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IC INFORMATION Characters Name: Alfred F. Jones, the United States of America Age: 19 (physically/emotionally, actually a few centuries old) Canon: Axis Powers Hetalia Canon Point: 2013 Species: Nation Gender: Man Orientation: Bisexual
History: At about the time that the European nations were discovering the New World, tiny baby America appeared out of nowhere on the North American continent. I view baby America as a personification of the potential for a European settlement; he has nothing to do with the nations who were already living on the continent. In the comic, the European powers were all eager to adopt him as their little brother, and began to fight over him. The fight came down to between France and England. While France impressed baby America with his culture and cooking, America wound up choosing England. England adopted him and raised him from that point on. This roughly aligns with the struggle to create colonies in North America; while many different nations founded colonies, most of these eventually became part of the British American colonies or were extremely sparsely settled at a time when the British colonies were growing and expanding rapidly.
As the empire he belonged to, England was a caring but distant guardian; since America lived on the other side of the world, he was left alone for long periods of time, and he seems to have aged into a young adult more quickly than other nations did. When he was little, he adored England, and missed him badly while he was away. They had a relationship that is depicted as happy and close, with America pretending to like his cooking and crying when England has to leave. But as he became a teenager, America had more of an independent streak and liked to do things his way. When one day England came back and he had grown up even taller than his guardian, there began to be tension in their relationship.
Hetalia doesn't cover the pre-revolutionary period, but I see America's massive growth spurt having taken place following the end of the French and Indian wars; without French rivalry on the continent, he was able to grow strong and independent enough to resent that England not only treated him like a child, but was beginning to treat him even more like a child by imposing new taxes, enforcing trade rules he had never been concerned with before, and preventing his further westward expansion. This led to a period of teenage rebellion marked by protests and demands for equal representation. While, historically speaking, most of what England was doing wasn't a big deal (the taxes were not particularly high, and England was simply no longer allowing the Americans to openly flout trade restrictions), this period involved a lot of feeling that the colonies did not need British protection at the cost of British demands. This is America's restlessness and independent spirit resisting control in general. The colonies themselves were very divided both culturally and on the subject of the protests, but gradually unity and anti-British sentiment was forming.
After the Boston Tea Party, England began to crack down on the protests and responded (in America's opinion) really harshly. This kicked off the truly revolutionary period, which eventually led to America going to war with England and breaking off ties. The war was very long and difficult, particularly as America was completely untrained and going up against a great power. While at first he was unsure if this was an anti-tax rebellion or actually a war for independence, the latter view won out and independence was declared. America received battle training from Prussia and won enough battles against England for France to decide to help him. Finally, America defeats England. Hetalia depicts America's independence won when England surrenders to him, letting him go instead of trying to shoot him. America's feelings towards England at this point are anger and betrayal, enough to renounce him completely as his brother, but when England surrenders, he sees him as more human, who makes mistakes and is sort of a sad person.
The period of America's history between the revolution and WWII is barely covered in Hetalia! This is largely because America was really isolated from the rest of the world during this time. Canon shows us America present in the opening of Japan (he shows up at Japan's house and tries to make friends with him), and fostering Lithuania and becoming friends with him during the years between WWI and the Great Depression, but not very much else. However, I will go into it a little.
So during this period, America was trying to form a country, which was a long process even after he moved past the Articles of Confederacy and had a constitution written to become the United States of America. His early years were unstable and many of the former colonies, now states, were divided. Although his first president warned him to avoid the insane mess that was Europe, he got dragged into the Napoleonic wars when both England and France were interfering with his ships. He eventually went to war against England and Canada and got his ass handed to him, learning the valuable lesson that driving a great power out of your house and winning a war against a great power are two different things entirely. However, the war helped unify him and solidify his identity as a nation.
As a young country, he was very idealistic and determined to prove himself as fundamentally different from Europe in anti-imperial anti-monarchical values, but just as capable of becoming powerful. He fell far short of the former goal, but did achieve the latter. Although at first he admired and liked France, he eventually came around to feeling that all of Europe was a mess he wanted nothing to do with, and did his own thing for a long time. His own thing was mostly exploring, buying new territory, exploring that, fighting wars for new territory, exploring that, and settling. He was a big believer that he had a great destiny to control his continent and become a great power.
