Toris L. {Lithuania}
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Join date : 2015-11-10
Location : Vilna, Lithuania.
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| Name: Toris Laurinaitis.
Representative of: Lietuvos Respublika.
Gender: Male.Age: In human age, he's a 19 year old. Representation-wise he has been around since the 1230s.
Brief personality: The eldest of the three Baltics, Lithuania controlled Middle and Eastern Europe during the Middle Ages, and was a formidable knight that once beat Prussia, until he was taken by Russia. Though he managed to get away for a time, he always wound up back under Russia's control. After the Soviet Union fell, he fully regained his independence and went to rehabilitate with Poland.
He is extremely serious, even more serious than Germany, and worse at understanding jokes. He is a bit of an introvert and easy to take advantage of. He also tends to depress himself so much that he gets a stomachache, and generally has a weak stomach. Despite all this, Lithuania is described as being the relatively most cheerful of the Baltics, and the type of person who will welcome one into his heart once he knows the person. He tries to be a big brother figure and enjoys looking after others. However, it may be his kindness and concern for others that causes him so much distress.
Lithuania is also said to be interested in martial arts and literature, and drives a second-hand car.
Before the Polish-Swedish wars were to begin, Finland notes that though Lithuania is usually so kind, and looks like he couldn't hurt a fly, his face in battle changes. He shows exceptional leadership skills towards his soldiers, and his abilities in making strategies is extraordinary. By feigning a retreat at the beginning, he outsmarted Prussia and dived in just in time to save Poland.
In a rare strip, it is shown that the other two Baltics think highly of him, but resent that he ignores them in favor of spending time with Poland. In the character identification chart, it was said that there's no mistaking him if Russia or Poland are pushing him around.
Brief physical description: Lithuania is a plain-faced young man with shoulder-length brown hair and green eyes. In the Axis Powers Hetalia anime, they were colored blue, however their color was changed back to green in Hetalia: The Beautiful World. He's slender, but has a strong body. In his WWII appearances, he wears a green military uniform with tall boots (or simple shoes, depending on the reference image).[8][9] Lithuania sometimes wears his hair tied back into a ponytail, such as when he worked as a housekeeper or when he was younger.
In the strip While You Were Gone, Lithuania is shown to have deep scars covering his back.Brief history: - Lithuania's History:
Prehistoric
The first people settled in the territory of Lithuania after the last glacial period in the 10th millennium BC. Over a millennium, the Indo-Europeans, who arrived in the 3rd – 2nd millennium BC, mixed with the local population and formed various Baltic tribes. The first written mention of Lithuania is found in a medieval German manuscript, the Annals of Quedlinburg, in an entry dated 9 March 1009.
Medieval
Initially inhabited by fragmented Baltic tribes, in the 1230s the Lithuanian lands were united by Mindaugas, who was crowned as King of Lithuania on 6 July 1253. After his assassination in 1263, pagan Lithuania was a target of the Christian crusades of the Teutonic Knights and the Livonian Order. Despite the devastating century-long struggle with the Orders, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania expanded rapidly, overtaking former Slavic principalities of Kievan Rus'.
By the end of the 14th century, Lithuania was one of the largest countries in Europe and included present-day Belarus, Ukraine, and parts of Poland and Russia. The geopolitical situation between the west and the east determined the multicultural and multi-confessional character of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The ruling elite practiced religious tolerance and Chancery Slavonic language was used as an auxiliary language to the Latin for official documents.
In 1385, the Grand Duke Jogaila accepted Poland's offer to become its king. Jogaila embarked on gradual Christianization of Lithuania and established a personal union between Poland and Lithuania. It implied that Lithuania, the fiercely independent land, was one of the last pagan areas of Europe to adopt Christianity.
After two civil wars, Vytautas the Great became the Grand Duke of Lithuania in 1392. During his reign, Lithuania reached the peak of its territorial expansion, centralization of the state began, and the Lithuanian nobility became increasingly prominent in state politics. In the great Battle of the Vorskla River in 1399, the combined forces of Tokhtamysh and Vytautas were defeated by the Mongols. Thanks to close cooperation, the armies of Lithuania and Poland achieved a great victory over the Teutonic Knights in 1410 at the Battle of Grunwald, one of the largest battles of medieval Europe.
