Blake Liam Anderson | Australia (Complete)

[Blake Anderson]

Name: Blake Liam Anderson
Nicknames: Blakie, Liam, Li, Aussie, Aussie Bum
Age: 24
Date of Birth: January 26th
Gender: Male
Occupation: Biologist, Animal Trainer, Animal Control Officer, Veterinary Medical Student
Heritage: Perentie (Varanus giganteus)
Seed Rank: Light Seed
Birthplace: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Appearance: Blake is a taller gentleman, standing at around 6’ 3” (191 centimeters), and he has a lean, toned body weighing in at around 180 pounds (81.5 kilos). His hair is dark brown and worn parted to the left with two ahoge rising from the part. His most striking and odd feature is an adhesive bandage that is worn over the bridge of his nose. His eyes are emerald green with a general glint to them that shows his adventurous nature and jovial personality. The tall brunette’s skin is sun-kissed, even more so in the summer months.

He opts of functionality in his clothing, and he often wears a khaki shirt with a pair of khaki cargo shorts when working. Usually his bush hat is never far from reach when he’s at work, but there are times he opts for more mainstream clothing. He enjoys jeans, shorts, t-shirts and button-down shirts with loafers, flip-flops (“thongs” in Australian vernacular), sneakers, and tennis shoes. Occasionally, one might even catch him in a blazer with slacks or even a suit with a dress shirt and tie.

Distinguishing Features: Adhesive bandage over the bridge of his nose, goanna tattoo on his right forearm

Sexual Orientation: Bisexual with particular interest in other blokes

Likes:

• Barbeque—We all know Australians are crazy about the barbie. They’ll throw anything on it. Kangaroos beware!
  
• aussieBum—Not just that particular brand, but Blake loves underwear and swimwear. Who needs anything else?
  
• Animals—He loves critters of all species especially the marsupials and other species indigenous to Australia.
  
• Khaki—God Bless the British East Indian Company! He’ll wear khaki-colored anything.
  
• The Outdoors—This is where Blake belongs. It’s hard to keep him cooped up when he comes from such wide open spaces.
  
• Irwin—His pet Koala...Irwin also has a dangerous, evil side.
  
• Keith Urban—Are you kidding? A New Zealand-born Australian country musician in America who poses nude with a guitar? *drool*
  
• His Moped—All these French blokes have one...why not him?

Dislikes:

• Lost in Translation—He speaks English just like the rest of the Commonwealth. His thongs are his flip-flops, not his underwear. The local French give him an especially hard time about his accent and colloquialisms.
  
• Poor Geography—Canberra is the capital of Australia, you ignorant European!
  
• Uptight People—Unlike the former British colonialists, Blake is casual, outgoing, and laid back. He doesn't care much for the air of the European aristocrats.
  
• Rudeness—There's no need in all that. Your mom taught you manners, so use them.
  
• Racism—Australia has lots of different indigenous groups, and all of them bring something to the table. Blake has learn to respect that.
  
• "What's under the bandage?"—Does there have to be something under the bandage? He uses it to cover the occasional injury...or the embarrassing skin peeling that results from his reptile heritage.

Interests/Hobbies:

• Pets—Blake has several animals that he keeps as pets from reptiles to mammals to birds. His home is a quasi-zoo, and he loves each of them. His pet koala Irwin is usually with him...and usually trying to murder someone.
  
• Sports—He's an active guy: swimming, biking, rugby, football (Soccer, cousin Alfred), surfing, etc. Blake is also into extreme sports: bungee jumping, rock climbing, sky diving, wrestling crocs. He'll try anything once...usually without a safety net.
  
• Clubbing—Blake is not only descended from animals, he's a party animal. He can often be found enjoying the local night life, but while he enjoys being rough around the edges and rambunctious, the Aussie does have a mellow, romantic side.

Aspirations:

• Graduate—Blake is currently working towards his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Degree. He wants to become a practicing veterinarian.
  
• Employment—Blake wants to spend at least a couple years working as a vet in France. His preferred setting is for a zoo where he can work with numerous and exotic species.
  
