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Full Title: States People Ask Me About + Any Other States I Felt Like Drawing and JapanYeah! So, people have been asking me about certain states recently, and since it may be a while before I get to some of those states, I thought I'd just doodle a few of them out so you at least know what I had in mind for them. These are by no means final designs. In fact, some of these I've only drawn headshots of (and I've only drawn Montana once), and I still need to do research on a couple.
Speaking of which! Tell me a bit about your state, even if it's not up there! Educate this southerner; I know next to nothing about the Mid-Atlantic and New England states (stereotypes aside), so tell me alllll about 'em! It really helps me with their personalities and designs in general. ;3
Will move to scraps later.
Hetalia and Japan (c) Hidekaz Himaruya
Any other character pictured here (c) Me
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im thinking i just beat massachusettes
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I really like your Montana, but i'm probably biased since im Montanan oh well... well I'll give ya a run down on things to know about Montana, well eastern Montana. When I say that there is two states in one i am not kidding. imagine your flying along the state from the Dakotas or somethin and its a flatish, kinda hilly. then sudenly you hit Livingston and its like BAM! mountains in ur face!!!! but anyway, RAILROADS R IMPORTANT!!!!!!! learn this, love this, live it! if you live in Montana. the state was built on railroads and minning, Im sure anyone from western montana can agree that it was built on minning for example Bannack (first capital of monana territory), Butte, Virginia City, Cooke City, Confederate Gulch, Anaconda, ect. in fact there was a huge showdown between the top three mineral kings of montana the Copper Kings to those who know montana history. it was a fight not only to be the top dog but also to claim their town as state capital, Helena got it in the end but it still left a lasting impression. i insist that everyone take the time to look up the Berkely Pit. Ugggh, a horrid part of our past that still wont leave. but for the eastern part it was the railroads. that high percentage of Irish, German, and amazingly Chinese ancestry it completely due to railroading, those immigrants were the ones who built and worked on the lines. Proud to be a railroaders granddaughter and daughter. we were part of the Oregon Territory, Washington territory, Dakota territory, and Idaho Territory. for Idaho the boder became set at the Beartooths (mtn range near Livingston-windy *** place) but we knew there was gold in de'um hills so we bit off a chunk of the Idaho territory up to the Rocky's (right down the middle!hehehehe) and took the gold for ourselves not that they complained ...AT ALL!
Im sorry but at least were I come from we detest Californians....and thats putting it nicely. its kind of a "GET THE #*%*#(#(&#$(#^@(#($*$&^^&**#^ OUT OF OUR STATE!!!!!" kinda relationship and as for Washington....well no one actually mentions that state really. oh and we're a shoot first, double tap second, and chug a beer third kinda people (oh switzerland r we related?) also up to the Rockys we were part of the Louisiana purchase and also im angry at Alfred right now! HOW COME EVERYONE BUT MONTANA GOT A #(#$($*#(#( BATTLESHIP DURING WWII?! AND NOT EVEN THAT WE STILL DONT HAVE A SHIP NAMED AFTER US!!!!! HUH! explain that jerk!!! sorry...also we were the only state to vote no to going to war on Germany in WWII (my headcannon says Germany is his dad) yah it actually has to suck being Montana, I mean really some girls went to nationals for FCCLA and someone asked them if we have internet yet and if we ride horses to school! come on that only happens in rural towns and yes we has the INTERNET!!! also its really rare to actually see a classmate come to school on a horse...we dont have a place to keep them all day really the nerve of some people. oh and we love our gun rights! don't touch our guns unless you'd like to find half your face gone from our shotgun.
Cattle and agriculture is a really important part of our economy, believe me Montanan beef is the best (no offense but I've had beef in Arizona and it sucks) maybe cuz we actually have grass for them to eat... I don't know! Also in the summer we usually have HUGE forest fires. Also there's been a huge boom in the oil fields in North Dakota so people are flooding the state, and maybe you've heard of Sherry Arnold (my friend knew her) the school teacher that went missing on a morning jog and wound up killed (possibly by two guys from Colorado) well that stuff doesn't sit well with us. We really hate what's going on even though it will boost our economy, but in 10 or 20 yrs it'll fall out and cities will die if it continues. Also the blocking of the pipeline really pissed us off royally! We love our wonderful little Canadians though! we share the border with three Canadian Provinces! oh yeah!!! the dakotas are kinda like our rowdy little siblings who really kinda annoy us. We're pretty friendly with Idaho and for some odd reason we kinda hate Wyoming....not really sure why....
