is fond of them for their beautiful appearance.
- Caroline seem to have a darker, morbid side of her personality; the Grand Guingol is the prove of it. For some reason, she secretly enjoys the overly and graphical gore and amoral horror as entertainment, going as far as even encourages it. She was sadden that it was closed down, but she secretly wished that someone should make something matching the reputation of the Grand Guingol someday.
- Whenever she sneaks out, she often dresses up as a guy (she have to sneak herself to France's room and 'borrow' some of his clothes) and only answers to the name 'd'Eon', after a French diplomat, spy and freemason, d'Eon de Beaumont. She was quite dashing, though.
- Though she is the 'City of Love' and that she can be a flirt, when it comes down to actual relationships or when people reciprocates her, she gets schoolgirl-shy all over and stutters if she finds out if there are anyone who actually, genuinely likes her and not just because she flirted with them for fun.
- Contrary to what everyone believes in her, she never experience 'making love' to anyone or anybody before. (What? You think all French does that?)
Any Quirks/Habits:
- She's fond of dressing up in a French Maid attire from time to time. It's not called 'French' out of nothing, you know.
- Whenever she is overly excited or when she's very happy, Caroline tends to speak in a deep, French accent, something she's embarrassed about.
- When holding parties, she tend to go (too) extravagant about it.
- As d'Eon, she tends to imitate some of France's traits. Yes, even the flirting-with-female parts. On a more serious point, she is more aggressive and less refine than as Caroline.
- Always adding cheese to her omelet.
- Unusual habit of hitting France, or basically anyone, with either her book or her dolls when they come too close to her for comfort.
- Overly dotes on anyone and anybody like a mother hen to those anyone younger than her. Yes, she got that from France.
- A very good singer, though not so much on the 'Rock Band' part. She's trying, though.
- Very good with the use of rapiers. Lucky she doesn't carry one all the time.
Overall Personality:
The capital of France, Paris, is an honest, frank and delightful female despite having some similarities with the country she serves upon. It was easy to say that she can be compared to a lady in a party, a charming lady who more often than not engages in conversations with everyone while keeping her polite and refine figure, a capital who likes to be the life of the party and keeps it alive and burning. She is flamboyant- not as much as France's, but still evident to her personality- and enjoys the beauty of life and its graces she have received after all the things happening all throughout the country within the years of their existence. She can be a bit playful and a flirt, but more on the innocent and childish nature as she never go as far as to harm someone's emotional feelings and plays with them.
Caroline can be playful and silly at times, if not joining in with the shenanigans the people around her are doing, though she would sometimes point out that they can be a bit silly at times. She gets embarrassed easily despite her somewhat-confident nature and ramble nonsensical things from time to time, making her seem as eccentric as France. She likes fashion (and go as far as try to press to people about it) and can be very doting at times, like how a mother dotes on their cute child or a girl doting to his boyfriend. She also seem to be easily pleased at any offer of cakes, pastries and omelettes.
However, her charming nature is never without faults and she, too, seem to have her own faults. Though Caroline may be a sweet and charming female, she can be a bit taciturn when it comes to responsibilities or work, thinking that she have to work up the pace as to not fail France and his expectations (making her seem less appealing to the nation when that arise). Unlike Francis, she is a realist who believes that in order to get where she is now, she needs to work hard and do whatever is necessary to gain her status, even if it means that she needs to do what she hates and deems 'ugly'. She sees the world in a view of 'beauty' (not just the outside) and will not hesitate to boldly claim things she does not like or that she finds distasteful as ugly; wars, famine and such as one of those. She also tends to be a spoiled sport and a sore loser, crying and whining when things did not go to her way, and from time to time, she takes advantage with her charms to get what she wants and needs.
Despite these things, from the time where she first appeared to the present, her sense of patriotism with her own country that she serves upon and her bravery brought her all these time, proving that she is also as strong and as steadfast as she used to be back then, through the wars and revolutions to the government upturn. She is also not afraid to fight back, both physically and otherwise, to prove her people's side, even if it means she'll have to defect herself from France, himself, and show that she is the real deal who will not leave her people. Her refine nature is her one of her side, but if deems to be, she will be a fighter who will not be afraid to scrape, scratch, bite and even kill.
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I'm the hero!
The whole history of Paris can be found here
The name Paris derives from that of its earliest inhabitants, the Gaulish tribe known as the Parisii. The city was called Lutetia (more fully, Lutetia Parisiorum, "Lutetia of the Parisii"), during the Roman era of the 1st to the 6th century, but during the reign of Julian the Apostate (360–363), the city was renamed Paris.
