Asian Famiry Reunions OIKYK

[Im Yong Soo~!]

No, really, they did, da ze!

Okay! SO! This is where we weave the tangled thread that is Asian relations. We all know (or should know) the back story to the village of Yīzhì, the name generously found by our resident China. (Ing-Shay. It means "To Heal," btb)

All or most of the Asians were found by their governments and brought to this little east-coast village in China to be raised as a community, a Family, and thus repair the relationships damaged by the World War conflicts and form an aggressive position of global power through a united Asian force, but that's beside the point.

We were raised and taught both our own cultures and languages, the basics of the others (with an emphasis on Mandarin Chinese), and English. We were brothers, sisters, and friends.

Then came the bandits. Suddenly, everything was destroyed, damaged, and broken. We were either scattered to the winds, exiled by shame, or driven forth by a restless longing for the truth.

Here, we get to talk about all that fun back-story stuff! This is where we get our stories straight, da ze.

So, how to begin?

[Wang Yao]

Xiao didi! Xiao meimei!

First thing I want to ask ... in what order did our Asians start coming into the village? Who was the first one there/found? And who was the last?

[Im Yong Soo~!]

Hmmm...That is a good question to start off with, Hyungnim.

Okay, first off, known and active Asians on our board:

China (27)
Vietnam (26)
Japan (26)
Korea (24)
Cambodia (21)
Hong Kong (15)

Macau is not included for the simple reason that he was a Portuguese territory at this time, and thus untouchable by the Asian governments.

Out of the list, Japan and Korea explicitly state that they were raised in the village. Now, since a Nation is expected to be reborn in his own country, this could very well just mean that they were brought to the village too young to remember moving (as is the case of Korea--I have him being found along what is now the DMZ at the age of two or three, adopted by one representative each of North and South Korea, and then relocated to the village).

So, da ze, how did you all reach the village and meet at the very least me?

EDIT: Added and organized by our ages. Which seem very...varied. -blink-

[Wang Yao]

I stated in my application that Yao was taken from his family at the age of nine, making Yong Soo six at that time, I believe. That being said, I'm under the impression that I arrived later than both Korea and Japan.

(Responding to Korea's Edit) -- You make an interesting observation, Xiao didi. As far as the ages go, Hong Kong and Taiwan would be a bit younger than everyone else, however, wouldn't Cambodia be just a bit older due to some of her history?

[phoenixash]

Viet was taken from her original family at a young age, and concequently has no memories of them. She lived as an orphan child in the village, often living with Yao or Yong Soo when she felt that she wasn't being a bother to them or their respective guardians.

She likely arrived not long after these two, as she has a better relationship with them than the younger members of their family.

She's known Yong Soo for as long as she can remember, and she's known Yao pretty much the same ammount of time.
Most notable moment with Yong Soo was throwing him in the Pond because he wouldn't let her play with him and some of the local boys because she was a girl. No one told her no to roughhousing with the boys after that.

[mylex]

Wow I was slow to find this...-coughs- Anyways, I've actually been considering the age issue myself. The reason I had created her so young originally was because I actually divided Khmer history into two sections: the modern-day Cambodia seen today versus the Khmer (Angkorian) Empire. This fell somewhere around in the...oh...I don't know...1300 or 1400's maybe? So I was actually thinking of bumping her age up to somewhere in the range of nineteen to twenty-one.

In terms of her arrival I saw it as the family as a whole being moved to the village at once at perhaps the age of about four for Veata so essentially the village always seemed like home to her once she got older. Just going along with the actual, real history I also saw it as her keeping to herself for the most part from the other children to spend time with her father. Those who had the most interaction with her would most likely be between Vietnam and Thailand but only once she had grown older. Once she really settled down into the village (age six perhaps?) though I can see her on the occasion trailing after the older children but mostly keeping to Yao. Interactions with the other Asians probably wouldn't have been brought up till she was at least nine.

I can think of no obvious memories since I really haven't had time to coordinate with the others. Sorry. ><

[otakukiku]

Alright, well Japan was kinda luck. I guess -shot-
When Japan was first shot and killed, his government was kinda... panicked?
So when they first heard that nations were being reborn, they moved with all the efficiency of Japan. Quickly, the got officials to house in hospitals and got doctors to inform them whenever a brown eyed, brown haired baby was born. Because children don't open their eyes for a few minutes, there was always a slight delay, but the officials were always waiting in the wings. Creepy right?

Well, after a while it became apparent that there were TOO MANY BABIES WITH BROWN HAIR AND EYES. That, and some times the babies would have no hair yet, so the parents would have to bring back their child when it did finally grow hair. Another problem was that some people had found out about this search and wanted to get money from the government, so they would claim that their child was Japan (even when they did not know their countries human name).