However, the expansion mania mainly just pushed his already existing internal tensions out of control over the issue of slavery, since slavery had been continually pushed aside as an issue for national debate, but was appearing again in the question of the legal status of slavery in new states and territories. This wound up leading to a civil war. It's not clear how civil war works in Hetalia terms, but I just picture it as a really confusing time where he was metaphorically and literally torn apart, and he doesn't really talk about it so more specifics than that don't matter.
But after the civil war, he changed; he was less expansionist and instead began settling, developing, and industrializing what land he had. Although he was still very isolated, he grew into an industrial power that couldn't be ignored. He gradually became less isolated, fighting a few wars in his hemisphere, expanding his influence into Latin America and the Pacific, and starting to be on speaking terms with Europe again.
In World War I, he did the one thing he'd sworn he'd never do, and got involved in one of Europe's periodic ugly wars. He did so partially thinking that when it was over, Europe would respect him and listen to him and do what he said, but he underestimated how much everyone in Europe hated one another and wouldn't care about his boss's cool ideas. In Europe, he was unable to get his allies from the war to agree with him or his boss on strategies for post-war Europe, and at home he was unable to ratify what little had been agreed to because of the general sense that the war had been pointless and isolation was better. He retreated right back into isolation and even more stubbornly tried to ignore the rest of the world, quit drinking for a while, and then had a Depression.
Around this time, Germany and Japan both started building up; Japan was the more immediate threat, as he was becoming America's rival for naval domination in the Pacific, but Germany was becoming worrisome in Europe. America pretty much just flatly ignored both of them, aside from passive aggressively embargoing Japan. Germany managed to take over most of Europe, and America did get involved to the extent of helping by sending money and supplies to England, but due to his deep conviction that Europe is a continent of jerks, didn't do much else. Unlike the First World War where he was unsure who even to support, by this point while plenty of people did support Germany, public opinion was generally more in favor of England. However, isolationism meant not wanting to be involved. Once Japan attacked him at Pearl Harbor, however, his isolation effectively ended, and he went to war against Japan and Germany.
And this is where Hetalia canon picks up, but Hetalia is mostly the Axis Powers running around being dweebs and the Allies running around arguing with each other. America was particularly involved in the Pacific theater, but prior to the defeat of Germany, a lot of emphasis was on supporting England and Russia in Europe, and most of the WWII strips depict America as very involved in the war in Europe and fighting alongside England. At this point, the Blitz had ended and Russia therefore was actually doing most of the fighting against Germany; England and America were trying to control the Mediterranean and invade Italy, and eventually also invaded France. When Germany fell, the western and eastern fronts met, which became extremely important for the fate of post-war Europe as it was Russia who had liberated eastern europe and eastern Germany. America continued to fight Japan in the Pacific after Germany fell, until Japan also surrendered.
America hoped to rebuild both with democracy, working together with his Allies as the unstoppable super team the Big Five and the United Nations. This didn't work, because everyone's goals were completely incompatible with one another. Although during the war America wasn't on bad terms with Russia, and in fact got along with him and China better than he did with England and France for the most part, after the war he started to see Russia and communism as a threat. This led to most of the rest of the century being a passive aggressive Cold War with Russia; he saw Russia as an evil villain who wanted to take over the world, and only he could stop him. Although they still had personality clashes frequently, his alliances with Western Europe became more permanent out of necessity and his involvement with the rest of the world increased; not only was he unable to go back to isolation, but he wound up being militarily or financially involved to great extents in many countries in the world because of fear of communism.
Eventually, the Soviet Union collapsed, and he was on better, although still passive aggressive and distrusting, terms with Russia. He was left the only super power, and everyone was subjected to McDonalds and Coca-Cola and Hollywood and he could do whatever he wanted. History was now over, and they all lived happily ever after.
That was a good 20 years ago from his now canon point, and nothing has turned out so simply. The world is still complicated, he has a terrorism problem, and he's become involved in costly foreign conflicts again. For a while, he was on pretty terrible terms with nearly every country in the world. That's improving, but his economy has taken a dive and it's only getting back on track slowly. Now he has to deal with competition from China and an endless amount of domestic problems, so it's all very frustrating.
