Post by Nikolaas Jan Hasbrouck on Feb 8, 2011 16:41:46 GMT -5
Nikolaas Jan Hasbrouck
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[/center]( DEFINE YOUR MEANING OF WAR )
to me it's what we do when we're bored
[/color][/center]to me it's what we do when we're bored
WHERE DID YOU FIND US • Belgium dragged me here/I demanded the link
CONTACTS • pm is fine..or just send an e-mail, I ain't fussed
OTHER CHARACTERS •
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( I FEEL THE HEAT COMIN' OFF THE BLACKTOP )
and it makes me want it more
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NATION • Kingdom of the Netherlands/Koninkrijk der Nederlanden
GENDER • Male
NICKNAMES • Niko, NL, (You call him 'Ned' or 'Holly' and he'll punch you)
AGE • 27
OCCUPATION • Doctor (but when no one needs his help he
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( BECAUSE I'M HYPED UP, OUTTA CONTROL )
if it's a fight I'm ready to go
[/color][/center]if it's a fight I'm ready to go
EYES • Blue/green
METAL AND INK • None of your business Bl
HEIGHT AND WEIGHT • 5'11 (180 cm) - 80kg (idkwhatthatisinstone)
DISTINGUISHING FEATURES • Small vertical scar on his right temple
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( I WOULDN'T PUT MY MONEY ON THE OTHER GUY )
if you know what I already know
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+ Smoking / His pipe
+ Drinking
+ Bikes
+ Freedom
+ Painting
+ Architecture
+ The (calm) Sea
+ Books/reading
+ Flowers / Gardening
+ Complaining about unimportant stuff
DISLIKES • at least ten.
- Close minded people
- large crowds
- Being bossed around
- Spain
- Heavy/endless rain
- Floods
- Heights
- Boring meetings
- Stormy Seas
- People pointing out he smokes and drinks too much
STRENGTHS • at least three.
+ Calm and collected even in stressful situations
+ A good strategists and often thinks before acting
+ nonjudgmental and layed back
WEAKNESSES • at least three.
- Hopelessly addicted to nicotine - not that he'll admit that
- Impatient
- Likes young women
FEARS • at least two.
- Drowning
- His family disappearing
QUIRKS • at least two.
+ Can be incredibly stingy...unless it's a pretty lady, then his wallet is hardly locked away.
+ Is very tidy and organized and dislikes clutter and dirty houses.
PERSONALITY •
Nikolaas is the kind of guy that most people tend to shy away from. He’s headstrong, rough, bossy and likes to be on top of everything. His dominating and rather ruthless personality is not made much better by his tall and intimidating physique. Nikolaas also couldn't care less about other people's opinions of him, as he believes everyone is entitled to their own opinion on everything - this tends to make him come across as terribly blunt.
New people he does not know very well is almost a phobia to him– and as a result can be cold, intimidating and reserved when it comes to strangers. Earning the duthman's trust can be long and tedious process, but once he's warmed up to you, he can be rahter freindly.
And if beer is involved, he'll be happy as anything.
He might seem like just a cold hearted man, but deep down he does have a heart, it's just heavily guarded. Once one has gained his loyalty he will be fiercely loyal and protective back. Despite being a nation, he chose the career path as a doctor. During times of war he feels he can do more good helping wounded than holding a gun.
However, he is a strong fighter, but prefers to try and solve conflicts in a diplomatic and reasonable way - violence is plan B if being diplomatic gets him no where. But even in a fight, it might take a lot to for his calm demeanor to disappear - and showing fear is a big no-no.
Nikolaas is still respectful over others ideas and opinions, but if someone restricts his freedom, he will fiercely defend his right to speak his mind and do as he wishes.
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( IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME COMING )
and the table's turned around
[/color][/center]and the table's turned around
SIGNIFICANT OTHERS • none of your buisness...
HISTORY •
1st cent. BC The area's first inhabitants - Frisians, Batavians, and other tribes - settle the coastal territory along the Rhine River. The Batavians become allies of Rome.
12 BC Roman general Drusus attempts to push the empire's frontier in Holland beyond the Rhine.
4th cent. AD Barbarian invasions. Saxons settle in the east and Franks in the south. (Damn those hooligans)
814 On the death of Charlemagne, the Frankish emperor of the West and conqueror of the Saxons and Frisians, his empire is divided. The Low Countries become part of Lotharingia, squeezed between the German lands and France.
10th century The counts of Holland and Zeeland and the bishopric of Utrecht begin to gain greater control of their own affairs.
