Post by Croatia on Apr 3, 2011 10:02:33 GMT -6
IONA IONESCU
-REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA-
-REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA-
"Señor, señor, you know their hearts is as hard as leather
Well, give me a minute, let me get it together
I just gotta pick myself up off the floor
I’m ready when you are, señor."
Name: Iona Ionescu
Origin: Chişinău, Moldova
Gender: Female
Orientation: Heterosexual, but prone to being taken advantage of by both sexes
Religion: Orthodox Christian
Birthday: August 27
Age: 15
Personality: Iona is a shy young lady. Well..... Shy may be underexaggerating. She's terrified of most social situations and countries and... everything. She'll flush and stutter and shrink in on herself or hide behind one of her bigger allies. In any case, she's best in public after drinking a lot of alcohol, which is something she does very often. She'll still refrain from talking too much, but you can push more out of her if she's inebriated. She also giggles at things she finds amusing, though usually hides any smile with a hand or whatever object she's holding. A lot of things confuse her, namely men, and she's prone to stepping back and just watching situations she doesn't understand.
Iona's personality, from so much foreign rule, has become very meek, subservient, and easy to manipulate. She's easily bested because she can't or won't put up a fight against bigger nations. She is also easily bribed with the simplest of things, such as food or a small amount of money or a shiny object. It's a vice she can't seem to shake, and it leaves her as rather needy. She also believes that nothing good will happen to her, or that she'll never be good enough for her country to flourish. If something good does happen, she usually sits back and waits for the punchline. To contribute to this, she doesn't trust many people, especially after her country's police brutally beat and imprisoned- as well as tortured and killed- many protestors in 2009 because she became communist, again. She, herself, was accidentally beaten and locked away for some time (As well as possibly raped, but she doesn't remember), and finds herself hard-pressed to put absolute trust in anyone, especially people in uniform.
When it comes to herself, Iona is incredibly self-conscious and doesn't like much about herself. She does not like being communist, does not like her economic conditions, does not like having to rely on people so much, dislikes how her country is split into two and threatens to fall apart any day, now, and hates how her people are treated. Personally, she also can't stand the way she looks and is prone to crying if any of her short-comings are pointed out, especially her lack of.... tracts of land. She knows a lot of people (Or at least thinks that they) compare her to her neighbor, Ukraine, and it makes her upset when she hears it out loud.
Likes:
♥ Economic stability
♥ Romania
♥ Wine/All alcohol
♥ Folk dancing
♥ Anything traditional
♥ Storytelling
♥ Dogs
♥ Slow days
♥ Spring and Summer
♥ Flowers (Especially the Dog Rose) and Martisor (March 1)
Dislikes:
✖ Being poor
✖ Communism (But her government is.....)
✖ The Police of her home
✖ Being poor
✖ Being weak
✖ Transnistria
✖ People telling her to become one
✖ Being poor
✖ Herself
✖ Being compared to others (Especially Ukraine)
Appearance: Iona is only 5'1" and about 92 lbs., making her rather skinny. She used to be lean and muscled, but dropped a lot of her muscle and weight in the recent years. She's not.... well-endowed, like a certain neighbor, nor curvy. More or less has the body of a skinny adolescent boy, but with a little cleavage. She has dark raven that, when clean, has blue undertones. Normally kept in an updo or braided, anything out of her face, and had it much shorter when she was a younger nation. Her eyes range between dark and light blues, or a mixture of the two. They are rather large with heavy lids and long eyelashes.
She mainly leans towards wearing traditional clothing, which is very close to Romania's, but with Russian boots. She prefers the long-sleeved embroidered shirts and long skirts and aprons to any sort of modern clothing or uniform. If she does wear modern clothing, it's usually long-sleeved shirts and long skirts. She dresses very modestly and doesn't show any cleavage, legs, midriff, or arms. She sometimes wears pants.
Iona is cursed with a face that is very childish and rounded, with softer features, making her appear younger. She fits the bill of 'cute' moreso than 'hot' or 'sexy'. She usually has smudges of dirt on her face and body, but tries to stay as clean as she can with limited resources. She also looks very fragile, as she has become rather weak due to her politics and troubles with her economy, which leaves her rather sickly and physically frail.
Relationships:
Romania: She looks upon the nation like a mother, knowing they had been through a lot together in the past. However, when the Soviet Union regained her from the woman after World War II, she was convinced that anything Romanian was bad, and avoided her until she realized that Russia was the one really hurting her, not Romania. She tries to stay as close to Romania as possible, but feels awful that she has to constantly remind her that she does not want to go back to her house, under her protection, because she needs to be her own person. Also avoids her when her vampire tendencies kick in, being highly superstitious and choosing instead to ignore this part of the woman.
