Quotes of people in your nation MK.III

[Amerikians]

"Join the Militia! Defend the Freedoms of yourself, your children and your neighbors! Remind the government who obeys who!" - Recruitment campaign for the Philadelphia Rifles, one of the 'good' Militias in the United States

[New Frenco Empire]

"It's awl da ebul curpuraeshun's follt!"

-Louie the Liberal

"Aw, come on! At least the other Mary Sues in this thread aren't as blatant with their (still obvious) strawmen."

-Mary Sue (no relation)

[Auzkhia]

"Sir... I'm... I'm scared."

"I'm scared too, sir."

"I'm the last of the Blackfordshire Rugby team that won the Sussurian Youth Rugby League's championship of 1912. I don't want to die... I'm not very keen on dying at all, sir."

"What about you, Aldrik? How are you feeling?"

"Oh, not all that good, I am afraid. Rather thought I would live through this whole mess. Go back to working at Hilgruf's textile plant. Play some croquet with the lords of Sikrud. Marry Aerenia. I made a note in my diary on the way here, just wrote one word: 'damn'."
~ Members of Company A of the 333rd Infantry Regiment, 22nd Infantry Division prior to going 'over the top' at Billsbrook, Vulpinia on October 20, 1918

Blackadder.

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"You will be forced to teach Home Economics at a filly's school in Heidelberg."
-An Auzkhian air force officer after capturing two British air personnel. 1917

[Bereia]

"Colonel, please consider your soldiers. What would it take to convince you to lay down your arms?"

"More than I suspect you've got, or ever will have. These men are soldiers of the United States Army."

-- Col. Simon Connolly, U.S.A., the D.P.R.K., 1950.

[Allancia]

"The engine works like this: the hydrogen is escorted through a pipe into the micro furnace, whereupon it will be ignited by the heat coils. Then, the resulting energy will be ushered through another pipe where it will come into a heat/electricity transmutator. Then, it is taken into a battery to be drawn upon at will."

-Unknown
Engineer
In a conference with Walter Morntell IV regarding the hydrogen excelerator engine, which was adopted nationwide 2 weeks later
Vernile, Allancia/2023

[Ruridova]

Secretary of State Amaya Tagliaferro

"The world has never before and will never again see a less diplomatic diplomat. How she got a job as a diplomat in the first place, and why she was appointed to the head of a diplomatic department, I suppose we will never know."
- Leopold Dietkrech

[Bezombia]

"You are trying to say that I should stop? I laugh at the concept. Peace was always an option, but it was never a solution. Sure we can save ten lives by stopping, but we can save ten million by continuing..."

-Kronos I, circa 1892, on the War for Independence that was, at the time, not going particularly well.

[Allancia]

"Sir... I'm... I'm scared."

"I'm scared too, sir."

"I'm the last of the Blackfordshire Rugby team that won the Sussurian Youth Rugby League's championship of 1912. I don't want to die... I'm not very keen on dying at all, sir."

"What about you, Aldrik? How are you feeling?"

"Oh, not all that good, I am afraid. Rather thought I would live through this whole mess. Go back to working at Hilgruf's textile plant. Play some croquet with the lords of Sikrud. Marry Aerenia. I made a note in my diary on the way here, just wrote one word: 'damn'."
~ Members of Company A of the 333rd Infantry Regiment, 22nd Infantry Division prior to going 'over the top' at Billsbrook, Vulpinia on October 20, 1918

Blackadder.

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"You will be forced to teach Home Economics at a filly's school in Heidelberg."
-An Auzkhian air force officer after capturing two British air personnel. 1917

OOC: Now that's just capitally hilarious. Lenin overtook Russia that year.

[Bojikami]

"You do realise we are going to hang you and your little friends right?"

*crying* "Why? What did I do?"

"You Nazis are all deserving of equal punishment. No matter how involved you were in the atrocities your rotting empire has committed. And plus, pulling out a pistol and trying to shoot me isn't going to get you any sympathy."
-Bojikamiian Soldier to a Nazi Medic that was captured, 1944

[Bereia]

"I always detested the Soviets, and I always felt that, had the Reich not become a problem, the next war would have been with Stalin's savage empire."

"The idea of letting the Soviets have Berlin as a sort of "war prize" was first broached late in the war, when the Reich was on the ropes. I refused it out of hand, both because the restriction of the U.S. troop movements in Western Europe for that purpose could well prolong the war, and because I had already resolved never to do anything to advance the Soviets."

-- Excerpts from the autobiography of President Randolph Wilson, who served in that office through WWII.

[Auzkhia]

Blackadder.

