Post by Switzerland on Apr 5, 2013 22:42:07 GMT -5
My Reflection
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Nation: Switzerland
Name: Vash Zwingli
Gender: Male
Appearance Age: 21
Actual Age: (from 1291 with the Old Confederacy)
1722
Appearance
Hair Color: Blond
Eye Color: Green
Height: 5'6
Weight: 128
Appearance: Smaller than some of his neighbors, Vash still manages to project power fairly successfully and seems at least a little taller than he actual is. He keeps his blond hair neatly cut and shaves daily, whether he needs it or not. Vash likes to wear his uniform, even on days that he doesn't have to, but for the most part he always knows how to dress for whatever occasion. If given a preference, he tends to dress conservatively but comfortably, showing his farming roots.
Defining Features: Keen green eyes. Small but extremely steady hands.
Who Am I?
Personality: Despite being composed of a rich variety of cultures and languages, Vash has a distinctive and proudly Swiss identity. He's confident and won't let anyone push him around. If he can't convince people via the normal means (telling them that he's neutral), he can convince them at gunpoint. He loves his sister Lili very much and he gets along with his neighbours fairly well.
Likes:
Dislikes:
Fears:
Strengths:
Weaknesses:
Your History
Chur, Switzerland, contains evidence of some of the oldest continuous human settlements in Europe, dating from the late Paleolithic period.
3800BC- Bronze Age dwellings established in what is now Switzerland.
1500C Celtic, Raetian and Helvetii tribes settled in various regions of what is now Switzerland.
58BC- Helvetii tribesmen who tried to move to Gaul ended up being forced by Julius Caesar's army to move back to where they came from. Integration into the Roman empire followed, with the Roman administration headquartered in Aventicum (now Avenches).
259AD- Alamanni tribes overran Limes, causing the Swiss territory to be the frontier of the Roman Empire.
After the fall of the western Roman empire, chaos and many immigrant tribes ensued. A sucession of rulers (Carolingians, Zahringenians, Kyburgs, and finally Hapsburgs) controlled various parts of proto-Switzerland in a variety of different ways. Sometimes the Magyars attacked. With the death of Berchtold V in 1218 the Zahringer controlled city-states (reichsfrei) operated within the Holy Roman Empire and the Kyburgs and the Hapsburgs fought it out for possession of previously Zahringer territory.
People eventually seemed to notice that the alpine passes in Raetia and the St. Gotthard Pass were actually useful for trade.
1291- The 'Forest Cantons' of Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden make a mutual defense treaty, the Federal Charter. Unfortunately for them, when the Kyburgs died out, the Hapsburgs revoked the status of these cantons as reichsfreiheit and they were no longer independent.
1315- Battle of Morgarten. United Swiss forces defeat the Hapsburgs and gain more autonomy
1353- Cantons of Glarus and Zug, and city states of Lucerne, Zurich and Bern join the original trio, making an octet which would come to be known as the Old Federation (except for the bit where Zurich for a decade (1440-1450, the Zurich War)) and it was just the seven of them).
1386- Battle of Sempach. Even More United Swiss trounce the Hapsburgs again.
1470s- Swiss victories over Charles the Bold and increasing success of Swiss mercenaries lead to an uptick in power and wealth.
1499- Swiss Confederation defeats the Swabian League gains greater collective autonomy within the Holy Roman Empire, is exemption from the Imperial reforms of 1495 and immune from most Imperial courts.
1506- Pope Julius II hires the first Swiss Guards. Popes still have Swiss Guards.
This is pretty cool.
1515- expansion of the Confederation and the reputation of invincibility acquired during the earlier wars suffered a first setback in 1515 with the Swiss defeat in the Battle of Marignano.
1523- Reformation begins in Switzerland, led by Huldrych Zwingli, the priest of the Gruss Munster church in Zürich. Zürich, Berne, Basel, and Schaffhausen, became Protestant and Lucerne, Uri, Schwyz, Nidwalden, Zug, Fribourg and Solothurn remained Catholic. Glarus and Appenzell were divided on the matter.
1529-1531-The Kappeler Kriege, (inter-cantonal religious wars) resulted from the religious divisions within the cantons as each canton usually made the opposing religion illegal. Despite this, the Confederation survived.
