Greece

[Greece]

Heracles Karpusi
-Greece-

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"Greece taking a nap.""

Name: Heracles Karpusi
Origin: Athens, Greece
Gender: Male
Orientation: Bi
Birthday: February 03, 1830
Age: 27

Personality: He is said to have a serious personality, but he often seems carefree and casual. Unless you get him talking about Turkey or Turkey is in the room, he tends to get a little overboard when speaking about Turkey. He is often rude to people when he speaks, having a tendency to be very blunt with his words. Most of the time he does not notice the effect his words have on people or he ignores the reaction, there are very few people he speaks kindly to, Japan and Egypt being an example of those.

He is often seen with cats, seeming to prefer their company as he works on unearthing his mother’s ruins. He loves naps and is often seen sleeping, but even though it seems there is nothing in his head, he has a love for philosophy and history. He spends most of his free time unearthing his mother’s ruins trying to find as much as he can about the mother that he can barely remember.

It is also implied that he frequently takes part in sexual activity, more so than Francis does, due to the fact that his country has the highest sex frequency rate. Like most aspects of his life this is shown for all to see if they take the time to look or ask. He has no shame when speaking of such things being as blunt with this as he is with everything else if you want to know about him just ask him yourself, he will gladly tell you all of his flaws and shortcomings.


Appearance: He has shoulder length brown hair, emerald green eyes, and fairly tanned skin. He wears a brown jacket, with brown pants and a white t-shirt. He occasionally wears a brown hat. He rarely ever wears his uniform correctly, and if you took the time to look in his closet you would find two sets of his uniform followed by several white tshirts and kakhi pants. He moves with grace and fluidity that come fom being around all of his cats, tending to be easily compared to a cat himself.

Relationships:
Turkey: He is constantly fighting with Turkey whenever he is around mostly about who Japan likes more. The animosity between them was heightened due to the Turkey's having owned him in the years following his mother’s death. Greece firmly belives that Turkey was plotting to get him in debt so he would have to rely on him the way he currently has to.

Japan: The two get along pretty well, due to their countries' good relationship. Greece tends to invite japan over during the rare time's he is actually working to try and keep Turkey from getting better relations with him.

History:
1453: Ottoman Turks capture Constantinople, ending Byzantine Empire; most of Greece in Ottoman hands: Mother Greece Dies.

1453-1821: Greece, except for Ionian Islands, remains part of Ottoman Empire.

1821-32: Under intellectual influence of the Enlightenment and with intervention by France and Britain, Greek War of Independence liberates part of modern Greece.

1828: Ioannis Kapodistrias becomes first president of fledgling Greece state.

1829: Treaty of Adrianople places Greek under British, French, and Russian protection.

1832: Treaty of Constantinople places Greece under British, French, and Russian protection, defines its boundaries, and names Otto of Wittgenstein ruler.

1844: First constitution establishes democratic parliamentary government system, reducing Otto's power.

1854: Britain and France prevent Greece from taking Ottoman territory in Thrace and Epirus, humiliating Otto.

1862: After series of coups, Otto forced to abdicate.

1864: New constitution establishes powerful parliament; Prince William of Denmark named king as George I.

1866: First revolt on Crete against Ottoman rule.

1875: George accepts principle of parliamentary majority party forming government, ending fractious minority administrations.

1875: Kharilaos Trikoupis becomes prime minister, beginning quarter-century of government domination by him and ideological opposite Theodoros Deliyannis.

1881: After Great Power pressure at 1878 Congress of Berlin, Ottoman Empire cede Thessaly and part of Epirus to Greece.

1886: Britain and France blockade Greece after Deliyannis mobilizes troops to profit from Serbian-Bulgarian conflict.

1897: Financial collapse ends with national bankruptcy.

1908: Young Turks overthrow government in Constantinople, beginning reform of Turkish politics and society.

1909: Military coup at Goudi overthrows Greek government; Eleutherios Venizelos chosen to head new government.

1912-13: Balkan Wars add southern Epirus, Macedonia, some Aegean Islands, and Crete to Greek territory.

1915: Venizelos resigns over King Constantine's failure to support Allies in World War I, beginning constitutional crisis, the National Schism.

1917: Constantine passes crown to his son Alexander; Greek forces join Allies for remainder of war.

1920: Treaty of Sèvres establishes Greek enclave around Smyrna in Asia Minor.

1922: After disastrous military defeat in Asia Minor, Smyrna is sacked and Greek forces withdraw.

1923: Treat of Lausanne cedes all territory in Asia Minor to Turkey; huge influx of Greek refugees in exchange of ethnic minorities between Greece and Turkey.

1924-28: Chaotic period of government coups ends; second Venizelos golden age begins.

1930: World financial crisis initiates new political and economic unrest in Greece.

1932: Venizelos resigns; National Schism reemerges.

1936-41: Dictatorial regime of General Ioannis Metaxas.

1941: Nazi forces invade Greece; start of four years of destructive occupation; National Liberation Front founded as resistance movement.

1943: Resistance splits; communist-dominated EAM faction dominates further resistance activity and forms government.

1944: Athens liberated; Greece assigned to British sphere by agreement with Soviet Union; communist insurgency leads to fall of Papandreou government.