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"You will be forced to teach Home Economics at a filly's school in Heidelberg."
-An Auzkhian air force officer after capturing two British air personnel. 1917

OOC: Now that's just capitally hilarious. Lenin overtook Russia that year.

But, that officer stated a fate vorse than death.

[Saurisisia]

"Listen... our guns have stopped."

"You don't think...?"

"Maybe... the war's over! Maybe it's peace!"

"Oh, huzzah! The brass have gone 'round the table and yanked the iron out of the fire!"

"Thank the Gods, we have lived! Praise be to Elenea, we have lived through it! The Grand Alliance War, 1913 to 1917!"

"Hip-hip..."

"Hooray!"

"I'm afraid not, gentlesaurs. The guns have ceased since we are about to attack. Not even our generals are insane enough to shell their own saurs. They think it's better to leave the Vulpinians with the job of doing so to themselves."

"So we are, in fact, going over? This is, as they say, 'it'?"

"I'm afraid so. Unless we think of something real quick..."

"Company, one step forward!"

"Oh dear, there seems to be a splinter on this ladder. It looks sharp enough to pierce scales, someone could hurt themselves climbing this blasted thing!"

"Stand ready!"

"I think... I may have a plan..."

"Really, Blanchett? A cunning and subtle one?"

"Yes, sir."

"As cunning as a raptor who has been appointed Professor of Cunning at Wilcox University?"

"Yes, sir."

"On the signal, company will advance!"

"Well, unfortunately, it will have to wait. Whatever it was, I'm sure it was better than my plan to get out of this by pretending to be insane. I mean, who would notice another madsaur around here?"
~ The same members of Company A, 333rd Regiment of Foot, 22nd Infantry Division just before they went over the top at Billsbrook, Vulpinia on October 20, 1917; of the 250 members of the Company who participated in the attack, only thirty-six lived through the day and the disastrous Billsbrook Offensive was the final straw that saw the War Department dismiss the generals who planned the attacks and put all their faith in the plans of General Hiram Wayne, whose revolutionary plans involving combined arms offensives resulted in Saurisian victory in Vulpinia the summer of the succeeding year

[Auzkhia]

"Listen... our guns have stopped."

"You don't think...?"

"Maybe... the war's over! Maybe it's peace!"

"Oh, huzzah! The brass have gone 'round the table and yanked the iron out of the fire!"

"Thank the Gods, we have lived! Praise be to Elenea, we have lived through it! The Grand Alliance War, 1913 to 1917!"

"Hip-hip..."

"Hooray!"

"I'm afraid not, gentlesaurs. The guns have ceased since we are about to attack. Not even our generals are insane enough to shell their own saurs. They think it's better to leave the Vulpinians with the job of doing so to themselves."

"So we are, in fact, going over? This is, as they say, 'it'?"

"I'm afraid so. Unless we think of something real quick..."

"Company, one step forward!"

"Oh dear, there seems to be a splinter on this ladder. It looks sharp enough to pierce scales, someone could hurt themselves climbing this blasted thing!"

"Stand ready!"

"I think... I may have a plan..."

"Really, Blanchett? A cunning and subtle one?"

"Yes, sir."

"As cunning as a raptor who has been appointed Professor of Cunning at Wilcox University?"

"Yes, sir."

"On the signal, company will advance!"

"Well, unfortunately, it will have to wait. Whatever it was, I'm sure it was better than my plan to get out of this by pretending to be insane. I mean, who would notice another madsaur around here?"
~ The same members of Company A, 333rd Regiment of Foot, 22nd Infantry Division just before they went over the top at Billsbrook, Vulpinia on October 20, 1917; of the 250 members of the Company who participated in the attack, only thirty-six lived through the day and the disastrous Billsbrook Offensive was the final straw that saw the War Department dismiss the generals who planned the attacks and put all their faith in the plans of General Hiram Wayne, whose revolutionary plans involving combined arms offensives resulted in Saurisian victory in Vulpinia the summer of the succeeding year

Moar Blackadder. I quite like it.

[Saurisisia]

"Listen... our guns have stopped."

"You don't think...?"

"Maybe... the war's over! Maybe it's peace!"

"Oh, huzzah! The brass have gone 'round the table and yanked the iron out of the fire!"

"Thank the Gods, we have lived! Praise be to Elenea, we have lived through it! The Grand Alliance War, 1913 to 1917!"

"Hip-hip..."

"Hooray!"

"I'm afraid not, gentlesaurs. The guns have ceased since we are about to attack. Not even our generals are insane enough to shell their own saurs. They think it's better to leave the Vulpinians with the job of doing so to themselves."

