🢂 Rome has SPQR written on his back. It's distorted by numerous scars covering it. It's hard to tell if it's a tattoo or a scar. It's not like a typical slave marking/brand, though.

🢂 Thracia is a friend and underling of his. She an unconventional but good fighter. She takes more after Greece, but Rome doesn't really mind. Rome thinks she "hides her beauty". She feels at peace near rivers and has three birds that follow her around (they peck at Rome). The birds are Procne (swallow), Philomela (nightingale), and Tereus (hoopoe).

🢂 Dacia was a little punk, but now he is Rome's underling. He used to pick on Thracia a lot. Dacia is sometimes called Felix by Rome. Who knows if Rome calls him that out of irony or truth.

🢂 Rome was with Crassus during the Third Servile War. Crassus was his least favorite member of the First Triumvirate.

🢂 Rome liked Pompey, but Caeser eventually won him over in terms of favor far more.

🢂 Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece were in love before Ancient Rome was even founded. Ancient Egypt used to mentor Ancient Greece when they were younger.

🢂 Ancient Greece is the first love of his life. She used to tell him about Greek mythology when he was much smaller as bedtime stories. She is a refined, beautiful, and powerful nation. She is his underlying currently.

🢂 Ancient Egypt was the second love of his life. Rome helped Cleopatra meet Julius Caesar as a way to court her. He fell deeply in love with her while Caesar spent time in Egypt. It took Ancient Egypt longer to return his feelings.

🢂 He thinks Pontus is a real cutie! She may not be one of the loves of his life, but she holds a special place in his heart. She is currently an underling of his.

🢂 Etruria was the first strong nation Rome encountered after his founding. He believes Etruria tried "to kill him" as soon as they met "out of fear" because of Rome's potential. This is Rome's biased view as he has extremely mixed feelings about Etruria and a sense of betrayal. Etruria was the first nation Rome "killed"/destroyed. Fragments of Etruria live within him from their time spent together, good and bad.

🢂 Carthage was an "asshole" and Rome utterly destroyed him #noregrets.

🢂 Rome first met Mother Britannia with Julius Caesar. Rome encountered her with two children nations (Caledonia and Britannia). Mother Britannia died not long before Rome annexed the child Britannia. Rome had a part in her death, something Caledonia holds against him. Britannia is often picked on by Caledonia and his other siblings so Rome has to step in. He tried his best to protect the young Britannia. Rome doesn't think Britannia takes after him much, but there are subtle things. He bonds with the young Britannia with baths and large feasts.

🢂 Most of Rome's underlings actually are older than him or around the same age. Only a fraction of them were younger than him. His oldest underling was Mesopotamia. He fought with Persia over having Mesopotamia numerous times.

🢂 Rome felt compelled to take France as an underling because Germania kept scaring him. That's the excuse anyway.

🢂 As a young kingdom, he grew up feeling extremely lonely and feeling like everyone wanted to use him or kill him. It's shaped how he treats his underlings and provinces like a family no matter how dysfunctional it can get.

🢂 Ancient Greece helped raise him and watched him grow through several huge growth spurts.

🢂 Persia is one of his biggest rivals and enemies. They have a complicated history with each other and Persia has cockblocked him from trading and communicating with China easily and directly. Also Persia keeps stealing and harassing, in his view anyway, Mesopotamia (leave the old ass nation alone!!).

PERMISSIONS

INFO

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NAME Rome
CANON Axis Powers Hetalia
CANON POINT 235 AD

INFO link
MOONBLESSING Sanguis

AGE ~988 (DOB: April 21, 753 BC)
SPECIES Human personification of a country
GENDER M
APPEARANCE link
HEIGHT 6'1"
BUILD Muscular, large in stature
HAIR Brown
EYES Amber
VOICE link
FEATURES He has a lot of scars on his back. He has SPQR on his upper left back, but it's very difficult to see these days due to it being faded and several scars over it.

PLAYER Hope
TIMEZONE PST
CONTACT vertibird#3478

HUGGING
yes
KISSING
yes
FLIRTING
yes
ROMANCE
yes
SEX
yes
FIGHTING
yes
INJURY
yes (ask!)
DEATH
no
MIND-READING
yes (ask!)
MANIPULATION
yes (ask!)
OTHER
N/A

BACKTAGGING
yes
THREADHOPPING
yes
FOURTHWALLING
yes (ask!)
CRAU
Ask first
OFF-LIMITS
War and human atrocities committed by the Roman Empire
OTHER

▶ PLAYER
HANDLE: Hope
CONTACT: vertibird#3478
OVER 18? Y!
CHARACTERS IN-GAME: N/A

▶ CHARACTER
NAME: Ancient Rome
CANON: Axis Powers Hetalia
CANON POINT: 235 (beginning of the Crisis of the Third Century)
AGE: ~ 988 if we're going off Rome being founded on April 21, 753 BC
BACKGROUND: Hetalia wiki & Roman History

PERSONALITY:

🠺 RESILIENT + OPTIMISTIC

Rome has been shown to have a spirit that is resilient. Even during difficult times, between war and internal civil conflict, Rome's attitude is to persevere and keep going. He even has an optimistic view most of the time, bouncing back from one defeat only to look forward to the next battle where he insists he'll be the winner. Even during dire circumstances throughout his history, he's found a silver lining that has kept him going. His resilience has led to him defeat numerous countries and become the empire he is today. Rome's history has been full of crises, coups d'état and betrayal, but for the most part, he's been able to come back (the exception of course is the fall of the Western part of the Empire). The Roman Empire's borders have grown, shrunk, and grown again throughout his history.