Throughout the Thirty Years' War, Switzerland was relatively peaceful in Europe, because all the major players in Europe used Swiss mercenaries, and would not let Switzerland fall in the hands of one of their rivals.
1648- Treaty of Westphalia, resulted in Switzerland attaining legal independence from the Holy Roman Empire.
1653- Peasant subjects in Lucerne, Bern, Solothurn, and Basel revolted due to currency devaluation. Despite the peasants losing, the authorities approved some of their demands such as some tax reforms. This incident had a longer term effect in that it may have prevented an absolutist development as seen in the trend of other governments in Europe.
1798- French armies completely overrun Switzerland, abolish the cantonal system and set up the united Helvetic Republic. As this was established and imposed by a foreign power, and supported by French troops, the Helvetic Republic was deeply unpopular with the Swiss and faced severe issues and uprisings from the onset. Moreover, the Helvetic Republic's constitution was not based on Swiss thought, but on the political philosophy of the French Revolution which came into contradiction with Swiss ideas of freedom.
1803-Napoleon's Act of Mediation restored some of the sovereignty of the cantons, and former tributary and allied territories (Aargau, Thurgau, Grisons, St. Gallen, Vaud and Ticino) became cantons in their own power.
1815- Congress of Vienna fully re-established Swiss independence and the other nations of Europe agreed to recognize permanent Swiss neutrality. The cantons of Valais, Neuchatel and Geneva also joined Switzerland at this time.
1840s- Radical Party and liberals in the Protestant cantons get a majority in the Federal Diet and propose a new Constitution for the Confederation which would result in several cantons being in a closer relationship.
1843- Conservative city leaders and rural Swiss, mainly in the Catholic cantons opposed the new constitution, with its centralisation of the Swiss government.
1847- Catholic cantons form the Sonderbund, a separate group within the Confederation. This results in the Sonderbundskrieg. The Radical party used their control of the national government to order the Sonderbund to disband. It didn't and the national army attacked, defeating the Sonderbund in less than a month. 130 people were killed. This was the last armed conflict on Swiss territory, aside from a few riots.
1848- As a result of this brief civil war, Switzerland adopts a federal constitution, which is amended in 1874 and establishs federal responsibility for defense, trade, and legal matters. All other matters are at the discretion of the cantonal governments.
Switzerland remained armed and neutral in World War One, accepting refugees and people who wanted nothing to do with the war. The conflict impinged on Swiss territory over one thousand times, but generally speaking, Switzerland's neutrality was respected.
Switzerland was also armed and neutral in World War Two, despite a plan Germany had drawn up for invading, 'just in case'. The Swiss army was on high alert, prepared for invasion at any time, stockpiling fortified positions in the Alps (the Reduit). Switzerland's success at neutrality was the result of several factors- a population armed to the teeth and ready to defend, some economic concessions to Germany and a lot of luck.
As a result of this neutrality, Switzerland was an interesting place to be during the war and some significant espionage and banking was done there during the war. Switzerland's trade was impeded by both sides, neither of which wanted Switzerland to trade with the other. Switzerland's economic cooperation with the Axis powers was largely based on how imminent an invasion was thought to be and how likely it was that they could trade with someone else instead. The Swiss Franc was the most stable currency in Europe throughout the war.
1942- A crucial rail line through Vichy France was severed, leaving Switzerland completely surrounded by the Axis. As a result, trade was significantly limited.
Switzerland accepted over 300,000 refugees during the war. While there was some internal conflict within Switzerland which fell along linguistic or cultural lines, the government came down harshly upon any movement that threatened Swiss unity. The Swiss cantons that spoke primarily German moved further away from standard German and put a larger emphasis on Swiss dialects
1958- Population of Switzerland votes in favour of creating a nuclear bomb.
1959- The Federal Council, elected by the parliament, is composed of members of the four major parties, the Protestant Free Democrats, the Catholic Christian Democrats, the left-wing Social Democrats and the right-wing People's Party, creating a system without a sizeable parliamentary opposition.
1963- Switzerland joins the Council of Europe
1968- Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty enacted and plans to build a Swiss nuclear bomb were dismantled.
1971- Women get the right to vote.
1979- The canton of Jura is formed out of the canton of Bern.
1981- Equal rights amendment to the constitution.
