[AN: Warnings of violence, gangs, yelling, and cursing D: DelawarexMaryland is you squint]
State name: Maryland
Real name: Maria Key
State nickname: The Free state
Height: 5"4
Age: 17 (Appears) 223 (Real age)
Birthday: April 28
Capital: Annapolis
State animal: Baltimore Oriole
Fact: The first umbrella factory in the U.S., 1928, Baltimore
Gender: Female
Appearance: Maryland is the same height as Georgia, but seems to look younger. She has pale, rosy skin (Lighter than Pennsylvania), curly light brown hair (Although humidity can make it more frizzy than curly) , and hazel eyes that seem closer to a red shade most of the time.
Personality: Maryland is a will-powered, sisterly figure in the state family. She likes puppies and competing with other states as if her life depends on it. She claims to hate sharing a border with Delaware, but often has to turn to her older brother for help (even though she hates to). Delaware seems to look after his younger sister when she neglects herself. Somehow, she always seems to be prepared for bad weather... Although, like Pennsylvania, making her angry will do you no good, so if you'd like to live to be 100, don't piss her off...
Bio: In 1632, Sir George Calvert convinced King Charles I to give him land for a colony in the Americas. Sir Calvert ruined his career and protestan England by becoming a Roman Catholic. He was going to build a colony called Maryland but he died. Before he could set it up the colony was supposed to be located along the upper Chesapeake Bay, across from Virginia. In the mid 1700s, England ruled southern colonies. Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and Georgia. Lord Baltimore bribed a lot of people. 100 acres of land would go to a settler who brought 5 healthy men. A woman and child would only bring 5 acres. In 1647, the governor was dying and he told Margaret Bret to take over. She did. In 1649, she asked the assembly to pass on the Act of Toleration.
Title: America's new shape... it's all Maryland's fault
"Hey Delaware!"
"What is it Maryland?"
"I just now noticed that your state is shaped like a duck!" Maryland pointed a finger to Delaware's face as if she were accusing him of a crime.
Delaware looked up from the papers he was recently sorting. "What? No it doesn't..."
"I knew you'd deny it! So I brought a map to prove it!" Seemingly out of nowhere, she pulled out a large map of Delaware and taped it to a blackboard.
Delaware's face took on a look of concern.
"H-h-h-h-hey..."
"Yeah?" Maryland had a smug look on her face.
"I-i-i-isn't that photo-shopped a little too much?" Delaware asked.
The tip of Delaware had been bent to an angle that would have usually collided with New Jersey, but seemed perfectly natural. The lower part of Delaware had been rounded and shaped to appear like a duck's body. And where there should have been just clear ocean, two thin peninsulas jutted out of the lower part of Delaware, making the duck's feet.
"Nope! This is 100% natural!" Maryland exclaimed triumphantly.
"R-r-r-right... So you don't mind if I show this to the other states, right?" Delaware asked.
"No problem!"
. . .
"Well..." California mused.
"It's certainly interesting..." Florida murmured.
"The coloring is very... unique..." Colorado muttered.
"It's the most outrageous thing I've ever seen," Nevada chided straightforwardly.
In front of the Southern states, a large smartboard had been lit up with a picture of what seemed to be... the thirteen original colonies... shaped like assorted items. Delaware like a blue duck, Pennsylvania a red brick, New Jersey a camo scarf, and so on.
"Ya know, I wonder how America would be shaped if all the states were... edited geographically..." Louisiana thought aloud.
"I wanna be shaped like cheese!" Wisconsin piped.
"Palm branches for me~" Hawaii followed along
"Wait- guys, you do realize that even if we try, the geography of America won't change, right?" Iowa called over.
There was a long silence.
"Well, if we do, I'd offer to have China mosaic it for us," Ohio said cheerfully.
"Then let's do it!" Texas punched a fist up in the air.
. . .
However...
In the end...
It came out really weird...
"We complied with everyone's requests, but now... America looks more like a tattered country..." Maryland muttered. After collecting all of the requests, Maryland had hopped to the challenge to remake all the states. Still, lots of the states' requests had been.. over the top odd. Even with photoshop, Maryland found it impossibly hard to fit all the states together, thus America became a country with many, many holes. Maryland scraped the shapes together again and tried to fit them. Several paper cuts marked her fingers.
"Man...New York doesn't fit anywhere..." she muttered. New York had requested to appear as a very detailed statue of Liberty and to have Long Island the shape of a guitar, which made his state a particularly hard state to place anywhere.
Maryland bent over to pick of Illinois to see if he fit anywhere, but quickly dropped the piece of paper when it cut into her palm.
Bright red blood oozed out almost lazily. Maryland clenched her teeth and picked it up again, ignoring the bloody stains that now covered the paper.
"Hey, Maryland, Ohio wants to change his mind. He wants to be a-," Delaware stopped in the doorway. "Shhesh Maryland, really? Can't you have one day where you don't go emo and cut yourself?" Delaware walked over and grabbed Maryland's wrist.
"Hey! Delaware let go! And reminder, I was NEVER emo. I'm making the state cutouts!" Maryland protested.
"Well then, can't you care enough to check if you hands get infected?" Delaware countered as he viewed the several cuts.
"I'll check that later, so let go," Maryland continued.
"Up. Now." Delaware pulled Maryland out of her chair and into the restroom. Forcing her hands under the sink, Delaware ran the cold tap water over Maryland's hands.
