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OOC
Name: Ferus
Contact: begabterMusiker
Age: 26
Current characters: N/A


IC
Name: Austria/Roderich Edelstein
Fandom: Axis Powers Hetalia
History link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria#History
Age: 1063 (actual)/mid 20s (appearance)
Canon point: Late June of 1989, a few weeks after the Pan-European Picnic.

Personality: Austria is an aristocrat, elegant and refined, with a taste for the finer things in life. He enjoys gourmet food, the opera, and classical music, preferably of Austrian origin, though German will do in a pinch. He can be stern when he thinks those who are supposed to be doing a job are not doing it, and does not like being made to wait. He is, however quite likely to neglect his own work to practice his own hobbies. But whenever he does something, he always makes sure to do a good job, preferring to take longer to accomplish something and do it perfectly than to do something quickly and do a shoddy job at it. He has a long fuse, trying his best to be polite and preferring to cross verbal swords with someone than actual ones. He tends to be quiet unless angered and likes things to be orderly and for people to follow the rules, oftentimes becoming annoyed with them when they do not unless it is for a very good reason.

He often seems aloof to all but those he considers good friends, staying within the bounds of polite behavior whenever he can. However the better he knows someone the more he will feel able to relax around them, but he feels has to trust someone before he will do this. This is perhaps because he is not terribly good at expressing emotions other than anger and annoyance, and even then he is more adept at expressing himself through music than actually speaking with someone. He is not given to public displays of affection, considering such things inappropriate, even when the person involved is someone he does care about. He in fact tends to become highly embarrassed and flustered over such things.

He has horrible direction sense, and is highly likely to get lost in any area he is not very familiar with, though he will rarely admit to this, or most faults even, outright denying them when diversions don't work. He has a pronounced sweet tooth, enjoying most desserts, but cakes are a particular favorite of his, followed closely by strudels and home made chocolate. He is frugal about almost everything, preferring to wear clothes until they can no longer be discretely repaired before buying new ones and eating leftovers when he does not have guests. He does have some things he willingly splurges on that are not to keep up appearances, these things being his music, cake, until recently his wife Hungary. He's still not sure what to do about his continuing feelings for the last one, and as such prefers not to talk about them.

He is certainly capable of loving someone, even if he often isn't too sure what to do about it when it happens, as loving someone is a rare and truthfully uncomfortable thing for him. Despite how much music deals with the subject, he has never quite gotten a good grasp of the emotion, despite having been married twice before to Spain and then to Hungary. He insists that Spain was a different circumstance, purely political and that the man was never home for very long for it to have even the possibility to be anything else and that any such claims are patently ridiculous and slanderous. No one has ever pressed to find out if that is strictly truth. He prefers not to speak about his old marriage to Hungary. He is not quite sure what they are anymore, but for now he is content to know that they can at least see each other and speak, a luxury that they were denied for so long.

He dislikes violence and has never been a very combative person, preferring to avoid wars and fights in general and in fact is quite likely to be beaten if it comes down to physical confrontation, hence his preference for treaties and discussions. Thirty years ago he declared himself a neutral nation, and he has no intention of going against that neutrality. After all the wars in his life time he is done with conquest and violence.

He is perhaps slightly more relaxed than he used to be, though compared to many of his neighbors he remains as easily flustered and repressed as ever. He still likes his privacy but after almost fifty years separated from may of his neighbors he no longer minds quite so much if someone were to come over to visit. He does like to have some kind of notice though.

Powers/Abilities: Austria will live for as long as his country lives, as such he has, in essence eternal life. Of a sort. His health is therefore tied to his country's economy and wealth. Currently he is rather healthy, due to the improvement of the political climate in Europe and the removal of that blasted wall between his and Hungary's gardens. He can certainly be injured, but can endure more of it than a normal human before he dies.

Other than that he has no real abilities that are not a product of being alive for a little over one thousand years. He is remarkably skilled on several instruments (piano, harpsichord, violin, cello, flute, and harp,) and is able to cook quite well, though he often does not and it has been known to generate startling sounds when he does. He also speaks several languages, including German, English, French, Spanish, Hungarian and Russian. He can fence, but prefers to use his training for sport purposes than actual fighting. He is able to shoot, but not very well and he dislikes doing so quite passionately.