1275 Count Floris V of Holland grants "Aemstelledamme" freedom from tolls on travel and trade. The year is regarded as Amsterdam's official foundation date.
1384 Duke Philip the Bold begins to gain control of the Low Countries for Burgundy.
1421 A storm on St. Elizabeth's Day breaks dikes along the Maas and Waal rivers, causing a flood that drowns 10,000 people. (I still have scars...)
1477 Beginning of the rule of the Austrian Habsburgs.
1506 The Netherlands is inherited by the future Habsburg Emperor and King of Spain Charles V.
1555 Philip II of Spain sends the duke of Alba to the Low Countries to confront the Protestant Reformation.
1568 Dutch rally against Spain in the beginning of the Eighty Years' War. (Fuck you Spain - I deserved independence!)
1578 Amsterdam abandons the Spanish and Catholic cause. Calvinists take over in what is called the Alteration. Public Catholic worship is outlawed and churches are confiscated.
1579 The Union of Utrecht unites the seven provinces of the northern Low Countries.
1581 The United Provinces declare their independence from Spain. (HA! suck it Spain!)
1602 The United East India Company (V.O.C.), destined to become a powerful force in Holland's "Golden Age" of discovery, exploration, and trade, is founded.
1609 Beginning of a 12-year truce with Spain. English navigator Henry Hudson, under contract to the United East India Company, sails from Amsterdam and "discovers" Manhattan Island and the future site of New York. (Yeah...I'm somehow related to America...)
early 17th c. Jewish refugees from Spain and Portugal begin to arrive in the Netherlands.
1621 Dutch West India Company chartered.
1626 Peter Minuit "purchases" Manhattan Island from the Manhattoes Native Americans for the equivalent of $24, legalizing the Nieuw Amsterdam settlement founded the previous year at the mouth of the Hudson River. In 1664 it was renamed New York by the English.
1642 Rembrandt paints The Night Watch. (A most remarkable and wonderful painting, if I do say so myself)
1642-43 Navigator Abel Tasman is the first European to reach Tasmania and New Zealand. (Somewhere...we took a wrong turn...oh well...)
1648 End of Eighty Years' War with Spain. (Stubborn idiot...)
1652 Dutchman Jan van Riebeek founds Cape Town, South Africa.
1689 Stadhouder William III and his wife, Mary, become king and queen of England.
1782 Dutch become first to officially recognize nationhood of the United States. (Well, he is 'family'...and it pissed England off)
1799 The United East India Company is liquidated.
1795 Velvet Revolution. French troops occupy Holland with the aid of Dutch revolutionaries and establish the Batavian Republic. William V flees to England.
1806-10 Louis Bonaparte, Napoléon's brother, reigns as king of Holland.
1813 The Netherlands regains independence from the French. (Thank god, that was a trauma inducing period)
1814 The country becomes the kingdom of the Netherlands, a constitutional monarchy headed by Willem I of the House of Oranje-Nassau, and incorporating Belgium.
1830 Belgium breaks free from Dutch rule. (She should have stayed...she'd be much better off if she did...)
1853 Birth of Vincent van Gogh.
1887 St Niklaaskerk dedicated in Amsterdam
1890 Death by suicide of van Gogh. (That was not a happy moment in my life)
1917 Despite Dutch neutrality in World War I (1914-18), the Netherlands suffers from severe food shortages, triggering street riots.
1920 Dutch airline KLM launches the world's first scheduled air service, between Amsterdam and London.
1928 Amsterdam Olympics. (No, it was not the 'stoned Olympics'. Kids, don't listen to Eddie Izzard, the man lies)
1932 Afsluitdijk (Enclosure Dike) at the head of the Zuiderzee is completed, transforming the sea into the freshwater IJsselmeer Lake.
1934 The Great Depression leads to shortages and riots; the government calls out the army to maintain public order.
1940 World War II: Nazi Germany invades on May 10. Holland surrenders 4 days later after the aerial bombardment of Rotterdam. Queen Wilhelmina goes into exile in London. (Yes, I'm still bitter about it....shut up)
1941 Dockworkers and other workers in Amsterdam launch the "February Strike" against persecution and deportation of the city's Jewish community.
1942 Anne Frank and her family, along with other Jewish friends, go into hiding in Amsterdam. Dutch East Indies occupied by Japan.
1944 The Frank family refuge is betrayed and its occupants are transported. Anne dies the following year at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
1944-45 Thousands die during the "Hunger Winter," when Nazi occupation forces blockade western Holland.
1945 May 5: German forces in the Netherlands capitulate. KLM inaugurates Amsterdam- New York air service; journey time, including stopovers in Scotland and Newfoundland: 25.5 hours.
