SMILE though your heart is aching

PLAYER INFORMATION
PLAYER: Piipa
ARE YOU AT LEAST 14 YEARS OLD?: Yes, quite.
IF UNDER 18 YEARS OLD, PLEASE STATE YOUR AGE: n/a, much older.
CONTACT: hyaline314@gmail.com, piipa
PERSONAL JOURNAL: piipa314
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CHARACTER INFORMATION
NAME: Vilmar Andersen (Denmark)
CANON: Axis Powers Hetalia
CANON REFERENCE: Hetarchives: Denmark
AGE: 18
GENDER: Male
YEAR IN SCHOOL/FACULTY POSITION: HS4

APPEARANCE: Awesome grin is important.

Vil is a tall guy with rather average build. He has some muscles in his wiry body but nothing really to flaunt, (which doesn't stop him from doing so.) His colors are pale and very Scandinavian, blond hair and brightly blue eyes.

PERSONALITY: To call Vilmar a hopeless fool wouldn't be completely correct but there is something there, definitely. He is earnest to a point where most people feel secondhand embarrassment when interacting with him. His intentions and emotions are often on public display, laid out without a second's hesitation for the rest of the world to see. However, if you know him well enough, you might also be aware of the fact that it's not that simple. (People rarely are.)

To understand the reasons why Vil is the way he is, you'll have to look at his family and childhood. His only sibling lived apart from him, quiet often in another country and because of his parents' work, he spent a lot of time alone. He feels easily alone when he doesn't have people constantly around him and this is why he tends to be rather clingy even to those he's known for a short amount of time. However, making lasting connections, despite his overtly friendly attitude, is not easy for him. He's used to being upbeat and brave - always the new kid around, he'd have gone without any friendly interaction otherwise - but that is a hard attitude to let go. He's good at pretending that everything is okay even when it's not. Of course his family worried about how he's faring as they moved around a lot and he was alone constantly. But a child is capable of sensing these things and he got used to smiling even to his mother and father while aching inside.

It's not fair to say that he was an unhappy child. He's a stubborn person, and when he decided that all is well, then it usually was - eventually. But while his positive attitude would carry him through quite a bit of misfortune, it didn't make him an easily approachable person. Superficially he's not a tough nut to crack. He is ready to initiate contact and seems like an open book to most people. But he doesn't let people close to him. His fears and doubts are very private and you'll never hear him talking about matters that really touch him. Even those close to him will have to wonder and take a guess. It's not that he's a secretive person by nature, but that he got so used to denial during early childhood that he no longer knows how to accept the fact that he might not be okay at all times.

Denial of sadness and failure also led to him having a strangely warped idea of his own capabilities. Not necessarily thinking too much of himself, but feeling that no obstacle was too great for him to overcome. He is the knight who fences with windmills, not necessarily because he feels that he has the skills and perseverance for the job, but because failure is unacceptable. Sure, he's used to the idea of not scoring something perfectly - blunder and clumsiness are unfortunately every day kind of companions to him - but he will keep trying until he succeeds.

Vil is a social creature. People are easily more important to him than material goods or intellectual ideas. He's by nature very generous and earnest but often thoughtless in his eagerness to please. It's not that he isn't capable of viewing the bigger picture, but that he's often too fast for his own good. He acts before he thinks more often than not. In fact, he is more prone to think with his body than with his brain. It's easy for him to learn things when he has a possibility of trying something new, when he can physically do something. In a way he might seem very gifted when most tangible tasks are something he picks up without a problem. But on the other end of the spectrum, he seems slow when it comes to understanding purely intellectual concepts.

But despite the fact that new ideas do not land to his understanding instantly, he is very receptive of them. Open minded and easily renewable, he tends to be rather liberal in his views, accepting and unbiased towards common opinions and attitudes. Perhaps because of his generous inclination he's also easily excitable and tends to come across very energetic. He talks without a pause and tends to be rather loud. It gives off an impression of a pushy, thoughtless person. However, even if this gains him quite a bit of arguments with other people, he isn't an aggressive person, quite the opposite. Rowdy and stubborn, sure, and capable of taking care of himself, but not easily angered. He'd rather take a punch than start a fight.

Of course, it's not impossible to get a rise out of him. But while it's not unusual for him to be the loudest party of an argument, yelling and gesturing wildly, he forgets easily and moves on, shares a cab fee with the person he argued with even. Unless you've managed to anger him properly. There aren't many things that will touch him to that length. But he does possess a streak of temper that will rise to the occasion on those rare times. Hurting people he loves is a sure way to anger him. He doesn't let close that many but those few are more important to him than anything else. They will become his family.

In summary, he may be a touch clueless, a bit of a clown and mouthy to a point of irritation, but never thoughtless on purpose. He loves with a heart of a child, earnest and dependent but never fails to give back as much affection as he hopes to get. And while you think nothing touches him through the ever present grin and careless attitude, it's hardly the case but he can be quite vulnerable especially with the people he loves.

POWERS/ABILITIES: Vil's power is defined as Kinetic Energy Manipulation, however, that is one very wide area of powers and this idiot would never be able to master them all. And it's hardly something that is desired either. Then, what is he capable of doing with it?

1. Ultimately he could become aware of how to transfer the kinetic energy into either himself or other targets, but only inanimate objects outside himself. At the very peak of this ability he could do great many things given that he would have brains to understand physics to that level. However, as we can rule that out quite effectively, the limits of his ability will be mostly at giving his own body a boost, durability and strength and "charging" objects with the energy to create either ballistic weapons out of them or explosions. The bigger the object, the longer will be the time he needs for charging it, and he needs a skin contact with the item.

