Post by Captain on Nov 14, 2012 21:35:45 GMT -5
[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=cellpadding,0,true][atrb=valign, top][atrb=cellspacing,0,true][atrb=style, border: 10px solid #f1e3b4; width: 450px; background-color: #f6f7f1;] SCOTLAND NAME: Iain Kirkland AGE: 21 GENDER: Male GRADE: Graduated HEIGHT: 5'9" WEIGHT: 147 PERSONALITY TRAITS: ⚜ Superstitious ⚜ He believes in faeries, trolls, goblins, elves, and all of that good stuff. He believes in external and mysterious roles and forces and powers of luck and fate. You spilled some salt? He’ll tell you to pick it up with your right hand and toss it over your left shoulder. Broken a mirror? Ground those pieces up into dust, no reflection so no problem. See a black cat sitting that your porch? That’s a sign of good luck you know. Throw a coin in the River Tay or River Forth for some extra luck! He’ll believe in what he believes in. He will go out on his way to try to avoid misfortune and he’ll warn people about their actions that could lead to bad luck. However, even if he believes in such nonsense, there isn’t any proof that it actually does get rid of bad luck… or that bad luck even happens. ⚜ Proud ⚜ He is loud and proud about his heritage, his real heritage. He shall act like a Scotsman, he shall speak like a Scotsman – unless he’s mocking the English, and he shall be proud that at least William Wallace did a number on those English forces in past history. There isn’t anything he isn’t ashamed off about being Scottish? Fried food? Well, that’s okay… Acting drunk twenty-four seven? He doesn’t drink but hey, he talks to imaginary friends. There aren’t a lot of things he’s disappointed about when it comes to himself, and he doesn’t seem to mind boasting about him at certain times. He’ll be patriotic to his country too, supporting any form of Scottish Independence. ⚜ Closet Romantic ⚜ He’ll act tough and actually cold. He’ll be the seemingly stoic guy who has a foul language and a short temper… However, he’s a secretly hopeless romantic. He cares for everyone actually and well, poems about true love and broken hearts makes the man sometime shed manly, if not invisible, tears secretly. Give him a poetry book of Robert Burns and he’ll read it with passion. Give him the same poetry book and leave, he’ll read it with passion and wish that something of the sort could happen to him. Yes, the French ‘romance’ had made him a sap to romance in general and give him a heart of gold. However, since he puts up a manly front, insult his manliness for liking romance and you’ll be out cold for at least a day. ⚜ Short Tempered ⚜ He’s short tempered, what’s more to say? He’s trying his best to keep himself from snapping. Amazingly, he had perfected the art of stopping himself from exploding with anger at his annoying younger brother because he’s been training to do that for nineteen years of his life. His patience is short with strangers and friends and there is no tolerance if someone insulted his manliness. With short temper he’s violent, very violent. Just being active and trying to stay healthy makes up his strength. Other things that can make him snap are annoying people who likes to keep on pestering him, idiots who keeps on asking questions about what the dead says, and people who say that Nessie or his friends - Úna, Èibhlin, and Flòraidh the Faery Sisters and many others. ⚜ Loyal ⚜ He believes in that true love crap so yes, he’s loyal to his lover if he were to find anyone. However, this loyal is a bit different. He shall not leave any comrades behind and he’s willing to get himself injured if it were to keep his friends and comrades out of danger. Scotsmen are brave and loyal men and he’s proud to be a Scotsman, thus, he shall be a loyal man! Especially to those who he forms a close bond with, he shall never abandon them or fight against them. ⚜ Frugal ⚜ Hey, there’s a difference between frugal and cheap. He doesn’t haggle for a lower price when an item is already on a discount or does he spend his money as quickly as a Scotsman chugging a bottle of whiskey. He effectively uses his money for the necessities in life. Sure, maybe a nice suit would be rewarding, but he doesn’t need to be professional all the time. He tries not to waste time and he tries to avoid wasting things. He’s trying to be smart with his money, stretching it as much as he can. He’s just trying to make a better financial future after all. ⚜ Inventive ⚜ It's true, whenever this man is up for it, he'll probably make the most craziest of things you have ever seen that actually works. He's interested in a lot of things, but nothing satisfies him more than when something he makes actually does work (like a working homemade refrigerator). Some people might call him a mad scientist or something of the similar sort... but you just can't really tell the guy that he's really wasting his time. It's just fine to build things let it be a miniature train or a working bicycle and not give your money to some that get's sent to the company to made it and whatnot. Buying the item or the materials needed to build something, which one's cheaper? ⚜ Mad ⚜ Let's just say that past his mask of manly toughness and roughness, past that big heart of his and him being a sucker for romance and the like, and past the 'probably' insane inventor level, there will lie a small part of Iain that no one knows. He's eccentric in the same way a psychopath is 'dangerous'. It's an understatement, something that just sums the actual man that spent his whole life in so many problems and situations, giant walls within even thicker walls were built around him. Behind his louder-than-life pride, there lies a man with a calm and lilting tone, a purr of a voice and green eyes, there it is, a madman. He's stubborn as a mule, yet he's calculative and cruel. Give him the right situation, get to his nerves just enough, let him know all of your pet peeves and he shall pick on it. Pick on it until you decide to explode in anger yourself. That unmentionable past of his had matured him faster than any child should have grown up. Everything you thought you knew about him was just armor, and it's armor that he knows how to use well. ABOUT PAST EVENTS Iain came