| Oct 13, 2012 16:35:06 GMT -5 |
Post by wolfdemon on Oct 13, 2012 16:35:06 GMT -5
VLADAMIR (ROMANIA) DRAGOMIR
When darkness falls, Pain is all The angel of darkness will leave behind, and I will fight.
When darkness falls, Pain is all The angel of darkness will leave behind, and I will fight.
I Feel Like We're Summoning The Devil
Nickname/Alias: Vlad
Gender: Male
Character Type: Country
Country or Country of Origin: Romania
Canon or Original: Canon
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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: Strawberry Blond
Height and Weight: 5'6 and 135 lbs.
Other Distinguishing Features: He has a small hat that covers up his curl he has only one fang
Overall Appearance:
Vladamir has normal height and weight for a guy his age, but that’s as far as his normalities go. From the small, quirky hat sitting atop his head to his blood red eyes and sharp fangs, he’s anything but ordinary – and he wouldn’t have it any other way. He’s often seen wearing a long trench coat, as he likes to hide stuff inside it and hey, he needs a place to carry his magic books in! He changes the color scheme he has pretty often, as he doesn’t like looking the exact same too many days a row. It’s boring.
His hair is strawberry blond and semi-long, more so from the back than from the front. His hair hides his right ear from sight but leaves his left one in view; also exposing whatever earring Vladamir’s decided to wear for the day.
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Man up or I'll beat you with my peace prize!
+ Magic
+ Scaring people
+ Cooking
+ Horror Movies
+ Myths, legends and folklore
Dislikes:
- Hungary
- Extreme stereotyping
- Rules
- Nosiness
- Yelling
Strengths:
+ Agility / speed
+ Magic
+ Difficult to scare; Strange noises, ghosts and growling wolves hardly faze him; he talks to creatures such as those on a regular basis, after all.
Weaknesses:
- Being too carefree
- Inability to work in a team
- Lack of trust
Fears:
~ Cars and other similar vehicles; If Vlad's given a choice, he’ll walk, no matter the distance. He has had some bad experiences with cars and horrible roads before, and would rather not relive them. Also see next bullet point.
~ Confined places; Suffering from a mild case of claustrophobia, Vlad can’t handle cramped places so no, he can’t sleep in a coffin. Not that it has… prevented him from trying just to entertain crowds, but it has never ended well. Just ask Bulgaria.
Secrets:N/A
Any Quirks/Habits:
Vlad only has one fang he doesn't like talking about what happened to it.
Overall Personality:
To start off, in case you were wondering no, Vlad is not a vampire. His fangs are sharpened, not natural and he doesn’t drink blood – though he’d very much want to make you believe he does. See, if there’s one thing Vlad just loves it’s to confuse, scare and creep people out both through his actions and words. Basically, he wants reactions and enjoys attention. He spent such a long time being wary of foreigners and being shy around them that he decided it was time to change and actually start interacting with them. But, as he walked up to the first country he saw to have a conversation, he quickly noticed it was more difficult than he had anticipated. He felt nervous talking about his history, his economy or anything as serious as that, and so he very quickly retorted to stories, jokes and just general rambling… and that habit has never left him. In fact, he doesn’t even want to get rid of it now; he quite enjoys being a lovable oddball. It makes things fun and saves him from having to be all serious and risk getting in trouble by offending someone – or getting offended.
Long story short, Vlad doesn’t like serious conversations all that much, and is bound to get a bit fidgety and start throwing around jokes in a frenzy if forced to discuss something he doesn’t want. Due to this, it’s often really difficult to get past the “acquaintances” stage with him, i.e, it’s difficult to really befriend him. See, even though he’s friendly to everyone he meets, he doesn’t really let people close. He only shows them his exterior, and so most of his relationships are shallow. It takes a considerable while of him knowing you until he opens up enough for you to see anything underneath his smirks, smiles and tricks.
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I'm the hero!