The topic of the WOLF is pretty...okay so bring it up in a rural town in favor of the wolf and you will be shot... I am not KIDDING!(ok so probably yelled at by everyone in the room) As for politics democrats kinda have an advantage cuz of the unions, but we really tend to vote republican but we really are a swing state. Also Montana has the highest population of Native Americans, it's like 6.5% or something. we have the Crow, Assiniboine, Blackfeet, Gros Ventres, Cheyennes, Kootenai, Salish, Pend d'Oreille, and Kalispel tribes. We have the Yellowstone a large contributer to the Missouri and eventually the Mississippi. Also we are the source of the Missouri river as it traverses the more northern half of the state through Fort Peck Dam and its also nicknamed Big Muddy, mostly cuz of the amount of sediments it carried before the contructions fo dams even though it transports half of the sediments that empty into the Gulf of Mexico. also people love to go fossil or rock hunting in Montana. You can sometimes even find shark teeth...yeah SHARK teeth.
The Montana Meth Project started here (obvious!) and has really impacted the entire country! (well we hope) and many entertainers are from Montana for example Bobby Ewing on Dallas is played by Patrick Duffy an actorfrom Townsend, Martha Raye from Butte was an Actress;"standards singer; nurse; strong supporter of American military; toured with the United Service Organizations (USO) during World War II, Korean War, and Vietnam War; only woman buried in the Special Forces cemetery at Fort Bragg, North Carolina and was buried with full military honors there though never on active duty; known as "Colonel Maggie" to the American military; an honorary Green Beret; awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1993 for her lifetime support to the American military", Brannon Braga worked on a lot of Star Trek, Jeff Ament is Pearl Jam's Bassist, Rascal Flatts, Evel Knievel and his son Robbie, Christopher Paolini who wrote Eragon and the rest of the Inheritance Cycle, and more awesome people. Sports are really big here, Grizz vs Cats!!! ok so Football is big here. Jerry Kramer from Jordan Montana! also we were the first state to elect a woman to congress, also was the same gal who said no to WWII!
the weather here is pretty scary sometimes, in place like Livingston or on the highline it can be windy-ier than well anywhere else. also tornadoes are pretty rare, but do happen and take off the roof off of the Metra in Billings (look it up on youtube it's awesome) but basically we get smacked by cold fronts from Alaska and Canada and hugged by warm fronts from the south so it is usually nice. Also our states nickname is the Big Sky State, dont let Alabama fool you we are the only ones allowed to say so because you can totally feel the difference under a Montana sky. Winters can be really nasty with lots of snow and bitting chill and by lots of snow i mean feet of it...especially in the western portion. We do have Lolo Hotsprings though, ahh, can't wait to go there. and visiting yellowstone national park, Glaicier national park and the Little Bighorn battleground where Custer got his a** handed to him by the natives is a big tourist-y thing to do here.
well that's probably all you need to know but feel free to pm me or look up factoids about the Big Sky State anytime!
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Cool~ I'm a Virginian so i know alot about Virginia (But since you look up Civil War, you would know probably alot of our history) But i can tell you somethings about our personalitys here, (well at least eastern Virginia) Most of us sail, (propbably because most people are in the Navy here)
Because, Norfolk, is the largest Navy Base in the world, We usually have alot of seafood here (Chesapeake Bay) we mostly are Republicans here (mostly military) we take pride in our past, out of all the states Virginia had the most battle history (or atleast that's what the tourguide in Willaimsburg said....) and we are considered "leaders" (we had the most presidents come from Virginia than any other state, and we lead the south in the Civil war)
So i hope that sorta helps, since my dad was navy i also lived in Florida, Kansas, and Hawii
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I really love your style of drawing! I think its so cute! I dont know much bout the states (isnt American) but i know the people in Boston dumped the English tea in the ocean :3
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Haha poor Montana....well since I'm from Montana I can give you a little lesson about him haha.