After the deaths of Jogaila and Vytautas, the Lithuanian nobility attempted to break the union between Poland and Lithuania, independently selecting Grand Dukes from the Jagiellon dynasty. But, at the end of the 15th century, Lithuania was forced to seek a closer alliance with Poland when the growing power of the Grand Duchy of Moscow threatened Lithuania's Russian principalities and sparked the Muscovite–Lithuanian Wars and the Livonian War.
Modern
The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was created in 1569. As a member of the Commonwealth, Lithuania retained its institutions, including a separate army, currency, and statutory laws. Eventually Polonization affected all aspects of Lithuanian life: politics, language, culture, and national identity. From the mid-16th to the mid-17th centuries, culture, arts, and education flourished, fueled by the Renaissance and the Protestant Reformation. From 1573, the Kings of Poland and Grand Dukes of Lithuania were elected by the nobility, who were granted ever increasing Golden Liberties. These liberties, especially the liberum veto, led to anarchy and the eventual dissolution of the state.
During the Northern Wars (1655–1661), the Lithuanian territory and economy were devastated by the Swedish army. Before it could fully recover, Lithuania was ravaged during the Great Northern War (1700–1721). The war, a plague, and a famine caused the deaths of approximately 40% of the country's population. Foreign powers, especially Russia, became dominant in the domestic politics of the Commonwealth. Numerous factions among the nobility used the Golden Liberties to prevent any reforms. Eventually, the Commonwealth was partitioned in 1772, 1792, and 1795 by the Russian Empire, Prussia, and Habsburg Austria.
The largest area of Lithuanian territory became part of the Russian Empire. After unsuccessful uprisings in 1831 and 1863, the Tsarist authorities implemented a number of Russification policies. They banned the Lithuanian press, closed cultural and educational institutions, and made Lithuania part of a new administrative region called Northwestern Krai. The Russification failed owing to an extensive network of book smugglers and secret Lithuanian home schooling.
After the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878), when German diplomats assigned what were seen as Russian spoils of war to Turkey, the relationship between Russia and the German Empire became complicated. The Russian Empire resumed the construction of fortresses at its western borders for defence against a potential invasion from Germany in the West. On 7 July 1879 the Russian Emperor Alexander II approved of a proposal from the Russian military leadership to build the largest "first-class" defensive structure in the entire state – the 65 km2 (25 sq mi) Kaunas Fortress. Large numbers of Lithuanians went to the United States in 1867–1868 after a famine. A Lithuanian National Revival laid the foundations of the modern Lithuanian nation and independent Lithuania.
20th and 21st centuries
The original 20 members of the Council of Lithuania after signing the Act of Independence of Lithuania, 16 February 1918.
During World War I, the Council of Lithuania (Lietuvos Taryba) declared the independence of Lithuania and the re-establishment of the Lithuanian State on 16 February 1918. Lithuania's foreign policy was dominated by territorial disputes with Poland and Germany. The Vilnius Region and Vilnius, the historical capital of Lithuania (and so designated in the Constitution of Lithuania), were seized by the Polish army during Żeligowski's Mutiny in October 1920 and annexed two years later by Poland. For 19 years Kaunas became the temporary capital of Lithuania. The Polish occupation of Vilnius was greatly resented by Lithuania; there were no diplomatic relations between the two states for most of the period between the two World Wars.
Acquired during the Klaipėda Revolt of 1923, the Klaipėda Region (German: Memelland) was ceded to Germany after a German ultimatum in March 1939. During the interwar period, the domestic affairs of Lithuania were controlled by the authoritarian President, Antanas Smetona and his party, the Lithuanian Nationalist Union, who came to power after the coup d'état of 1926.
1939–41
The Soviet Union returned Vilnius to Lithuania after the Soviet invasion of Eastern Poland in September 1939. In June 1940, the Soviet Union occupied and annexed Lithuania in accordance to the secret protocols of Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. The occupation was followed by mass arrests and deportations with Lithuania having 34,000 citizens removed. According to a Lithuanian government official, this was the start of a planned removal of 700,000 from Lithuania.
