| Dec 5, 2012 20:23:58 GMT -5 |
Post by Matthew "CANADA" Williams on Dec 5, 2012 20:23:58 GMT -5
MATTHEW (CANADA) WILLIAMS
{Isn't Someone Missing Me?}
{Isn't Someone Missing Me?}
I Feel Like We're Summoning The Devil
Nickname/Alias: Matt, Mattie
Gender:Male
Character Type: (Country)
Country or Country of Origin:Canada
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:Blonde
Height and Weight: 5'10 162lbs
Other Distinguishing Features:A curly hair that shoots up and then down into his face.
Overall Appearance: Mattie is a tall blonde with violet eyes. He looks very much like his brother Alfred facial wise, and the main differences are that his eyes are violet, and that the hair sticking up curls and is longer and in his face rather than just sticking straight up. He has glasses that sit on his nose and he tends to give slight smiles fairly often. Clothes wise he usually wears a hoodie with a maple leaf on it and jeans. It's what he finds comfortable, and even in the snow he will wear that rather than anything too much heavier because he's just used to the weather.
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Man up or I'll beat you with my peace prize!
[li]Maple Syrup
[/li][li]Snow
[/li][li]Polar bears
[/li][li]Wilderness
[/li][li]Alfred
[/li][li]Peace and Quiet
Dislikes:
[/li][li]Being mistaken for Alfred
[/li][li]Large groups(he gets lost in them often and never gets to speak)
[/li][li]Reality TV
[/li][li]Being forgotten
[/li][li]People who think all his people live in igloos/ ride moose to work
Strengths:
[/li][li]Determined
[/li][li]Patient
[/li][li]Calm
Weaknesses:
[/li][li]Can be too quiet
[/li][li]Polar Bears
[/li][li]Takes blame for things that aren't his fault
Fears:
[/li][li]Being forgotten when it matters most
[/li][li]Losing Kuma
Secrets:
[/li][li]Does things to try and specifically be different from Alfred
Any Quirks/Habits:
[/li][li]Says 'Maple' when distressed
[/li][li]Watches people
[/li][li]Tends to flail when he's not being noticed
Overall Personality: Matthew is a very quiet nation, and usually ends up being talked over. It does get on his nerves, but he’s pretty passive about it, so rarely does anything change. This quiet nature lets him observe others though. He sees them when they’re blending in, and definitely when they don’t seem to see him in the slightest.Which, seems to be a bit on the often side. The nation tends to get ignored during meetings and many are convinced that he isn't even there sometimes, or when they do see him they mistake him for his brother. They usually realize their mistake once he starts talking being that he is nowhere near as loud as his brother. Though sometimes he still has to explain that he is not America, and instead is Canada which does get very tiresome at times. He wishes people wouldn't forget him, but at this point he's basically accepted that they might even forget him forever if he didn't remind them who he was every so often. Usually he feels as if he's perpetually being compared to Alfred, and to be honest he doesn't want to be compared to him. Matthew wants to be seen as an individual who is different from Alfred, not just as his brother.
That being said, he's not always perpetually calm and tries not to let things like that just happen. There are times when he's ignored after standing up for himself too, but he does try to be at least a little louder depending on how mad he is. He's also not really shy, he's just quiet. He prefers to sit and observe rather than speak out constantly. He just doesn't see the need to always say what he's thinking out loud mostly because it's not always nice and he would probably have to apologize for it later. He does that a lot actually, apologize that is, for things that aren't always his fault, but he gets blamed and so he apologizes for it. Despite that, he's a rather determined person, and actually quite aggressive in battles. He doesn't give up just because nobody heard him or saw him. Mattie just keeps trying and hopes that eventually someone will realize all that he actually does.
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I'm the hero!
Mattie originally was found by polar bears before France or anyone else did. He stayed with them for some time and when France came and claimed him he took a polar bear named Kumajiro with him and the polar bear still remains with him.
1524: Francis I of France sponsored an explorer to navigate the reign between Florida and Newfoundland to find a route to the Pacific Ocean.
1534: Jacques claimed the land in the name of Francis I.
1608: Champlain founded what is now Quebec City which would become the first permanent settlement and the capital of New France.
1763: France gave Canada to England
1774: The Quebec Act of 1774 was signed and most of his people’s rights and customs were protected by it.
1775: An invasion of Canada by the Continental Army to take Quebec from the British control. It was halted by the Battle of Quebec.
1812-1814: Mattie and Alfred get into an argument where Alfred tries to make him become one
The rebellions against the British government took place in the upper and lower regions of Canada. In Upper Canada, a band of reformers took up arms in an unsuccessful series of small-scale skirmishes around Toronto, London, and Hamilton.
In Lower Canada, there was a slightly larger rebellion. Both English- and French-Canadian rebels fought several skirmishes against the authorities. The towns of Chambly and Sorel were taken by the rebels, and Quebec City was isolated from the rest of the colony.
1838: The rebellions of the Patriot movement were defeated after battles across Quebec. Hundreds were arrested, and several villages were burnt in reprisal.
July 1, 1867: Canada became a Dominion, by having a series of meetings with Britain to figure out the details.
The Canadian forces and civilian participation in the First World War helped to foster a sense of British-Canadian nationhood. The reputation Canadian troops earned helped to give the nation a new sense of identity. Not that most other nations noticed, it was more of a self-aware thing.
As a result of the First World War, Canada became more assertive and obeyed Britain less; it became an independent member of the League of Nations.
1923: British Prime Minister appealed repeatedly for Canadian support in the Chanak crisis, in which a war threatened between Britain and Turkey. Canada refused, and instead started relying less on British diplomats and used his own foreign service called The Department of External Affairs.
1929: A depression hit Canada.
1933: Thirty percent of the labor force was out of work, and one fifth of the population became dependent on the government. Both wages and prices fell hard. Worst hit were areas dependent on primary industries such as farming, mining and logging, as prices fell and there were few alternative jobs. Matthew spent quite a bit of time sick because of this, but he did his best to work through it.
Canada declared war on Nazi Germany on September 10, 1939, delaying it one week after Britain acted just because he wanted to demonstrate he was separate rather than part of the British empire still. The war restored Canada's economic health and its self-confidence, as it played a major role in the Atlantic and in Europe.
Canada was largely ignored by Winston Churchill and the British government despite Canada's major role in supplying food, raw materials, munitions and money to the hard-pressed British economy, training airmen for the Commonwealth, guarding the western half of the North Atlantic Ocean against German U-boats, and providing combat troops for the invasions of Italy, France and Germany in 1943-45. The force assembling caused the depression to end, prosperity returned, and Canada's economy expanded significantly.
1943 to 1945 German U-boats operated in Canadian waters throughout the war while Canada took charge of the defenses of the western Atlantic. The Canadian army was involved in the failed defense of Hong Kong, the unsuccessful Dieppe Raid in August 1942, the Allied invasion of Italy, and the highly successful invasion of France and the Netherlands in 1944-45.
1948: The British government gave voters three Newfoundland Referendum choices: remaining a crown colony, becoming independent again, or joining Canada. Newfoundlanders voted to join Canada in 1949 as a province.
1965 Canada adopted the maple leaf flag.
June 23, 1985, Air India Flight 182 was destroyed above the Atlantic Ocean by a bomb on board exploding; all 329 on board were killed, of whom 280 were Canadian citizens. The Air India attack is the largest mass murder in Canadian history.
Canada became the fourth country in the world and the first country in the Americas to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide with the enactment of the Civil Marriage Act
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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"!
nuuuuu.
Go check Abbey Montfichet
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I Summon thee from far away lands, come forth!
You called?
Timezone: Eastern
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