He is tall (official height is apparently 5'9" but this makes no sense as he's one of the tallest characters; I'd put it more at 6'5") and also really broad-shouldered and built big. He has messy blonde hair and blue eyes. He has an ahoge that represents Nantucket, and wears glasses that represent Texas. He usually wears an airforce style bomber jacket with patches on it. He's usually shown as pretty muscular but he's just a little pudgy around the middle. He is cute and baby-faced.
Personality: Alfred is a cheerful, excitable and idealistic kid, who is for the most part as dumb as a bag of bricks. He represents the spirit of the American people, so he is loyal and devoted to both American values and his own government. He's allowed to pick his own bosses and allowed to be critical of them, but while he values both, he tends to be lazy when it comes to questioning anything inconvenient to him. He believes he's a good person and a good guy, but he also doesn't challenge much about what he's told and prefers to shrug off all criticism rather than think about it. Mostly, he just wants to do whatever he feels like doing, feel good about himself, and not care about anything or anyone else.
Alfred lives for truth, justice, and the American way. He will go on and on about how great democracy is, how baseball is the best sport ever invented, how everyone would just stop having wars if they stopped being evil, and how he's the greatest and best and most awesome country on the history of earth. And the thing is? He (mostly) uncynically believes all this stuff. Although he's generally extremely friendly and nice, he's arrogant to the extreme. He almost never thinks of anyone besides himself even when he thinks he's thinking of someone else. For the most part, he hasn't even heard of the majority of other countries, and the only 'world map' he possesses is one of the United States and maybe Mexico and Canada if he's feeling generous. So even though he doesn't mean to, and for the most part tries to get along with people, his selfishness and self-centeredness can be extremely off-putting, and he's frequently disliked.
Although he's extremely independent/isolationist by nature, and doesn't like to rely on or be controlled by anyone else, he has a big hero complex. When he goes to war or gets involved in international politics, he's always able to convince himself he's playing the role of the hero, no matter what the circumstances causing him to be involved. The flip side of this is, he's able to convince himself that the other guys are the worst bad guys in the world. During WWII, Germany, Italy, and Japan were the evilest people in the world, and Russia one of his best friends. But even a decade later, Germany and Japan were two of his best buds, and Russia was the greatest evil to ever live. He doesn't see any contradiction there; as far as he's concerned, he taught Germany, Italy, and Japan to be good guys, whereas Russia was just secretly evil all along and tried to trick him but he totally didn't fall for it.
This can be a good quality; as long as his enmity with someone wasn't person, he's able to forgive easily and get back on good terms. Although he's held long grudges in the past (his relationship with England throughout the 19th century was basically that), he's not naturally a grudge-holding country. The grudges he does have are usually more finding someone really really obnoxious for disliking him (i.e. all the ridiculousness over France for France's criticism of the Iraq war) rather than out and out hatred.
Although he resists going to war and doesn't want to if it isn't for a good reason, it's pretty easy to convince him that getting involved in a conflict would be right and heroic, so it winds up not mattering and he will insist he's in the right most of the time no matter what. He has very strong anti-imperialist values, but he doesn't always live up to them in practice. It also means that when other countries resent his attitude or criticize his decisions, he gets really annoyed about it, because in his opinion he is in the right and they just don't "get" it, and his attitude rubs a lot of countries the wrong way. For this reason, he doesn't really have many friends.
But he really has no idea why people would ever dislike him, because he's both very confident and can't read the atmosphere at all. Even people he bickers with a lot, like England, or whose nerves he clearly gets on, like Japan, he would count as good friends. After all, he thinks he's great, so why would anyone else think otherwise? Even Russia is just jealous. He seems very very oblivious to people's opinions and, well, pretty much everything that doesn't fall into what immediately interests him. Deep down, he knows a lot of people dislike him, but he's not totally sure which ones do, and he doesn't really want to know if countries he considers his friends actually like him back or not. Part of him is a little lonely, but that isolationist tendency and his extreme inability to show consideration for others will always get in the way of him having many friends.
But he's not such a bad guy! Since he doesn't know how many people dislike him, he's actually really friendly and carefree with just about everyone. He's an incredible optimist, and even though he makes mistakes, he really does believe in doing the right thing and democratic ideals and whatnot, and when he gets things right, he can do a lot of good. When you get along with him, he's goofy and sort of dorky, but sweet and sincere. If you tend to be someone who challenges him or disagrees with him, he's more likely to pout or act sullen and passive aggressive about it. If he actually dislikes you, he'll challenge you as though you're evil and be an enormous pain. Just in general, though, he's often super obnoxious and inconsiderate and pretty much a douchebag, even if he isn't trying to be. He's the kind of person who will be being totally friendly and start insulting you by accident, because he's too self-absorbed to notice he's being rude.