1990s-2002 Swiss government forms the Bergier Commission to provide the most recent and authoritative study of Switzerland's interaction with the Nazi regime.
2002- Switzerland ratified as a member of the United Nations, although it is still not a member of the EU.
2005- Switzerland joined the Schengen treaty and Dublin Convention by popular vote.
Sample Post
Swiss border, 1942.
Vash stared at the soldier in front of him, across the border line, inches from Vash's own territory. The other man was definitely a soldier, he was the right age and he had the right sort of haircut, and starved look that was all too common. The fact that he wasn't wearing a uniform was a minor detail. Lots of people mysteriously lost their uniforms within proximity to Vash's borders. "What's the problem?" Vash asked his own soldier, a bespectacled border guard who was doing his best to look intimidating when the 'would-be intruder' was head and shoulders taller than him.
"He's an armed enemy combatant, sir," the border guard stated the obvious. Vash had noticed that the applicant for entry had a rifle slung over one shoulder, although it looked pretty battered and Vash hadn't noticed any ammunition.
"Well, he's armed," Vash agreed. "Does he have papers?"
The border guard handed Vash a pay booklet and a very battered passport. Vash glanced at the papers, and the rifle. And at the soldier's drawn face, his look of abject misery, his scrawny, starved body. There were rules. And then there were Rules.
"Put your rifle down!" he barked at the soldier.
Blank confusion. Either he didn't speak German or he was so far gone in his misery that he didn't comprehend anything.
"Put it down!" Vash snapped, pantomiming what the soldier should do.
Dazed, the man did so.
This next part took a little more effort, but Vash managed to do it anyway. Savagely, he tore up the paybook and passport. Both his own border guard and the soldier looked horrified.
"Oh damn!" Vash said loudly, grabbing the soldier's arm and pulling him over the border line. "Another poor refugee with no papers or ANYTHING at all to let me know where he's from! A displaced civilian! We must look after him!"
The Player
Name: Still Nina!
Age: Still older!
Fun Fact: I like dill pickles but hate the sweet kind.
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[/align]Nation: Switzerland
Name: Vash Zwingli
Gender: Male
Appearance Age: 21
Actual Age: (from 1291 with the Old Confederacy)
1722
Appearance
Hair Color: Blond
Eye Color: Green
Height: 5'6
Weight: 128
Appearance: Smaller than some of his neighbors, Vash still manages to project power fairly successfully and seems at least a little taller than he actual is. He keeps his blond hair neatly cut and shaves daily, whether he needs it or not. Vash likes to wear his uniform, even on days that he doesn't have to, but for the most part he always knows how to dress for whatever occasion. If given a preference, he tends to dress conservatively but comfortably, showing his farming roots.
Defining Features: Keen green eyes. Small but extremely steady hands.
Who Am I?
Personality: Despite being composed of a rich variety of cultures and languages, Vash has a distinctive and proudly Swiss identity. He's confident and won't let anyone push him around. If he can't convince people via the normal means (telling them that he's neutral), he can convince them at gunpoint. He loves his sister Lili very much and he gets along with his neighbours fairly well.
Likes:
- Neutrality- Being able to stay out of conflicts is something that Vash values tremendously, especially considering some of his own internal conflicts in the past.
- Banking- Vash has a thrifty farmer's value of money. Watching the miracle of compound interest on savings accounts makes him very happy.
- Farming- It's important to remember where you've come from and a significant portion of Vash's population was agricultural in employment in the not-so-distant past, relatively speaking. He likes the feel of tilled earth and the harvest season.
- Punctuality- It's not just about time being subdivided, it's about respect for one's self and the whole rest of the world! This is Really Important Stuff!
- Chocolate- Vash has not just one sweet tooth but a whole head full of sweet teeth. White, milk and dark chocolate, it's all good!
- Guns- Guns are awesome. In a slightly less advanced day and age, he was known for shooting off guns to celebrate just about anything.
- Romansch- It's great to be able to go covert and speak a language that almost no one else really understands!
- Family- Lili means a lot to him, and his relatives in the big cantons are quite all right now, so life is good on that front.
- Voting- Vash actually enjoys getting his voting materials in the mail and volunteering to help count ballots.
- Mechanical things- If it has gears and cogs and wheels, it is capable of fascinating Vash for hours.