Well first off the only people that were here were cowboys,miners,native americans and fur traders from other countries. Our populatain is pretty small...in fact there are literally more cows here than people lol. Maybe that's why people tend to think we're all cowboys/rednecks and we all live pretty seperated from eachother. Actually in my personal opinion Montana is like a California wannabe...and if that's too much of a stretch it might be a Washington wannabe lol because some of our town *coughcough Kalispell and Missoula coughcough* are becoming really big and starting to remind me of like Spokane and Seattle. We have the Rocky Mountains running right down the middle but you probably knew that...ummmm oh yeah our weather is actually the same as Alaska's. We have alot of bears,wolves,elk,deer,bison bah you name it we proabably have it. Since we have all those animals hunting is a big sport around here. Speaking of sports our colledge football teams are the Grizzlies and the Bobcats and they've had the 2nd longest rivalry in the U.S. (I really think we should have a pro team since our state is huge (4th largest) and aparantly Montana produces alot of great football players lol). Ummmm I think that's about it...oh yeah and our population is made up of a TON of German Irish and English ancestry. Like me I'm like 3/4ths german and 1/4th english
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*kindoflate-ish?*
Ohey, need anything about Texas?
I'd be happy to assist. .w.
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I don't, actually, because I live in Texas. x3 *high-fives?*
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That's awesome.
*absolutelyhigh-fivesarethebest*
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MASSACHUSETTS YESSSS I AM SO HOMESICK RIGHT NOW I'M GOING TO TELL YOU EVERYTHING ANYONE EVER WANTED TO KNOW
I'll stop with the caps
"Massachusetts" means "great blue hills" in the Wampanoag language. They are a Native American Tribe primarily based in Massachusetts, and the hills are a reference to the low Appalachians mountains in the western half of the state. Massachusetts began as the Puritain colony Plymouth- the third British colony in the New World, after Roanoke and Jamestown, both in Virginia. And you know what Puritans were like, I assume. Massachusetts started out as very far from the ultra ultra liberal state it is today. And it is VERY liberal... we have the strictest gun control laws in New England, the highest driving age in the country, and hate the Iraq war to death. Every MA representative and senator is a Democrat.
So, after basically starting the Revolutionary War and letting go of Maine, we went on to do absolutely nothing for the rest of history (except produce Kennedys and Dr. Suess). Tah dahhh
Today, Massachusetts, or Taxachusetts, because of the 5% sales tax, is home to a great number of cheap-as-hell Massholes (as Wizard-Of-Oz said), who invade neighboring states to buy cars and other expensive things tax-free. I donβt know about other states in New England, but people in New Hampshire can actually tell if youβre from Massachusetts by the way you drive (again, as Wizard-Of-Oz said). We support our sports teams much more fiercely than we support our troops. We affectionately hate New York City. With emphasis on the hate. But yes, we will still wear those I <3 NY shirts. We put the tsun in tsundere (there is nothing βdereβ about MA, unless you count the liberal treehugging). Let's put it like this we know what we hate, and the things we hate know it too. Does that make sense? We actually care about Canada (when we remember to), because Canada is a liberal version of the US without problems. For some reason, we have a lot of tomboys. Iβve noticed that most of the people from Massachusetts will never, ever get silly or spazz.
Gosh, that makes us sound really scary. Heh... sorry. We're actually funny and nice, once you get to know us, and we... tell stories well (my friends, teachers, enemies, most everybody I know can make the most mundane trip-to-the-supermarket story hilarious and inside-joke worthy).