1945: Varkiza Agreement ends insurgency; White Terror persecution of leftist resistance forces.

1946-49: Civil War between communist Democratic Army of Greece and government.

1947: Massive United States aid starts with Truman Doctrine.

1949: Marshall Plan aids reconstruction period of Greek economy and society following World War II and Civil War.

1950: Martial law lifted; first civilian elections held; two decades of economic growth begin.

1955: Konstantinos Karamanlis named prime minister, beginning eight-year regime; violent terrorist campaign of National Organization of Cypriot Fighters (EOKA) begins against British occupation of Cyprus and for union with Greece.

1963: Karamanlis's resignation begins period of instability.

1967: US-friendly military junta takes power, begins seven-year regime and period of international isolation; King Constantine goes into exile.

1973: University student uprisings and radicalization of junta increase social resistance to regime.

1974: Turkey invades Cyprus after a coup attempt against Cypriot President Makarios; military regime replaced by new Karamanlis civilian government; voters abolish monarchy; democratic institutions restored.

1975: New constitution establishes republican government; Communist Party of Greece legalized; Turkish Federated State of Cyprus declared.

1981: Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) ends postwar conservative control of government, begins eight-year rule with broad reform program under Andreas Papandreou; Greece gains full membership in European Community (EC).

1986: Constitutional amendments curtail presidential power.

1987: Incident in Aegean Sea brings Greece and Turkey to brink of armed conflict.

1989: Two elections yield stalemated coalition governments after scandals undermine PASOK support.

1990 April: Konstantinos Mitsotakis's New Democracy (ND) Party wins half of Assembly seats and forms new government.

1991 September: Declaration of sovereignty by the for Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia arouses nationalist outcry in Greece against possibility of EC recognition of country under name Macedonia (a region of Greece); Greek campaign against recognition begins.

December: Soviet Union dissolves, beginning revision of Greece's national security position and military doctrine.

1992: August Privatization of mass transit brings general strike against Mitsotakis government economic policies.

1993 March: EC adopts five-year economic reform program for Greece.

October: After austerity program and scandals weaken ND, Papandreou again is elected prime minister.

November: Maastrict Treaty goes into effect, creating new levels of cooperation in the European Community and redisignating that organization as the European Union (EU).

1999 August: Powerful earthquakes strike the Turkish city of Ýzmit. Greece is the first foreign country to pledge aid and support to Turkey

September: Athens is struck by the most devastating earthquake in Greece of the past 20 years. A total of 145 people die. The Turkish aid is the first to arrive. The two earthquakes initiate the Greek–Turkish earthquake diplomacy

2004 April: In a referendum, Greek Cypriots reject the Annan Plan whereas Turkish Cypriots accept it

May: Cyprus becomes a member of the European Union

August: Athens hosts the 2004 Summer Olympics.

2006: Athens hosts the Eurovision Song Contest 2006

2010: 2010 European sovereign debt crisis; the country's stability has been interrupted; many demostrations took place in Athens while many workers went on strike; the country is on the verge of a new wave of emigration, with young college graduates at the forefront.

May: The Prime Minister of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoðan, visits Greece along with 10 ministers; 21 agreements - memoranda of cooperation between the two countries' ministries were sighned.


Likes:
~Excavating his mother’s ruins.
~Cats.
~Baklava.
~Clouds.
~Being able to take naps.
~Simple clothing and outfits.
~The colors Blue and White.
~the Night

Dislikes:
~Turkey
~Dogs
~Anything that is remotely Turkish
~Water
~Masks
~Elaborate Clothing
~The color red.

Hobbies:
~Excavating his mother’s ruins.
~Cloud watching
~Napping
~Playing with cats
~Searching for information about my mother.

Random Quirks:
~He acts slightly like the cats that he cares so much for.
~Has been known to randomly fall asleep in odd places.

Roleplay Sample

Growls slightly as I enter my house, seeing Turkey at the meeting today had my blood boiling. I pulled off anything red in my house that I could find destroying all that reminded me of that idiot that had raised me for most of my childhood after Mother died. Looking down at the cat that was rubbing itself on my leg trying to get me to calm down, reaching down to pet the cat I lift it into my arms.

“I’m sorry ÓêïôÜäé; you know how I get when I am around Turkey.” ÓêïôÜäé just purred calming me more as I held him to me. I go up to my room passing many pictures of my mother’s ruins which had been unearthed throughout my time as a country. My room was bathed in the light of the late evening sun making it the perfect place for me and my cats to take a nap before dinner or at any other stressful time of the day. Laying down and pulling ÓêïôÜäé and the other cats with me as I took a nice nap before dinner and calmed down the rest of the way.

Roleplayer:Ohio

Password: HETALIA ROCKS

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[iggy]

Very good app, Ohio, dear. The personality is detailed and descriptive. I would like to see a bit more in the appearance paragraph, as well as the relationships you have. Those things come with time, though, I understand, so I'm going to give my tentative approval.

Just fix those couple things as you work with the character more, and we'll be right as rain!

APPROVED~ (depending on the rp "audition" with an admin, or course)

[America]

I would also like to see more in appearance and relationships, but other than that you are good love~

Approved! 2/2. Now you just have to do the audition with the admin.