1941–44
A year later the Soviet Union was attacked by Nazi Germany, leading to the Nazi occupation of Lithuania. The Germans and their collaborators, in accordance with the Nazi German plans to reduce the population of Lithuania by 85% as set out in Generalplan Ost, started the killings immediately, in Lithuania, by 1 December 1941, over 120,000 Lithuanian Jews had been killed.
During the occupation, the Germans rounded up and murdered intellectuals, army officers, Romani people and around 190,000 Jews of Lithuania (91% of the pre-war Jewish community) during the Holocaust.
10 of the 25 Lithuanian police battalions, working with the Nazi Einsatzkommando, were involved in mass killings, they were thought to have executed 78,000 individuals.
Lithuanian partizans did exist, very few supported the communists. The Lithuanian army soldiers, who had been put into the 29th Rifle Corps of the Red army deserted or surrendered to the Germans in June 1941, resulting in the Lithuanian unit being disbanded in August 1941.
1944–91
After the retreat of the German armed forces, the Soviets re-established the annexation of Lithuania in 1944. Under border changes promulgated at the Potsdam Conference in 1945, the former German Memelland, with its Baltic port Memel (Lithuanian: Klaipėda), was again transferred to Lithuania, or as it was after 1945 the Lithuanian SSR. Most German residents of the area had fled in the final months of World War II.
The Soviets engaged in massive deportations of Lithuanians to Siberia,[24] complete nationalisation and collectivisation and general sovietization of everyday life. From 1944 to 1952 approximately 100,000 Lithuanian partisans fought a guerrilla war against the Soviet system. An estimated 30,000 partisans and their supporters were killed, and many more were arrested and deported to Siberian gulags. It is estimated that Lithuania lost 780,000 people during World War II.
The advent of perestroika and glasnost in the late 1980s allowed the establishment of Sąjūdis, an anti-Communist independence movement. After a landslide victory in elections to the Supreme Soviet, members of Sąjūdis proclaimed Lithuania's independence on 11 March 1990, becoming the first Soviet republic to do so. The Soviet Union attempted to suppress the secession by imposing an economic blockade. Soviet troops attacked the Vilnius TV Tower, killing 14 Lithuanian civilians and wounding 600 others on the night of 13 January 1991 (January Events). On 31 July 1991 Soviet paramilitaries killed seven Lithuanian border guards on the Belarusian border in what became known as the Medininkai Massacre.
On 4 February 1991, Iceland became the first country to recognise Lithuania's independence. After the Soviet August Coup, independent Lithuania received wide official recognition and joined the United Nations on 17 September 1991.
1991–present
The last Soviet troops left Lithuania on 31 August 1993– even earlier than they departed from East Germany. Lithuania, seeking closer ties with the West, applied for NATO membership in 1994. After a transition from a planned economy to a free market one, Lithuania became a full member of NATO and the European Union in the spring of 2004 and a member of the Schengen Agreement on 21 December 2007.
Religious affiliation: Roman Catholic.
Any special powers or abilities: He has great leadership skills and he's a great fighter.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Relationships:
Relationships
America
After becoming poor from the fallout of WWI, Lithuania lived with America for a brief period of time and worked for him as his housekeeper. He proclaimed it was 'heaven' and was fond of America. He was well received by America's whale friend and Tony, who often beamed him up into his spaceship out of jealousy when Lithuania paid attention to the whale.
After the Great Depression hit and poverty spread throughout the nations, Lithuania had to return to Russia. In a more present-day strip, Lithuania returned to America's house to celebrate his birthday.
Belarus
Lithuania holds a crush on Russia's younger sister since childhood though it isn't returned, for she only has eyes for her brother and harbors hatred for Lithuania. In a discarded strip, it was said that she'd been doing things such as breaking his fingers since they were children, however as it was discarded and a proper one released (though, deleted later) it's likely this has been removed. Furthermore, another blog post referred to them as something of childhood friends. When he finally succeeded in going on a date with her for three minutes, it ended with her breaking all of his fingers though he continued to remain oblivious to her harsh nature and simply stated that his fingers were broken because he could bend them like that.
A strip implied that Belarus hates him because her brother favors him. It's implied that Belarus' hatred for him comes from the real-life history fact between the two countries from Lithuania's annexation of Belarus and due to this, she was separated from her brother for a long time, during the Grand Duchy of Lithuania era.