The eastern half of MA gets most of the attention, because of Boston, Cape Cod, Nantucket, Marthaβs Vineyard, lots of history, the BosWash megapolis, and basically everything urban about New England. There are tons of super posh universities in Boston, the undisputed unofficial capital of New England (and a lot of very good public schools too. Good American public schools?!? I know, right?). There are even more (Harvard, MIT) in the immediate surrounding area. Thatβs why at first I thought New York and Massachusetts were backwards, because Massachusetts is usually the nerd (no offense man, but glasses? funny teeth? and is that a... pocket protector?). Bostonians dread the flood of college kids every fall. They have a LOT of pride for their historic old city (in fact, that's the only way besides sports that Boston can adequately rival New York City. In pride. It's just a contest of who can have more regional pride). Fun fact: the streets of Boston were built on top of cow paths. So if the city blocks, where we have them, are a little strange looking, it's because they were planned by cows.
The western half of Massachusetts includes the previously mentioned great blue hills, along with a lot of New England charm and colorful fall leaves and... New England charm. It's hard to explain. Let's just say it's beautiful.
New England (Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island) is freezing cold. Every single winter, there are monster blizzards. I donβt even know why the weather channel insists on making a big deal out of them. Theyβre completely normal. As a general thing, New England is a charming, beautiful, leafy region. But pack your jeans, even if itβs July. Ah well, the cold burns calories. New England is a pretty "thin" region, as far as Americans can be thin.
And Dunkinβ Doughnuts xD. Oh, Dunkinβ Doughnuts. Once, I told this guy from Canada that I liked Dunkinβ Doughnuts better than Krispy Kreme, and he immediately went βYou must be from Boston!β See, even Canadians know it.
I could keep going forever, because Iβm so fucking homesick, but I should really go to sleep now. For more information, I would recommend looking up a state Facebook group, because they have more information than you would ever need to know. Iβm pretty sure all the states have one. (Haha, check the New Hampshire group to see how much the rest of New England hates us).
If Massachusetts was mine, I would make him a snarky, smart, liberal, tsundere and the βolder brotherβ of New England who no one looks up to. But theyβre your characters, so do your own thing
Love Texas and Oklahoma by the way! Theyβre just... so perfect 
If you ever need 800 word essays on the other New England states, let me know
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Oh dear, I think I love you. ;-; <3
Seriously, you've like, WRITTEN A NOVEL OF AWESOME right here. I know like, next to nothing about all the states up there because I never get to travel, so this is a wealth of information to me.
Thank you so much. <3
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No problem! And I love you too <3 Especially how much patience you have... I could never hope to finish drawing fifty states, much less do as much research as you obviously do. So I'm glad to help.
Actually, I was kind of embarrassed after I saw how much I wrote. And yeah, I know next to nothing about other states too xD I didn't even know Appalachia was a region until I saw it in your gallery.
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Thanks! I'm having to put project on hold, sadly, since I'm going to camp for about two weeks and then school starts. I do intend to finish though.
Nah, it's fine. I love it when people write a lot. x)
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awwwh 
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LOL WTF THAT WAS LONG I think I just disproved the part about people from MA not spazzing
hehe.... i need to sleep....
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Uhm, well has anyone mentioned Vermont?
No one notices us Vermonters because NY and MA take up all the attention! D: We're like Canada, or something!
XD It's rather boring in VT.. There's a lot of dairy farms here, and a lot people make their own Maple sugar (once again, like Canada =__=ll) Lots of guys here wear flannel and baseball caps with the stiff part of it bent into an upside-down U... And hiking boots.
We're a pretty practical and open state, I think, but we're also at the same time very stubbornly stuck in our old ways.
VT is the 14th state that the U.S.A. actually had to bargian against Canada for.. So.. I guess if you're going to humaniz it, they should look like a Canada-America Mix XD
New Hampshire would be like VT's identical twin brother, but perhaps with an exact opposite personality because NH looks like VT upside-down...
I hope I didn't bore you, or just tell you stuff you already knew.. XD
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Nope, no one's mentioned Vermont yet.
You've provided me with quite a lot of helpful information! This will seriously help me, because I honestly don't know much about Vermont. Thank you!
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Oh, well I'm happy that I helped you then! If you have any extra questions about it, fee free to ask~!
And you're very welcome ~<3
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daww, these are too cute!