Romania's Overall history
Romania's Full History
Dacia
The earliest written evidence of people living in the territory of the present-day Romania comes from Herodotus in book IV of his Histories written c. 440 BCE. Herein he writes that the tribal confederation of the Getae were defeated by the Persian Emperor Darius the Great during his campaign against the Scythians. The Dacians, widely accepted as part of the Getae described earlier by the Greeks, were a branch of Thracians that inhabited Dacia (corresponding to modern Romania, Moldova, northern Bulgaria and surroundings). The Dacian Kingdom reached its maximum expansion during King Burebista, between 82 BCE - 44 BCE. Under his leadership Dacia became a powerful state which threatened the regional interests of the Romans. Julius Caesar intended to start a campaign against the Dacians, due to the support that Burebista gave to Pompey, but was assassinated in 44 BC. A few months later, Burebista shared the same fate, assassinated by his own noblemen. Another theory suggests that he was killed by Caesar's friends. His powerful state was divided in four and did not become unified again until 95 AD, under the reign of the Dacian king Decebalus.
The Roman Empire conquered Moesia by 29 BC, reaching the Danube. In 87 AD Emperor Domitian sent six legions into Dacia, which were defeated at Tapae. The Dacians were eventually defeated by Emperor Trajan in two campaigns stretching from 101 AD to 106 AD, and the core of their kingdom was turned into the province of Roman Dacia.
Dark Ages
In either 271 or 275, the Roman army and administration left Dacia, which was invaded by the Goths. The Goths lived with the local people until the 4th century, when a nomadic people, the Huns, arrived. The Gepids and the Avars and their Slavic subjects ruled Transylvania until the 8th century.The Pechenegs, the Cumans and Uzes were also mentioned by historic chronicles on the territory of Romania, until the founding of the Romanian principalities of Wallachia by Basarab I around 1310 in the High Middle Ages, and Moldavia by Dragoş around 1352.
Middle Ages
The Pechenegs (a semi-nomadic Turkic people of the Central Asian steppes) occupied the steppes north of the Black Sea (8th–12th century) and by the 10th century were in control of the lands between the Don and lower Danube rivers. By the 11th and 12th century, the nomadic confederacy of the Cumans and (Eastern) Kipchaks (who are considered to be either the eastern branch of the Cumans or a distinct but related tribe with whom the Cumans created a confederacy) were the dominant force over the vast territories stretching from the present-day Kazakhstan, southern Russia, Ukraine, to southern Moldavia and western Wallachia.
By the 11th century, the area of today's Transylvania became a largely autonomous part of the Kingdom of Hungary. Kings of Hungary invited the Saxons to settle in Transylvania. Also living in Transylvania were the Székely. After the Magyar conquest (10-11th century), Transylvania became part of the Kingdom of Hungary until the 16th century,when it became the independent Principality of Transylvania until 1711.
Early modern period
By 1541, the entire Balkan peninsula and most of Hungary became Ottoman provinces. In contrast, Moldavia, Wallachia, and Transylvania, came under Ottoman suzerainty, but conserved fully internal autonomy and, until the 18th century, some external independence. During this period the Romanian lands were characterized by the slow disappearance of the feudal system, the distinguished of some rulers like Vasile Lupu and Dimitrie Cantemir in Moldavia, Matei Basarab and Constantin Brâncoveanu in Wallachia, Gabriel Bethlen in Transylvania, the Phanariot Epoch, and the appearance of the Russian Empire as a political and military influence.
John II, the last non-Habsburg king of Hungary, moved his royal court to Alba Iulia in Transylvania, and after his abdication as king of Hungary, became the first Prince of Transylvania. His Edict of Turda was the first decree of religious freedom in the modern history of Europe (1568). In the subsequent period, Transylvania was ruled by mostly Calvinist Hungarian princes (until the end of the 17th century), and Protestantism flourished in the region.
Independence and Kingdom of Romania
In an 1866 coup d'état, Cuza was exiled and replaced by Prince Karl of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, who became known as Prince Carol of Romania. He was appointed as Domnitor—Prince—of the Principality of Romania, as Carol I.
In 1877, Romania declared independence from the Ottoman Empire.
During the Russo-Turkish War, 1877-78, Romania fought on the Russian side.
In the 1878 Treaty of Berlin,Romania was recognized as an independent state by the Great Powers. In return, Romania ceded three southern districts of Bessarabia to Russia "in exchange" for the access to the ports at the Black Sea and acquired Dobruja.
On 26 March 1881 Prince Carol I was proclaimed the first King of Romania.
In 1881, the principality was raised to a kingdom and Prince Carol became King Carol I.
World War I
(1916–1918)
(1916–1918)
The new state, squeezed between the great powers of the Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian, and Russian empires, looked to the West, particularly France, for its cultural, educational, military and administrative models. In 1916 Romania entered World War I on the Entente side, after the Entente agreed to recognize Romanian rights over Transylvania, which was part of Austria-Hungary until that time.