"So we are, in fact, going over? This is, as they say, 'it'?"

"I'm afraid so. Unless we think of something real quick..."

"Company, one step forward!"

"Oh dear, there seems to be a splinter on this ladder. It looks sharp enough to pierce scales, someone could hurt themselves climbing this blasted thing!"

"Stand ready!"

"I think... I may have a plan..."

"Really, Blanchett? A cunning and subtle one?"

"Yes, sir."

"As cunning as a raptor who has been appointed Professor of Cunning at Wilcox University?"

"Yes, sir."

"On the signal, company will advance!"

"Well, unfortunately, it will have to wait. Whatever it was, I'm sure it was better than my plan to get out of this by pretending to be insane. I mean, who would notice another madsaur around here?"
~ The same members of Company A, 333rd Regiment of Foot, 22nd Infantry Division just before they went over the top at Billsbrook, Vulpinia on October 20, 1917; of the 250 members of the Company who participated in the attack, only thirty-six lived through the day and the disastrous Billsbrook Offensive was the final straw that saw the War Department dismiss the generals who planned the attacks and put all their faith in the plans of General Hiram Wayne, whose revolutionary plans involving combined arms offensives resulted in Saurisian victory in Vulpinia the summer of the succeeding year

Moar Blackadder. I quite like it.

Yeah, been watching it on Netflix recently and just finished the finale of the final series earlier today.

[Auzkhia]

Moar Blackadder. I quite like it.

Yeah, been watching it on Netflix recently and just finished the finale of the final series earlier today.

Awesome. Blackadder goes forth is a great show, I only saw some segments of episodes on Youtube and episodes of other series

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"Are there any vegetarian options?"

*The waiter throws a bale of hay onto the table*

"Guten Appetite."
-A conversation between a foreign human tourist and a pony waiter.

[Saurisisia]

"Adrian, are you thinking what I'm thinking?"

"I think so, Professor but if rawr means 'I love you', does 'snort' in that case mean 'I must go to the bathroom'?"
~ A Saurian scientist and his scatterbrain lab assistant

[St Eligius Island]

"It's awl da ebul curpuraeshun's follt!"

-Louie the Liberal

"Aw, come on! At least the other Mary Sues in this thread aren't as blatant with their (still obvious) strawmen."

-Mary Sue (no relation)

"This thread is but a realm of Mary Sues and Straw Men."

-Mr. Rue, He Who Sees Past the Fourth Wall

[Senyosu]

The fourth wall can go screw itself.

-???-

[Oroloo]

"Aw, come on! At least the other Mary Sues in this thread aren't as blatant with their (still obvious) strawmen."

-Mary Sue (no relation)

"This thread is but a realm of Mary Sues and Straw Men."

-Mr. Rue, He Who Sees Past the Fourth Wall

Oi, I resent that!

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"Every Black Guard has their really bad day over the Bulwark. Usually one of their first. They make it a point to have experienced healers near the new guards so when they almost get killed, well, they don't actually get killed. Nothing destroys the self-perceived invincibility of youth then an ogre picking you and... Crushing your ribcage into your- your lungs... Before tossing you aside like a rag doll. They stopped assigning healers close to me after that, knew I wouldn't forget it. Just like every other Black Guard after their first bad day."

"Tell me about it. Mine was when a huge cat monster slashed my throat. Almost decapitated me... That's all the detail I'm ever going to go into on the subject."

- Witha Karivik of House Gold-Dagger and Gorde Vitherfall of House Bronze-Staff. On their own 'First Bad Day' (also called the 'Initiation of Scars' by other Black Guards) in the Black Guard. They're often quite unpleasant.

[Las Palmeras]

"This thread is but a realm of Mary Sues and Straw Men."

-Mr. Rue, He Who Sees Past the Fourth Wall

"Cough cough."
-No Name

Are my characters...generally unlikable?
...
I took the Universal Mary Sue Limitus test for the recurring IC characters. The results, -4(Tomoko), -2 (José), -10(Montserrat) 3-5 (Celeste), 3 (Sachi 56011), -11 (Józef P.), 2 (Mélanie), Mr. Sosa (-1), -5 (Mama), 2-3 (the Anthropologist).

PT/Fan Tech
Józef Papp is a morally grey scientist who conducted human experiments 'for science and socialism' (taking ova from prisoners without permission and experimenting on them). From the People's Republic of Hungary, he fled to Las Palmeras after relations with the Soviets got sour and ran an attempt to create a perfect Socialist citizen by minimizing metabolistic needs. His program was shut down in 1978 and he's been dejected ever since.