Additionally, he loves burgers and other fast food, sodas, baseball and football, coffee, comic books, movies and other American pop culture. He's especially into superheroes, action, and pulp fiction style adventure genres. He's surprisingly good at science and invention, but he often wastes those smarts by inventing really stupid things. He'd rather work on something stupid like a mind control ray or a robot double or a rocket ship than spend his time on developing something useful and possible, but when he sets to work, he can achieve surprising results sometimes. He hates terrorism and even though the cold war is over, he still hates communism and socialism, but he doesn't have a really good grasp on any of the actual specific ideologies his enemies have beyond "they hate me for my freedom." He also really dislikes monarchies and colonialism, leftover from his Revolutionary days, and would be very offended if anyone insinuated he had imperialist attitudes. He hates tea for the same reason. If he's interested in something, he's usually smart about it, informed, and good at it. But unfortunately, most of the things that would be most beneficial for him to be good at kind of bore him, like diplomacy and meetings and sensible solutions to problems.
When he cares about something (either because he likes it, or because he hates it), he's really excitable and loud and passionate about his opinions, and he tends to go through life acting like he's in a movie starring him, and the genre is action. He's always living like he's expecting a helicopter explosion is an inevitability.
Abilities: Nation!! The standard nation abilities apply. America in particular has really notable super strength and has had it since he was a baby. Not clear exactly what his limits are, but as a baby he could a bison farther than a regular human could toss a baseball, so pretty darn strong.
America is really skilled with technology, especially computers! His technological ability is not such that it goes beyond 2013, and there are nations with better skills than his, but he's pretty handy. He's also good with cars/engines/just about anything manufactured.
He is good with guns, both in terms of actually being accurate and proficient in a weapon and also in knowing fancy-looking sharpshooting tricks.
Other:
Someone else has the reserve for him, so this is just me making note of that! I spoke to a mod before posting, and if that person posts their app, I understand mine won't be accepted!
Third Person: It had been hours now, and America was still having problems with the browser. There was barely a point to having a computer if he couldn't get online, let alone reach Facebook. But it wouldn't be very heroic to give up, even if he was, contrary to the impression he'd been under for the past four hours, beginning to realize that this was not in fact another hacking attempt from China. He didn't want to admit it, but things were starting to get dire. He could be missing vital communications, or someone could be tagging him with embarrassing pictures, or there could be a new viral video dance craze sensation that will be completely played out by the time he reaches it. And yet, if the internet is broken and even he can't fix it, there's likely a more sinister explanation at hand, and he's only now beginning to understand it.
This is the stupidest alien abduction he has ever been involved in, even worse than that time he just woke up in his own bed with a vague recollection of bright lights and not even a crop circle or two to help along his story. What is the point of kidnapping him if he's just going to be trapped in a town he could probably find just about anywhere back in his house? It's obviously some kind of experiment of the kind Tony and his friends are so fond of, but to what purpose? An example of how quickly he'll get frustrated when there's nothing good on TV? Some kind of elaborate practical joke? Are there cameras watching him in secret right now, waiting for him to crack?
America sighs and drums his fingers on the desk impatiently. He doesn't have a problem being frequently experimented on by extraterrestrials, but they could be a little more considerate about it and give him advance warning to program his DVR.
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So there's not much canon to support 'bisexual' in that America definitely references dating (human) women from time to time but not men. But since Hetalia is a big comic about a group that is 90% male and they all have ambiguous sexual tension with each other, I tend to default to bisexual. I don't think, if he were going to hook up with one of the other nations, gender would be an issue one way or the other. A lot of the fans also seem to interpret things this way.
That being said, in my opinion America pretty much doesn't hook up with other nations, he thinks most of them are gross or weird for reasons not related to orientation. In terms of human people, while he's still bisexual, he's more oriented towards women. Personally, I don't have a preference for who he's with, but he probably would feel more comfortable with a wife rather than a husband.