2. His current abilities are based on reaction rather than control. He can "shield" himself from damage by boosting his body's durability when being punched for example. Two times out of three he is successful but quite unaware how he did it. One time out of three he can pack a punch with kinetic energy. He literally has no idea how to bring these effects to active use or how to control the strength of the effect. "Charging" objects with energy he has started to slowly figure out, but it's a slow process and will need quite a bit of honing. Currently he accidentally ends up blowing things up but can manage to charge something small, like a coffee cup after quite a lot of concentration and whining. He tends to react to different kinds of emotional stimuli rather differently. Having sort of natural battle reflexes will make him focus in a dangerous situation, and help him with his abilities. But a stressful phone call with his mother might cause uncontrollable bursts of energy.

AU HISTORY: Vilmar was born in Scania, Sweden. His father's family comes from Norway but he barely has met most of them. However, he had a half brother, the same age as him. He never thought to ask about this before Björn and his mother moved to Finland when the boys started school. In a child's world it was just one of those things. His half-brother lived in another house with another mother and was both his best friend and his worst enemy. As a child he was mostly sad that they didn't live together, but later on realized just how weird the situation was. His father had been a fickle man, and would be just as fickle for the rest of Vil's short history.

His early childhood was filled with constant moving after his father's job as a furniture salesman. Only after his mother bought a small bakery in Skåde, Denmark, they settled down.

While his childhood wasn't unhappy, he was often alone and rarely had any friends after Björn had moved, as he was always the new kid around. His father traveled a lot even after they bought a house in Skåde and was rarely home. His mother similarly had to do long hours at the bakery. Having little stability and poor grounds for settling down, he grew up a bit clingy and dependent to those few relationships he would form along the years. Björn visited during summer holidays, sometimes with his Finnish friend, Timo. Björn's mother was busy during the summer months and Björn rarely saw his father otherwise. Vil and Björn weren't the easiest match, Björn being silent and solemn, Vil bubbling with energy. They fought a lot and often about their father.

When he was nine, an old family friend of his father's moved from Iceland to Skåde, seeking to form a business partnership with Vil's father. The family included two boys, the older, Sigurd, was the same age as Vil, and Ari,the younger brother, was their junior by two years. The families perhaps pushed the boys together, not that it would have been necessary at all. Vilmar was quite starved for any kind of friendship and semi-familial connection. Of course Sigurd was always the one he asked for when he would visit or call, but it wouldn't be fair to say Ari was only included by proxy. No, he was just younger and not always included in the adventures of the older boys, though Sigurd would insist upon it more often than not.

Vil's abilities wouldn't come to surface before late teenage. But one might wonder if he had managed to utilize them in daily usage for years before. He was a rowdy child, just like he still is a rowdy almost-adult, and often got into brawls with the other children of the neighborhood. He's not someone to put a lot of thought into why he would come out of a fight with less scratches than the rest of them, why his punches would land harder. He would just attribute it to his own personal awesomeness without a fail.

It was a surprise to himself as well when a fight with Björn resulted with an explosion in the kitchen and a rather nasty burn wound on Björn's arm as he tried to shield himself from it. Needless to say they were both shocked and equally horrified. Björn and Timo left after that, driving by bicycles to Finland. First his parents would rather deny the fact that something was wrong with their child, and grounded him until he'd confess how he got a hold of explosives and why would he use them against his own brother. But eventually they all had to face the reality when incidents would follow one another as teenage hormones and temperament ruled over his body and mind.

The following years weren't easy for Vil. Unstable powers, parents divorcing and his father moving to Finland to live with Björn and his mother instead, not seeing his brother (though he would insist that this was a good thing) and struggling with abandonment issues as well as deeply rooted fear that it was his loss of control that drove both his father and his brother away. Self-searching and quite a lot of frustrating attempts to control his power would eventually help him to grow to a man who was less likely to start fights but go to quite lengtsh to avoid them.

The problem with not growing up to realize the potential of his abilities but coming to the realization rather abruptly was that he couldn't quite come to master them on his own. Strong emotions, tedious physical conditions, just sudden changes in atmosphere - all the mentioned and more would usurp his already frayed control over them occasionally. It became clear pretty quickly to him and his mother that something had to be done about it.

However, it took four years to find a solution. In the meantime he tried to master it on his own. He didn't want to hurt anyone, after all. Not even his brother, who moved with his mother to Denmark permanently when the boys were 16, their flake of a father having abandoned also Björn's mother eventually. Living close quarters with Björn would always mean a bit of brawling and quite a bit more of arguing, though as they grew up, the fights slowly became less violent and their interaction easier. One could even pose a question if most of the aggression earlier on was all about separation anxiety coupled with teenage hormones. Whatever the case, once living in the same city again, their relationship slowly changed for the positive and grew less tense.

To Vil's great excitement, a solution was found when his mother was made aware of the Institution. The best thing, however, was that he wouldn't have to dare the great unknown of the wide world on his own but in the company of his best friends, who also confessed to having similar problems. Sigurd even was kind enough to abuse some language lessons into his thick head before they'd transfer between the semesters. The worst? Well, that would be the fact that his brother and his friend Timo would also tag along.

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1ST PERSON SAMPLE: Phone call

THIRD PERSON SAMPLE: Msebox log with Ari & Sigurd