In August 1914, when World War I broke out, Romania declared neutrality. Two years later, under the pressure of Allies (especially France desperate to open a new front), on August 14/27 1916 it joined the Allies, for which they were promised support for the accomplishment of national unity, Romania declared war on Austria-Hungary.
Greater Romania
(1918–1940)
(1918–1940)
The Romanian expression România Mare (literal translation "Great Romania", but more commonly rendered "Greater Romania") generally refers to the Romanian state in the interwar period, and by extension, to the territory Romania covered at the time (see map). Romania achieved at that time its greatest territorial extent (almost 300,000 km2/120,000 sq mi), managing to unite all the historic Romanian lands. Historically, Greater Romania—România Mare—represented one of the ideals of Romanian nationalism. Greater Romania is still seen by many as a "paradise lost", often by comparison with the "stunted" Communist Romania. To exploit the nationalistic connotation of the term, a nationalist political party uses it as its name.
In 1918, at the end of World War I, Transylvania and Bessarabia united with the Romanian Old Kingdom. The Deputies of the Romanians from Transylvania voted to unite their region by the Proclamation of Union of Alba Iulia. Bessarabia, having declared its independence from Russia in 1917 by the Conference of the Country (Sfatul Țării), called in Romanian troops to protect the province from the Bolsheviks who were spreading the Russian Revolution. The union of the regions of Transylvania, Maramureș, Crișana and Banat with the Old Kingdom of Romania was ratified in 1920 by the Treaty of Trianon, which recognized the sovereignty of Romania over these regions and settled the border between the independent Republic of Hungary and the Kingdom of Romania. The union of Bucovina and Bessarabia with Romania was ratified in 1920 by the Treaty of Versailles. Romania had also recently acquired the Southern Dobruja territory called "The Quadrilateral" from Bulgaria as a result of its participation in the Second Balkan War in 1913.
World War II
(1940–1947)
(1940–1947)
During the Second World War, Romania tried again to remain neutral, but on June 28, 1940, it received a Soviet ultimatum with an implied threat of invasion in the event of non-compliance.[54] Under pressure from Moscow and Berlin, the Romanian administration and the army were forced to retreat from Bessarabia as well from Northern Bukovina to avoid war.[55] This, in combination with other factors, prompted the government to join the Axis. Thereafter, southern Dobruja was awarded to Bulgaria, while Hungary received Northern Transylvania as result of an Axis arbitration.
In 1940, Romania lost territory in both east and west: In June 1940, after receiving an ultimatum from the Soviet Union, Romania ceded Bessarabia and northern Bukovina.Two thirds of Bessarabia were combined with a small part of the USSR to form the Moldavian SSR. Northern Bukovina and Budjak were apportioned to the Ukrainian SSR. In August 1940, Northern Transylvania was awarded to Hungary by Germany and Italy through the Second Vienna Award. Southern Dobruja was also lost to Bulgaria shortly after Carol's abdication.
Because Carol II lost so much territory through failed diplomacy, the army supported seizure of power by General Ion Antonescu. For four months (the period of the National Legionary State), he had to share power with the Iron Guard, but the latter overplayed their hand in January 1941 and were suppressed. Romania entered World War II under the command of the German Wehrmacht in June 1941, declaring war to the Soviet Union in order to recover Bessarabia and northern Bukovina. Romania was awarded the territory between Dniester and the Southern Bug by Germany to administer it under the name of Transnistria.
Communist period
(1947–1989)
(1947–1989)
In 1947, King Michael I was forced by the Communists to abdicate and leave the country, Romania was proclaimed a republic,and remained under direct military and economic control of the USSR until the late 1950s. During this period, Romania's resources were drained by the "SovRom" agreements: mixed Soviet-Romanian companies established to mask the looting of Romania by the Soviet Union.
Soviet occupation following World War II led to the formation of a communist People's Republic in 1947, and the abdication of King Michael, who went into exile. The leader of Romania from 1948 to his death in 1965 was Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, the First Secretary of the Romanian Workers' Party, who first sowed the seeds of greater independence from the Soviet Union by persuading Soviet First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev to withdraw troops from Romania in April 1958.
