Desna "Antarctica" Bartholomew

DESNA (ANTARCTICA) BARTHOLOMEW

Is anybody out there please?
It’s too quiet in here and I’m beginning to freeze

I Feel Like We're Summoning The Devil

[/color]:[/b] Desna James Bartholomew.
Nickname/Alias: Des or Antarctica of course.
Gender: Male.
Character Type: Country or Autonomous Region
Country or Country of Origin: Antarctica.
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

[/color]:[/b] Blue.
Hair: Pale white/silver.
Height and Weight: 5’11, 140lbs.
Other Distinguishing Features: Desna is not very distinguished unless you count his hair color in contrast with his young visual.

Overall Appearance: Desna has a surprisingly graceful air to him. He is light on his feet, quick and decently strong. He has a fair amount of muscle on his frame and is well proportioned. He is slightly above average height, with a fairly average build. He has defined but not quite broad shoulders and somewhat defined hips as well. Des has fairly narrow limbs, despite the muscle he has on his body. He has a fine, feminine jaw line, and all of his facial features are well proportioned to his facial structure. Desna has very distinguished hair as it is a silvery white and falls to his shoulders. At times he styles it but usually he just lets it fall as it will.
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Man up or I'll beat you with my peace prize!

[/color]:[/b] Cooking, Music, Technology, Sledding, Skating, Snow Shoeing, Dog Sled Racing, Skiing, Snowboarding, Making Snow Angels, Snowball fights, Snow, Ice, Cold Weather, Winter, Gardening, Knitting, Sewing, Wood Working, Creating in General.

Dislikes: Hot weather, Places closer to the Equator, Being Alone, Unnecessary aggression, War, Death, Famine, Sunburn, Swimming, Seal, Fish.

Strengths: Desna is very passive, this means he has a high tolerance before he gets angry. He is a great mediator and quite patient. Des has a high tolerance to cold.

Weaknesses: He has a low tolerance to hot temperatures. When Des gets angry he can hold a grudge for a lifetime or two. He tends to be a bit naïve and uneducated in some aspects due to being out in the middle of nowhere for so long.

Fears: Being alone. Being cut off from the world all over again. Being caught in the middle of two people who are at odds.

Secrets: Desna doesn’t advertise that he lived out his earlier years completely isolated and alone with only seals and fish for food, blubber for burning to cook his food and an empty igloo to sleep and survive in.

Any Quirks/Habits: Des tends to fiddle with things and finds he has a huge desire to touch objects or things he has never seen before. His primary way of greeting someone is asking if they’d like to have a meal together, and usually with the intention of cooking it himself. He associates social interactions with food.

Overall Personality:
Naïve: Desna has some growing to do still. He assumes the best in people and does what he can to appeal to them as well. He cares what others think of him which is a huge issue in his personality. He cares too much and as such he often gets upset when another person doesn’t find him likeable. Desna lacks the ability to comprehend that some people by nature are cruel or that some personality types just don’t mesh.

Serious: Desna has a sense of humour it’s just not a dominant part of his personality. As such he tends to be quite serious a lot of the time. This is not a bad serious, as he knows how to laugh, smile and have fun, but rather that he takes the world from a realist perspective. Of course, that realism is falsified by his naivety, but it’s as real as it can be for him for the moment.

Curious: Desna has a thirst for knowledge. This thirst goes also toward wanting to know who people are, their back story, their little tales and quirks. He loves a good story, a new piece of information or a new skill he can practice and enjoy. He is willing to try anything once just for the experience.

Intelligent: This is a given. Des learns quickly and efficiently, otherwise he’d have been in quite a bit of trouble being cut off from most of the real world for so long. He has a knack for languages and is especially good at picking up skills that can be completed with his hands (things that involve creating).

Charming: This is always an accident. Desna often comes across as somewhat charming. He smiles a lot, is quite happy and tends to treat people with kindness no matter whether he likes them or not. He is truly a sweetheart with good intentions.

Passive: This is a core trait to Desna’s personality. He is naturally passive. This means he shies away from confrontation, will mediate a problem between two people and even do whatever it takes to maintain a peaceful atmosphere. This does not mean he will be walked all over, just that he is patient over and over until he finally snaps (and that takes a lot of effort to have happen).

Manipulative: Desna tends to manipulate circumstances. He likes things a certain way and often tries to use what he knows of other people to get things his way. He is very much like a child in that he has a set of habitual behaviours and ideas of how things should be. With his more adult mindset he manipulates to get those desires.

Resilient: This has more to do with Des’ temper. Desna is patient beyond belief and quite tolerant of many things. However, even he has his buttons and his limits. When Des gets angry he can hold a grudge indefinitely. His anger is expressed though him coldly ignoring anyone who has infuriated him. He basically pretends like that person no longer exists.

Adventurous: A given. Desna lives in a big open continent with little to do. So once he understood just how big the world was, he made sure to get out there and do everything he could. Desna loves to have fun, get a good thrill or pump of adrenaline. He also tends to enjoy a good lay once and a while.

Cautious: This is a trait that is in conflict with a lot of what Desna is all about. It is also very particular. Desna treads carefully when he deals with any situation. He tries to remain impassive and friendly at the same time, while maintaining a safe distance mentally. He is always considering potential for negative social encounters and does all he can to avoid them.
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I'm the hero!

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[li]February 7th, 1821: Desna comes into being. John Davis and his crew first set foot in Antarctica.

[/li][li] 1838-42: A United States Exploring Expedition discovered an Antarctic continent and named this part “Wilkes Land” after the expedition (Wilkes Expedition).

