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Post by Germany on Dec 29, 2012 12:36:44 GMT -5
Bundesrepublik Deutschland What to Expect: Word Count: 400-500 Average Post Posting Speed: 1-3 per week (Approximately) Possible Thread Ideas:- First Moroccan Crisis 1905 (UK and France)
- Tripartite Pact ( Italy and Japan)
- The Anschluss (Austria)
- Treaty of Versailles (France, England, US, Russia, etc )
- Invasion of Poland 1939-40 (Poland and Russia )
- Nuremberg trials 1945-46
- Operation Barbarossa
- Battle of Gazala (UK, Italy, India, Free French (France), South Africa)
- German-Turkish Non Aggression Pact 1941 (Turkey)
- Anatolian Railway (Turkey and England)
- Baghdad Railway (Turkey and England mostly )
However, I'm not limited to only these events. If there's something you want to do with Germany that I haven't listed here by all means bring it up. I'm always up for something new and these are mostly suggestions more than anything. |
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Post by Austria on Jan 17, 2013 21:59:17 GMT -5
Plans. B|
Soooooooooooon...
Or we can warm up a bit with some AU?
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Post by Germany on Jan 17, 2013 22:12:09 GMT -5
Haha.
We can do both. You said you wanted to do the Anschluss, right? In which case I'd be up for planning our part and when Prussia joins us we can add his part.
Hmm, that sounds like fun. Did you have something in mind? Any particular thing that meets your fancy or that you've always wanted to do? Oh wait, I should probably ask whether you wanted something historical AU or even crack?
I always thought it would be fun to do some sort of outing between the two whether it be skiing in the Alps or even going to a concert in Vienna and then getting into an argument about Beethoven.
I'm open to ideas.
(And I have a response on my planning page! ;-; <- tears of joy )
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Post by Austria on Jan 17, 2013 22:36:27 GMT -5
BEETHOVEN IS MINE B|
He is part of Wiener Klassik! No doubt!
You have Bach already!
(Here, argument has started for you.)
We can start planning now and wait for Gilbert to join! Do you prefer planning here, or we should have individual thread dedicating to the discussion? I am fine with both.
Are we starting exactly when the tanks enter Vienna, or do you think it is better to trace back the event? I kind of had some brainstorming questions, but I just lost most of them. xD;;
Both historical and crack is fine! Though I would love to preserve the sense of "reality" on both genres unless we start something like middle earth fantasy adventure type of thing, which I would enjoy very much too.
For historical AU, it could be possible for us to be femmes and have some yuri action play out some girly drama, and crack can be we are all grad students researchers (from different unis) and we have to compete against one another in teams in some kind of mixed-academic competition (humanities major blending with science majors?) or something.
Or office politics
Or the over-played Hogwarts.
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Post by Germany on Jan 17, 2013 23:00:13 GMT -5
Beethoven was born within my borders and therefore he is mine. We also have a statue erected of him in Nürnberg.
He is German. Bl
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I think since it involves the three of us and I feel like we'll be doing quite a bit of planning or discussing at least.
We can wait before we set that up. As for the how we should start, I believe it would be better a little before the tanks run in to set the mood and really get the feel of the situation.
No, I understand that, I don't want to veer too far into crack because that just doesn't work for me. Haha, middle earth fantasy adventure type of thing, that would be fun with more than just the two of us. We could make a section for that if there seems to be more interest when we get a few more nations.
I'm really leaning towards the University Competition but I can do Office too and femme girly drama, haha. We could save that for a later date.
So I could see Ludwig being an engineer like a mechanical engineer. And this competition is important to build up the Uni's reputation but unfortunately...
Hogwarts! That's fun too....Gott, so many options. Why are you so cruel!
Honestly, Uni competition really has my interest.
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Post by Austria on Jan 17, 2013 23:23:01 GMT -5
So let's build up the uni idea xDD This uni competition seed stemmed from the very half-dead RP idea (PrusAus) that I once had. It was basically a collaboration between BMW and Mercedes... Here is the background I wrote before. In this AU, there is an international automotive building competition every year for young professionals to join force and participate. Each participating country appoints a team to design and build a model in a specified theme that will be sent to Germany, the host country, for judging. Austria, being a small country, does not have great car manufacturers anymore, their designers and engineers often work with the German manufactures besides their individual research.
Let's say Gilbert and Roderich are both around 26. Gilbert is an automotive engineer graduated from Berlin Institute of Technology, and currently working for Mercedes-Benz. Because of his unstoppable passion, he soon rises up to his current position with a team to lead. On the other land, Roderich is an automotive designer, ironically graduated from Vienna Institute of Technology as mechanical engineering major. When he gets his job in BMW, he realises how appearance of the car can influence sale more than performance. As a person gifted in art, he starts to participate in designing, and gradually becomes one of the top designers, known for his luxurious, elegant, yet modern design.