1989 Revolution
The Romanian Revolution of 1989 resulted in more than 1,000 deaths in Timişoara and Bucharest, and brought about the fall of Ceauşescu and the end of the Communist regime in Romania. After a weeklong state of unrest in Timişoara, a mass rally summoned in Bucharest in support of Ceauşescu on December 21, 1989 turned hostile. The Ceauşescu couple, fleeing Bucharest by helicopter, ended up in the custody of the army. After being tried and convicted by a kangaroo court for genocide and other crimes, they were executed on December 25, 1989. The events of this revolution remain to this day a matter of debate, with many conflicting theories as to the motivations and even actions of some of the main players.
Ion Iliescu, a former Communist Party official marginalized by Ceauşescu, attained national recognition as the leader of an impromptu governing coalition, the National Salvation Front (FSN) that proclaimed the restoration of democracy and civil liberties on December 22, 1989. The Communist Party was initially outlawed by Ion Iliescu, but he soon revoked that decision; as a consequence, Communism is not outlawed in Romania today. However, Ceauşescu's most controversial measures, such as bans on abortion and contraception, were among the first laws to be changed after the Revolution, and their legality has not been widely questioned since then.
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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"!
Vladamir was humming to himself, just a simple, eerie tune to pass the time and make him forget how sore his feet actually were. He had been offered a ride to the Baudeau Manor multiple times earlier today, but over and over again he had refused and told the helpful nations he’d rather take the long route. He had said it was because he wanted to see the forest at night, illuminated by nothing but the scarce light the full moon up above offered, but really, he just wanted an excuse to stay away from the hellish vehicle.
Still, as Vladamir happened upon yet another clearing, he couldn’t help but admit the forest was beautiful – more so than he had anticipated. The night was cold and the wind blowing among the trees howled, almost convincing the young nation to howl back in answer. He didn’t care if it was silly to talk to the wind; some people talked to their pets, why could he not talk to the spirits the breeze carried? They were everywhere, and they were always ready to hear out a traveler.
As much as Vladamir would have loved to stick around however, he couldn’t afford to. Not only was he… slightly lost, he was already running late. Probably. He didn’t exactly have a clock, so he couldn’t check, but his gut feeling told him as much. Well, it’d be alright if he was late by fifteen minutes or less, but any more than that and he’d be just rude. Then again, maybe it’d be more fun that way?
A slight, devious smirk formed on the nation’s lips and a devilish plan was already forming in his mind. He could always tell a little story as he arrived, a tale of ghosts getting him and wolves trying to eat him alive. No, maybe combine those and make them ghost wolves? With horns. Because horns were always cool. Then again, any demonic creature also required wings, and that might be overdoing it a bit…
As if to answer him, the wind snatched Vladamir's small hat, instantly prompting the young man to snap out of his thoughts to reach for the item. His fingers managed to brush against the hat’s side, but it wasn’t enough to steal it back. The wind blew and kept a strong hold of what it stole.
“Hey, I need that!” Vladamir protested, kicking his boots off the ground to dash after the spirits. Sticks broke and mud splattered under the man’s boots, and his cape flapped behind him as if about to take off as well. Damn it, he knew the hat wasn’t exactly part of his Dracula costume, but he loved it too much to just let it go like that.
Vladamir took in a breath and attempted to run faster, his head ducked and red eyes fixed on his target, hungry, wanting, the way they always were when he wanted to take something. He was reaching the hat now, his fingers almost touching-
“Ack!”
The Romanian fell backwards and hit his behind on a tree root, the impact drawing an involuntary yelp from his throat. Oww, something had hit him straight in the face! The hell, why were the spirits being so-
Before he could finish that thought he noticed a lone branch sticking out where he had stood moments before. It took him a while to realize what that implied. Had he really run straight into a branch? Whaa, wasn’t like him at all, he always paid attention to- oh, hey, his hat!
Conveniently forgetting all about his plunder, Vladamir stood up and picked the lost headwear from the ground in front of him. He dusted it off carefully before raising his gaze, his face in a pout.
“You could’ve just given it to me from the star - huh?” The Romanian’s eyes widened as he realized what he was staring at not many hundred meters ahead. It was a manor, old, ghastly, and all too familiar. It was definitely the holding place of the little teaparty he was heading to. So, wait, had the spirits...?
~Thirteen minutes, you can still make it~
Vladamir grinned, placing his hat back on his head.
“I better get going then!” He shouted in reply, nodding to the wind as thanks before dashing off once more.
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I Summon thee from far away lands, come forth!
You called?
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