MT-Early PMT
José Zorilla and Tomoko Nagi are 'tools' to play around with the White Guy-Asian Girl trope, and if that's not bad enough Tomoko is a sick joke that plays with the Lotus Blossom/Geisha Girl and Yamato Nadeshiko thing. And they both have parent issues with consequences.

Montserrat Zorilla is the Premier, for another year. In politics she has to be two-faced to an extent, however she's a control freak in her personal life. She's petty, emotionally abusive, manipulative, selfish, and she fears abandonment due to a cycle of family issues.

Celeste is José and Tomoko's grown up first child, and she works as a psychic consultant and general fortune teller. She's by far the most normal person, and miraculously her parents got enough self-help to raise their kids adequately...eventually.

The Office Lady is a snobbish bureaucrat and amateur philosopher. She's a workaholic.

PMT/Fan Tech
Sachi 56011 is a bio-mechanical unit of the RDF (see factbook for info) who shrugs off his feelings of guilt, even though he's doing his job (helping the PRLP expand aggressively).

Mr. Sosa is generally just a narrator of world events despite his position as an officer in the Revolutionary Defense Force.

Mélanie is a Neko prostitute, and Mama is her Madam in a brothel that exclusively serves RDF personnel. What's squicky is that Mélanie looks underage and this gets lots of clientele, as a result Mama sees her as a possible heir to her place.

The Anthropologist really doesn't have a given name, though it's hinted that she's a descendant of the Zorilla line. She studies the Chats and Chiens (Neko and Inu).

[The Multiversal Species Alliance]

"The ancient philosophers were wrong, in my opinion, war isn't the father of innovation,rather it is peace and trade that is."
-Garios

[Umbra Ac Silentium]

"Aw, come on! At least the other Mary Sues in this thread aren't as blatant with their (still obvious) strawmen."

-Mary Sue (no relation)

"This thread is but a realm of Mary Sues and Straw Men."

-Mr. Rue, He Who Sees Past the Fourth Wall

Considering I've gotten angry telegrams from people who believed that my characters were acting as a front for my own opinions, and that they encompass a whole broad range from hedonists to moral guardians, from industrial titans to environmentalist activists, from the empowered individual in a direct democracy to fascists discontent with the current system, and gotten flack over nearly every single one of the above, it's safe to say that those of us capable of a little thought and imagination of people who disagree with us are capable of creating real characters out of them. Please, continue to contribute absolutely nothing but "Lol guiz aren't I so clever :^) Let me now masturbate to my clever strawpeople." It only reflects poorly on you.

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"Because of the increasing demands for space, yet the diminishing returns in long term construction developments towards building taller skyscrapers, research has been long looking forward to how to create the underground city. It would offer countless advantages; increased space for living, transportation systems perfectly manufactured by the leaders in transportation theory and urban development, new industries devoted to meeting the demands of living in an underground world, as well as a relatively stable environment. The prospect is highly attractive, but has long been a pipe dream. However, things have begun to change recently. The Hithual Coal Mine, long since exhausted of its precious resource, was purchased over a decade ago by Sambrian Theoretical Construction Designs Association. Assembling some of the biggest names in the industry, they began renovating the whole structure, using the tunnels as foundations for a new type of city. The work has been frighteningly successful, and plans to open it to the general public are set for around two-thousand eighteen." - Dr. Geminai Surget, Doctor of Civil Engineering

[Bojikami]

"I've been to hell, and it has indeed frozen over."
-Antony Belinsky, talking about the USSR

[Saurisisia]

"Private, what in the Abyss are you doing?"

"I'm carving my name on it, sir."

"Why the hell are you doing that?"

"Well, you know that phrase 'there's a bullet out there with your name on it'?"

"Yyyyeeeesss..."

"Well, I just thought to myself that if I owned the bullet that has my name on it, I'll never get hit by it. Because I'll never shoot myself, of course!"

"Oh, that's a darn shame!"

"...and the chances of there being two bullets with my name on it are very small indeed."

"Yeah, it's not the only thing that's 'very small indeed'."
~ A Marine Corps Drill Officer to a dumb recruit at boot camp

[Amerikians]

A-fucking-men Umbra.

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"The detractors of the Hope administration can say what they will about Norman Hope's religious morality, but they can't say a damn thing against his care for this country. Norman Hope cared more for America than the majority of the modern generation, he gave his all for this country and more." - President Norton Terril, defending one of his predecessors.

Liberal Atheist Intelligent Bush = Norman Hope, he was not well liked by the conservative side of American politics, the people goddamn loved him though. Warmongering and all.