That being said, the Government changed its tactics. Instead of every brown haired, brown eyed boy, it was narrowed down to any child named Kiku.

A few years after this change brought an Official into a small room with a very quiet child, born in Hiroshima. When he first saw Kiku, he automatically felt a protective urge. Finding this strange, since he hadn't felt this before while scanning though children, he called it in. At first, the officials who answered his calls thought it was going to be another dud, but they found themselves in the same position. So from there, they told Kiku's parents that either they could give up their child or abandon everything and come under their protection. They choose to stay with their child.

His father was a Kendo teacher, his mother was a Yamato Nadeshiko. They both planned on raising him the traditional way. The government agreed with this and entrusted them with Kiku's sword, telling the father to teach him how to use it when he was old enough.

By this time, the Asian village had been set up and was waiting for the Nations to come and live there. Kiku moved there with his real parents around the same time as Korea did.

And that's about all I got. Any questions?

[firecracker]

Hong Kong was caught and brought to the village at around age five after having lived in the burnt out slums of, well...Hong Kong. Oddly the spot where he died as a nation is the spot he was caught as as his new self. He lived there with China until the raiders came an he got separated in the chaos. He's currently 15 and a trouble maker.

[Im Yong Soo~!]

Okay, so, judging by the ages everyone put (and the current understood age balance), these are the ages everyone arrived at the village:

China (9)
Korea 6, Japan 7, Vietnam 8
Vietnam (4)
Korea 2, Japan 3
Japan (3)
Korea (2)
Cambodia (4)
Korea 7, Japan 8, Vietnam 9, China 10
Hong Kong (5)
Cambodia 11, Korea 14, Japan 15, Vietnam 16, China 17

So, going off of Korea's ages at the times (since I am biased), the order that everyone arrived in should be:

Korea / Japan
Vietnam
China
Cambodia
Hong Kong

Phew. Hard Work OIKYK. XD Obviously, there may be some tweaking needed, since some are considering changing their ages.

Individual response section!

China:

This presents an interesting question to you history wise as to how easily you were absorbed into the Azn Famiry, since you arrive about 4 years later than the first few members. Granted, you're still the obvious Big Bro to the nations that come after you, but how do you think things were for Yao upon arriving at the village, and what questions do you want to ask the others?

From Yong Soo's perspective, being an impressionable 6 year old who has no memory of his life before the village, you were prolly the biggest and most exciting thing on Earth to him. XD I can easily imagine you having a little Korean shadow for the first few days if not weeks, before he gets confident enough to begin the glompings. I can also imagine him being one of the first to officially call you 'Big Bro.'

Vietnam:

Since you are the third arrival, you've known Kiku and I the longest, Yao coming in, again, four years after you've settled in. You may want to consider Phuong's interactions with Kiku up until that point. Again, ask questions. <3

We've already built a pretty good rapport between Phuong and Yong Soo, so I won't go into too heavy detail here. If you have further ideas for development, though, I'm all ears. At least when you're not too busy dunking my Korean underwater for his smart mouth. XD You can come and sleep over at my house any time you like, Noona! <3

Cambodia:

Have you made further progress on the issue of age? I know it can be a bit frustrating to have to tweak histories after you've given them so much time to develop, but try and think the extra years as more opportunity for Cammie to have experienced what she has, and to develop as she does.

Wow, you brought an entire entourage with you! XD Ah well, the more children, the merrier. Had to be interesting for the rest of us, though. Since the point of the village was to build relations between the Azn nations, I'm not sure that Cambodia could have kept completely isolated from Yao, Kiku, and Yong Soo. Especially not from lessons. But the presence of a larger family may bear into this, and, as you said, she does open up past her stronger relations with Thailand and Vietnam once she's nine.

Yong Soo's thoughts on your arrival were prolly somewhere along the lines of "FINALLY, SOMEONE YOUNGER THAN ME, DA ZE! " There were prolly a few initial misguided attempts to be a "Big Bro," but chances are your blood bros and father scared him off. XD

Japan:

Hahahaaa...

Your well thought out backstory delights me so. <3 I shall try to emulate your example with Yong Soo's backstory. We can talk more on Skype as to how Yong Soo and Kiku grew up together, though, I'm pretty sure we already can guess. -grin-

AndItotallyarrivedfirstdaze.
Want to make that a running gag?

