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Ruby City does allow previous game history/CR to be brought over on a case by case basis. If you want to include this in your application please add additional sections for PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT and PREVIOUS GAME HISTORY beneath the Personality and Background/History sections.
In these additional sections we would like to see a brief outline of your character's previous game history and how it potentially impacted on and altered their canon personality.
[Fandom OC] Portugal/Madalena Almeida|| Axis Powers Hetalia || no reserve || 1 of ?
Name: Kate
Personal Journal: fae_boleyn
E-mail: pandoraboleyn@yahoo.com
AIM/MSN/etc: PanBoleyn
CHARACTER
Character Name: Portugal/Madalena Almeida
Canon: Hetalia
Timeline: Portugal, at this point, is only various concept sketches; we know the character exists but we don't know anything else, including gender since concept sketches of both genders have appeared. However, I am bringing Portugal in from the present day.
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: Largely irrelevant; Portugal has no real reason to interact with Canada or Wales, so there's no reason for playercest.
Personality: Portugal, at first glance, appears to be a cheerful, slightly mischievous woman, and in large part this is true. She's a bit of a matchmaker when she's bored, so watch out for her to meddle in other people's relationships if she has nothing better to do. The majority of her people are Roman Catholic, and she herself is still devout, though she doubts that she has any chance of heaven should she die. This bleak opinion of herself is something she keeps well-hidden, however; as said above she tends to act happy.
She does, however, have a darker side. After all, she was once an empire, and while she tended to be a stern mistress rather than a cruel one, imperial ambitions require a degree of ruthlessness. Another example of this is during the Iberian Union (when Spain ruled Portugal), when she did her best to break up the personal part of the Hapsburg Union, i.e. Spain and Austria's marriage. Her goal in that case was the hope that a personal break would eventually affect politics, and that her brother would lose enough strength that she could be free again. It failed and her people's independence was finally achieved with French aid, but at the time it seemed like a good idea to her and she didn't care if someone got hurt in the process. Today, though, she has largely let go of this ruthless side – it can appear in extreme situations but it's rarely needed now. She's working on finding her identity in this modern world, after decades of dictatorial and Church control kept her firmly entrenched in older traditions.
Portugal also has a defiant side to her nature. As a female nation, she's often faced trouble from her leaders in a culture that historically placed women as lesser. This led, for example, to her disguising herself as a boy to fight in wars – particularly wars against her brother, Spain. Today it mostly shows up as a contrary side to her nature; she loves to argue and play devil's advocate. Sometimes she disagrees with someone or tells them no simply for the fun of riling them up or starting an argument.
Re: [Fandom OC] Portugal/Madalena Almeida|| Axis Powers Hetalia || no reserve || 1 of ?
Part of why she's such a bad driver is that she's an adrenaline junkie. Portugal is someone who once held significant power, and who took to the battlefields and the oceans herself, damn the consequences. So it's little surprise that in the modern day she seeks out danger and excitement. The fact that there's some risk to life in Ruby City will be, to her, one of the upsides to the situation.
Portugal is extremely loyal if she decides to give that loyalty to someone, and it is both a strength and a weakness because it can blind her to their faults. The reverse is also true; she is very slow to change her opinion if she dislikes someone. Similarly, when she loves it's with all she has; sometimes the love can change from romantic to platonic (or nearly so) and vice-versa, but once you matter you always matter, outside of betrayal. That is the only time she really turns on someone. It's very nearly impossible to get her to forgive or to forget.
Portugal is a tall woman who appears to be about twenty-five or so; she's slender rather than curvy, with long dark brown hair and gray eyes. She's tan from living in a Meditteranean climate.
History: Exactly when Portugal was born is a mystery even to her – she vaguely remembers Roman Lusitania, who she assumes is her father. This would put her birth sometime before the fifth century, when Germanic tribes invaded. This, she remembers clearly, and suspects that it's the origin of her gray eyes. She also remembers the time she spent under the rule of the Moors, African Muslims, as a rather confusing time. It was the last period when she and her brother were united in wanting to throw off the yoke they were both under, which led to the Reconquista. (She managed escape several hundred years before all of her brother's land was freed.) After that, though, she had to break free of the control of one of the regions that belonged to her brother, Galicia.
Re: [Fandom OC] Portugal/Madalena Almeida|| Axis Powers Hetalia || no reserve || 1 of ?
In 1386 came the Treaty of Windsor, the start of the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance and her first time meeting England. The two hit it off immediately, the start of a romance that would last until the time of the Iberian Union in the latter part of the 16th and into the 17th century.
