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OOC INFORMATION
Player: Kira/Narva
Age: 25
Personal Journal: narva
Contact Info: AIM janteslaw \ narva
Other Characters: N/A

IC INFORMATION
Characters Name: Denmark [if you need a human name, canon hasn't given him one but Søren Andersen works]
Age: appears to be in his early 20ies; actually roughly 2000 years
Canon: Axis Powers Hetalia
Canon Point: Late 1940 1953
Species: Nation
Gender: Male/Male
Orientation: I play him as pansexual, because it works well with his personality and approach to people in general, but that aside - Denmark hasn't displayed any clear sexuality in canon, but he just likes people and being around them, regardless of gender or sex. He'll be perfectly happy living together with basically any living, sentient being, so he can be placed with whatever partner.

History: Wikipedia on the RL nation

Denmark is one of the oldest nations in Europe, by actual nationhood as well as by his personal age. We know relatively little about his history from actual canon - he is mentioned multiple time as a big power of the middle ages, mostly in the context of bullying smaller nations (for example Estonia refers to the Baltic crusades in that way, and the Russia strips mention it - bullying seems to be a typical Hetalia term for raids and invasions of physically younger nations). The Swedish War of Liberation gets mentioned, which tangents him as well (considering that it was the liberation from the Danish rule), we hear about him and Sweden having fought a lot, and then we have pictures of tiny Denmark and medieval Denmark. In general what we hear is coherent with RL history as well as with the personality that is shown in his modern day strips, but if needed, I can provide a hetaliafied version.


Appearance: Tall for a nation, which probably pegs him between 175 and 180 centimetres; blue eyes, blond unruly hair and he is pretty much always grinning. He's also one of the manly and muscular nations, and certainly one of the loudest ones.


Personality:

Most, if not all, people that Denmark is close to will describe him as "annoying"; this fact touches on a lot of aspects of his personality: his behaviour, which is characterized by an extremely outgoing, happy, loud and very "interactive" attitude; actually, his very voice is happy, loud, way too energetic and can go on for a long time; the way in which all nations important to him treat him, which usually involves some level of disdain - and the fact that that doesn't stop him from considering them his family/best friends, because he assumes rightly (he himself would say "knows") that they actually care; the fact that he can be absolutely insensitive and rude; that he is hardly accommodating. What is not mentioned is that he is actually a good leader and a loyal friend.

First of all it should be bade clear that Denmark is a genuinely happy person. His current canon point puts that into perspective a bit, but almost all parts of what causes that won't be present in HH (aka he will be able to talk to whomever and go to wherever he wants, nobody will be giving him orders and nobody important to him will be in a dire situation) the change should very quickly fade away - Denmark's spirit is strong and with one notable exception (= Sweden leaving him) he is very good at moving on; he's not one to dwell on depressing thoughts (he has neither patience nor inclination for those things).

He absolutely appears the happy part, and his cheerfulness is a very aggressive one, as in, it is hard to get away from it: He usually speaks in a high volume, talks a lot, likes to be physically affectionate with people, is very outgoing and open, optimistic to a fault and his expression is almost always decorated by a smile or grin.

It has to be noted, though, that it is not a Stepford Smile - when Denmark is sad or scared or angry or - rarely- pensive, his expression will change. But when he is happy or when he is having fun (he is shown grinning widely when bullying Russia or teasing Iceland, but also when he is talking to people (which is his favourite pastime) and when he is doing things that he likes in general). With how his family treats him and with how much he smiles, it is easy to wonder how genuine it is, but at least from what we have seen so far it seems to almost never be faked - and when he is grinning from nervosity or something like that, it clearly shows. Which, by the way, happens very rarely. Belarus is probably the only person who can unsettle him.

On the topic of how his family, and probably not only they, treat him - Iceland telling him that he hates him as an April's Fool, his best friend Norway physically abusing and insulting him, and so on - Denmark really does not seem to mind. He reacts by either being incredible amounts of oblivious, reacting as if an insult was a friendly remark or even a compliment or as if he hasn't heard/understood it, or by moving on just moments later.