Hong Kong:

Welcome to the Famiry, da ze! We love seeing new Azn faces. <3 So, Hong Kong comes in completely off the streets, huh? I can imagine Yong Soo being fascinated by that. As if he didn't already have reasons to go over and invade Yao's house. XD Other than the obvious hijinks with Kung Fu and fireworks -shot-, Yong Soo prolly respected you as more Yao's bro than his. He still called you Nam-Dong-Saeng when he was being affectionate, though. Or Banghwabeom. XD

How do you picture him interacting with everyone thus far? And were there actual hijinks with explosives and stunts? What can you see poor awkward little Jia Long doing with the Famiry Lessons, starting out so late?

Next question to address:

When exactly did the bandit attack happen? And can we all subscribe to the headcanon that Mongolia had something to do with it (MONGOL INVASION: not so fun;; )? Give us a brief summary (as in, 2-4 sentences) of your chara's fate afterwards.

For example, I can imagine it happening when Yong Soo is in his mid-to-late teens. He spends the first year or so rebuilding the village and helping to take care of the injured Phuong, but later decides to start on a heroic journey to find out what happened to everyone (especially Yao) and hopefully bring them back home.

He first goes to Korea, his homeland, and spends the next few years drifting and picking up more experience before finding the Lucky Dragon in Yeosu, hearing about the "Treasure" after he already finds a piece on board and deciding to add another goal to his quest.

In the meantime, he unwittingly develops split personalities to cope with the bandit tragedy, this frightening new world, and the things he represses about himself; this "angrier" side begins taking care of things Yong Soo is otherwise unprepared for, doing things solely for the Korean's best interests and ambitions, no matter the cost.

[mylex]

@the Silly Korean

I've been thinking about it and I'll just about settle on twenty-years-old at this point. >< I'm sorry if I complicate things and have to make you go edit the post. Don't eat me. ;A; I think as a child though it wasn't necessarily that she was isolated so much as she was trying to chase everybody off and firmly implanted herself to her father's hip every chance that she had. If she went along to see the others she'd appear to be very reluctant about it. She wouldn't admit it as a child but she actually did like Kiku, Yong Soo, and Yao; just not as much as she liked spending time with her father. Dislike would have been reserved mainly for Phuong and whoever comes along to play Thai but even then it would have been exaggerated dislike rather than honest hate...just think of her as that little kid sister the elders always told you to take out and play with.

As to Yong Soo trying to be big brother she'd probably be very secretly pleased but she wouldn't know what to do with him. For her it'd be like, "....Big Brother fell down the stairs again...-walks away-" She may have had a tiny crush up until the point where she got to know the silly Yong Soo.

As to the fate afterwards, if Yong Soo was in his mid-to-late teens that would have made Veata in her early pre-teens. Maybe somewhere around ten is what I'm thinking. Anyways, it would have been an age where it wouldn't have made sense for her to leave the village either way. Going along with my history I still would like to stick with the idea that she was a little crazy in the head after the attack; she would have stuck around the village, helping out from time to time. What I'm thinking is that she would have left a long time after Yong Soo and Phuong so somewhere around the age of fifteen or sixteen. There wouldn't be any destination in mind but I think she would have left Asia as quickly as possible so a sea port was probably her first stop. From that point on she just became a drifter of sorts.

[Wang Yao]

Hao! Down to business. *pushes the long sleeves of cheongsam up*

Individual Response:

Upon arriving in Yizhi Village, Yao was removed from his birth parents, and was instead placed with two (carefully selected) gaurdians to watch over him. His new baba, or father, was a highly celebrated Chinese historian and his new mama, a former actress in the Peking Opera. (I'd imagine that the two adults were arranged to marry one another, and it is their honorable last name of 'Wang' that Yao takes as his own.)

Due to him being ripped from his real parents without any warning, or proper time to process the ordeal, I think Yao would have been relatively shy around Yong Soo, Kiku and Phuong at first. However, that being said, I think because of his situation, his need to absorb family members became his way of coping with all the sudden changes thrust upon him. (Especially after Yong Soo calls him 'Hyungnim' for the first time. <3)

Relations:

Korea[/u]

Yong Soo was probably the one to break Yao out of his tenative shell. (As you described Korea) the first couple of weeks, I can imagine Yao running errands for his gaurdians, doing his chores, or wandering around the village, looking over his shoulder and seeing the Korean following five steps behind. I think, at first, Yao would be confused by this, before realizing what was going, and becoming quite pleased. In typical older brother fashion, he would turn the situation into a game by trying to hide or run away from him; popping out playfully when the smaller boy couldn't find him or slowing down when he couldn't catch up.