Dislikes:
- Untidiness- Untidy things are irritating on a level that Vash can't even quite articulate. Disorderliness is almost morally wrong.
- Poorly run transportation systems- Vash has to take into account mountains, lakes, avalanches and rockslides. Despite this, _his_ transportation systems work exceptionally well, so really no one else has an excuse for how badly things work in their countries!
- Poverty- Vash remembers some crushingly bad years that he had and this has given him a lasting and almost paranoid belief that no matter how good things are right now, disaster in the form of poverty is still out there, waiting for a bad day to make it worse.
- People objecting to or attempting to limit his neutrality. Vash has his reasons for neutrality and he thinks they're excellent. Commentary from people who think otherwise causes reactions ranging from 'mildly irritating' to 'say that again and I'll make you eat your words'.
- People 'correcting' his German.Vash speaks Swiss-German, which some people say is 'cutesy'. He thinks there's nothing wrong with it and he doesn't like it when people tell him he's saying something 'wrong'.
- Excessive informality. There's a time and place for informality, but when it isn't the time or place, it rubs Vash the wrong way.
- Being confused for Sweden... >.< Vash is honestly puzzled and irritated on the occasions that this happens. They don't live anywhere near each other, and they don't look terribly similar but it STILL happens! WHY?
Fears:
- Neutrality invaded- Vash remembers all too well what it feels like to be overrun and he hates it.
- Poverty. Mentioned again just because he hates and fears it that much.
- Irrelevance. If people didn't listen to him or at the very least didn't hold meetings that included him, he'd start to worry that his very existence was unimportant. This is more of an irrational fear than a rational one.
- Massive influx of new people. Vash has had the same neighbors for a long time. He's used to them. Intellectually he knows he can at the very least tolerate newcomers, but he'd prefer to only deal with a few at a time. He'll make an exception for refugees, but that's about it.
- Civil war. A old fear and not really a significant threat but it still gives him nightmares sometimes.
- Homesickness. Extremely comfortable in his own environment, if he's away for too long he'll get homesick and pine. No joke, he will stop eating, stop sleeping, stop functioning and get ill. This will happen even faster if he fixates on the fact that he's not at home, or hears songs that remind him of home.
- Being late to things. It makes you look bad, makes everyone else unhappy, it's just altogether bad.
Fun Facts: - Switzerland's capital city is not Zurich, but Bern!
- Speaks four languages fluently (Swiss-German, French, Italian and Romansch) and pretty handy in English too.
- Swiss women got the vote in 1971 for federal elections. Local elections in some places took a little longer...
Strengths:
- Organized- Vash has a thorough grasp on the logistics of running his country smoothly and he has very nearly everything neatly quantified and written down somewhere.
- Family oriented- Family is extremely important to Vash, and to him that primarily means Lili but to a lesser extent his brothers in the 'big cantons' (Germany and Austria). He administers Lili's territory while giving her his whole-hearted support and encouragement in anything she comes up with on her own initiative.
- Humanitarian- A firm believer in human dignity and worth, Vash has no problem sending aid workers and funds to disaster-stricken regions in the world. He has also completed his EMT quals although his job means that his ability to volunteer is limited.
Weaknesses:
- Neutrality- Unable and unwilling to compromise his neutrality, even when it's at the expense of those he would consider to be friends and/or neighbours.
- OCD- Sometimes this gets the better of him, when he starts organizing things a little too intensely.
- Narcissistic tendencies- Vash loves his house, his people, his languages and his cultures. This isn't to the exclusion of all else, but he can...go on at length about how amazing he and his possessions are.
Your History
Chur, Switzerland, contains evidence of some of the oldest continuous human settlements in Europe, dating from the late Paleolithic period.
3800BC- Bronze Age dwellings established in what is now Switzerland.
1500C Celtic, Raetian and Helvetii tribes settled in various regions of what is now Switzerland.
58BC- Helvetii tribesmen who tried to move to Gaul ended up being forced by Julius Caesar's army to move back to where they came from. Integration into the Roman empire followed, with the Roman administration headquartered in Aventicum (now Avenches).
259AD- Alamanni tribes overran Limes, causing the Swiss territory to be the frontier of the Roman Empire.