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America | Axis Powers Hetalia | RESERVED
Player: Siz
Age: 24
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IC INFORMATION
Characters Name: Alfred F. Jones, the United States of America
Age: 19 (physically/emotionally, actually a few centuries old)
Canon: Axis Powers Hetalia
Canon Point: 2013
Species: Nation
Gender: Man
Orientation: Bisexual
History: At about the time that the European nations were discovering the New World, tiny baby America appeared out of nowhere on the North American continent. I view baby America as a personification of the potential for a European settlement; he has nothing to do with the nations who were already living on the continent. In the comic, the European powers were all eager to adopt him as their little brother, and began to fight over him. The fight came down to between France and England. While France impressed baby America with his culture and cooking, America wound up choosing England. England adopted him and raised him from that point on. This roughly aligns with the struggle to create colonies in North America; while many different nations founded colonies, most of these eventually became part of the British American colonies or were extremely sparsely settled at a time when the British colonies were growing and expanding rapidly.
As the empire he belonged to, England was a caring but distant guardian; since America lived on the other side of the world, he was left alone for long periods of time, and he seems to have aged into a young adult more quickly than other nations did. When he was little, he adored England, and missed him badly while he was away. They had a relationship that is depicted as happy and close, with America pretending to like his cooking and crying when England has to leave. But as he became a teenager, America had more of an independent streak and liked to do things his way. When one day England came back and he had grown up even taller than his guardian, there began to be tension in their relationship.
Hetalia doesn't cover the pre-revolutionary period, but I see America's massive growth spurt having taken place following the end of the French and Indian wars; without French rivalry on the continent, he was able to grow strong and independent enough to resent that England not only treated him like a child, but was beginning to treat him even more like a child by imposing new taxes, enforcing trade rules he had never been concerned with before, and preventing his further westward expansion. This led to a period of teenage rebellion marked by protests and demands for equal representation. While, historically speaking, most of what England was doing wasn't a big deal (the taxes were not particularly high, and England was simply no longer allowing the Americans to openly flout trade restrictions), this period involved a lot of feeling that the colonies did not need British protection at the cost of British demands. This is America's restlessness and independent spirit resisting control in general. The colonies themselves were very divided both culturally and on the subject of the protests, but gradually unity and anti-British sentiment was forming.
After the Boston Tea Party, England began to crack down on the protests and responded (in America's opinion) really harshly. This kicked off the truly revolutionary period, which eventually led to America going to war with England and breaking off ties. The war was very long and difficult, particularly as America was completely untrained and going up against a great power. While at first he was unsure if this was an anti-tax rebellion or actually a war for independence, the latter view won out and independence was declared. America received battle training from Prussia and won enough battles against England for France to decide to help him. Finally, America defeats England. Hetalia depicts America's independence won when England surrenders to him, letting him go instead of trying to shoot him. America's feelings towards England at this point are anger and betrayal, enough to renounce him completely as his brother, but when England surrenders, he sees him as more human, who makes mistakes and is sort of a sad person.
The period of America's history between the revolution and WWII is barely covered in Hetalia! This is largely because America was really isolated from the rest of the world during this time. Canon shows us America present in the opening of Japan (he shows up at Japan's house and tries to make friends with him), and fostering Lithuania and becoming friends with him during the years between WWI and the Great Depression, but not very much else. However, I will go into it a little.
So during this period, America was trying to form a country, which was a long process even after he moved past the Articles of Confederacy and had a constitution written to become the United States of America. His early years were unstable and many of the former colonies, now states, were divided. Although his first president warned him to avoid the insane mess that was Europe, he got dragged into the Napoleonic wars when both England and France were interfering with his ships. He eventually went to war against England and Canada and got his ass handed to him, learning the valuable lesson that driving a great power out of your house and winning a war against a great power are two different things entirely. However, the war helped unify him and solidify his identity as a nation.
As a young country, he was very idealistic and determined to prove himself as fundamentally different from Europe in anti-imperial anti-monarchical values, but just as capable of becoming powerful. He fell far short of the former goal, but did achieve the latter. Although at first he admired and liked France, he eventually came around to feeling that all of Europe was a mess he wanted nothing to do with, and did his own thing for a long time. His own thing was mostly exploring, buying new territory, exploring that, fighting wars for new territory, exploring that, and settling. He was a big believer that he had a great destiny to control his continent and become a great power.