I may be a bit biased since I live there, but Oklahoma is super cute
oh who am I kidding, they're all adorable!!
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Don't feel biased; I'm from Oklahoma too! c:
And thank you. <3
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huu~rrah! another Okie! XD
You're welcome! 
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Because I thought, "Gee, Hawaii looks a bit nervous..."
And there was space there.
Boom, Pearl Harbor.
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OHHHH xDd IGEt IT
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I like these a lot, seems more and more people are making state-tans! Hazzah for that!!!
I, myself, hail from Pennsylvania!!! We as people...well I can only speak for the Eastern Part of the state, because that's the part I am from (Philadelphia). Pennsylvanians can be a bit temperamental, but level headed at the same time. We love a good election so we are always into politics. And Sports, shoot we love that too, especially Football.
We are close to Delaware, y'know having a good relationship with that state since the time we were both apart of the same colony, Pennsylvania Colony. But around 1776, Delaware declared independence from both the British and Pennsylvania. It was the only state to do such a thing.
We don't have a great relationship with Jersey....well at least South Jersey. I'm not too sure if it's a onesided thing or not, but it's a Hate/Hate relationship.
Hmm what else can I say?
Well if you made Pennsylvania a one state character, I would think that they would have a personality disorder (that's how my PA is). Since East and Wast PA are two VERY different places. Damn PA for being so large...I still have yet to go to West PA
We don't like Texas...period (Eagles Fans HATE Texas with a passion!!!!!). I would also say that since PA is the snack food capital of the world, we love our sweets and junk food goodness! Ever ate Twizzlers, Hershey's, Peeps, Reeses, and things of that nature? Well it all came from US.
But above all things. we are laid back and quite simple in some parts of the state (Lancaster County, home of the Amish Population in PA). Sometimes we may seem lazy, but we're hard workers
That's all I can really think of at the moment, lol.
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Oh my, you've written so much! Thank you!
This helps me so much. I wasn't sure what Penn's relationship with Delaware would be, but I kind of expected that kind of thing with Jersey. I'll probably need to research West PA a bit now since I don't know much about it. It's more forest, yes?
The thing with Texas may be a bit one-sided. I live in TX, but college football tends to be the thing down here, so the rivalry is with Oklahoma. I think there may be more Steelers fans than Cowgirlsboys fans here.
sdfsfds
I owe my Hershey's addiction to PA now. x)
But seriously, thank you, you've provided me with a wealth of information.
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You're welcome
West PA is also cities too, in between west and east is a place affectionately referred to as, Pennsyltucky! NOTHING is there...well mountains and small farming towns and Amish and hillbillies. But other than that, nothing is in the middle of the state and No one seems to really care about that part, guess it's because it's no major cities in the middle. 
Lol good to know that this things with Texas is one sided. I did hear a bunch about TX/OK rivalries, didn't know it had something to do with college football. The more you know I guess.
You're very welcome, again. I love helping people out in any way that I can~
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Thanks again! I'll try my best to incorporate this.
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hmm... well i'm from Oregon, if that helps in your endeavors...
well right off the top of my head, we obviously take great pride in our scenic and natural surroundings
hell, if you go into any Oregon stores, mostly everything in there's wooden or eco-friendly stuff...
wood is by far our biggest export...
Oregon itself is actually rather interesting, the eastern regions are high mountains/deserts, so they get little rain, while the western regions recieve almost an excess of rain, causing "rain-forests" to grow...
as a people, Oregonians tend to be more down-to-earth compared to most other states' populaces
for the most part, we maintain a more "natural" lifestyle... you're more apt to spot granola and juice places than ice-cream joints and candy shops
we tend to be more laid-back and such... being a predominately democratic (well, where i live anyhows) we have a more... liberal approach on life
we have a lotta people jogging and riding bikes around, and Eugene, Orgeon is rather (in)famously known to be the "Hippie" capital of the world xD
and ironically, with all of our pro-culture and "we're diverse" promo, we're surprisingly... not very diverse xD
in example, the town i was born, raised, and currently residing in, has over 25,000, and less than 1,000 are of hispanic/african-american/native-american/asian/other descent xD
all in all:
~laid-back
~industrious
~cultural
~(somewhat) open-minded
~well rounded
~natural
~clean
~not very diverse, ethnically
~eco-friendly
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Thank you so much! That helps.