Russia: Originally, when the Ottoman Empire was first handing her off to the larger nation, she was adamant about not leaving Sadiq, because she was sure that he would be worse to her. He wasn't too bad, but she missed her home with Romania and this angered him. She was pulled back and established as part of the new Soviet Union. When she was taken back from Romania in 1944, she was convinced(Brainwashed) to believe that Russia was better for her, and stuck with him through all her hardships due to fear and attachment (Stockholm Syndrome), until she realized that he was really the one hurting her, and tried to leave. Up until her independence, she had a shaky view of him, and even today, while she may be a little scared of him, she counts him as a sort of ally and the only source of income for her, seeing as he is her biggest/only trading partner.
Wallachia:
Being the most vampire-like of the group, as well as the one most prone to treating her poorly, she is terrified of Wallachia. She'll stutter and try to hide everytime he enters the same room as her. Surprisingly enough, she was possibly married to him in 1861, but that's up for discussion and neither of them will really bring attention to it. Any feelings of hers besides fear and anxiety were banished in 1917 when Russia reeled her back into his grasp, and today she continues those fears and tries to ignore any vampiric tendencies he has.
Transylvania:
Iona finds Transylvania to be the more agreeable of the two Romanian men. She prefers his company to most people's and will hide behind him if scared, which she only trusts a few people with. Definitely ignores his vampiric tendencies to the best of her ability, being unable to comprehend how someone like him could be something so dark and terrifying. Tends to flush a little when near him.
Ukraine:
Iona looks up to her and likes her, but feels horribly self-conscious next to her neighbor, who is curvier and better-figured than her. She matches her tendencies to cry and run, but is polite to her.
Other Former Soviets:
Looks to them as a sort of family. She will be polite and less inclined to run away or hide from them, because they had been through the same hardships as her. She's terrified of Belarus though, as well as envious of her looks, and will attempt to slip silently from the room whenever she enters.
History:
The history of the Republic of Moldova is the history of two different regions that have been joined into one country, but not into one nation: Bessarabia and Transnistria. Bessarabia, the land between the Prut and Nistru rivers, is predominantly ethnic Romanian in population and constitutes the eastern half of a region historically known as Moldova or Moldavia (the Soviet-era Russian name). Transnistria is the Romanian-language name for the land on the east bank of the Nistru River; the majority of the population there is Slavic--ethnic Ukrainians and Russians-- although Romanians are the single largest ethnic group there.
To a great extent, Moldova's history has been shaped by the foreigners who came to stay and by those who merely passed through, including Greek colonists, invading Turks and Tatars, officials of the Russian Empire, German and Bulgarian colonists, communist apparatchiks from the Soviet Union, soldiers from Nazi Germany, Romanian conationalists, and twentieth-century Russian and Ukrainian immigrants. Each group has left its own legacy, sometimes cultural and sometimes political, and often unwelcome.
Moldova's communist overlords, the most recent "foreigners," created the public life that exists in Moldova today. Independence has brought about changes in this public life, but often only on the surface. What further changes Moldova makes will depend partly on how much time it has before the next group of "foreigners" comes to call.
Moldova's Latin origins can be traced to the period of Roman occupation of nearby Dacia (in present-day Romania, Bulgaria, and Serbia), ca. A.D. 105-270, when a culture was formed from the intermingling of Roman colonists and the local population. After the Roman Empire and its influence waned and its troops left the region in A.D. 271, a number of groups passed through the area, often violently: Huns, Ostrogoths, and Antes (who were Slavs). The Bulgarian Empire, the Magyars, the Pechenegs, and the Golden Horde (Mongols) also held sway temporarily. In the thirteenth century, Hungary expanded into the area and established a line of fortifications in Moldova near the Siretul River (in present-day Romania) and beyond. The region came under Hungarian suzerainty until an independent Moldovan principality was established by Prince Bogdan in 1349. Originally called Bogdania, the principality stretched from the Carpathian Mountains to the Nistru River and was later renamed Moldova, after the Moldova River in present-day Romania.
During the second half of the fifteenth century, all of southeastern Europe came under increasing pressure from the Ottoman Empire, and despite significant military victories by Stephen the Great (Stefan cel Mare, 1457-1504), Moldova succumbed to Ottoman power in 1512 and was a tributary state of the empire for the next 300 years. In addition to paying tribute to the Ottoman Empire and later acceding to the selection of local rulers by Ottoman authorities, Moldova suffered repeated invasions by Turks, Crimean Tatars, and Russians.
In 1792 the Treaty of Iasi forced the Ottoman Empire to cede all of its holdings in what is now Transnistria to the Russian Empire. An expanded Bessarabia was annexed by, and incorporated into, the Russian Empire following the Russo-Turkish War of 1806- 12 according to the terms of the Treaty of Bucharest of 1812. Moldovan territory west of the Prut River was united with Walachia. And in the same year, Alexandru Ioan Cuza was elected prince of Walachia and the part of Moldova that lay west of the Prut River, laying the foundations of modern Romania. These two regions were united in 1861.
