#plumer

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you with the watercolor eyes . ⊹ ⋆ﾟ

We are often told that they taught us nothing at Eton. That may be so, but I think they taught it very well.

- Field Marshal Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer, addressing an Old Etonians’ dinner in 1916.

One of the original generals of the Western Front during World War One unfairly tagged with the ‘lions led by donkeys’ label.

Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer (1857-1932) was born in 1857 in Torquay.  Educated at Eton, he entered the army in 1876 with a commission as a sub-lieutenant in the 65th Foot regiment.

With his squat figure, ruddy countenance and white moustache, Plumer cut an apparently comical figure which belied the reality that he was one of the most effective and successful of First World War generals.

Popular among his own men (if not with Field Maeshal Haig, who disliked Plumer and considered removing him on several occasions), Plumer was a meticulous planner, cautious and impossible to fluster.  Given command of Second Army in May 1915, Plumer served in Ypres for two years, culminating with the launch of the Messines Ridge offensive on 7 June 1917.

The Messines attack was planned with great care and, unusually, achieved all its objectives quickly and at a fraction of the usual cost.  The attack was a great success.  It was begun with the explosion of 19 of 21 mines at dawn on 7 June that was said to form the loudest man-made sound up to that time; Lloyd-George is reported to have heard the explosions in Downing Street.

Following the Messines success, Plumer was appointed to salvage the disastrously unsuccessful Passchendaele campaign overseen by Gough. Despite difficult circumstances Plumer managed to salvage the operation; in spite of his reputation as a cautious, sparing commander his operations at Passchendaele were more than usually expensive in terms of casualties.

After returning from the Italian Front in November 1917 (where he was sent to restore order to the front line following the Italian disaster at Caporetto), he and Second Army conducted the defence against the great German push of spring 1918.

Plumer was promoted Field Marshal following the armistice in 1919 and received a peerage.  He commanded the Army of Occupation on the Rhine until April 1919.  He was subsequently appointed Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Malta until May 1924.  He also served as High Commissioner in Palestine; became President of the MCC (Marylebone Cricket Club, at Lords), and became an active member of the House of Lords.  Plumer unveiled the new Menin Gate in Ypres in 1927.

FIRST: Alternia or Beforus or some type of AU?

Alternia(kind of???? I made her for a fansession that has its own planet, demokratia http://aminoapps.com/p/apm4by )

This is a really neat premise! I’m always a fan of fantroll stories that take advantage of the fact that alternia can do spacetravel. 

Name (preferably include how you came up with it and why):melaki sentok. It doesnt really have much of a meaning, it just slowly came to be after a couple months

You’ve already got her on that Demokratia list page, so I don’t know if you’re looking for name replacements, but I think naming her Plumer Iadges would be really funny. It’s a reference to both Plumeria the team skull character (since Plumeria is a “big sister” type character and fills a similar role as your girl here) and Purl Ridges, a type of stitch used in knitting, which is one of your girl’s hobbies! 

Age: around the alternian equivalent of 17 or 18

That’s gonna put her at ~8 sweeps.

Strife Specibus: bayonetkind

Hmm. Bayonets are usually associated with soldiers. I think if you wanted to fit her theme as a criminal, you’d use spraypaintkind, or maybe even Batkind. This works both for the criminal image And a pun on the fact that Plumeria likes to use Golbats/Crobats, lol.

Fetch Modus: quilt modus- the items are put together in a square formation, only ones on the outside can be uncaptchalogged. The more important the item is the deeper it is in the modus.

That’s so CUTE…

Symbol and meaning: its her old symbol back when she was a indigoblood, with a purpleblood rendition

I might switch it up, but we’ll see when we get to the design.

Pesterchum:InnovativeTrolling

I think innovativeTrollster would be pretty funny. Or experimentalTrollster! 

Quirk: puts parentheses around all her (Y)s, and uses stereotype gangster terms like “yoyoyo” or “its ya boy” or “yuh, check it”

Beee careful here, because stuff like “it’s ya boy” isn’t “gangster terms,” it’s just African American Vernacular English. AAVE already gets associated strongly with criminality and it’s a bad & racist media stereotype. Hussie himself is very guilty of this brand of racism, and it’s something we don’t wanna emulate! I think you can still use it, you just have to tread cautiously and make sure you understand the meanings and aren’t just using it as a Funny Prop, because it’s a dialect of english, not just a bunch of nonsense to be thrown around for goofs.

It’s possible to have “tough” and “criminal” character w/o relying on these stereotypes, too. You could just have her talk rough in general or use a lot of insults in a loving way (like australians love to do) instead. Or you could do something really stupid and fun like making her use archaic criminal slang. 

