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>PLAYER

NAME/HANDLE: Leafy
PERSONAL JOURNAL: feuillu
ARE YOU OVER 16? Yep
CONTACT: AIM- LeafyisLeafy | plurk- feuillu
OTHER CHARACTERS: None

>CHARACTER

CHARACTER NAME: Alfred F. Jones, aka America
SERIES: Wiki should do
CANON POINT: Modern day
APPEARANCE: Link

PERSONALITY: AMERICA IS THE HERO. If there's a problem, America is your go-to guy! Okay, sure, he might not always fix something exactly how others would, and your situation might end up more Things America Likes than Things You Asked For, but hey, his heart is in the right place, okay! Your life would have totally sucked without him!

America really does have a heart of gold, and a strong desire to help those in need. He just has a tendency to act without thinking, or to get caught up in his own ideas and forget that his preferences aren't everyone's. He's fairly shortsighted as well, and doesn't always remember to factor in what will be most beneficial in the long run when deciding on a plan of action. That being said, he has an incredibly acute sense of right and wrong, and he won't stand by idly while injustice is done! He just really really wants to help everyone, and only partially because he wants the recognition and adoration that comes with being a hero! (That doesn't mean he won't occasionally take a little more credit for things than he deserves.)

On the other hand, he's also the type of person that gets pissed off and can hold grudges for a long-ass time. Probably the most obvious example is his ongoing animosity with Russia. Despite the fact that the Cold War has been over for over 20 years, Russians are still the stereotypical movie villain, and anything even remotely resembling Communism is anathema to him. (On the other hand, he doesn't seem to have nearly as much trouble dealing with currently Communist China-- probably because he gets a lot of cheap crap out of the deal). There are some things America just doesn't like, and will therefore declare them to be unilaterally bad without a whole lot of supporting evidence.

America's also kind of an airhead. Despite having a brilliant mind for science (some of the greatest inventions and scientific advancements of our time have come from America after all!) he tends to lack common sense. He more or less operates on a different wavelength than the rest of the world-- marching to the beat of his own drummer, if you will-- which sometimes gives him a hard time understanding why other countries would do things the way that they do, and definitely gives most other countries a hard time understanding why he does what he does (just look at his "screw the rules I do what I want" continuing use of the imperial system).

ABILITIES: Since he is the personification of a nation, he has an explicit connection with his country and his people. His health is affected by the well-being of his country (for example, economic crises or wars manifest themselves as illness or injury). On the flip-side, he has a high resilience to more mundane injuries. Wounds caused by conventional methods will not hurt him as much as a normal human, and will heal fairly quickly.

Additionally, America is gifted with superhuman strength, to the point where he was lifting bison over his head as a toddler.

In terms of regular human abilities, he's an experienced fighter and a somewhat decent tactician. He has a great interest in science and technology, and an almost encyclopedic knowledge of pop culture.

POSSESSIONS: His cell phone (iPhone 4s); his wallet, containing several credit cards, considerably less cash, driver's licenses for a few different states, a few personal photos, and a couple condoms; car keys, house keys, keytag loyalty cards, and a pocket flashlight, all on a brontosaurus keychain; various wrapped candies and gum (and some empty wrappers); packets of McDonald's ketchup; a superball; old fast food receipts; used tissues; a pen.

>PERSONA

MAJOR ARCANA:
0 - THE FOOL: The Fool represents naivete and youthful exuberance, which America has in spades. Being a fairly young nation, he's always bursting with ideas on how to fix things, solve problems, and make the world a better place. But on the flip-side of that, he doesn't have the wisdom or experience of some of the other nations as to why some of those things just won't work. The Fool also represents new beginnings, which seems appropriate considering America's origins.

VII - THE CHARIOT: The chariot represents skill, drive, action and determination. While he might act like a goofball, America is dead serious when it comes to fighting for what he believes in or protecting the things he cares about. It takes a lot to get him to back down or admit defeat, even when he's seemingly beaten or outmatched.

I - THE MAGICIAN: The magician represents power and resourcefulness, and as a young and still-rising superpower, America has that in spades. Not only is he the personification of one of the world's most powerful countries, he's also got a knack for thinking outside the box, coming up with unconventional tactics and utilizing a potentially disadvantageous situation in a way that gives him an edge.

SHADOW: Shadow America is every American stereotype-- from the point of view of the rest of the world-- turned up to eleven. A violent and sadistic bully, he carries a small armory on his person and believes there's no kill like overkill. He likes to throw his weight around, picking on others just to show off his own strength. He's also a hardcore anarcho-capitalist, believing wholeheartedly in the rule of the free market with no outside interference. If people slip through the cracks? Forget about them. They obviously should have worked harder. Everyone has an equal opportunity to get ahead, don't they? Rather than being driven by a deep sense of justice, shadow America is driven primarily by money and power: namely, how much he has, and how he can get more of it.

PERSONA: Uncle Sam. Yes. This one.

PERSONA ACQUISTION: Confronting his persona in TV world.

>SAMPLES

FIRST PERSON ACTION, JOURNAL, OR PHONE SAMPLE:
[Posted on the town bulletin board:]

ATTENTION EVERYONE!

[This header is written in English; the rest of the message continues in Japanese.]

Hey yo! I hear this train brought people from all over the place! Like a train across the ocean? That's so freaking cool!

Anyway, anyway, I gotta take a headcount of who all here is American. I hope you guys can read this? I'm trying to write normal but it keeps coming out all weird! So all the Americans need to meet me at Souzai Daigaku this afternoon so we can meet up and see who all the awesome people are! And 'cause that place is super delicious.

-AMERICA

THIRD PERSON SAMPLE: So. A rundown of the situation. America munched on his fifth steak skewer as he laid out the list in his head. He'd fallen asleep and woken up on a train in Japan. Probably kidnapped by ninjas or something; totally not cool! But Japan hadn't answered his phone when he'd called up to give him a piece of his mind about it. Neither had England, the President, or Canada. Just some weirdos who'd eventually hung up on him.

And speaking of weirdos, the whole Japanese thing was kind of freaking him out. He ran over the list again. Kidnapped, in Japan, speaking Japanese.

Maybe he'd been kidnapped by aliens. That would explain the whole freaky language thing, and even the creepy fog. Dang! Why hadn't he thought of that in the first place? It made way more sense than anything else. He picked up the phone again and started to dial Tony. Seriously, the little dude was cool, but he needed to have a hardcore talking to about his friends. You don't just abduct people when there's important stuff going on! At least it wasn't a football weekend.

Tony didn't answer the phone. He'd thought it was Tony at first, with the swearing, but it actually turned out to be some angry old dude cursing out them "damn foreigners" expecting everyone to learn their language.

"Dude naw, I'm as American as you are!" But it hadn't worked anyway. And he was probably racking up a fortune in international minutes. He set the phone and spun it under his finger.

Welp, as long as he was here (and his kidnapper didn't seem to be thorough enough to do things like "tie him up" or "lock him away," which admittedly made it one of the nicer-- if lamer-- kidnappings he'd experienced), then he might as well get to the bottom of this mystery! America the hero saves the day again!

After he ordered himself another steak skewer. Those things were unbelievably delicious!