It is likely that this stems at least partly from growing up with Norway and Sweden, both of whom cannot express (especially positive) emotions or wishes properly. Considering how normal Norway abusing Denmark seems to be (judging by how it shows up repeatedly and only outsiders like Japan are shocked by it), [speculation] it might be that they have settled into a kind of agreement where Denmark is allowed to latch onto Norway and whine and be loud and so on to his heart's content, and Norway (whose behaviour towards himself Denmark canonly attributes to shyness) can protest and make scathing comments without Denmark stopping, but when he really wants Denmark to shut up or stop, he is allowed to use force without any retaliation from the taller nation.[/speculation] As for Sweden, the guy clearly cannot express any emotions because "his face is lame" (other people would call it scary, or very scary, but Denmark grew up with it and is immune - something that joins hands with his obliviousness and means that Denmark is barely scared of anyone or anything - needless to say that his self-preservation doesn't seem to be the best sometimes) and wince Denmark knew that he cared, he stopped really associating forbidding expressions or little actively positive actions with someone disliking him.

Denmark simply likes people, talking to people mostly, but also hugging and drinking with and cuddling and working alongside with and - really, he prefers a fistfight with someone to being alone. He's your paradigmatic extrovert - it also figures into this that he is canonically good at selling things and does basically all the relations with others when the Nordic group goes to parties or similar things. He is loud and energetic in voice, movements and general behaviour, and has no qualms about approaching people for a chat.

His mindset also includes a strong "may the better one win" fairness and leaves little room for holding prolonged grudges. Maybe surprisingly, considering his past as a Viking and one of the terrors of Europe and also his tendency of having all emotions and thoughts spill to the outside at once, he is very hard to anger - he is usually too aloof or preoccupied with pleasant thoughts to get really angry, even when someone attacks him (though part of that might be that he is just used to mainly Norway throwing stuff at him and such). He used to fight a lot more and was probably also quicker to start physical aggression, but canon states that he has "calmed down" since then.

The Nordic is also an optimist to a fault, which can be drawn from both APH canon (everything will be great! on the drama CD) as well as from history (for example when he declared neutrality, repeatedly, hoping that it would work out in situations where it was clear that he couldn't stay neutral for the entirety of the conflict and thus basically ended up as a play-ball between the powers.)

Denmark is also a good leader. As already mentioned, he can do the "outer relations" for his group well, and he has the charisma and strength to assume the role. He is also good at keeping up the spirits of a group (all nations have the duty to raise the morale of the troops, but with Denmark that seems to go way past his own people) and making decisions for everyone without worrying too much. I'll come back to this.


...Because now I want to talk about how he is of course not as entirely positive as he has sounded so far. Denmark has four main vices.

One is that he is insensitive and downright rude, basically the flip side of how he is oblivious to insult: Norway might insult him at every turn, but Denmark saying things like "you are creepily scary and have a bunch of weird friends" to his best friend isn't particularly nice either - not that he would consider it an insult. It's just the truth! He doesn't understand why others would be offended by such things either. Generally Denmark is very blunt and direct about voicing his opinions, even unasked, and those opinions are not always PC or polite, they can also be belittling. Denmark is also just awesome at putting his foot in his mouth. He completely lacks a brain-mouth filter... which might be one of the reasons why he talks so much. Basically everything that he thinks spills out. Tied into this is the fact that Denmark is an incredibly bad liar. He can do it, but it isn't very convincing at all. Little white lies work, though.

The second would be the flip side of his leadership qualities. It's called "Denmark hardly listens to what other people say.". This is his main reason for his fallout with Sweden; the other nation had grown tired of not having an equal place as Denmark in the union that both of them were a part of at that time, and over that fight for an more equal say, basically over a sharing of leadership, Sweden finally broke away, took Finland and run. And this is the exception to the rule from above about Denmark not holding grudges. Following this fallout, Sweden and Denmark started to be at war almost constantly and only started to reconcile rather recently. Denmark not listening to other people also becomes a problem when he makes decisions for everyone, because he won't limit it to emergencies but make it a general practice.

