Abilities: Having been around for many centuries, Austria has acquired numerous skills. Like any refined young lady, she is trained in music and excels at it. She plays both the piano and the violin, slightly preferring the latter over the former. She has also dabbled in other instruments found in an orchestra setting and can play them with proficiency. She is loathe to touch flutes however, as they remind her of a particularly unruly nation she dislikes with a great intensity.
Regardless, she does not consider herself a composer. She is much more comfortable simply playing the works of the geniuses her country is responsible for turning into renowned composers. That being said, she vehemently denies any other Nation's claim to any foreign born composers who found musical haven within her borders. She considers them hers by association and views her ties to them as being more binding than something as silly as birthright.
She is a modest and simple cook, but excels at baking and has a fervor for elaborately crafted rich desserts. She enjoys spending her free time time baking and meticulously decorating her baked goods and takes great pride in them. She has a bit of an exaggerated sweet tooth so the quality of something she eats often needs to meet her high standards.
Austria can sew and occasionally mends and modifies her own clothes to her tastes. She considers the skill useful and necessary for a lady, but prefers to let her servants to do the brunt of it for her.
She's also a polylingual. Her role as a personified nation makes this ability indispensable as well as her role as the head of her vast empire which controls countless other nations of all different dialects and languages.
As a nation, Austria has a different life expectancy from that of a human being. She can only cease to exist if her country, culture and people do as well. That being said, she is able to withstand serious injury and pain without death and recover more quickly than a human being. However her health is susceptible to her national climate, her national economy, and general mood of her people. Her age also does not correlate with her physical appearance and changes based on her national growth and deficiencies.
Not particularly skilled in war or warfare despite her efforts, she is a rather talented orator and negotiator. She has manipulated many Nations into becoming her allies and serving her own self interests. Her method of choice to avoid war yet still retain power is arranging various marriage alliances between her and other Nation's royalty and nobility. However, it is important to note that she is not afraid of battle even if she doesn't always prosper from the endeavor.
That being said she is trained in combat, weaponry, and displays some aptitude for fencing. However, she finds both to be rather unbecoming of a lady of her stature and participates purely out of necessity. Because of this she frequently lapses in her training, causing inconsistencies in her ability to fight over the centuries.
Finally, while she certainly prefers the finer things in life and lives as a powerful aristocratic lady, she does occasionally yearn for some of the simplicity of her youth. To curb her desire she maintains a small personal garden with a modest green thumb.
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Regardless, she does not consider herself a composer. She is much more comfortable simply playing the works of the geniuses her country is responsible for turning into renowned composers. That being said, she vehemently denies any other Nation's claim to any foreign born composers who found musical haven within her borders. She considers them hers by association and views her ties to them as being more binding than something as silly as birthright.
She is a modest and simple cook, but excels at baking and has a fervor for elaborately crafted rich desserts. She enjoys spending her free time time baking and meticulously decorating her baked goods and takes great pride in them. She has a bit of an exaggerated sweet tooth so the quality of something she eats often needs to meet her high standards.
Austria can sew and occasionally mends and modifies her own clothes to her tastes. She considers the skill useful and necessary for a lady, but prefers to let her servants to do the brunt of it for her.
She's also a polylingual. Her role as a personified nation makes this ability indispensable as well as her role as the head of her vast empire which controls countless other nations of all different dialects and languages.
As a nation, Austria has a different life expectancy from that of a human being. She can only cease to exist if her country, culture and people do as well. That being said, she is able to withstand serious injury and pain without death and recover more quickly than a human being. However her health is susceptible to her national climate, her national economy, and general mood of her people. Her age also does not correlate with her physical appearance and changes based on her national growth and deficiencies.
Not particularly skilled in war or warfare despite her efforts, she is a rather talented orator and negotiator. She has manipulated many Nations into becoming her allies and serving her own self interests. Her method of choice to avoid war yet still retain power is arranging various marriage alliances between her and other Nation's royalty and nobility. However, it is important to note that she is not afraid of battle even if she doesn't always prosper from the endeavor.
That being said she is trained in combat, weaponry, and displays some aptitude for fencing. However, she finds both to be rather unbecoming of a lady of her stature and participates purely out of necessity. Because of this she frequently lapses in her training, causing inconsistencies in her ability to fight over the centuries.
Finally, while she certainly prefers the finer things in life and lives as a powerful aristocratic lady, she does occasionally yearn for some of the simplicity of her youth. To curb her desire she maintains a small personal garden with a modest green thumb.