APPEARANCE HEADCANONS/OTHER IMPORTANT INFO
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Name: Peter Kirkland
Age: He’s physically about four or five years old, but he claims himself as six—it’s the age he “chose”.
Height: 110.2 centimeters (about 39/40 inches)
Zodiac: Aquarius.
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Resides in America right now alongside his brother Alfred.
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Peter is the little boy representing Her Majesty’s (Former) Fort Roughs. He is not Sealand, as he was not given the chance to develop into the micronation we all know and love Peter has the physical age of about five years old, though he claims himself to be six — that’s the age he “chose out” for himself on one birthday.
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He was born on February 11th, 1943, when his fort was sunk into the channel off the coasts of England. The place where Fort Roughs stands was considered international waters at the time. He was found in the depths of the iron and steel within 36 hours of the men being deployed and ready at their stations.
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At the point he met Arthur, it was December of 1943, ten months after he was “born”. He had the looks of a toddler, and though he was barely old enough in human time to be able to walk, he was fully functioning and trying his best to help out with everything on the fort. The air raids and constant going about around him left him with little sleep and dark circles under his eyes, but he paid that no mind and continued to try and function as a normal “soldier” would.
Arthur and he had periodic, monthly to bi-monthly check ups from 1944 up until the end of the war. Though he didn’t see his father nation often, Peter continued to adore him and dream of the times he would be allowed to live with Arthur and be a family together—though, those dreams would go unrealised and die very early on in his life.
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Peter loved his soldiers as well, and would do his very best to “protect everyone” - though really, he didn’t do anything. After all, he was a child. But he believed that he did, and it was only after the war that he realized how useless he actually had been.
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In 1956, Peter was cut off and abandoned completely by England, his name only on the maps as a hazard to boats. He was given no warning, and was basically left to fend for himself.
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Peter was confused, hurt and scared that Arthur would do such a thing, and to this day he still doesn’t understand why Arthur couldn’t keep him. Though Peter knew that the fort had used up it’s usefulness, he honestly didn’t want to believe that Arthur didn’t care about him personally. It’s a crippling fear in him that has festered even to this day. This caused some distance between Peter and other people—as he was afraid to trust, and afraid to talk to people. This anxiety has been repaired over the past few years—as Arthur and others has been willing to bridge the gap and repair the damage done to the little boy.
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- Peter detests his war fort, and tries to avoid it as much as possible. If called “Roughs”, he’ll generally get a bad taste in his mouth and will be in a foul mood until someone remedies it. He is nervous around people and tries not to be a burden on those he doesn’t know, making sure that he addresses them formally unless they get to know each other better, in which he drops the formalness and turns a little more childlike.
- He’ll also avoid talking about change in general as much as he can - he’s afraid of things changing. He wants to desperately cling to everything that he has, and is terrified of others “disappearing”. Other then that, he’s a normal, five year old boy who loves rabbits and causing mischief.
- Despite, or perhaps because of his abandonment, Peter strives to be in top conditions at all times. He is always willing to lend a helping hand or try to help people out.
- Peter loves other people, and is dreaming of “world peace”—and though he knows he can’t achieve such a thing, he tries to get as close to it as possible.
- He’s terrified of being alone. Bonds are things that are very important to him, and they are things that, he considers, should be unbreakable. Promises, however, are something that Peter does not believe in—he assumes they’re simply things that other people tell him so he won’t cry.
- Despite all odds, Peter has grown about a centimetre since leaving his fort, in the past few years. He knows that his fort is rusting, since no one is there to take care of it, and that terrifies him. More often then he’ll admit, his joints crack and/or lock up because of the rust and mildew. It happens more often in the winter months then in the summer months.