Thirdly, Denmark has a short attention span and cannot concentrate on the same thing for very long, which on the one hand is good because it keeps him from getting sad or brooding or angry, but it also means that he cannot really stay serious for long and that serious conversations with him can be hard to maintain or even start.

Lastly, Denmark can whine a lot. He doesn't react that way when the situation is serious, it is more the "I don't want to get the remote control it is too far away and I'd have to crawl out from under my blanket" kind - pointless whining might be the best description - or things like "when are we there, Nor, I need to take a piss". It also never lasts long, though it can spring up repeatedly between rambling about happier things or just rambling.


To end with, I want to lose a few words about the Nordics as a group in Hetalia, specifically from Denmark's POV. While Norway and Iceland are actually related, we have no canonical information of any of the others being, and Finland is most certainly not related to any of the other Nordics. That doesn't deter Denmark from wanting to be called "big brother" by the others and generally assuming them to be an unit much like a family. To him, Sweden and Norway were Denmark's brothers basically from the time that he found them; Finland figures in through being Sweden's "wife" (after all a brother-in-law is still called brother) and Iceland is Norway's little bro and anyway he is his little brother, so! The "brothers" thing is something that all members of the group have in their mindset to a degree.

Abilites:

The usual nation abilities: Relative immortality (nations seem to be unable to die; they just show up even before their political equivalent starts forming and when people stop thinking of them as theirs, they seem to pass on to heaven in a very literal way, simply walking over there); being bound to his soil and people - what happens to them influences him, and the other way round, though often it cannot be decided which comes first; covering great distances in little time.

While of a lighter built than for example Sweden or Germany, Denmark is quite muscular and strong. His reflexes are shown to be very sharp even in modern day. He's good at handling most weapons and can also stand his man without any, though these days he could be overpowered by someone whose strength is clearly above average. While not good in most things that pertain to housekeeping, he is a good cook and can manage okay when he lives alone. He is all right at taking care of the sick, if a bit rough, but he absolutely sucks at child rearing. While he loves children and will be an awesome big brother, he just doesn't have the patience, attention span and empathy to do it well, and being basically a big kid himself, he's also simply not enough of an adult.

His outstandingly strong points are design (furniture, architecture, interior, etc), staying happy almost no matter what, a very high morale/motivation - it is pretty much impossible to bring down his spirits, and actually emotional resilience should be mentioned here, too - it takes some skill to ignore being almost constantly insulted or rejected by your beloved ones and still believing that they care about you and just can't show it properly, and to keep coming back. Denmark is also often very stubborn/determined.

Denmark & Norway, late 1940

[It is early afternoon, Germany and Prussia are away to attend some meeting or the other or visit their troops or whatever - Denmark could really care less at the moment, because not only they are gone. Everyone except for Poland is, who is locked into his basement room and wouldn't be a problem anyway because he isn't on Germany's side - out of all of them he really has the least reason to be. Especially considering who is on the nazis side. The look on the long haired blond's face whenever he is confronted with Lithuania is an expression of betrayal if the Scandinavian has ever seen one.

But that isn't on Denmark's mind as he walks up the stairs from the kitchen, a tray with two portions of lunch in his hands. They are larger than reasonable, but this is Germany's house. The consequences of the war haven't really reached this place yet. He stops in front of the door to Norway's room, remembering to knock at the last minute despite his excitement - he wants his friend to know who is visiting, so the other male can feel safe. They can finally talk freely, and he can visit Nor and it will be great. He really misses just hanging out with his best friend, but he knows that their captors frown upon such things and there are certain lines that he will be careful not to cross, or to only cross with caution. He can do a lot, but that doesn't mean that he can do everything.]

Hey, Nor, I'm coming in!