Peking, September 7th, 1901. The Forbidden Palace has been breached and the foreigners have taken to their prizes. Russians have moved into Manchuria and now occupy it, whilst the Dowager's lackeys have had to sign the Boxer Protocol. The powers of civilization stand firm and the maddened mandarins have been beaten. Today, the Empire Celebrates! -British Newspaper
This is an RP set in pre-WW1 and post-Victorian China right after the Empire has been destabilized and the West is occupying the country. The world is changing and China is just one example of this. New ideologies and ideas are spreading like weeds, the bourgeousie is growing whilst the lower and upper classes are getting ever smaller and weaker. Powers are carving up Africa and Asia and are squabbling in the so called "great game." Light hostilities are abound left and right and men are silently killing each other for pawns are nothing when the kings and queens are so high. You will be a minor player in this, fighting for the interests of your country or even relatives if your country has failed to protect you from the marauding foreigners.
"Poor Imperial Government! So Christianly unselfish, and yet so unjustly maligned! Several years ago it unselfishly seized Port Arthur, and now it is unselfishly seizing Manchuria; it has unselfishly flooded the frontier provinces of China with hordes of contractors, engineers, and officers, who, by their conduct, have roused to indignation even the Chinese, known for their docility." -Vladimir Lenin
Full Name: Do not make it some retarded shit i.e. calling your be-mustached british man daquan. Follow the character's nation's naming traditions and styles too.
Age: self-explanatory.
Gender: also self-explanatory, don't try to be a girl who don't need no man, if you can be a gril but don't try to make her a cossack or a marine or something of the sort when they generally weren't allowed. You can still be a rebel, or a nun, or a spy, etc.
Appearance: Preferably a description and a picture but you should have a description no matter what; a pic will never be a perfect representation of your character and if it is then you have poor imagination/are unoriginal.
Nationality: What is the home country of your character? Preferably be specific i.e. name the city or region your person is from.
Ethnicity: Similar to nationality, you can be British but be more specific ethnically. Are you an Irishman? If from Russia are you perhaps actually a Finn, or Cossack? Which of the Chinese ethnic groups are you? etc. etc.
Service: Who is your allegiance to? Are you a marine or ground forces of your nation? Are you perhaps a spy, or if a rebel is your allegiance to the Chinese Empire, or independent boxer? The possibilities are near endless.
Equipment: What do you generally carry with you? More common soldiers will have standard rank and file weapons of their nation whilst spies and officers have a bit more freedom. Generally you won't have armour, unless your are a veteran of a cuirassier division and have a cuirass from the old days or have some traditional chinese armour. Also mention general things like a cross or a bible, perhaps a locket or watch.
Political views: Not only China is changing, so is Europe. Are you a traditionalist, reactionary, liberal, communist, fascist, apathetic, etc. While this may not come to much use in the RP it will add another dimension to your character.
Religion: Generally this will be some branch of Christianity (Protestant/Catholic in the West, Orthodox/Old Believer in the East of Europe) for Europeans and buddhism, islam or some minor religion if Chinese. However, once again times are changing and all sorts of new forces are appearing. This is after all the era of Nietzche and Wagner, you might be a somewhat repressed atheist, or a neo-pagan.
Bio: Give me at least one chunky paragraph but preferably more.
Other: anything else.
Alright, I await your CSs lads, if you have any questions feel free to ask.
Waiting on confirmation that one of my roleplays I'm in now is dead. I'm expecting to get a character up this weekend if so, I'll probably PM you some details as I work on it.