It is believed that the name of the Parisii tribe comes from the Celtic Gallic word parisio meaning "the working people" or "the craftsmen."
ORIGIN
The earliest archaeological signs of permanent settlements in the Paris area date from around 4200 BC. The Parisii, a sub-tribe of the Celtic Senones, inhabited the area near the river Seine from around 250 BC.The Romans conquered the Paris basin in 52 BC, with a permanent settlement by the end of the same century on the Left Bank Sainte Geneviève Hill and the Île de la Cité. The Gallo-Roman town was originally called Lutetia, or Lutetia Parisorum but later Gallicised to Lutèce. It expanded greatly over the following centuries, becoming a prosperous city with a forum, palaces, baths, temples, theatres, and an amphitheatre.
The collapse of the Roman empire and the 5th-century Germanic invasions sent the city into a period of decline. By AD 400, Lutèce, largely abandoned by its inhabitants, was little more than a garrison town entrenched into a hastily fortified central island. The city reclaimed its original appellation of "Paris" towards the end of the Roman occupation.
MEROVINGIAN AND FEUDAL ERA
The Paris region was under full control of the Germanic Franks by the late 5th century. The Frankish king Clovis the Frank, the first king of the Merovingian dynasty, made the city his capital from 508. The late 8th century Carolingian dynasty displaced the Frankish capital to Aachen; this period coincided with the beginning of Viking invasions that had spread as far as Paris by the early 9th century.
Repeated invasions forced Parisians to build a fortress on the Île de la Cité. One of the most remarkable Viking raids was on 28 March 845, when Paris was sacked and held ransom, probably by Ragnar Lodbrok, who left only after receiving a large bounty paid by the crown. The weakness of the late Carolingian kings of France led to the gradual rise in power of the Counts of Paris; Odo, Count of Paris, was elected king of France by feudal lords, and the end of the Carolingian empire came in 987 when Hugh Capet, count of Paris, was elected king of France. Paris, under the Capetian kings, became a capital once more.
MIDDLE AGES TO 19TH CENTURY
Paris's population was around 200,000 when the Black Death arrived in 1348, killing as many as 800 people a day; and 40,000 died from the plague in 1466. During the 16th and 17th centuries, plague visited the city for almost one year out of three. Paris lost its position as seat of the French realm during the occupation by the English-allied Burgundians during the Hundred Years' War, but regained its title when Charles VII of France reclaimed the city from English rule in 1436. Paris from then on became France's capital once again in title, but France's real centre of power would remain in the Loire Valley until King Francis I returned France's crown residences to Paris in 1528.
During the French Wars of Religion, Paris was a stronghold of the Catholic party. In August 1572, under the reign of Charles IX, while many noble Protestants were in Paris on the occasion of the marriage of Henry of Navarre – the future Henry IV – to Margaret of Valois, sister of Charles IX, the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre occurred; begun on 24 August, it lasted several days and spread throughout the country.
In 1590 Henry IV unsuccessfully laid siege to the city in the Siege of Paris. During the Fronde, Parisians rose in rebellion and the royal family fled the city (1648). King Louis XIV then moved the royal court permanently to Versailles, a lavish estate on the outskirts of Paris, in 1682. A century later, Paris was the centre stage for the French Revolution, with the Storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789 and the overthrow of the monarchy in September 1792.
19TH CENTURY
Paris was occupied by Russian and Allied armies upon Napoleon's defeat on the 31 March 1814; this was the first time in 400 years that the city had been conquered by a foreign power. The ensuing Restoration period, or the return of the monarchy under Louis XVIII (1814–1824) and Charles X, ended with the July Revolution Parisian uprising of 1830. The new 'constitutional monarchy' under Louis-Philippe ended with the 1848 "February Revolution" that led to the creation of the Second Republic.
Throughout these events, cholera epidemics in 1832 and 1849 ravaged the population of Paris; the 1832 epidemic alone claimed 20,000 of the population of 650,000.
The greatest development in Paris's history began with the Industrial Revolution creation of a network of railways that brought an unprecedented flow of migrants to the capital from the 1840s. The city's largest transformation came with the 1852 Second Empire under Napoleon III; his préfet, Baron Haussmann, levelled entire districts of Paris' narrow, winding medieval streets to create the network of wide avenues and neo-classical façades that still make up much of modern Paris; the reason for this transformation was twofold, as not only did the creation of wide boulevards beautify and sanitize the capital, it also facilitated the effectiveness of troops and artillery against any further uprisings and barricades for which Paris was so famous.