In 1917, during World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution, political leaders in Bessarabia created a National Council (Sfatul Tarii), which declared Bessarabia the independent Democratic Moldovan Republic, federated with Russia. In February 1918, the new republic declared its complete independence from Russia and, two months later, voted to unite with Romania, thus angering the Russian government.
After the creation of the Soviet Union in December 1922, the Soviet government moved in 1924 to establish the Moldavian Autonomous Oblast on land east of the Nistru River in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (Ukrainian SSR). The capital of the oblast was at Balta (Balta, in Ukrainian), in present-day Ukraine. Seven months later, the oblast was upgraded to the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Moldavian ASSR), even though its population was only 30 percent ethnic Romanian. The capital remained at Balta until 1929, when it was moved to Tiraspol (Tiraspol', in Russian).
In June 1940, Bessarabia was occupied by Soviet forces as a consequence of a secret protocol attached to the 1939 Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact. On August 2, 1940, the Soviet government created the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic (Moldavian SSR), with its capital at Chisinau (Kishinëv, in Russian), by joining most of Bessarabia with a portion of the Moldavian ASSR (the rest was returned to the Ukrainian SSR). Part of the far northern Moldavian ASSR (Herta--in present-day Ukraine), northern Bukovina, and southern Bessarabia (bordering on the Black Sea) were taken from Romania and incorporated into the Ukrainian SSR, leaving the Moldavian SSR landlocked.
In June 1941, German and Romanian troops attacked the Moldavian SSR and the Ukrainian SSR; the Nazis gave Romania, their ally, not only Bessarabia and northern Bukovina but also the land between the Nistru and Pivdennyy Buh (Yuzhnyy Bug, in Russian) rivers, north to Bar in Ukraine, which Romania named and administered as Transnistria. This arrangement lasted until August 1944, when Soviet forces reoccupied Bessarabia and Transnistria. A 1947 treaty formally returned Bessarabia, northern Bukovina, and Transnistria to the Soviet Union, and the previous Soviet administrative divisions and Russian place-names were reimposed.
With the restoration of Soviet power in the Moldavian SSR, Joseph V. Stalin's government policy was to Russify the population of the Moldavian SSR and destroy any remaining ties it had with Romania. Secret police struck at nationalist groups; the Cyrillic alphabet was imposed on the "Moldavian" language; and ethnic Russians and Ukrainians were encouraged to immigrate to the Moldavian SSR, especially to Transnistria. The government's policies--requisitioning large amounts of agricultural products despite a poor harvest--induced a famine following the catastrophic drought of 1945-47, and political, communist party, and academic positions were given to members of non-Romanian ethnic groups (only 14 percent of the Moldavian SSR's political leaders were ethnic Romanians in 1946).
The conditions imposed during the reestablishment of Soviet rule became the basis of deep resentment toward Soviet authorities--a resentment that soon manifested itself. During Leonid I. Brezhnev's 1950-52 tenure as first secretary of the Communist Party of Moldavia (CPM), he put down a rebellion of ethnic Romanians by killing or deporting thousands of people and instituting forced collectivization. Although Brezhnev and other CPM first secretaries were largely successful in suppressing "Moldavian" nationalism, the hostility of "Moldavians" smoldered for another three decades, until after Mikhail S. Gorbachev came to power. His policies of glasnost and perestroika created conditions in which national feelings could be openly expressed and in which the Soviet republics could consider reforms.
this climate of openness, political self-assertion escalated in the Moldavian SSR in 1988. The year 1989 saw the formation of the Moldovan Popular Front (commonly called the Popular Front), an association of independent cultural and political groups that had finally gained official recognition. Large demonstrations by ethnic Romanians led to the designation of Romanian as the official language and the replacement of the head of the CPM. However, opposition was growing to the increasing influence of ethnic Romanians, especially in Transnistria, where the Yedinstvo-Unitatea (Unity) Intermovement had been formed in 1988 by the Slavic minorities, and in the south, where Gagauz Halkî (Gagauz People), formed in November 1989, came to represent the Gagauz, a Turkic-speaking minority there.
The first democratic elections to the Moldavian SSR's Supreme Soviet were held February 25, 1990. Runoff elections were held in March. The Popular Front won a majority of the votes. After the elections, Mircea Snegur, a communist, was elected chairman of the Supreme Soviet; in September he became president of the republic. The reformist government that took over in May 1990 made many changes that did not please the minorities, including changing the republic's name in June from the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic to the Soviet Socialist Republic of Moldova and declaring it sovereign the same month.
Hobbies:
- Hiding from being nations/being taken advantage of by them
- Enjoys folk dancing and telling stories
- Drinking. A lot. (Second heaviest drinker in Europe after Luxembourg.)
Random Quirks:
- Shivering or shaking when she's surrounded by people
- Just letting people push her around
- Constantly sick and frail from a horrible economy
Roleplay Sample:
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Roleplayer: Anna/Cro
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