However, the expansion mania mainly just pushed his already existing internal tensions out of control over the issue of slavery, since slavery had been continually pushed aside as an issue for national debate, but was appearing again in the question of the legal status of slavery in new states and territories. This wound up leading to a civil war. It's not clear how civil war works in Hetalia terms, but I just picture it as a really confusing time where he was metaphorically and literally torn apart, and he doesn't really talk about it so more specifics than that don't matter.
But after the civil war, he changed; he was less expansionist and instead began settling, developing, and industrializing what land he had. Although he was still very isolated, he grew into an industrial power that couldn't be ignored. He gradually became less isolated, fighting a few wars in his hemisphere, expanding his influence into Latin America and the Pacific, and starting to be on speaking terms with Europe again.
In World War I, he did the one thing he'd sworn he'd never do, and got involved in one of Europe's periodic ugly wars. He did so partially thinking that when it was over, Europe would respect him and listen to him and do what he said, but he underestimated how much everyone in Europe hated one another and wouldn't care about his boss's cool ideas. In Europe, he was unable to get his allies from the war to agree with him or his boss on strategies for post-war Europe, and at home he was unable to ratify what little had been agreed to because of the general sense that the war had been pointless and isolation was better. He retreated right back into isolation and even more stubbornly tried to ignore the rest of the world, quit drinking for a while, and then had a Depression.
Around this time, Germany and Japan both started building up; Japan was the more immediate threat, as he was becoming America's rival for naval domination in the Pacific, but Germany was becoming worrisome in Europe. America pretty much just flatly ignored both of them, aside from passive aggressively embargoing Japan. Germany managed to take over most of Europe, and America did get involved to the extent of helping by sending money and supplies to England, but due to his deep conviction that Europe is a continent of jerks, didn't do much else. Unlike the First World War where he was unsure who even to support, by this point while plenty of people did support Germany, public opinion was generally more in favor of England. However, isolationism meant not wanting to be involved. Once Japan attacked him at Pearl Harbor, however, his isolation effectively ended, and he went to war against Japan and Germany.
And this is where Hetalia canon picks up, but Hetalia is mostly the Axis Powers running around being dweebs and the Allies running around arguing with each other. America was particularly involved in the Pacific theater, but prior to the defeat of Germany, a lot of emphasis was on supporting England and Russia in Europe, and most of the WWII strips depict America as very involved in the war in Europe and fighting alongside England. At this point, the Blitz had ended and Russia therefore was actually doing most of the fighting against Germany; England and America were trying to control the Mediterranean and invade Italy, and eventually also invaded France. When Germany fell, the western and eastern fronts met, which became extremely important for the fate of post-war Europe as it was Russia who had liberated eastern europe and eastern Germany. America continued to fight Japan in the Pacific after Germany fell, until Japan also surrendered.
America hoped to rebuild both with democracy, working together with his Allies as the unstoppable super team the Big Five and the United Nations. This didn't work, because everyone's goals were completely incompatible with one another. Although during the war America wasn't on bad terms with Russia, and in fact got along with him and China better than he did with England and France for the most part, after the war he started to see Russia and communism as a threat. This led to most of the rest of the century being a passive aggressive Cold War with Russia; he saw Russia as an evil villain who wanted to take over the world, and only he could stop him. Although they still had personality clashes frequently, his alliances with Western Europe became more permanent out of necessity and his involvement with the rest of the world increased; not only was he unable to go back to isolation, but he wound up being militarily or financially involved to great extents in many countries in the world because of fear of communism.
Eventually, the Soviet Union collapsed, and he was on better, although still passive aggressive and distrusting, terms with Russia. He was left the only super power, and everyone was subjected to McDonalds and Coca-Cola and Hollywood and he could do whatever he wanted. History was now over, and they all lived happily ever after.
That was a good 20 years ago from his now canon point, and nothing has turned out so simply. The world is still complicated, he has a terrorism problem, and he's become involved in costly foreign conflicts again. For a while, he was on pretty terrible terms with nearly every country in the world. That's improving, but his economy has taken a dive and it's only getting back on track slowly. Now he has to deal with competition from China and an endless amount of domestic problems, so it's all very frustrating.