Japan[/u]

Like their previous national relationship before, I picture Yao being quite delighted to have Kiku as an honored little brother, affectionately calling him 'xiao didi' while the younger boy remained stoically silent, only acknowledging that he was spoken to several seconds later. XD "What was with the delayed reaction!?" Instinctually, Yao would share his picture books, toys, and food with Kiku just to try and get him to laugh/smile, and teaching him new Chinese (kanji) characters would like their special "bonding time".

Vietnam[/u]

Yao and Phuong, I feel, are fairly similar in several different ways: they're the eldest out of all the children, so they understand one another on a level above the others; both are nuturing and maternal; and each have a good work ethic. I picture them kind of playing "mama and baba" among the other kids of the village; taking care of scraped knees and disciplining rowdy behavior. *cough*KoreaHongKong*cough*[/s] (Viet, we should probably discuss their relationship in more detail on Skype. =D )

Cambodia[/u]

Yao probably wants/wanted to be closer to Veata, but like Yong Soo, kept his distance because of her father. Regardless, whenever he saw her (most likely during Lessons), he would happily call her 'xiao meimei' and offer her snacks.

(Let me know how you wish to expand on this, hao?)

Hong Kong[/u]

(Blood brother! Huzzah!)

So, with Jia Long coming into the village at such a young age and so late, with no relations to speak of, I can picture him being placed under the gaurdianship of the Wang family. Yao was seventeen when the small boy joined the household, and he felt an immediate (protectivebrotherlylove) connection towards him. He continuously dotes on Jia Long, and will often cave-in to his simple requests. Generally, Yao can be seen carrying him around on his back, or shoulders; dragging him around while he completes his chores.

Yao shares his love of cute things, specifically pandas, with Jia Long and the two enjoy cooking traditional Chinese meals with one another. (Green Tea is best, aru.) Also, Yao inexplicably gets ruffled whenever he stares at his brother's thick eyebrows for too long.

After the Invasion:

damnmongorians!stopbreakingdownmyshittywall!

*has conformed to this headcanon idea*

So, during the Mongolian attack on the village, Yao was around twenty/twenty-one ... being mistaken for one of the bandits, Kiku ends up attacking Yao with his katana, almost killing him. He's taken to a neighboring village (some twenty-odd miles away, most likely) and is given to the physician residing there.

Due to the severity of his wound, several long and frustrating months of recovery, acupuncture and physical therapy saw Yao back up on his feet. However, he still wasn't strong enough to make the journey back to his village alone, which left the brunette stranded. To occupy his time until he could return, Yao took up practicing traditional medicines, spending the next few years with the doctor who had seen him through his recovery.

Around his twenty-fourth birthday, Yao felt a strange nagging sensation that he needed to go west, towards the Mediterranean. The feeling was so strong that it gave him headaches and nausea, to which no amount of medicine could cure or reduce. Dismally, Yao changed his plans of going back to Yihzi Village and ventured toward Hong Kong, buying himself boat-passage to Italy. The journey from China to the Mediterranean would take him almost two years to make, inevitably changing the Asian in ways he had no way of foreseeing ~ [/color]

[otakukiku]

Fuuuuuuu~ This is all coming together very nicely.

Whenever we get a Mongolia, they're gonna be like WTF MATES. GANG UP AND MAKE ME THE BADDIE WHY DON'TCHA!?

-confirms to this idea anyhow-

So, if you want detail on what happened to Kiku afterwards, read the app. Here is a short summary.

FIRST. He attacked Yao, felt incredibly guilty, and took him to a healer. THEN. He became a wandering samurai. THEN. He joined the Navy. AND THEN. Korea kidnapped him.

Edit: -feels puny compared to the rest of y'all-

[mylex]

@wang Yao

I think Veata would have been the type to admire Yao but from afar as a young child when they first started lessons. She was just sort of an awkward child overall when she was tiny for the record. Anyways, I think her shyness would have kept her from any real interactions with him beyond the lessons but she'd probably take the snacks and then scuttle into a corner to nibble on it. After that she'd run back to say thank you and then scamper off all over again. Once she's older she'd make more of an effort to spend time with him. There are probably a few incidents when she wants Yao to just herself as he seems a lot like a good big brother to her. Other than that the only thing I can think of is that she would have been jealous of how much attention he may give the others but this would come up in a passive-aggressive way and she wouldn't admit out loud what her issue is.

After he disappeared from the village during the attack she most likely believed that he was killed and didn't bother to pursue that line of questioning.

[firecracker]

And a more detailed explanation of the relationships as HK sees them. Lemme know if you want me to change something/expand on it! <3

After arriving in the village it was decided that he’d be best suited to the Wang family. Whether this is because the officials knew about the connection between Yao and Jia Long or because they wanted another child is unknown. In the first couple months he stuck as close to Yao as he could, hanging off of his sleeve or the back of his cheongsam.