[/li][li] 1841: James Clark Ross discovered what is now called the Ross Sea, the Ross Ice Shelf and Ross Island.

[/li][li] 1853: A British expedition with the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror arrive in Antarctica. They named two mountains on the continent Mount Terror and Mount Erebus.

[/li][li] 1890s: The name Antarctica is assigned by John George Bartholomew. The name meant “opposite of the Arctic”, in other words “Opposite of the North”.

[/li][li] 1907: A party led by Edgeworth David was the first to climb Mount Erebus and reach the South Magnetic Pole.

[/li][li] 1908 – 1909: Ernest Shackleton made several firsts. His expedition were the first humans to cross the Ross Ice Shelf, First to cross the Transantarctic Mountain Range and the first to stand on the South Polar Plateau.

[/li][li] December 14, 1911: A Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen was the first to reach the geographic South Pole using the route from the Bay of Whales and up through the Axel Heiberg Glacier.

[/li][li]October 8, 1913: The first child was born in Antarctica. She was a British Resident and named Solveig Gunbjorg Jacobsen.

[/li][li] 1930s – 1940s: Richard E. Byrd led several voyages to the Antarctic by plane. His most notable one was in 1929 to the South pole.

[/li][li] October 31st, 1956: a US Navy group managed to successfully land an aircraft on the continent.

[/li][li] December 1, 1959: The Antarctic Treaty is put into effect.

[/li][li] Until 1966: Whalers would visit the island in the summer. Most of them were Norwegian or Brits and they had several settlements.

[/li][li] 1970: Mount Erebus, an active volcano, erupted violently compared to its usual frequent mini eruptions.

[/li][li] 1978: The Antarctic Conservation Act was passed. This placed restrictions to US activity in Antarctica. It made introduction of new plants or animals a criminal activity. So was removing indigenous species.

[/li][li] 1980: Restrictions were placed on fishing in the Antarctic Circle.

[/li][li] 1996: More than 70 lakes were discovered at the base of an ice sheet beneath Russia’s Vostok Station.

[/li][li] 1998: The Protocol on Environmental Protection was added to the Antarctic Treaty. This was concerned with biodiversity and conservation.

[/li][li] 2004: An Orthodox Church opened at the Russian Bellingshausen Station called Trinity Chruch. It is manned by one or two priests who are rotated annually.

Countries that “claimed” territory

• 1908 – United Kingdom
  
• 1923 – New Zealand
  
• 1924 – France
  
• 1929 – Norway
  
• 1933 – Australia
  
• 1939 – Norway took more
  
• 1940 – Chile
  
• 1943 – Argentina

Countries with a “claim” reserved

• Brazil
  
• Peru
  
• Russia
  
• South Africa
  
• United States

ANTARCTIC TREATY

Original Signators (Also considered Consultative)

• 1961 – Argentina
  
• 1961 – Australia
  
• 1961 – Belgium
  
• 1961 – Chile
  
• 1961 – France
  
• 1961 – Japan
  
• 1961 – New Zealand
  
• 1961 – Russia
  
• 1961 – South Africa
  
• 1961 – United Kingdom
  
• 1961 – United States

Consultative Signators

• 1977 (Signed 1961) – Poland
  
• 1981 (Signed 1979) – Germany
  
• 1983 (Signed 1975) – Brazil
  
• 1983 (Signed 1983) – India
  
• 1985 (Signed 1980) – Uruguay
  
• 1985 (Signed 1983) – China
  
• 1987 (Signed 1981) – Italy
  
• 1988 (Signed 1983) – Spain
  
• 1988 (Signed 1984) – Sweden
  
• 1989 (Signed 1981) – Peru
  
• 1989 (Signed 1984) – Finland
  
• 1989 (Signed 1986) – Korea (ROK)
  
• 1990 (Signed 1967) – Netherlands
  
• 1990 (Signed 1987) – Ecuador
  
• 1998 (Signed 1978) – Bulgaria
  
• 2004 (Signed 1992) – Ukraine

Non-Consultative Signators

• 1962 – Czech Republic
  
• 1965 – Denmark
  
• 1971 – Romania
  
• 1981 – Papua New Guinea
  
• 1984 – Cuba
  
• 1984 – Hungary
  
• 1987 – Austria
  
• 1987 – Greece
  
• 1987 – Korea (DPRK)
  
• 1988 – Canada
  
• 1989 – Columbia
  
• 1990 – Switzerland
  
• 1991 – Guatemala
  
• 1993 – Slovak Republic
  
• 1996 – Turkey
  
• 1999 – Venezuela
  
• 2001 – Estonia
  
• 2006 – Belarus
  
• 2008 – Monaco
  
• 2010 – Portugal
  
• 2011 – Malaysia
  
• 2012 – Pakistan

Desna’s Sled Team
Team rows; Row 1: Atka; Row 2: Sesi; Row 3: Nanuk and Shesh; Row 4: Kayuh and Tanana.

Kapik: 16; Retired Wheel Dog; Name means Coffee
Tanana: 8; Wheel Dog; Name means Hills
Nanuk & Shesh: 7; Team Dogs; Names mean Polar Bear and Bear.
Sesi: 6; Point Dog; Name means Snow
Atka: 5; Lead Dog; Name means Spirit Guardian
Kayuh: 3; Wheel Dog; Name means Mountain
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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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See Erin “Ireland” Patrick’s Application.

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I Summon thee from far away lands, come forth!

You called?

[/color]:[/b] Pancake.
Timezone: EST.

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