• Repatriation—France is an exotic to place to the Aussie boy, but he does hope to one day return to Australia...preferably with a lover in tow.
  

Fears:

• Avian Zumans—While he has not qualms about the average bird (even emus), Bird species Zumans put the lizard-man ill-at-ease.
  
• Shedding in Public—While all humans have experienced the skin peeling that results from a sunburn, Blake sheds in such a manner at regular intervals even without sun exposure. He makes frequent trips to the beach to have an alibi, and the bandage serves to conceal the occasional blemish.
  
• The Cold—While Blake is an endotherm like other Zumans and Ape-men, he still craves the sun like his ancestors. During the winter he can be seen bundled tightly up, and he abhors the idea of Christmas, the happiest time of the year, being during the winter in the Northern Hemisphere. He avoids skating rinks and large freezers for fear of his life, and he is not shy about ripping his shirt off to soak up "life-saving" (in his mind) sun.
  

Personality:

Australia is the largest island in the world, and Blake operates perpetually on island time. Punctuality and a strict schedule simply do not fit into his worldview. The Aussie keeps himself busy, but he works at his own pace. As a veterinarian, he figured he could keep his own pace by working as his own boss, but his lack of self-discipline and tinge of somewhat laziness has made for a bit of a rough time in the academic arena. However, Blake has maintained a good GPA (though not a 4.0), and he has learned and grown a lot through the course of his undergraduate work. The athletic arena sees a different side of Blake who is ultra competitive and always apt to try to show the other guys up. His propensity for other men causes his flirtatious side to emerge on the playing field where in his eyes stealing the ball from a guy can be a form of flirting. While undisciplined with his study habits, Blake trains often when he is playing on a team competitively, and when he is not, the Aussie enjoys spending time at the beach swimming, surfing, and working on his tan.

Blake experiences conflict from his dual animal-humanoid nature. He is a socialite and extrovert who draws energy from people, but his goanna heritage of solitary perenties causes him at times to avoid all contact with other people. This serves him well, however, when something is amiss about a person Blake meets. His cautious reptilian instincts drive him away from that person as a defensive mechanism. He is generally docile, though, except when immersed in competition or challenged by an equal. He does know his place in the hierarchy, and he is not apt to rock the boat being a go-with-the-flow type person. Reptiles are constantly faced in nature with the issue of energy conservation, and actions are undertaken based on the evidence of whether or not they are energetically efficient and advantageous. Blake has become a master of this part of his instincts, having found that rocking the boat and other menial tasks (cleaning his room, sweeping the floor, doing the laundry) are simply not energetically advantageous. Cleaning the gutters? Not going to happen. Scoping out a hottie at the local club? Now there’s something the descendent of the fourth largest lizard in the world can sink his carnivorous teeth into. Sex is definitely energetically advantageous...or at least the release of dopamine makes it seem that way.

Speaking of sex, relationships have been a rocky spot for the lizard-man. Certain types of personalities (snobbish, prudish, and arrogant people) automatically turn him off, and he has the animalistic instinct to avoid avian Zumans. Blake’s love for animals is motivated by a sense of compassion and care for the animals as well as their owners. The pets represent not just a possession, but a faithful companion. In the case of zoos and farmers, they represent livelihood and valuable opportunities. Sometimes he has let his compassion be abused by partners who used him for money, sex, etc., but other times his own laidback personality has gotten him in trouble. Blake jokes that lizards have two hemipenes which translates into his Zuman nature possessing a doubled sex drive. His casual approach to sex and relationships is not motivated by a maliciousness on his part, but his loose approach to them has often upset a partner seeking a more committed relationship. He has learned from his mistakes, though, and Blake is currently seeking a long-term partner who he can settle down with after previously (and still occasionally) sowing his wild oats. He hopes to be able to bring that person back to Australia one day.

