Gage "South Carolina" Chandler

Gage ”South Carolina” Chandler

{No changin' who I am,
That's the way I've always been.
No matter what state I'm in,
I'm in a southern state of mind.}

I Feel Like We're Summoning The Devil

[/color]:[/b] Gage Russell-Lee Chandler
Nickname/Alias: Russell, Russ, Lee, Chandler, Chand, The Palmetto State, South, Carolina
Gender: Male
Character Type: State
Country or Country of Origin: United States of America
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] Hazel, light brown near the center and green toward the edge
Hair: Dirty blond
Height and Weight: 5'10”, 147 lbs
Other Distinguishing Features: Almost always wears his hair long, to about the bottom of his shoulder blades.
He also wears two chains around his neck constantly. The shorter chain has a blue-painted star pendant on it with a '1' engraved on the back. The longer chain is the same, except the star is painted red.
Gage also has very distinctive burn scars on the left side of his face, neck, and chest from the burnings done by the Union army near the end of the Civil War.

Overall Appearance: Gage is a young man of slightly above average height and lean build, with broad shoulders. He's very tan from spending most of his time outside, as well as muscled for the same reason. He wears his hair long, bangs to about his jaw, and the rest of his hair to about the bottom of his shoulder blades. He's more on the lanky side, and tends to wear worn and old clothing when in private, while if he's out or has company, he'll wear dressier clothes. He also goes barefoot when possible.
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Man up or I'll beat you with my peace prize!

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• Dixie
  
• Sweet tea
  
• Horses
  
• Hunting
  
• Dogs
  
• Swimming
  
• Horseback riding
  
• Fishing
  
• Movies
  
• Being the center of attention
  
• Singing
  

Dislikes:

• Authority
  
• Being called stupid
  
• Being called prejudice
  
• Cold weather
  
• Any form of sailing (he gets seasick)
  
• NASCAR
  
• Snakes
  
• Being stuck inside
  
• Pop music
  
• Shoes
  

Strengths:

• Excellent aim
  
• Good cook (when it comes to Southern dishes)
  
• Good with animals
  
• A leader
  

Weaknesses:

• Rebellious
  
• Disloyal
  
• Baby animals
  
• Alcohol
  

Fears:

• Snakes
  
• (Quite secretly) The Northern states, which he usually hides.
  

Secrets: As good terms as he is on with the rest of the USA, he still wishes his Dixieland was it's own country.

Any Quirks/Habits:

• He doesn't just say 'The South'. He says 'My Dixie'.
  
• His drawl gets worse around Northern states in attempt to aggravate them.
  
• He also sings confederate and revolution songs frequently -often subconsciously.
  

Overall Personality: Gage is obnoxious. And he knows it. It's his personal goal in life to drive everyone he knows insane. However, he really only does this to people he knows well, and even that's limited to men. He was raised not only puritan, but also like a Plantation owner's son. So despite his grating and irritating tendencies, he's also all chivalry and manners with strangers and women. He'll also, generally, tone down his annoying behaviour when he's around people he's alone with someone he genuinely likes, because then he doesn't have a reputation to uphold.

He's also rather narcissistic. He enjoys rubbing it in that he was the first of the Colonies to leave England, and that he was the first state to secede. He likes showing off all the things he's good at or things his state is known for. He's also always had, since he was a colony, the habit of always responding when someone is calling. Regardless of which of his names it is, or even if it's just the phrase 'Hey you!', he'll respond near immediately, as he's 'the most important person here'.

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I'm the hero!

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• 1629: Charles I, King of England granted his attorney general a charter, he called this land the Province of Carlana.
  
• 1663: Charles II grants the land to eight nobles, the Lords Proprietors.
  
• 1670: The English colony the Province of Carolina (both North and South Carolina) was established in Charleston by wealthy plantation owners and slaves from Barbados.
  
• 1715-1717: Yamasee war, between British settlers of South Carolina and various Native American tribes.
  
• 1719: Officially made a Crown colony.
  
• 1729: North Carolina was split off and made into a separate colony.
  
• 1765: South Carolina banded together with the other colonies to oppose British taxes in the Stamp Act Crisis.
  
• 1776: Became independent on March 26 and and became the first republic in America (and also the first to declare Independence from Britain).
  
• 1778: February 5, first state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
  
• 1780: British loyalists helped British troops recapture South Carolina from the rebels.
  
• 1781: January 17, The Battle of Cowpens. Start of decline in British wins.
  
• 1782: British evacuate their troops, as well as loyalists and slaves, from South Carolina.
  
• 1788: May 23, South Carolina the 8th state to ratify the US constitution.
  
• 1789-1795: Support of the French Revolution, especially by French-influenced Charleston, and the rest of South Carolina.
  
• 1797-1798: South Carolina support of the French ends with the XYZ affair.
  
• Antebellum South Carolina does more than any other southern state to advance nullification and succession.
  
• 1822: First attempt at nullification following slave rebellion.
  
• 1832: South Carolina state convention passed the Ordinance of Nullification, declaring the Federal tariff laws of 1828 and 1832 unconstitutional.
  
• 1856: Anti-abolitionist feelings running high, South Carolina congressman Preston Brooks beat Massachusetts senator Charles Sumner with a metal-tipped cane, leaving him unable to serve for several months. The beating was in retaliation for Sumner's speech attacking slavery and putting down South Carolinians. Brooks resigned but was welcomed home a hero.
  
• 1860: December 20, South Carolina is the first state to secede and join the Confederate States of America.
  
• 1861: April 12, Confederate batteries began shelling Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor, starting the Civil War.
  
• South Carolina troops participated in major battles, but no major battles were fought inland.
  
• 1865: General Sherman and his troops marched through the state, destroying numerous plantations. Captured the capital of Columbia February 17. Fires that night and into the next morning destroyed most of the city.
  
• 1865-66: Former slaves (freedmen) given limited rights.
  
• 1867-1877: Republican coalition of freedmen, supported by Union forces, in charge.
  
• 1871: Habeas Corpus (legal action requiring suspects be brought in and put before trial) was suspended in nine South Carolina counties by President Grant, under Ku Klux Klan Act authority (to try and reduce Klansmen violence).
  
• 1877: Compromise of 1877 ended reconstruction. Union soldiers withdrew. White democrats used people such as the Red Shirts to intimidate Black voters, regaining white control under conservative groups such as the 'Redeemers'.
  
• 1895: New populist constitution disenfranchised Blacks and poor white men by new requirements for pole, residency, and literacy taxes.
  
• 1896: Only 5,500 Black voters remained on the registration role, despite making up majority of the state.
  
• 1902: Charleston expedition brought visitors from all over the world. President Roosevelt called for reconciliation between the North and South, who's tensions were still high.
  
• 1915: Legal sale of alcohol prohibited.
  
• 1961: Desegregation acts began when nine Friendship Junior College students sat at a white-only lunch table and refused to leave. The nine choosing jail over bail gained national attention in the American Civil Rights Movement.
  
• 1962: Federal courts ordered Clemson University to admit the first black student. Influential whites ensured the student was in no way harmed. No incidents occurred.
  
• 1963: March 16, Saturday Evening Post praised South Carolina's handling of the crisis.
  
• 1964: Civil Rights Act
  
• 1965: Voting Rights Act
  
• 1968: Shooting at Orangeburg shattered South Carolina's peaceful desegregation.
  

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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 Moscow

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I Summon thee from far away lands, come forth!

You called?

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