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Cute~ C:
I like your NY and MA. XD I'm a NYer, so I may be of some help.
Well, we come off as loud and obnoxious, and we have this rival thing going on with MA (Red Sox and Yankees), and there's also a bit of a rivalry with PA (even of it's more onesided; the Mets hate the Phillies). We have pizza, bagels, and no one is aware of the fact that there's more to the state than just the city part.
Long Island wants to secede and makes its own state, also, but I don't think anyone really takes this seriously. NY and NJ were once owned by the Netherlands ("New Netherlands") until England came and stole them in 1664.
Hope this helps~
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And my computer messed up, sorry for commenting twice. ;;;
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Cute~ C:
I like your NY and MA. XD I'm a NYer, so I may be of some help.
Well, we come off as loud and obnoxious, and we have this rival thing going on with MA (Red Sox and Yankees), and there's also a bit of a rivalry with PA (even of it's more onesided; the Mets hate the Phillies). We have pizza, bagels, and no one is aware of the fact that there's more to the state than just the city part.
Long Island wants to secede and makes its own state, also, but I don't think anyone really takes this seriously. NY and NJ were once owned by the Netherlands ("New Netherlands") until England came and stole them in 1664.
Hope this helps~
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Hehe, I didn't know about the Long Island thing or the PA rivalry. x) That's pretty interesting.
Thank you! It does help.
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Well, the PA one is more subtle and onesided on NY's part, but Mets fans hate the Phillies. XD
You're weclome~
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Yey, another Oklahoman! *bricked*
I'm from Oklahoma, but I have to live in Texas now. D:
Sooners? Cowboys? Someone else?
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Your NY and MA makes me so freaking happy inside you don't even know.
D.C. too. Though he looks angry ehehe.
They are so geeky it's aweseome. I kind of want to kidnap them. AND YEY FOR HAIRCURLS.
Y'all already know how I feel 'bout Tex. And Oklahoma is pretty. I want to touch her feathers.
Dude, PA has long hair. That is fitting for some reason. I'm not sure why yet though...
Arizona and our RP Cali/Nathan look like they may get along...maybe not...fff
Alabama is so like...I dunno...he looks spaced out. Which makes me smile.
Montana reminds me of Italy for some reason.
And Ohio looks determind. Or tired and trying to hide it. xD I have family there too.
Hawaii is like a native surfer type isn't he? I like the necklace :3
NY= bagels and subs. NOT GRINDERS AHHH! But yeah I think you can ask almost anyone and they'll say they love bagels. Oh coffee too. Pizza is good.
As MoonlightMewStudios said, many of us take a lot of pride in our state. She also said the laziness about artistic ideas, and I think that's sort of true. Then again, there are apparently a lot of writers from NYC. I wouldn't know. I FORGOT WE TALK FAST FFFF. And it does seem like a lot of use are obsessed with other cultures...especially the UK (I see so many of those union jacks it's ridiculous. It's also why I said my NY stalks London fff
"Bipolar, over-patriotic, culture-obsessed, lazy anti-socialists" is a pretty good sum of most of the state I'd say. But what do they mean by anti-socialists exactly...?
Upstate is pretty different from downstate, so even if we weren't bipolar nut-cases, the character might be. Like we definitely have similar qualities, but tend to be more subdued about it than downstate. "northern mannerisms" may be appropriate if you have ever heard the term. Maybe not as north as New England, but hell we touch Canada. touch him all over
Rantrantrant
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Do they really? Hehe, thank you. <3
D.C.'s super serious and gets cranky when the states argue instead of try to get something done, so he tends to look tsundere, hehe.
Oklahoma~ I need to do something with her, hmm.
I still need to talk to my friend about PA, so I dunno yet.
Arizona and Cali...yeah, they probably would (to an extent) lol. x) SUNGLASSES INDOORS.
Alabama's just a super calm southern boy. He probably just woke up from a nap or something.