 🠺 ADVENTUROUS + ADAPTIVE  

Rome would have most likely stayed a small city and kingdom if it weren't for his desire to explore and become more powerful. He's always up for a challenge, a fight, or to explore and conquer new lands. He's said to have fallen in love with both Ancient Greece and Ancient Egypt the first time he met them, and he's been shown in Hetalia to admire both their cultures. He's quite boisterous and prefers fighting and being outside rather than dealing with politics. Roman culture and religion were known for adapting and Romanizing cultures and traditions of lands that became a part of the Roman Empire. In Hetalia, Rome has been able to adapt to many different leaders throughout his life who've had very different personalities and styles. He's been through times of war and peace and three different types of government types (kingdom, republic, and empire). Even with all these changes, he's still has found a way to be the country his people need him to be. He been shown in Hetalia and history to be adaptive on the battlefield as well, especially with war tactics. He's even had to deal with how his economy runs several times. This is shown in a Hetalia strip where Rome's military was used for farming to help improve his economy/health.  

🠺 AMBITIOUS
 
If Rome did not desire to grow and become more powerful, history would have looked very different. Hetalia portrays Rome as someone who is always looking for strong people and challenging battles. While he enjoys relaxing and having fun, he enjoys fighting those who are stronger than him. Rome isn't the one to back down from a fight even if the circumstances are dire. Rome became a large empire because of his ambitions, his desire for power and expanding his borders. Many of his own leaders were ambitious themselves which most likely rubbed off on Rome. He becomes excited when he hears about strong people, especially those who he feels embody Roman values of strength (mind, body, and leadership). His desire to better himself and become a powerful country led him to become a massive empire.

Rome's greatest weakness is also one of his strengths, something many of his leaders, generals, and politicians throughout his history share. The ambitions of his own people are a weakness of his, too, because of how Hetalia portrays nations. Rome has had his own share of leaders and politicians who will do anything for power. In turn, this has hurt him and has caused several internal conflicts throughout history. It's even said he grew too big too quickly, and this desire for power and wealth has caused him problems along the way. He's not the type to admit his weaknesses and let others worry about him.

🠺 HEADSTRONG

Rome is the type to push himself and never back down from a challenge. He's conquered many lands in order to give himself and his people power and wealth. Yet with such wealth and power, many foolish and bad decisions were made along the way. Even when he loses battles, he does not want to give up. He is committed to becoming stronger, but with strength and power comes responsibility. While he isn't a complete slacker, he is shown for not liking the politics and government side of maintaining his country and people.

🠺 HEDONISTIC

Rome is shown in Hetalia to love indulging himself in many pleasures. These pleasures usually are beautiful women, wine, baths, gladiator performances, and fighting someone strong. While he's fought a lot, Rome appreciates taking time to relax (hence his "Pax Romana" era). As previously mentioned, some of his biggest motivations for exploring and conquering new places is to meet beautiful women (especially cute female nations). While he doesn't solely exist for pleasure, he sure loves to indulge in it and usually is up for a good time.   

🠺 OVERLY CONFIDENT + DENIAL

While denial isn't a personality trait, Rome doesn't want to face the reality that he's becoming weaker. Rome has been shown to cover up and hide when isn't feeling well. He believes he's the type to always bounce back and become stronger despite the circumstances. He's seen telling other nations and his people how "strong", "awesome", "powerful", and "cool" he is. Being overly confident even led to his eventual downfall, as he counted on Germania too much as an ally.  He wants to preserve the image/facade of him being a powerful and a "cool" empire despite the external and internal conflicts and battles happening. When his confidence is temporarily shattered, out of humiliation usually, he can be quite dramatic and be insecure. This side of him is shown in a strip where he goes to find a previous house of his in modern day Rome is now a bench for tourists to sit on and the strips involving his loss to Persia. Upon reflection after his death in Hetalia, he called himself foolish because he was overly confident in himself and could not comprehend that power and wealth were not permanent things for people and nations.

POWERS/ABILITIES:

🠺 "Immortality": Sort of, anyway. Rome's existence is tied to the Ancient Roman people so normal means simply can't kill him. He can still get hurt, receive scars, feel pain, etc.

🠺 Health/healing + Strength: Rome's health, ability to heal, and strength ties into how well (economically, socially, politically, etc.) his government, military, and people are doing. Countries in Hetalia have been shown to have minor colds from economic troubles and Rome's been shown in strips to feel fatigued after economic costly wars. He is physically stronger than a normal human and has greater endurance compared to the average human. He's not too overpowered, but his strength and healing are not typical to humans.

🠺 Fighting + Weapons: Rome is an excellent fighter who has many centuries of experience fighting in wars. He's skilled with Ancient Roman weapons, battle tactics, and is familiar with many different ancient fighting styles and weapons.


INVENTORY:
🠺 one of Ancient Egypt's cats
🠺 a pouch full of roman denarii with a hidden denarius commemorating Severus Alexander
🠺 a gladius with the inscription of “veni, vidi, vici” on it
🠺 a letter from Maximinus Thrax
🠺 a small jug of Gallic wine
🠺 a small iron figurine of Lupa


MOONBLESSING: Sanguis

▶ SAMPLES

These are from a previous game. While the canon point isn't exact to the year, I'm pulling him from his empire days which are shown in these samples.

i, ii, iii, iv