America | Axis Powers Hetalia | RESERVED
He is tall (official height is apparently 5'9" but this makes no sense as he's one of the tallest characters; I'd put it more at 6'5") and also really broad-shouldered and built big. He has messy blonde hair and blue eyes. He has an ahoge that represents Nantucket, and wears glasses that represent Texas. He usually wears an airforce style bomber jacket with patches on it. He's usually shown as pretty muscular but he's just a little pudgy around the middle. He is cute and baby-faced.
Personality: Alfred is a cheerful, excitable and idealistic kid, who is for the most part as dumb as a bag of bricks. He represents the spirit of the American people, so he is loyal and devoted to both American values and his own government. He's allowed to pick his own bosses and allowed to be critical of them, but while he values both, he tends to be lazy when it comes to questioning anything inconvenient to him. He believes he's a good person and a good guy, but he also doesn't challenge much about what he's told and prefers to shrug off all criticism rather than think about it. Mostly, he just wants to do whatever he feels like doing, feel good about himself, and not care about anything or anyone else.
Alfred lives for truth, justice, and the American way. He will go on and on about how great democracy is, how baseball is the best sport ever invented, how everyone would just stop having wars if they stopped being evil, and how he's the greatest and best and most awesome country on the history of earth. And the thing is? He (mostly) uncynically believes all this stuff. Although he's generally extremely friendly and nice, he's arrogant to the extreme. He almost never thinks of anyone besides himself even when he thinks he's thinking of someone else. For the most part, he hasn't even heard of the majority of other countries, and the only 'world map' he possesses is one of the United States and maybe Mexico and Canada if he's feeling generous. So even though he doesn't mean to, and for the most part tries to get along with people, his selfishness and self-centeredness can be extremely off-putting, and he's frequently disliked.
Although he's extremely independent/isolationist by nature, and doesn't like to rely on or be controlled by anyone else, he has a big hero complex. When he goes to war or gets involved in international politics, he's always able to convince himself he's playing the role of the hero, no matter what the circumstances causing him to be involved. The flip side of this is, he's able to convince himself that the other guys are the worst bad guys in the world. During WWII, Germany, Italy, and Japan were the evilest people in the world, and Russia one of his best friends. But even a decade later, Germany and Japan were two of his best buds, and Russia was the greatest evil to ever live. He doesn't see any contradiction there; as far as he's concerned, he taught Germany, Italy, and Japan to be good guys, whereas Russia was just secretly evil all along and tried to trick him but he totally didn't fall for it.
This can be a good quality; as long as his enmity with someone wasn't person, he's able to forgive easily and get back on good terms. Although he's held long grudges in the past (his relationship with England throughout the 19th century was basically that), he's not naturally a grudge-holding country. The grudges he does have are usually more finding someone really really obnoxious for disliking him (i.e. all the ridiculousness over France for France's criticism of the Iraq war) rather than out and out hatred.
Although he resists going to war and doesn't want to if it isn't for a good reason, it's pretty easy to convince him that getting involved in a conflict would be right and heroic, so it winds up not mattering and he will insist he's in the right most of the time no matter what. He has very strong anti-imperialist values, but he doesn't always live up to them in practice. It also means that when other countries resent his attitude or criticize his decisions, he gets really annoyed about it, because in his opinion he is in the right and they just don't "get" it, and his attitude rubs a lot of countries the wrong way. For this reason, he doesn't really have many friends.
But he really has no idea why people would ever dislike him, because he's both very confident and can't read the atmosphere at all. Even people he bickers with a lot, like England, or whose nerves he clearly gets on, like Japan, he would count as good friends. After all, he thinks he's great, so why would anyone else think otherwise? Even Russia is just jealous. He seems very very oblivious to people's opinions and, well, pretty much everything that doesn't fall into what immediately interests him. Deep down, he knows a lot of people dislike him, but he's not totally sure which ones do, and he doesn't really want to know if countries he considers his friends actually like him back or not. Part of him is a little lonely, but that isolationist tendency and his extreme inability to show consideration for others will always get in the way of him having many friends.
But he's not such a bad guy! Since he doesn't know how many people dislike him, he's actually really friendly and carefree with just about everyone. He's an incredible optimist, and even though he makes mistakes, he really does believe in doing the right thing and democratic ideals and whatnot, and when he gets things right, he can do a lot of good. When you get along with him, he's goofy and sort of dorky, but sweet and sincere. If you tend to be someone who challenges him or disagrees with him, he's more likely to pout or act sullen and passive aggressive about it. If he actually dislikes you, he'll challenge you as though you're evil and be an enormous pain. Just in general, though, he's often super obnoxious and inconsiderate and pretty much a douchebag, even if he isn't trying to be. He's the kind of person who will be being totally friendly and start insulting you by accident, because he's too self-absorbed to notice he's being rude.
