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Awesome. Glad you like him. smile I guess I should give some historical info to the North Carolina player about him since he would technically be her little brother.

Tennessee was actually born sometime around 1769 when a group of Virginians mistakenly settled in Cherokee territory. The colonies declared him illegal and ordered his people to disband, but Cherokee took pity on the little settlement and leased land to him. In 1772 his people banded together and established a government called the Watauga Association which became the first government ever established entirely by Americans without England's supervision. This earned him the ire of Virginia's royal governor, Lord Dunmore, who saw him as a "dangerous example" of early American independence. For the most part he kept to himself on the other side of the mountains until the Revolutionary War broke out. When this happened war between him and Cherokee (who had sided with England/Britain) began in the frontier. In 1776, his leaders asked North Carolina to take him in as her little brother and she agreed by annexing him as her westernmost counties. (I suppose he would consider South Carolina his sister, too, since they're twins.) Unfortunately, after the war and when everyone was debating about the Constitution, NC was super poor and didn't have the funds to properly take care of him. She ceded him to America, he felt betrayed/abandoned and drama happened (lost state of Franklin stuff ensued), she eventually forced TN to live in her house again, but promptly ceded him again to America when she ratified the Constitution. It took a while for TN to forgive her but he only held the grudge for a few generations... Things were a little tense for a while but they began to develop a more normal brother-sister relationship afterwards.

... Or at least that's why I see them as siblings. I guess you could say he was adopted into the family?

I don't honestly see any of the states as being "blood" related in the same way humans are so I'm pretty flexible. In my mind it's however the states define their relationships that matter. Hetalia isn't specific enough on the issue to properly say how it is supposed to be. But I do think some siblings/relationships should be closer than others.

Okay so we might have a plot theme. RandomPrincess~^_^~ came up with maybe doing a family reunion like a fourth of July party or something like that. What do you guys think?

I just check and California is still open. We are trying to find a good idea for a plot though

That sounds good. Now I just need to get a few more states. I don't think this rp will get people for all 50 states but maybe at least 15 would be good for us to start with