mamma's boy [egypt]

He might be a mamma's boy,
But don't make him get his stick,
He'll stab you in the eye.
Or just hit you with it.
A lot.

Meet Hassan here. Well, Gupta Hassan. But, all said and done, he prefers very much to go by his last name, reserving his first name for those who knows him very, very well. He's one of the quieter Hetalians, for the most part, but he's unafraid of going right into the thick of politics when he is affected by it. He's an interesting sort, slow to make friends and slow to hold a grudge, but holds onto both forever, that's for certain.

Friends
Hassan is normally fairly aloof and he tends to warm up to being quite slowly. He's not so much cold as introverted, but get him talking and he'll go on for ages. He starts everyone off with a neutral attitude, and depending on how he's pushed will go either way. He could use a few extroverted friends to get him to do things, but he's more than happy to just talk philosophy, play board games and walk in the park and play odd people watching games with a few close friends.

Enemies
While it's easy for a person to stay neutral, it's actually fairly hard to get Hassan to hate a person. He's far more likely to hate the associations (past or current) a person has to something they dislike over their personality. It's a matter of principle to him, more than anything else. That being said you typically have to be political to get on his bad side, though the ignorant or overly religious don't have to try hard, either. If someone has no seeming respect for their mortality, that'll get him too. Or, if you're a power that has tried to control him, he's not going to be impressed . =P

Other
If you have any love plots or other plots, feel free to post 'em up!

-throws Russia at-
Russia && Egypt
Well Allies since forever, though they've had a few rough spots like everyone duh. I'd say they were pretty good friends though. Mess with ALLL THE NATIONS =D

Canada && Egypt
According to embassies and shit like that they're actually pretty good friends and have been for some time. huh. All sorts of friendliness here.

I don't see anything with New Jersey or Pennsylvania and Egypt

London and Dublin
It probably depends on the day and how their country feels about him at the time.

Russia & Egypt
Haha yes! This is one time Hassan would go along and be a little more extroverted. Definitely allies and definitely going around messing with people. Russia's lent a hand often enough for Hassan to warm up to him.

Canada & Egypt
Yep, they'd be friends, and I think Hassan would refrain from bothering him all that much. He'd respect Mattie, that's for certain.

London & Dublin
Ehh I can't see Hassan enjoying London's presence much, but Dublin he really wouldn't care that much about. xD

Alfred and Hassan - I'm copying a lot of this from elsewhere, because I'm too lazy to retype it. XD

It's really hard to say with these two, given things appear to keep going back and forth. They had issues during the Yom Kippur/October War considering Alfred gave his support to Israel. But then they reestablished diplomatic communications in 1974. I don't think we really need to plot too much before that time, since I don't see Alfred and Hassan interacting much prior to the later half of the 20th century and, of course, the 21st century.

It looks like their relations were pretty good again for quite a while, Egypt being the second largest non-NATO recipient of US military aid.

Then the War on Terror happened. XD

It looks like things weren't as sticky with the initial invasion of Afghanistan, but the invasion of Iraq was largely opposed. Here I start to see problems with Alfred and Hassan's relationship, and I don't see that having healed up entirely yet. Or possibly ever.

So where does that leave us with them? They're...sort of on good terms, but sort of strained. It's what I like to call the 'allies but not friends' approach. They most certainly aren't enemies, but they aren't all buddy buddy either. They probably say and do things intentionally to get on each other's nerves. However, they're alright with each other's presence for the most part, and tolerate each other.

Mackenzie and Hassan - They wouldn't talk as much as Mattie and Hassan, obviously, but if Hassan is on good terms with Mattie he'd probably be on decent terms with Mackenzie as well. Not necessarily good friends or anything, but acquaintances on good terms.

Natayla and Hassan - From what little I can find their relations are 'excellent', though I don't really see much as far as strong interactions between them. Overall, I think if Hassan knows Natalya he probably knows her through Ivan, given that she's Ivan's sister, but nothing huge that I can see.

As far as the others? Yeah, I got nothing. XD

Alfred & Hassan
Ohboy. xD Well, complicated is really the simple way of putting it. How the Arab Spring was viewed by the US and handled by it lost him a lot of points (the US, and not just the US) propped up Mubarak and yet said 'oh good job cute ickle revolution' when it happened but did effectively nothing to help Egypt out, despite Egypt's strategic importance. I can't see Hassan being outright hostile - that would be silly - but I can see him getting extremely passive-aggressive with Alfred, even going to far as to poke at his girlfriend and so on, though there's no real threat of the stick coming out. Tourists are money, too, so there's that.

I think these two would mostly only get along when it suited them, though generally I can see Hassan, at least, being passive-aggressive for the most part.

Going back to 9/11 & the war on Terror, I doubt that's healed up much, though I can see Hassan being much more focused on more recent events to bother much about it. More or less he'd see Alfred for being just a lot hypocritical on the ideology, which never fails to make him mad. I can see him comparing Alfred to Rome quite a bit, out of both similarities and "haha i'm older than you, bitch" which isn't very mature but he'd do it. : P

Mackenzie & Hassan
Basically. He'd be friendly and not mind Mackenzie's presence at all, due to the ties with Mattie, but there's not a lot to say.

Natayla & Hassan
Yep, I'd have to say they'd know each other through Ivan. I think Hassan would go out of his way to be nice to her, speak with her, etc., just due to how close she is to Russia and how Russia's been good to him. They'd probably have a pretty good friendship out of it, since Hassan would be trying to not be all aloof...well, not super aloof and introverted, at any rate. xD Points for trying?

IRELAND and EGYPT

Couldn’t find anything on the politics for these two, so this purely based on personality. Erin is all over the place and that means sometimes she is very friendly and other times things set her off and make her obnoxious. She is a tough individual to understand and she doesn’t change, bend or adjust for anyone. Erin is a hit and miss for most people, you either get along okay with her and tough out the bipolar reactions and unpredictability or you leave her to her devices. How this goes will depend on Hassan. If he can tolerate her, great. If not, I totally understand…

ANTARCTICA and EGYPT

These two would get along well. Desna is not quite outgoing but he’s not reserved either. He is just calm and social. He makes friends easily, has a hard time holding a grudge and very rarely gets angry or upset. He’s a very relaxed guy and is content to just kick back and enjoy himself rather than deal with the extra crap. When you look at the fact that Antarctica is war free, economy free and cared for by various other nations, it becomes quite clear that he has no reason to stress. As a result, I can only see them being on good terms and then becoming friends given the time.

Ireland & Egypt
Hmmm, I think their relationship would be very much a ht and miss thing. Hassan wouldn't mind her on her good days but he would be utterly unafraid of telling her to eff off on other ones. He'd admire how she refuses to bend to anyone, which is a very redeeming quality in his eyes, so he'd probably respect her, despite an on-off friendship?

Antarctica & Egypt
Now this is a guy Hassan would like. xD Hassan would absolutely take to him, for his calmness and general stability, which he's been having difficulty with. He'd probably walk and discuss the concepts of life and death with this guy, or just sit and people watch. I think they'd have a hard time getting to know each other due to both of them being quieter at first, but getting very close after that.

IRELAND and EGYPT

Well when he chooses to tell her to eff off, he can expect some backlash. On and off works for me and does make sense. But don’t ever expect an apology from her. Erin isn’t one to apologize.

ANTARCTICA and EGYPT

I can see Desna doing the approaching. But it would be a long time process for them to get to know one another, for sure.