Additionally, he loves burgers and other fast food, sodas, baseball and football, coffee, comic books, movies and other American pop culture. He's especially into superheroes, action, and pulp fiction style adventure genres. He's surprisingly good at science and invention, but he often wastes those smarts by inventing really stupid things. He'd rather work on something stupid like a mind control ray or a robot double or a rocket ship than spend his time on developing something useful and possible, but when he sets to work, he can achieve surprising results sometimes. He hates terrorism and even though the cold war is over, he still hates communism and socialism, but he doesn't have a really good grasp on any of the actual specific ideologies his enemies have beyond "they hate me for my freedom." He also really dislikes monarchies and colonialism, leftover from his Revolutionary days, and would be very offended if anyone insinuated he had imperialist attitudes. He hates tea for the same reason. If he's interested in something, he's usually smart about it, informed, and good at it. But unfortunately, most of the things that would be most beneficial for him to be good at kind of bore him, like diplomacy and meetings and sensible solutions to problems.
When he cares about something (either because he likes it, or because he hates it), he's really excitable and loud and passionate about his opinions, and he tends to go through life acting like he's in a movie starring him, and the genre is action. He's always living like he's expecting a helicopter explosion is an inevitability.
Abilities: Nation!! The standard nation abilities apply. America in particular has really notable super strength and has had it since he was a baby. Not clear exactly what his limits are, but as a baby he could a bison farther than a regular human could toss a baseball, so pretty darn strong.
America is really skilled with technology, especially computers! His technological ability is not such that it goes beyond 2013, and there are nations with better skills than his, but he's pretty handy. He's also good with cars/engines/just about anything manufactured.
He is good with guns, both in terms of actually being accurate and proficient in a weapon and also in knowing fancy-looking sharpshooting tricks.
Other:
Someone else has the reserve for him, so this is just me making note of that! I spoke to a mod before posting, and if that person posts their app, I understand mine won't be accepted!
SAMPLES
First Person: Entry + comments from previous game
Third Person: It had been hours now, and America was still having problems with the browser. There was barely a point to having a computer if he couldn't get online, let alone reach Facebook. But it wouldn't be very heroic to give up, even if he was, contrary to the impression he'd been under for the past four hours, beginning to realize that this was not in fact another hacking attempt from China. He didn't want to admit it, but things were starting to get dire. He could be missing vital communications, or someone could be tagging him with embarrassing pictures, or there could be a new viral video dance craze sensation that will be completely played out by the time he reaches it. And yet, if the internet is broken and even he can't fix it, there's likely a more sinister explanation at hand, and he's only now beginning to understand it.
This is the stupidest alien abduction he has ever been involved in, even worse than that time he just woke up in his own bed with a vague recollection of bright lights and not even a crop circle or two to help along his story. What is the point of kidnapping him if he's just going to be trapped in a town he could probably find just about anywhere back in his house? It's obviously some kind of experiment of the kind Tony and his friends are so fond of, but to what purpose? An example of how quickly he'll get frustrated when there's nothing good on TV? Some kind of elaborate practical joke? Are there cameras watching him in secret right now, waiting for him to crack?
America sighs and drums his fingers on the desk impatiently. He doesn't have a problem being frequently experimented on by extraterrestrials, but they could be a little more considerate about it and give him advance warning to program his DVR.
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So there's not much canon to support 'bisexual' in that America definitely references dating (human) women from time to time but not men. But since Hetalia is a big comic about a group that is 90% male and they all have ambiguous sexual tension with each other, I tend to default to bisexual. I don't think, if he were going to hook up with one of the other nations, gender would be an issue one way or the other. A lot of the fans also seem to interpret things this way.
That being said, in my opinion America pretty much doesn't hook up with other nations, he thinks most of them are gross or weird for reasons not related to orientation. In terms of human people, while he's still bisexual, he's more oriented towards women. Personally, I don't have a preference for who he's with, but he probably would feel more comfortable with a wife rather than a husband.
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