"Delaware!" Maryland whined.
"Just be quiet," Delaware commanded as he rinsed the cuts with soap and water. Afterward, Delaware patted her hands dry with a clean towel.
"Delaware, can you let go already?" Maryland complained.
"No. Come on, let's put some ointment on this before it starts swelling too much," Delaware dragged/pulled Maryland into the hallway to find the medicine cabinet. After treating the cuts, Delaware carefully covered each cut with a band-aid. "You need to be more careful and take care of yourself. "
"Geez, you sound like an old man when you say that," Maryland scoffed.
"Well I am older than you."
"By just one year!" Maryland countered. After Delaware had finished placing the last band-aid on Maryland's hands, Maryland shot up and made a bee-line back to her own room, before Delaware grabbed her wrist again.
"Peter McKean, let go now," Maryland huffed.
"Don't use my name," Delaware winced. "You need to take better care of yourself. I'm serious, you can't expect me to be there every time you get hurt."
"I don't need your help!" Maryland burst out. "I never did and I never will! You were just always there!"
"Right, so the next time you cut yourself, make your brain function like a normal person's would and actually treat it!" Delaware's face was flushed from yelling.
"Fine then, I don't need you! I wish I never shared a border with you! I wish we were never related!" Maryland screamed.
Delaware forcefully shoved her wrist away and turned to leave.
Maryland was on the brink of tears. After all these years, she finally told Delaware how much she hated him. How much she loathed him. How much malice her heart resided towards him. So why did she feel so guilty?
. . .
"Got to keep... running," Maryland mused. Her thighs burned from sprinting, but she couldn't stop. Otherwise she'd be caught. Voices echoed loudly in the alleyways. How had she gotten herself caught in the midst of all this? How had the attempt to stop conflict, flared more violence? Maryland didn't know, all she knew was the fact that she had to keep running. But how long could she run?
"She's over here!" A voice yelled above the others. The sound of trampling feet made Maryland run faster, pushing every pure ounce of energy left in her worn out body. But she couldn't hold it. Her energy was failing her. Before she knew it, she had collapsed. The world seemed too noisy...
Just to loud...
And her eyelids.. were too heavy..
to keep open...
"Maryland!"
Delaware?
. . .
"M...ln...mar..y..and... Mary...Maryland!"
Maryland's eyes shot open to see Delaware's face.
Delaware let out a sigh of relief. "Good, I thought you were dead..."
"Shut up," Maryland muttered. Her eyes traveled the extent of Delaware's face before pausing to see red blood trickling in Delaware's hair."Oh my gosh." Maryland sat up and grabbed a fistful of Delaware's hair. "What the hell did you do?"
"Oww, don't have to be so harsh when I just saved you life," Delaware chuckled.
"You...oh..." Maryland's eyes scanned over the rest of Delaware, only now noticing... that she was taller than him now.
"I thought you were taller..." Maryland muttered before bursting out laughing. "Wow, I seriously used to think you were the tall one... but now I guess I'm taller!"
"Be quiet," Delaware said before wincing in pain.
Maryland stopped and looked at Delaware with serious eyes.
Bruises covered his fair skin, cuts flowed out crimson liquid, and Delaware's expression was twisted in pain.
"D-d-d-d-delaware?" Maryland's voice was covered with fear.
"Yeah?"
Maryland grabbed Delaware's wrists. "Don't be such and idiot! You could have been killed you, you... just don't EVER do that again! You used to worry about me when I got hurt, but you can't really say anything!"
"Heh, idiot. You could have died too."
"We are NOT talking about that..."
"Right? Maryland 'M's"
"Delaware ducks."
"..."
"..."
"..."
"Penny's gonna kill me for this," Delaware broke the string of silence.
"Georgia too."
"Yeah."
"Don't get hurt like this again. Just don't."
"Oh, so are you getting soft now?"
"Shut up."
I'm not getting soft... I'm just afraid that you'll disappear when I'm not looking... and I'm afraid you won't reappear ever again.
Despite the small land size of Maryland, there are many growing problems. One very important one is violence. The state of Maryland is number ten in the listing of the ten most violent states. Generally the southern states were known to be more violent, however, this northern state had made it known that conflict is possible everywhere...
Kimchi: Awww Delaware's so much more colorful in this story! Such a good big brother! (I wish my sister were more sisterly...) Sorry, but I've been gouging myself in waaaaayyy too much Korean Dramas this week, therefore I MUST write some sort of drama/action scene~! But this one is kinda short...
Delaware: I'm so weird in this one...
Kimchi: Shut up, I made you to be a weird OC
Sites: http:/ / www. netstate. com /states/intro /md_
http :/ / www. harlingen. isd. tenet. edu
Little request here:
If anyone would be generous, please send me some information about any state, writing the Bios is killing me(plus I think I screwed up on these that I've written so far...)Just sent some info about colonization, any state. And if you know that I screwed up(which I'm pretty sure I did) please notify me, I don't want to offend anyone ~
Next up:
South Carolina: The Palmetto State
North Carolina: Hey South?
South Carolina: Yeah?
North Carolina: How come we're twins, yet you're the eighth state, while I'm number 12?
South Carolina: I told you so. You wanted to 'take you time' and read the constitution five times before finally agreeing!
North Carolina: Oh.
(North and South Carolina are gonna be in a two-part chapter. South is gonna be first, then North later down the road...)