Once he became more comfortable in the village, however, he began to poke around and cause some mischief. It started with simple things, like catnip in Yong Soo’s clothes to attract every cat in the village or tricking merchants into wandering away from their carts so he could rearrange their goods.

Then, on the one year anniversary of his arrival he saw a fireworks display for the first time and was in love. After that he took pains to get a hold of any kind of explosive he could. From hanging around the small fireworks factory, that was really just a four room house on the outskirts of town, to filching the small things off festival carts, he built up a stash of explosives.

His first few experiments with them ended in burns and a hair cut. After that he learned to be more cautious and made sure he always had a way of putting out fires. Unfortunately for the village, and his friends, he quickly incorporated the flashy explosions into his tricks.

China

He has a lot of affection for the boy that ended up as his older brother. Before the attack Yao was his most precious person and could do no wrong. He did enjoy aggravating him, but that was more to get his attention than to cause him actual distress. Yao is the only one of his “Older Brothers” that he did not play some kind of explosive prank on.

After the attack it was Yao he waited most anxiously for. When months passed and he didn’t return to the village Jia Long began asking around to make sure he’d actually survived. It didn’t take long for him to find out Yao had survived and instead of returning to the village to check for survivors had instead vanished. Because of this he feels a bit betrayed, but mostly like he wasn’t good enough for anyone to check up on.

Korea

Jia Long considered Yong Soo to be “That guy always following dagua around.” and took great delight in playing pranks on him. He also enjoyed the times when they could get along and plan things together, or just get into playful fights.

After the attack the first person he tried to find was Yao. When he discovered that the older boy hadn’t even tried to come home he simply assumed everyone else would have done the same and withdrew into his house. He tries not to think about anyone that he used to spend time with now.

Japan

Out of all the people he knew, Kiku was the only one Jia Long didn’t regularly prank. Jia Long liked his mischief to be fun, not mean. While the people he was antagonizing might not like it, he didn’t want to genuinely hurt them and Japan seemed like the kind of person who would take such a thing personally. Because of this he only included the other in group tricks and tried to stay out of his way.

Cambodia

He likely only interacted with her during and after lessons, or when she came by the house. He probably wouldn’t have gone out of his way to interact with her outside of any required social interaction. That’s why its such a surprise that she’s the first of the group to come see him in the village.

Vietnam

He was probably slightly antagonistic towards her, because he doesn’t like anyone to scold him. He put up with it from Yao because his dagua was so important, but only the threat of Yao’s wrath kept him from mouthing off directly to her. Though he did appreciate whenever she helped him out and usually felt a little bad about being rude to her after the fact. He was, however, suitably impressed by her deft handling of Yong Soo.

Thailand

Jia Long immediately took a liking to Chati, liking the pretty dresses and laid back personality. Before he saw him in boy’s clothing, he was totally convinced that Chati was a girl. In fact, it took a long talk, his first experience as a peeping tom, and some stern glares to get him to think otherwise. He ended up liking Chati more after he decided that he really was a boy in girl’s clothing though. Because of this, he often trailed the other or outright played with him when the Thai wasn’t to busy.

After the attack Chati was the only other person he looked into. He figured it wouldn’t be hard to find out where a boy and his elephant had gone, but he lost the trail after the circus moved for the second time. Dejected, he once more stopped any efforts to find anyone.

Taiwan

Being the only other Nation his age, Jia Long was generally encouraged by their teachers to spend time with her. However, being a rowdy boy, he often ditched her to run around with the other village boys. It didn’t usually work, as she could be very persistent and eventually he stopped trying to get away and started doing things that would be less dangerous to her.

During the attack he fought against the Mongolians to try and stop them from taking her, but he was knocked out and when he woke she was nowhere to be found. A bit of torn dress was all he found and asking around the village for her yielded only rumors of her death or capture. He created a small grave for her after that and buried the scrap of dress in it. He visits it every year on the anniversary of his arrival in the village and of the attack.



After The Invasion

Jia Long tried to track down Yao and Chati. When he didn’t succeed he set to work helping to repair the village as best he could, then sequestered himself inside his home. He still makes explosives and fireworks, but mostly just to set them off in his own backyard.

He sometimes sells the less destructive ones to the teams rebuilding the village or people wanting them for festivals, but he doesn’t participate in any of the celebrations. After his visit with Veata, (Once we get that done. XD) he realizes that he’s never going to find happiness in this little village and sets out to see the world….and maybe do a little relative searching.