Family:

• Father—Dylan Anderson—Oceania—Perentie
  
• Mother—Ruby Anderson—Fem!Oceania—Wombat
  
• Sibling/Cousin—Name Surname—New Zealand—TBD
  
• Sibling/Cousin—Name Surname—Tasmania—TBD
  
• Cousin—Arthur Kirkland—England—Welsh Green
  
• Cousin—Jameson Keenan—Northern Ireland—Black Fox
  
• Cousin—Vaughan Rees-Kirkland—Wales—Welsh Corgi
  
• Cousin—Gavin Campbell-Kirkland—Scotland—Clydesdale
  
• Cousin—Matthew Williams—Canada—Polar Bear
  
• Cousin—Alfred F. Jones—America—TBD—(Pending)

Brief History: Blake grew up the son of a middle class Australian family of Zumans in Sydney where he was able to mix and mingle with many Zumans descended from indigenous Australian species foreign to many of those he now interacts with in Banyuls-sur-Mer. Like his goanna ancestors, Blake possessed speed and endurance which he cultivated by playing sports and excelled therein. His love for Steve Irwin the “Crocodile Hunter” combined with his family’s annual trips to the Outback during the summer months for the Christmas holidays (Southern Hemisphere, folks), sparked an interest in animal life of all kinds in the young Aussie.

Blake’s talents in the sports arena won him a rugby scholarship to the University of Sydney where he pursued a degree in biology. Having studied French in high school, Blake took the opportunity during his undergraduate coursework to study abroad in Paris and made the connections necessary to secure a position in graduate school at the Université de Toulouse where he has been working for the past 2 years on his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree. Blake is currently involved in clinical training that has placed him in Banyuls-sur-Mer under the instruction of licensed French veterinarians. Blake is employed part-time as an animal control officer and animal trainer for the municipal police where he helps train and care for police dogs and remove nuisance animals.

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OOC

Name/Alias: Matt
Age: 21
Favorite Pairings:

—For Blake: Australia and any nation in the UK, Australia and Spain, Australia and America or Canada

—In General: Any combination of France, America, and Britain; Switzerland with other Germanic nations, Hungary, Lithuania, or France; Spain with France, Romano, or Britain; Any combination of characters I like
Do you want to be Cbox, Thread, or Both?: Both
Did you read the rules?:

In history's page, let every stage
Advance Australia Fair.
In joyful strains then let us sing,
Advance Australia Fair.

Blake walked up to door of the house at the address he had been given over his walkie-talkie and knocked on the door. Supposedly there was an Asp Viper in this guy's kitchen. A snake in the house was not such an uncommon occurrence, but the creature was more likely a nonvenomous species rather than a viper. He waited for an answer.

"C-Come in!" A voice called through the door. It had been left ajar--just a crack-- as if someone had started to leave and suddenly changed their mind. "J-just w-watch out for the snake! It's ne-next to the couch." And as luck would just so have it, the apartment was situated so that the couch was somewhat near the door.

Blake rolled his eyes and stepped inside with his snake hook in one hand and a canvas bag in the other. "No need to worry, Monsieur. I think you've probably got a harmless little guy in here," Blake nodded to the Frenchman who was sitting ON TOP of his table. Goodness, what his cousin Alfred said about the French being pansies might have been true. The brunette moved the couch a bit and sure enough, there was the little beastie. "Yep, this is a Southern Smooth Snake. It's not a viper at all."

Blake eased his snake hook under the slender body of his fellow reptilian and lifted him up enough so that the Aussie could grab the creature's tail and lift him into the canvas bag for relocation. "Alroight, there we go. She's a beaut!" Blake could tell from the man's trembling that he would not care to see the creature lest he have nightmares. He left his business card on the table in front of the man who only began to climb down after Blake had left.

[Rina]

Congrats, you have been accepted. I like your Australia and his personality, he seems to be someone who enjoys life to the fullest. You also seem to have a good grasp of Australian culture and demonstrate that in this application.

Some brief constructive criticism from me, even though you are accepted, just as a friendly suggestion. There are a very small few instances of misspelled words, easily rectified. And while we do ask for a brief history, it would have been nice to it elaborated on, like the bit about the bad relationships.

That's all really. Just make a plotter/tracker and you already have an account. You're totally ready to start Rping.

Welcome, and have fun!