I dunno what's up with Montana. He's probably whining that people tend to forget about him forget that Hannah Montana kid!
I have a friend who was born in Ohio but barely remembers it. I wonder if her sister would remember it better...
And yep! That's pretty much it for Hawaii. Laid back surfer type who loves to show people around his islands, loves nature and coffee, a bit oblivious, friends with anyone he meets...and totally did not see Pearl Harbor coming because of it.
I watch the Travel Channel a lot, and there's always these guys in New York being all, "Omg look at this huuuuuuge sub it's like a dream come true!" I've heard New Yorkers like food, too, and yeah, it would make sense that they like other cultures because I hear there's restaurants for all these different types of food up there. Would it be in-character to say New York likes to try and imitate food he likes from other cultures? That's sort of how I see it... I can just see all the southern states being all "leave the barbecuing to us" though.
I suspected the pride thing. x) I think pretty much everyone in America is like that for their home state, just some people take a lot more pride in it than others.
Could you brief me on these "northern mannerisms?" I...really have no idea. /southerner
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I don't know exactly northern mannerisms either.
Like...someone described it to me as kind of being polite and efficent, but like not as "open" as you may expect the south to be.
Like...err...I dunno maybe you should just ignore that OTL
"Would it be in-character to say New York likes to try and imitate food he likes from other cultures?" Uh yeah that is kind of it. I mean, Americans tend to do that in general, but it just seems really noticable here or something.
WHO DOESN'T LIKE FOOD?
I mean, ya'know there are some people but the vast majority at least sort of like eating.
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Hahaha, AWESOME. Ohio's adorable. Even if in my headcanon he's a girl. You didn't mention the Midwest in there, but I suppose I could tell you about the Heart of America. :3
There's corn and lots of it. We get mistaken for Iowa sometimes because of that. We also get called Idaho sometimes because APPARENTLY our names sound alike. 
We used to be a major industrial center thanks to Cleveland, but now we're part of the rust belt. Most of our economy is based on agriculture and the service industry now. Lake Erie and the Cuyahoga River used to be really polluted, and the river actually caught fire thirteen times, but they're better now. People even surf on Lake Erie, in winter!
We have the four seasons, but they're extreme. Blizzards bury us in snow, we get flooded with rain, the heat can get sweltering, and the winds have knocked down trees and powerlines.
Our prominent food is corn, or chicken served with clams. We also have oddities like sauerkraut balls and chili spaghetti, sometimes with cinnamon. Let's see.... anything else....? OH!
Birthplace of Aviation. I always saw Ohio's personification being into aviation like Alfred because of it. Not to mention our fighting spirit. We held up in the French-Indian War, held off the Brits in the War of 1812, led the Union to victory with our generals during the Civil War, and continue to survive even when the going gets rough and everyone makes fun of us. I think Ohio's really underestimated.
Oh yeah. There's also the fact we're a swing state, so we're fought over during election years. Plus, we're filled with some pretty religious, righteous people. I mean, it took us forever to legalize gambling and gay marraige is outlawed. And yet we were one of the few states who tried to keep the drinking age at 18. Haha.
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My headcanons tend to be backwards from everyone else's. Like, I see Hawaii as a boy and Virginia as a boy (despite the name! ehehe~).
Idaho...Ohio...yeah, I could see someone thinking you said one or the other. I heard about the rivalry with Michigan thing too! But I forgot where...I kind of wonder if it's as intense as the TX/OK or the MN/WI rivalries, but I don't think there's really a way to compare.
Ah, yes yes! The weather...I heard there was a tornado there? It hit a highschool hours before their graduation, and I thought, "wow, that would really suck." Is that kind of a regular occurrence there? (tornadoes, I mean) Or is it an 'it happens now and then and the press goes nuts' kind of thing? I live in Tornado Alley, so whenever there's a tornado somewhere we're just kinda "ehhhh..." unless it was a huge outbreak or an F5 or something.