The 1889 Universal Exposition.
The Second Empire ended in the Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871), and a besieged Paris under heavy bombardment surrendered on 28 January 1871. The discontent of Paris' populace with the new armistice-signing government seated in Versailles resulted in the creation of the Paris Commune government, supported by an army created in large part of members of the city's former National Guard who would both continue resistance against the Prussians and oppose the army of the "Versaillais" government. The Paris Commune ended with the Semaine Sanglante ("Bloody Week"), during which roughly 20,000 "Communards" were executed before the fighting ended on 28 May 1871. The ease with which the Versaillais army overtook Paris owed much to Baron Haussmann's renovations.
France's late 19th-century Universal Expositions made Paris an increasingly important centre of technology, trade, and tourism. Its most famous were the 1889 Exposition universelle to which Paris owes its "temporary" display of architectural engineering progess, the Eiffel Tower, a structure that remained the world's tallest building until 1930; the 1900 Universal Exposition saw the opening of the first Paris Métro line.
20TH CENTURY
During World War I, Paris was at the forefront of the war effort, having been spared a German invasion by the French and British victory at the First Battle of the Marne in 1914. In 1918–1919, it was the scene of Allied victory parades and peace negotiations. In the inter-war period, Paris was famed for its cultural and artistic communities and its nightlife. The city became a gathering place of artists from around the world, from exiled Russian composer Stravinsky and Spanish painters Picasso and Dalí to American writer Hemingway.
On 14 June 1940, five weeks after the start of the Battle of France, an undefended Paris fell to German occupation forces. The Germans marched past the Arc de Triomphe on the 140th anniversary of Napoleon's victory at the Battle of Marengo. German forces remained in Paris until the city was liberated in August 1944 after a resistance uprising, two and a half months after the Normandy invasion. Central Paris endured World War II practically unscathed, as there were no strategic targets for Allied bombers (train stations in central Paris are terminal stations; major factories were located in the suburbs). Also, German General von Choltitz did not destroy all Parisian monuments before any German retreat, as ordered by Adolf Hitler, who had visited the city in 1940.
In the post-war era, Paris experienced its largest development since the end of the Belle Époque in 1914. The suburbs began to expand considerably, with the construction of large social estates known as cités and the beginning of the business district La Défense. A comprehensive express subway network, the RER, was built to complement the Métro and serve the distant suburbs, while a network of freeways was developed in the suburbs, centred on the Périphérique expressway encircling the city.
Since the 1970s, many inner suburbs of Paris (especially the northern and eastern ones) have experienced deindustrialization, and the once-thriving cités have gradually become ghettos for immigrants and experienced significant unemployment. At the same time, the city of Paris (within its Périphérique expressway) and the western and southern suburbs have successfully shifted their economic base from traditional manufacturing to high-value-added services and high-tech manufacturing, generating great wealth for their residents whose per capita income is among the highest in Europe. The resulting widening social gap between these two areas has led to periodic unrest since the mid-1980s, such as the 2005 riots which were concentrated for the most part in the northeastern suburbs.
21ST CENTURY[/b]
A massive urban renewal project, the Grand Paris (Greater Paris), has been launched in 2007 by former French President Nicolas Sarkozy. It consists of various economic, cultural, housing, transport and environmental projects to reach a better integration of the territories and revitalise the metropolitan economy. The most emblematic project is the construction by 2025 of a new automatic metro which will consist of 150 km rapid-transit lines connecting the Grand Paris regions to one another and to the centre of Paris.
Nevertheless, the Paris metropolitan area is still divided into numerous territorial collectivities and their fusion into a more integrated metropolis government, although sometimes discussed is not on the agenda. An ad-hoc structure, Paris Métropole, has however been established in June 2009 to coordinate the action of 184 "Parisian" territorial collectivities.
In an effort to boost the global economic image of metropolitan Paris, several skyscrapers (300 m (984 ft) and higher) have been approved since 2006 in the business district of La Défense, to the west of the city proper, and are scheduled to be completed by the early 2010s. Paris authorities also stated publicly that they are planning to authorize the construction of skyscrapers within the city proper by relaxing the cap on building height for the first time since the construction of the Tour Montparnasse in the early 1970s.
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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"!
I'm going with Okinawa's RP on this one.
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I Summon thee from far away lands, come forth!
You called?
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