Portugal was there at the start of her empire, when her King John and his entire family traveled to the Islamic trading city Ceuta on the North African coast across from Gibraltar. It was a family-affair conquest, the first of Portuguese imperial holdings. One of the royal sons on that first trip, Prince Henry the Navigator, later became the pioneer of maritime exploration – he is remembered today as Henry the Navigator, and Portugal traveled with as many of his captains as she could, learning everything they had to teach. After Henry's death, she had trouble involving herself in later expeditions – his support had been crucial – but she got around this by dressing as a boy and sneaking aboard anyway, to the frustration of whoever happened to be her king at the time. In this way she was directly involved in some of the conquests of her people, though few ever realized it. One who did was Brazil – Brazil was her little brother, who she named Afonso, and hoped to have a second chance at a proper sibling bond with. (By this time her relations with her brother, Spain, were abysmal.)
As noted above, the Iberian Union temporarily broke the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance. The reason for this is because in 1580, Portugal's king died without a clear heir. Philip II of Spain, a claimant through his mother, a Portuguese princess, claimed the throne. Though Portugal was technically autonomous, all foreign policy was made to match that of Spain, and at the time Spain and England were enemies. Centuries later, that is the one thing she won't forgive Spain for, though she is trying to forgive the other things.
The Iberian Union broke in 1640, after later Spanish kings treated the Portuguese – particularly the nobles – worse and worse. They lost Ceuta when the city refused to give up allegiance to Spain, and Spain did not recognize Portuguese independence until 1668. During this century, enough Portuguese citizens emigrated to Brazil that such emigration was banned, and Brazil gained enough importance to be elevated to vice-kingdom status rather than just being a colony. Portugal herself was thrilled to see her brother growing up, and with her people there she assumed he would grow to be like her.
Re: [Fandom OC] Portugal/Madalena Almeida|| Axis Powers Hetalia || no reserve || 1 of ?
Portugal was invaded by Napoleon during his conquests – and she was furious at having to bow to France's short little boss. In 1820 she lost Brazil, and in 1890 she was betrayed by England's bosses, her military forced out of Mozambique and Angola in order to further British interests. The only reason she doesn't blame England for this is because as far as she knows, it was not his idea. She believes this fully – if it's true or not, who can say? This, however, led eventually to such discontent among her people that her government collapsed.
The 20th century was a time of upheaval for her. She had a republic starting from the October 1910 Revolution, but her politics remained fractured. It only got worse when she involved herself in WWI, officially joining in 1916. The infighting continued afterwards – there was a brief civil war in 1918 – eventually ending in the New State (Estado Novo) a dictatorship that lasted until the 1970s. In the last decades of the 20th century, Portugal let go of the last of her colonies, ending with Macau, who returned to China with Hong Kong (let go of by Britain) in 1997.
Today she is part of the European Union, NATO, the UN, and still recovering from decades of a dictatorship that quashed development and forced a conservative regression. But she is getting there, and is very much a modern country. She;s just still trying to adapt herself to being such.
Re: [Fandom OC] Portugal/Madalena Almeida|| Axis Powers Hetalia || no reserve || 1 of ?
Abilities: She has no supernatural abilities, save that she can see magical creatures when around England.
Relationships to Canon Characters: She was previously in a relationship with England (Anglo-Portuguese Alliance) and they're still friends today, though she tends to be a bit flirty with him. She knows Austria, as they were once in-laws.
First Person: [When Portugal wakes up on the train, her first thought is that she is not supposed to be here. Is this some kind of prank being pulled on her by her aggravating brother and his friends? It's possible – the hostility of previous centuries is reduced to that now, after all. But... Something tells her no, especially when she is propelled off the train by an unseen force. Glancing around at what appears to be a ghost town, she frowns, eyes sharp.]
Mãe de Deus... What is this place?
[She starts walking, and this is when she notices the fact that there's something in her pocket besides her cell phone. She takes that out first, though, only to find that it doesn't work. Then she takes out the pocketwatch, frowning at it.]
This is not mine... How did I get this?
[For now she keeps walking, though – it's likely that the town isn't entirely deserted or else a train wouldn't come here, so she just has to keep going until she finds someone.]
Third Person: So. Portugal wasn't sure how she felt about – once again – being confined against her will. At least, while she had no ability to leave, within the city she was more or less free to exercise her free will. That was an improvement over her other experiences of being forced into things. But at the same time, she couldn't deny that the situation was unsettling. And not just unsettling, but possibly dangerous.
And, all right, she had to admit that bit didn't bother her at all. Truth to tell, she'd been insanely bored at home, and a bored Madalena was never a good thing. She tended to get up to mischief at such times. Well, for now it was too early to decide what she really thought of this place, anyway. She liked the fact that there were others here from home – it was good not to be alone.
So, she would wait and see how things played out here. If nothing else, it was a break from the stresses that came with being a country, and it was a new adventure. It couldn't be completely bad, now could it?
Re: [Fandom OC] Portugal/Madalena Almeida|| Axis Powers Hetalia || no reserve || 1 of ?
DECLINED
At this time we are declining your application for the following reasons. Due to the two characters that you currently play from the series, we believe that a third character would complicate CR and the like for yourself as well as for current and potential castmates.
Re: DECLINED