Chili spaghetti...I've never heard of that. *takes note*
The aviation thing! I have headcanon that Ohio and North Carolina argue over who should get credit for the airplane, since the Wright Brothers were from Ohio but flew their plans in NC. I also have headcanon that Georgia has a personal beef with Ohio because Sherman was from there, so she really hates him for the whole "march to the sea" thing.
But thank you, this really helps a lot (you wrote so much!).
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Well, most people consider it to be intense. We go nuts. My old science teacher was a Michigan fan, which definitely didn't go over well. During the college football season, his classroom got toilet-papered. The CD he had of their team's theme was also taped to the ceiling of his classroom. We're also rivals because we were both big industrialists, and because people argue whether Detroit or Cleveland is worse. *cough* DETROIT *cough*
Well, it's sort of in-between. They're enough of a threat that tornado drills are strictly practiced. We get a shit ton of warnings for them, too. And it can get EXTREMELY windy here. But they don't hit too often. When they do, though, it usually causes a LOT of damage. Like one time it tore down an entire street, wrecking houses and causing LOADS of property damage.
Haha, chili spaghetti is mainly big around Cincinnati. I've never tried it, but it's supposed to be really good!
Oh, a lot of people have that headcanon in both cases. I do too. I always saw Ohio as being VERY defensive about it, because it's one of the few GOOD things we're known for. And I also saw us as being rather brutal in the Civil War because of stuff like that march. We wanted to prove our worth and got a little.... over-enthusiastic.
You're welcome! I'm glad it helps. I always enjoy making sure that Ohio is in-character. Variations are normal and fine, but there's no better way to improve characterization than information from a native! I'll be putting up a meme for my version of Ohio soon. I suggest taking a look at it, because there's a lot of info on the state.
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Hehe! xD I don't think people here take the OK/TX rivalry quite that personally, but it's still a huge deal and people's houses do get TP'd for it. It's a big pride deal; last year there was a race to see whether the OU fans or the UT fans could pull a plane (as in like, a 787, not a little plane) across the finish line first. The Oklahomans won, but they lost the game. :<
It gets really windy here sometimes, even when there's not a cloud in the sky, so I suppose the wind doesn't cause too much worry here. Most tornadoes don't get extensive media coverage unless it rips up something big and important or kills a lot of people, or is at least a Greensburg, KS scale storm. Otherwise they're just like, "Look! A tornado! Here's a video of it!"
Chili spaghetti sounds kind of good actually. Then again, there are some really weird fair foods here that people love friedPB&J?
*takes note on Civil War* Fff, I love stuff about the Civil War.
I'll be sure to check it out when you post it! I'm doing my best to keep all of these as in character as possible. I was thinking about doing something for Oklahoma kind of like that because I've seen OKs DREADFULLY out of character and it...pisses me off. Except I probably won't do a meme, more of "here's how it is" or comic kind of thing.
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XD Fried PB&J? Never tried it. The only friend sandwich I eat is grilled cheese. I do eat regular PB&J, though. And the portable ones you can carry around are popular here. Along with the ones in bar form. Lol.
As do I, hee. Ohio is constantly caught in the middle when it comes to battle. Both on the battlefield and in elections, haha.
Ah, I see. I've seen a few versions of Ohio, but none of them are ever too bad. I mainly did it because I plan to write a big fic on her history and REALLY needed a solid model for her character. I actually had models for her three big cities (Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati) down before her own. X'D If you'd like to see THOSE, they're in my gallery. :3
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I've never tried it either, but apparently anything that comes from the state fair that's fried is supposed to be good. x)
Oooh, I think I saw the cities before. I remember looking at them a while ago.
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Oh, of course. They fry everything now, even Coca Cola and butter, haha. Oh America, why so unhealthy? X'D
Ah, great then! I did make them up a while ago. I feel bad though. Poor girl Ohio has to deal with three boy cities, brothers, who are nothing alike. D:
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Cuuuute~
I'll tell ya a bit about Massachusetts~ We love the Red Sox, clam chowda, don't say our 'r's, crazy about sports, love Dunkin Donuts cawfee, and we're probably the least liked state in New England. orz.
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Thank you! That helps me a bit. *files into MA cabinet*
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