Special Abilities (if any):nah

All purples have chucklevoodoos! But you don’t gotta putt hem to use so they can be functionally nah anyways.

Guardian/pets?: Her lusus is essentially the dragon from The NeverEnding Story. I think its name was falkor?

I was confused at first, but y’know what I think his loving and hopeful nature does vibe with Melaki’s hope title later, so I’ll let it slide. Purples do have aquatic mammals for lusii, though, so you gotta make this like, a version of Falkor that can also dive underwater. Maybe with a fishtail like Gamzee’s lusus. Mermaid Falkor. 

Personality: melaki is a gangster girl, who goes around committing dumb crimes with her fellow clowns. She follows her gut instinct a lot, almost too much. To the point of injury in some situations(I.E. that leg of hers). Shes usually the momma person of the group, making sure her crime friends make it out alright. You could probably compare her to a team skull member or smthn

I like that a lot! I definitely drew on the Team Skull vibe a little more than you probably predicted, haha. Criminal with a heart of gold is a trope I enjoy, so I love her. Is she part of the Clown Cult or is that not much of a thing on Demokratia? You should ask about that if you haven’t, because juggalo culture could also be a good informer for researching for how to play this character!

Interests: trolling, vandalism, stealing, knitting, musicals (usually keeps those last 2 to herself)

Does she like stealing like petty theft or stealing like burglary because those are two different crimes. Something to #think about.

Title:seer of hope.

Understander of hope… Knower of hope. I don’t know if I think that’s quite fitting for someone as get-up-and-go as her. Fighty, energized, definitely not the sit back and learn type. If you want her to Learn to be a little more passive, this could probably fit, but as it stands I think she’s probably a Maid of Hope, mmmaybe a Sylph.  

Land:land of Faux fur and chapels

Why faux fur I’m laughing. I’m sure there’s a reason… But all I can think of is vans with shag carpet in the back. Land of Shag Carpet and Chapels. That’s mostly a joke suggestion, but either way, love this. 

Dream planet: prospit

I Fully Agree that she’s definitely a prospit player but why’ve you sprited her in a dersite outfit– nevermind I won’t question it. 

Onto design!:

Your submitted picture was a little too blurry to work on directly, so I had to rebuild her. I wanted to make her makeup a little more unique, so I based it off of Plumeria’s eye look with the harsh wing and then the greys and whites around the eye. And then I made the outer grey look like Guzma’s interestingly shaped glasses. Everything else was kept largely the same. I gave her same horns, because assymetrical horns always just feel a little weird w/o design reason. And I added a little arrow to her sign as a reference to Caprittanius, the purple/void/prospit sign. 

June 6, 1917 - British Finalize Preparations for Offensive at Messines: Nineteen Underground Mines with One Million Tons of TNT Dug Beneath Enemy Lines

Pictured - The British placed more than 1,000,000 tons of TNT placed beneath German lines at Messines. It was unknown whether they would effectively detonate under the Germans the next day.

For two years, British General Herbert Plumer had stared at the powerful German lines opposite him, outside the town of Messines in Ypres. The strain of it had “turned his hair white,” according to historian Leon Wolff. Yet Plumer, the commander of Britain’s Second Army, had not spent his time worrying. Plumer had painstakingly devised a plan to dislodge the German divisions in front of him. In June 1917, the British High Command gave his orders the go-ahead. Plumer’s assault on Messines was not only meant to relive pressure on the French, it was to lay the ground for a more ambitious British offensive at Ypres, the Battle of Passchendaele.

For months, Plumer’s men had been secretly tunneling under German lines, and by June 1917 the sappers had dug over five miles of underground galleries filled with more than one million tons of TNT in nineteen separate mines. Underground mining had become a staple of the war, but these mines were exponentially more powerful than any that had previously been used. German pioneers had noticed the obvious digging and protested to their officers that the British were clearly up to something, but the High Command did not fear the coming attack. German divisions funneled into the trenches at Messines in early June. This was exactly what Plumer wanted - beneath the unsuspecting Germans lay the greatest concentrations of explosives gathered in the non-nuclear age.

And the mines were only the curtain-raiser. Plumer’s Second Army also had 2,400 guns, a third of them heavy howitzers. There was one British cannon per yard of the front. Three hundred planes of the Royal Flying Corps patrolled overhead, sweeping German machines from the sky. Behind the lines, 72 of the new “tanks” stood ready to be unleashed on D-Day.

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