After the fall of the western Roman empire, chaos and many immigrant tribes ensued. A sucession of rulers (Carolingians, Zahringenians, Kyburgs, and finally Hapsburgs) controlled various parts of proto-Switzerland in a variety of different ways. Sometimes the Magyars attacked. With the death of Berchtold V in 1218 the Zahringer controlled city-states (reichsfrei) operated within the Holy Roman Empire and the Kyburgs and the Hapsburgs fought it out for possession of previously Zahringer territory.
People eventually seemed to notice that the alpine passes in Raetia and the St. Gotthard Pass were actually useful for trade.
1291- The 'Forest Cantons' of Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden make a mutual defense treaty, the Federal Charter. Unfortunately for them, when the Kyburgs died out, the Hapsburgs revoked the status of these cantons as reichsfreiheit and they were no longer independent.
1315- Battle of Morgarten. United Swiss forces defeat the Hapsburgs and gain more autonomy
1353- Cantons of Glarus and Zug, and city states of Lucerne, Zurich and Bern join the original trio, making an octet which would come to be known as the Old Federation (except for the bit where Zurich for a decade (1440-1450, the Zurich War)) and it was just the seven of them).
1386- Battle of Sempach. Even More United Swiss trounce the Hapsburgs again.
1470s- Swiss victories over Charles the Bold and increasing success of Swiss mercenaries lead to an uptick in power and wealth.
1499- Swiss Confederation defeats the Swabian League gains greater collective autonomy within the Holy Roman Empire, is exemption from the Imperial reforms of 1495 and immune from most Imperial courts.
1506- Pope Julius II hires the first Swiss Guards. Popes still have Swiss Guards.
This is pretty cool.
1515- expansion of the Confederation and the reputation of invincibility acquired during the earlier wars suffered a first setback in 1515 with the Swiss defeat in the Battle of Marignano.
1523- Reformation begins in Switzerland, led by Huldrych Zwingli, the priest of the Gruss Munster church in Zürich. Zürich, Berne, Basel, and Schaffhausen, became Protestant and Lucerne, Uri, Schwyz, Nidwalden, Zug, Fribourg and Solothurn remained Catholic. Glarus and Appenzell were divided on the matter.
1529-1531-The Kappeler Kriege, (inter-cantonal religious wars) resulted from the religious divisions within the cantons as each canton usually made the opposing religion illegal. Despite this, the Confederation survived.
Throughout the Thirty Years' War, Switzerland was relatively peaceful in Europe, because all the major players in Europe used Swiss mercenaries, and would not let Switzerland fall in the hands of one of their rivals.
1648- Treaty of Westphalia, resulted in Switzerland attaining legal independence from the Holy Roman Empire.
1653- Peasant subjects in Lucerne, Bern, Solothurn, and Basel revolted due to currency devaluation. Despite the peasants losing, the authorities approved some of their demands such as some tax reforms. This incident had a longer term effect in that it may have prevented an absolutist development as seen in the trend of other governments in Europe.
1798- French armies completely overrun Switzerland, abolish the cantonal system and set up the united Helvetic Republic. As this was established and imposed by a foreign power, and supported by French troops, the Helvetic Republic was deeply unpopular with the Swiss and faced severe issues and uprisings from the onset. Moreover, the Helvetic Republic's constitution was not based on Swiss thought, but on the political philosophy of the French Revolution which came into contradiction with Swiss ideas of freedom.
1803-Napoleon's Act of Mediation restored some of the sovereignty of the cantons, and former tributary and allied territories (Aargau, Thurgau, Grisons, St. Gallen, Vaud and Ticino) became cantons in their own power.
1815- Congress of Vienna fully re-established Swiss independence and the other nations of Europe agreed to recognize permanent Swiss neutrality. The cantons of Valais, Neuchatel and Geneva also joined Switzerland at this time.
1840s- Radical Party and liberals in the Protestant cantons get a majority in the Federal Diet and propose a new Constitution for the Confederation which would result in several cantons being in a closer relationship.
1843- Conservative city leaders and rural Swiss, mainly in the Catholic cantons opposed the new constitution, with its centralisation of the Swiss government.
1847- Catholic cantons form the Sonderbund, a separate group within the Confederation. This results in the Sonderbundskrieg. The Radical party used their control of the national government to order the Sonderbund to disband. It didn't and the national army attacked, defeating the Sonderbund in less than a month. 130 people were killed. This was the last armed conflict on Swiss territory, aside from a few riots.