1947 The Diary of Anne Frank is published.
1948 Benelux customs union with Belgium and Luxembourg takes effect.
1949 The Netherlands joins NATO. The Dutch East Indies' wins independence, as Indonesia, after a bitterly fought liberation struggle.
1953 Devastating North Sea storms produce significant coastal flooding. Dutch embark on long-range Delta Project to seal off river estuaries in the southwest. (More scars added...)
1958 The Netherlands joins the European Economic Community, the forerunner of today's European Union (EU).
1966 Street protests in Amsterdam mar Princess Beatrix's marriage to German Claus von Amsberg, a former soldier in the World War II German army.
1975 Amsterdam's 700th anniversary. Cannabis use is decriminalized. The Netherlands grants independence to Surinam. (A pretty good year actually..)
1980 Queen Juliana abdicates, and her eldest daughter Beatrix accedes to the throne.
1987 The Homomonument, the world's first public memorial to persecuted gays and lesbians, is unveiled in Amsterdam.
1992 The Treaty of Maastricht creates a single European market, replacing the European Community (EC) with the European Union (EU) and clearing the way for the creation of a single European currency.
1997 The Treaty of Amsterdam confirms European Monetary Union and the euro as the future common European currency.
2001 The world's first real same-sex marriage, husband and husband, with a legal status identical to that of heterosexual matrimony, takes place in Amsterdam
2002 Euro banknotes and coins replace the guilder. Crown Prince Willem-Alexander marries Argentine Máxima Zorreguieta. Dutch parliament legalizes regulated euthenasia ("mercy killing"), making the Netherlands the first country in the world to do so. Pim Fortuyn, a flamboyant, gay, populist right-wing politician, is shot to death in Holland's first political assassination of the modern era.
2003 The permanent International Criminal Court, for prosecuting large-scale crimes against humanity, is inaugurated in The Hague, despite opposition to the court from countries that include the U.S. In a project to test the medical efficacy of cannabis, the drug is made legal under controlled conditions and when prescribed by a physician for patients suffering from a range of terminal and chronic illnesses, including cancer and Aids.
2004 The former Queen Juliana dies. Vermeer's painting Young Woman Seated at a Virginal (ca. 1670) is sold at auction for more than $30m by Sotheby's in London. Controversial film director Theo van Gogh, 47, is stabbed and shot to death on the streets of Amsterdam after making a film critical of Moslems. Police arrest and charge a suspect holding joint Dutch and Moroccan citizenship. The killing ignites a wave of anti-Islamic violence across the Netherlands, and national soul-searching about the country's famed tolerance.
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( CAUSE ONE OF US IS GOIN' )
one of us is goin' down
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(Seeing as I keep creeping people out with the Doctor RP sample, here have something else...if not more depressing XD )
There had been so much death...so much noise and so much pain. After the invasion everything was going downhill. Netherland didn't have enough food to feed his people, and that alone was painful enough. But right now, on the smoking battlefield, Nikolaas couldn't think about those things. He had to find Belgium and Luxembourg!
Running through the trenches he spotted two familiar figures, jumping and skidding he nearly dropped on top of the two shorter females.
"Hallo!" he greeted them with the biggest grin he could muster. "You're both looking as gorgeous as ever" this was perhaps the biggest lie in the history of mankind, as none of them looked well at all. But fuck it all. These where his sisters, the least he could do was try and cheer them up.
Bullets could be heard ricocheting off dead soldiers helmets, but Nikolaas just shrugged...there was nothing he could do for them.
"I've got orders of moving you further down in the trenches. It's too risky to leave you here now. The enemy is advancing..." with that he grabbed a hold of them both and started dragging them along in the deep tranches. "Right...lay lo---"
Netherland didn't even get to finish his sentence before an enemy soldier jumped down into the trench and fired his gun at them.
His first reaction was to push Luxembourg and Belgium away before diving at the soldier. He could feel something in his chest, but ignored it as he struggled with the soldier.
A cut to the throat with his knife ended the struggle, but when Netherlands tried to stand up and turn around to face his sisters, he found no strength in his legs. Trying to blink away the creeping darkness at the edge of his vision, he tried to make out the blurred shapes before him...but he was slowly loosing consciousness.
'no..no...This can't be happening. Not now. They're not safe yet!' his mind was racing for a solution, but none came. The icy cold pain in his chest was spreading...and he couldn't stop it.
Collapsing down on the muddy trench floor, the only words he could muster out was a weak "I'm sorry...my… fault..."
Darkness overtook him, easing the pain, but not the worry.
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