Curiously in the Halloween 2011 event, she seem to be more civil with him and he is shown to be shocked to see her badmouthing Denmark.
Poland
The two have been rather close friends. They were partners in the days of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, before Russia split them apart and took Lithuania under his control. Their union was their golden age and they could trust each other and collaborate quite well, such as in the First Battle of Tannenberg, but their relationship could also be very turbulent.
When Lithuania is under the rule of Russia he is nostalgic for the days of his union with Poland, but Poland can be so selfish, controlling and bizarrely-behaved that Lithuania feels dragged around and can become extremely frustrated with him. In the WWII storyline, despite being concerned about Poland's impending fate, Lithuania was shown have negative memories and even nightmares about when Poland has troubled him. But later, he has a dream set in the past where Poland tells him he loves him no matter what he thinks of him. In this dream, Poland also promises to be less selfish.
They managed to meet up again in While You Were Gone. Lithuania was surprised to learn that Poland, who is usually very shy, was good friends with Italy, and thinks "there's a side of Poland I don't know." Later, Poland attempted to play a prank on Lithuania with a water gun but wound up discovering the scars on his back, and in return he thinks "there's a side of Lithuania I don't know."
Poland refers to Lithuania as "Liet" (short for Lietuva, the Lithuanian word for Lithuania), and won't stand for him being bullied by Russia, as revealed in both versions of Meeting Of The World (yet to different extents in each version). In The Legend of the Iron Wolf strip, the two share stories about the creation of their capitals, although it can be questioned whether Poland heard Lithuania's story.
Prussia
When they were children, Prussia (as Teutonic Knights) would bully Lithuania, who was Pagan at the time, into converting to Christianity. He would throw arrows, rocks and acorns at him. They are further shown as enemies at the First Battle of Tannenberg, where Lithuania defeats Prussia and saves Poland from being killed by feigning a retreat and arriving back just in time. While defeating him, Lithuania also scolds Prussia's cowardly attack and lack of alertness and chivalry.
In World War II, Lithuania was hesitant to speak to Germany because Prussia had faced brutal defeats at the hands of him and Poland, but Germany did not seem to remember, to Lithuania's relief.
When Prussia is integrated with the Soviets, Lithuania admits to Prussia that he hates him, and does not like being honest with him. He then gives Prussia advice that Russia loves guys who cry and laugh easily, so he should be careful.
Russia
After the partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Lithuania became Russia's subordinate. It is suggested that he was Russia's "favourite" of the Baltics, so he's often the target of Russia's bullying. It is heavily implied that the deep scars covering his back were inflicted by Russia because he was the main target of his harsh treatment; in Lithuania's flashback, he thinks of being forced into a maid outfit and approached by Russia holding a whip.
After WWI, Lithuania spent eleven years working at America's house. Russia visits at one point during the outsourcing to tell America to take good care of Lithuania, because he is his "possession," said in a threatening manner. Once the Great Depression started, Lithuania could no longer work for America, so Russia came to pick him up.
In the epilogue of Lithuania's Out-Sourcing, it's shown that Russia was so upset about Lithuania temporarily leaving him that he overworked him to the point of fatigue. Lithuania fell asleep on Russia's shoulder and then woke up horrified. But instead of punishing him, Russia was unusually calm and asked Lithuania what his dreams were. Lithuania shared that his dreams were to be free like when he was young. Russia then smiled and confessed his dreams were to live in a warm place, surrounded by sunflowers. Lithuania thought this was "strangely cute" and passed out on Russia again, and woke up panicking again, only to find Russia replaced by a panda bear.
In modern times, Lithuania is shown as remaining nervous around Russia, whose approach towards him seems rather unchanged. It is said Lithuania is "dangerously exposed to Russia's gaze" and always worried about what he'll do next. Russia states at the Meeting of the World that he would like to see a troubled Lithuania coming back to him in tears, and he continues to stalk him.
A comic from Volume 3 of the manga shows that the two of them met as small children while Russia was under the Tatar's rule. Russia declared that he would be a large powerful country one day, and then they could be friends. Lithuania asked why they couldn't be friends right then. Russia said he couldn't allow himself to befriend anybody because he was much too weak, but he would try his hardest to become strong.
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