1848- As a result of this brief civil war, Switzerland adopts a federal constitution, which is amended in 1874 and establishs federal responsibility for defense, trade, and legal matters. All other matters are at the discretion of the cantonal governments.
Switzerland remained armed and neutral in World War One, accepting refugees and people who wanted nothing to do with the war. The conflict impinged on Swiss territory over one thousand times, but generally speaking, Switzerland's neutrality was respected.
Switzerland was also armed and neutral in World War Two, despite a plan Germany had drawn up for invading, 'just in case'. The Swiss army was on high alert, prepared for invasion at any time, stockpiling fortified positions in the Alps (the Reduit). Switzerland's success at neutrality was the result of several factors- a population armed to the teeth and ready to defend, some economic concessions to Germany and a lot of luck.
As a result of this neutrality, Switzerland was an interesting place to be during the war and some significant espionage and banking was done there during the war. Switzerland's trade was impeded by both sides, neither of which wanted Switzerland to trade with the other. Switzerland's economic cooperation with the Axis powers was largely based on how imminent an invasion was thought to be and how likely it was that they could trade with someone else instead. The Swiss Franc was the most stable currency in Europe throughout the war.
1942- A crucial rail line through Vichy France was severed, leaving Switzerland completely surrounded by the Axis. As a result, trade was significantly limited.
Switzerland accepted over 300,000 refugees during the war. While there was some internal conflict within Switzerland which fell along linguistic or cultural lines, the government came down harshly upon any movement that threatened Swiss unity. The Swiss cantons that spoke primarily German moved further away from standard German and put a larger emphasis on Swiss dialects
1958- Population of Switzerland votes in favour of creating a nuclear bomb.
1959- The Federal Council, elected by the parliament, is composed of members of the four major parties, the Protestant Free Democrats, the Catholic Christian Democrats, the left-wing Social Democrats and the right-wing People's Party, creating a system without a sizeable parliamentary opposition.
1963- Switzerland joins the Council of Europe
1968- Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty enacted and plans to build a Swiss nuclear bomb were dismantled.
1971- Women get the right to vote.
1979- The canton of Jura is formed out of the canton of Bern.
1981- Equal rights amendment to the constitution.
1990s-2002 Swiss government forms the Bergier Commission to provide the most recent and authoritative study of Switzerland's interaction with the Nazi regime.
2002- Switzerland ratified as a member of the United Nations, although it is still not a member of the EU.
2005- Switzerland joined the Schengen treaty and Dublin Convention by popular vote.
Sample Post
Swiss border, 1942.
Vash stared at the soldier in front of him, across the border line, inches from Vash's own territory. The other man was definitely a soldier, he was the right age and he had the right sort of haircut, and starved look that was all too common. The fact that he wasn't wearing a uniform was a minor detail. Lots of people mysteriously lost their uniforms within proximity to Vash's borders. "What's the problem?" Vash asked his own soldier, a bespectacled border guard who was doing his best to look intimidating when the 'would-be intruder' was head and shoulders taller than him.
"He's an armed enemy combatant, sir," the border guard stated the obvious. Vash had noticed that the applicant for entry had a rifle slung over one shoulder, although it looked pretty battered and Vash hadn't noticed any ammunition.
"Well, he's armed," Vash agreed. "Does he have papers?"
The border guard handed Vash a pay booklet and a very battered passport. Vash glanced at the papers, and the rifle. And at the soldier's drawn face, his look of abject misery, his scrawny, starved body. There were rules. And then there were Rules.
"Put your rifle down!" he barked at the soldier.
Blank confusion. Either he didn't speak German or he was so far gone in his misery that he didn't comprehend anything.
"Put it down!" Vash snapped, pantomiming what the soldier should do.
Dazed, the man did so.
This next part took a little more effort, but Vash managed to do it anyway. Savagely, he tore up the paybook and passport. Both his own border guard and the soldier looked horrified.
"Oh damn!" Vash said loudly, grabbing the soldier's arm and pulling him over the border line. "Another poor refugee with no papers or ANYTHING at all to let me know where he's from! A displaced civilian! We must look after him!"
The Player
Name: Still Nina!
Age: Still older!
Fun Fact: I like dill pickles but hate the sweet kind.