This year, Germany needs a team and hope the two biggest luxury auto manufacturers can collaborate and win the competition again. So BMW and Mercedes (they are kind of rivals) send their young professionals, Gilbert and Roderich. They are the co-leader of one single team, while Gilbert is supposedly focusing on the mechanics (engineering) and Roderich on the aesthetics (design). But they often have to work together because these fields are not completely separated. With Gilbert and Roderich both being stubborn on building a car completely of their own ideas, they clash terribly... (I seriously had no idea what is going on with Europe and completely made this shit up.)So perhaps we can work from here, altering it into something that would work out here (and more fitting for a uni). Roderich really won't stay in Vienna for the tech stuff. He would probably stay in Berlin (and even study there) instead, so things would work out smoother. Let me know you think about this. >3 |
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Post by Germany on Jan 17, 2013 23:47:32 GMT -5
Okay, this will be easy to work with.
So, this competition could be about a large sum of money that will go to the winner team's university. The money will obviously be distributed to the faculties of the students in the group, to make it fair. And the competition can also be quite the prestigious one.
I say that the University that both Ludwig and Roderich will attend used to be the reigning champs but for the last fifteen years they haven't been able to come up with a group of students that have the natural born talent and passion to pull off a winning design.
However, this year is different because there seems to be a prodigious student in the mechanical engineering department that has caught the attention of the president of the University. Roderich (not sure if you want him third or fourth year or the same year) has never had anyone worth working with until now. And to cut things short, they end up getting enlisted for this competition to work together.
Yes? No? Maybe? Could use a bit of tweeking?
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Post by Austria on Jan 18, 2013 0:11:47 GMT -5
AW YEAH RESEARCH GRANT
Roderich would probably enter fourth year turning in his grad school apps. He is quite a genius because of all the amazing ideas flowing in his head, but he kind of fails at translating his idea and proposal into legit work? And his silly temperaments turn people off too, definitely.
If anything, I would like to tweek it such that it allows flexibility for other muns who are interested exploring the levels of hell (namely academia) to join the RP easily.
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Post by Germany on Jan 18, 2013 0:40:45 GMT -5
Hmmm, okay, I think we can expand this easily.
So, this competition is quite popular internationally and gets quite a bit of press. The thing is, it's each university that deals with the advertising of the team/event. So it's important for the faculty of fine arts and humanities to take charge of those areas.
The team is also allowed consultants in any faculty to help them out with either designs, fetching equipment, booking rooms/garage space and etc.
This is such a huge competition that the president pretty much forces every faculty to take part in it in some shape or form. For example: The Faculty of Medicine end up doing physicals on the members of the group to make sure they are in top form and what not.
They are forced on a strict diet by the nutrition students so that they can think up better ideas.
Really ridiculous things such as those but it certainly gets the message out that this event is no joking matter.
Of course, Ludwig hates all the advertisement and prestige that they endure liking his life to remain private and gets ticked off on more occasions than necessary...which inadvertently gives him a horrible image around campus as being a hard and tight ass.
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Post by Austria on Jan 18, 2013 0:57:23 GMT -5
....Nice details there, Ludwig. xDD
That would definitely work out. I assume we will be studying in TU Berlin? Or which university in Germany has the best faculty / resource?
For the goals of the competition, maybe it is just "some inventions that would stun the world?" We can definitely have more specific requirements too if you want.
What year is Ludwig in?
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Post by Germany on Jan 18, 2013 1:05:29 GMT -5
Less detail next time? xD
Ludwig would be in his first year. Hmmm, I want to say TU Munich because the Ludwig-Maximilian University is also near by and their faculty of arts/humanities is pretty damn good. But TU Berlin works just as well and it is the capital so it does make sense. Although, I might be a little biased in this so you can pick the University.
That's good. "Some invention that would stun the world and be practical in use". I like that it's broad because then it's harder to think up of something that would be good to make that would really impress the judges. It's a lot of money at stake so the broader the subject the harder it is to narrow it down.
Although, maybe there should be restrictions on what type of material and it's size to make it a little harder.
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Post by Austria on Jan 18, 2013 1:33:33 GMT -5
No, keep the details going! I just feel Catholic guilty for raising more questions instead of contributing more to the details.
TU Munich is reasonable too! I'm not knowledgeable in German, so correct me if I am wrong - at least Austrian accent in Munich won't sound that out of place compared to, let's say, Berlin? So Roderich might feel more comfortable going around without getting "Germanised"? xD
How about, no larger than a SUV? SUV is big enough, but let's make some room for the mechanical / structural engineering majors for building bigger junks.
And probably material that are commonly found, and not too rare? It must be practical for the public to use, so it can't be composed of 100% tungsten or something.
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Post by Germany on Jan 18, 2013 1:49:34 GMT -5
Hahahaha!
Umm, yes, Austrian accent wouldn't be too strange in Bavaria. The accents are quite close so there wouldn't be much adapting on Roderich's part. Yes, he'd feel a lot more comfortable in Munich then Berlin but both cities have their charms.
Ah, right, I forgot to mention this. Degrees at TU Munich...well, in Germany in general are a little different. They've introduced this combined bachelor/masters so that you're doing the two at the same time. So there is always that to think about too.
Those criteria are perfect. Is there anything we've missed to touch base on?
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Post by Austria on Jan 18, 2013 2:10:47 GMT -5
Duration: What is the typical German uni semester(s)?
Qualification: Undergrads only?
The States have Bachelor/masters program too. That might be something Roderich would consider.
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Post by Germany on Jan 18, 2013 2:13:33 GMT -5
September to December. Usually.
I feel like Ludwig would do his Bachelor/Masters. He's that type of guy.
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