from a big family of many siblings and even more extended members. For those in his immediate family, they were constantly in fights. For some, these fight made them into the ambitious people they are, for the ginger, they just hardened him. It made him tougher and more un-responding towards external stimuli. He eventually moved out to live by himself and made a few friends here and there. Few, as in most would probably think that he was certainly different. He got into a lot of fights with others and almost wreaked his body by drinking and smoking. He was in his own little word of not giving a damn for a lot of things. Of course, he got asthma the moment he was struck by a chest infection, and the cigarette smoke wasn't helping at all. He had to stop and now, he's still trying to stop. He's just too stubborn to actually use his inhaler or take any mediations. Yet to this day, he would still get into fights, since either they were annoying him or that he was intentionally picking a fight with them. He liked to see things burn after all. FEARS & QUIRKS FEARS ⚜ Boredom ⚜ Be honest, a madman would easily get bored because his mind was too different from other people. What might be considered fun to others might be boring to him. So, that's why he's always trying to be busy thinking of something or just trying to make something - no matter how lazy he is. Boredom is something that's almost akin to being burned alive for the mind that's cruising at very high speeds of thinking. ⚜ Bad Food ⚜ He cooked for himself in order to survive childhood. Basically everyone in his family was so bad at cooking, this man took it upon himself to feed himself. (Yes, his cooking is rather terrible, but he doesn't think so.) Be it his brother's, his mother's, his grandmother's, his father's, all of the people in his family cannot cook. He doesn't want to relive any more bad memories. QUIRKS ⚜ Temperamental ⚜ As insane as it already sounds, Iain can be patting your back in reassurance in one moment and the next be trying to punch the living daylights out of you. Not that he is short tempered (well that's part of the reason), but his mood just changes wildly (like a woman forever trapped in her time of the month). From friendly to rude, from sly to sarcastic, his mood changes with such ease that no one would probably hope to adapt to it. Those who would know this man would have to change with them instead. ⚜ Golden Earring with Magical Properties(?) ⚜ It's a golden earring on his right ear that he claimed to protect him from evil and/or mischievous faeries. He also claimed that his friend, Nessie the Loch Ness Monster, was the one to have given him that earring. No one is really sire if he's just crazy or doesn't want to admit to anything at all. LIKES & DISLIKES LIKES ⚜ Rich Culture ⚜ Iain’s a man who loves the amazing history and culture, any other culture that seems to have a really good rivalry with the English to have a rather rich history in his definitions are surely to join the list. ⚜ Haggis ⚜ Can’t say no to chopped up meat cooked in some stomach sack you know! ⚜ Bagpipes ⚜ Those wonderful musical instruments practically grew up with Iain when he was a little boy. The shiny drones, the slight humming when you play it – its simply great. ⚜ Celtic Folklore ⚜ Tales filled with faeries, goblins, monsters, and Baobhan Sith are perfect bedtime stories when he was a wee little kid… and terrifying other kids. ⚜ Magical Creatures ⚜ Indeed… very much like his brother… especially Nessie, the Loch Ness Monster, the one he claims to see… including his other faery friends like the Faery Sisters. ⚜ Cooking ⚜ Cooking, he believes that he's better than his brother... when it's not. We can certainly see who influenced another person's cooking. ⚜ French ⚜ It’s completely “classy” and “romantic”. Besides, he’s… slightly influenced by the culture… They can also be loyal people too! It’s not denial it’s fact! ⚜ Outdoor Sports ⚜ From hunting to golfing, to cycling and football, Iain is an active guy despite having to live with an inhaler. Despite his rather weak state due to pneumonia, the bloke seems to enjoy the crisp air while outside exercising. ⚜ Writing Mystery Novels ⚜ He’s an avid fan of the mystery sort thus he started to write various short stories about a single man, sometimes with the aid of his trusty helper, solving various crimes throughout Great Britain. ⚜ Poetry ⚜ Robert Burns’ poetry brought manly tears to his eyes. ⚜ Being a Jerk ⚜ He needs to find ways to amuse himself. DISLIKES ⚜ English ⚜ Honestly, they have horrible cooking, they still have a monarch… not to mention, it seems like everyone seems to mistake British people for English people. Not Northern Irish, Scottish, or Welsh, ENGLISH ⚜ Having to Listen/Follow Younger People ⚜ A person that was left with responsibility, the “man of the household”, the “big cheese”, he grew up to rely on himself and believes that responsibility comes with age. ⚜ Relying on Younger People ⚜ Once more, seeming how he was the one with all the responsibility. It seems rather embarrassing for a proud man to rely on a younger person. ⚜ Insults About His Cooking ⚜ Scones are certainly NOT better than Haggis or Scotch broth. ⚜ Not Being able to do Whatever He Wants ⚜ A grown man needs his freedom, and he's willing to break a few bones to get it the way he wants it to be. ⚜ Forests Disappearing ⚜ All of his magical friends are in serious danger! Not to mention, if the forests disappear, how in the world is he going to enjoy his outdoor activities in a crowded area filled with car pollution or… or… MAN-MADE FUMES? ⚜ Braveheart ⚜ It’s basically about historical guy Iain looks up too… and the plot is really, really inaccurate. It just slaughters the name of Sir William Wallace. ⚜ Tea ⚜ It honestly just tastes like leaves in boiled water. What’s so great about leaves in boiled water? ⚜ English Cuisine ⚜ He would have recovered quickly if someone stopped trying to feed him that crap. application was approved/disapproved by kishi/asu/lawliet/rozz | [atrb=border,0,true][atrb=cellpadding,0,true][atrb=valign,top][atrb=cellspacing,0,true][atrb=style, width: 40px;] s c o t t i e |
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