New Jersey

New Jersey (ニュージャージー, Nyūjājī) or Michael "Mike" Joaquin Verhoeven (マイケル ホアキンミッチェル, Maikeru Hoakin bāhōben) is a fan-made character in Hetalia: Axis Powers. He represents the State of New Jersey, alongside his twin brother, South New Jersey. He's often referred to as North or East as a nickname.
==Appearance==
New Jersey has shoulder-length, wavy black hair, deep blue eyes, and lighter brown skin than South. Despite being tall, New Jersey is often mistaken for a woman due to his slender and lithe figure. He has a scar on his left knee from the Battle of Princeton, several scars on his shoulders and upper back from Black Tom and has scars covering much of his chest from tons of skirmishes during the Revolution. He has an ahoge that represents the barrier islands, a birthmark on his upper arm that represents Ramapo Lake and a birthmark on his neck that represents Mount Kitty Ann. North normally wears a hoodie with pants and high tops. But, he can be seen in a tank top with shorts and sneakers during warmer weather.
==Personality and Interests==
New Jersey's quiet, foul-mouthed, untrusting and quite stubborn, yet, docile. Being so close to Downstate, North tends to speak quicker than South. He's also quite a good fighter in arguments and in physical altercations which many people don't expect. Perhaps this ability's concealed by New Jersey's harmless and passive physique despite being so tall. However, East's known for only resorting to physical violence if necessary. North can also get defensive about his privacy as he's a private person.
Unlike South, North's an introverted person and tends to only speak with people he can trust. Because of this, he rarely comes out of his state and if he does, he's usually with someone he can trust. Despite this, he's rather blunt and can name off different flaws of different people or things as if he's memorized them and is quite observant. North isn't one to be bothered by insults and usually shrugs them off.
North also acknowledges both his good and bad attributes, something South has difficulty with. East's known for hating big cities, usually staying in small towns and/or cities or staying on the outskirts of them. However, East can tolerate them for a period of time. East also seems to like the winter more than the summer.
East loves music, specifically rock, and loves to play instruments, specifically the guitar and piano. He's also a good singer. His favorite foods are Italian hot dogs, Taylor Ham (or Pork Roll), Disco fries, beefsteak banquets, Panzerotti and any type of bagel. East also loves to cook and bake, something he has in common with West. Usually, him and West will make more food than they can eat and usually give it to shelters or their neighbors. East likes to cook some Dutch food every now and then while West likes to cook Swedish food. East's known for being the only Northeastern who isn't picky.
In his free time, North loves to go on long hikes, camping and walking on his cities boardwalks, specifically the Atlantic City boardwalk, while listening to music. North has an interest in biotechnology, IT and medicine. Due to his interest in medicine, North understands and can perform first-aid. North has an Eastern Goldfinch South named Sandwich. In turn, North named the New Jersey Devil, Joisey.
==Relationships==
===South New Jersey (Nicky J. Verhoeven)===
North loves his twin despite the fact they get into a bunch of arguments such as Taylor Ham v.s Pork Roll which they've gotten over for the most part. North seems to be a bit more talkative and open around South than any other state and trusts him with his life. South's still mad at him for naming the New Jersey Devil, Joisey. However, it's his fault he decided to name North's bird, Sandwich. Since North knows first-aid, South usually goes to him when he gets hurt doing dangerous stuff or when he's plastered and keeps hurting himself. North has told him to knock it off, especially the drinking, but he keeps doing it.
===New York State (Brooke A. Verhoeven)===
Despite having similar personalities, North doesn't really like Upstate. It might be because of her coldness or her complaining, but no one really knows the reason. Upstate's usually pinned by work and can't visit often. When she does visit, all she seems to do is complain about work and it annoys North. This leads North to have a bad picture of Upstate as North thinks that Upstate only visits him to vent or complain or to use him as a therapist of some sort.
===New York City (Brookie B. Verhoeven)===
Ever since they were children, North has always seen Downstate as aggressive and boorish. North can be tolerable of others who are similar in personality to Downstate, but he just can't seem to tolerate Downstate. Perhaps it's his constant anger or his hostile behavior.
===Pennsylvania (Will H. Penn)===
Due to hiding in his state most of the time, North rarely sees Penny. Though, he seems to like Penny because of his quiet nature. However, he has a few issues that North would like him to fix before he wants to start a relationship with him.
===South & North Delaware (Lennie & Evan A. Lindström)===
North usually debates with Dela and not much else. They do talk outside of it, but it can get uncomfortable for both of them.
Like Dela, North doesn't talk with Del much. Del occasionally asks to come over for some drinks. North does want to refuse, but Del's quiet and appreciates his privacy and sometimes, even North needs some company.
===Massachusetts (Theo R. Sullivan Atwater)===
They don't talk much in person and North is rather grateful for it. When North first bonded with Mass, he didn't think he was that bad. Though, that changed when Mass decided to disregard his opinion and opt for his own, which turned out to be a total failure. Mass blamed him and they got into an argument. After this, when they got into arguments, Mass often got physically violent with him. Although North likes when someone shares his interest, he would rather have someone who doesn't care over Mass.
===Connecticut (Minty C. Murphy Atwater)===
When South introduced Connie to him, he didn't think too much of her other than she was just a party girl who wanted to learn for some reason. However, after knowing her for a while, North realized she was actually interested in healthcare and wanted to learn it as much as possible. He doesn't appreciate Connie coming over unannouced to study with him, but doesn't mind as much as he usually would've.
===Oneida (Tala)===
North, South, Downstate and Upstate were all raised by Oneida and the rest of Haudenosaunee or the Iroquois Confederacy. Before Oneida and her siblings, North and South were rasied by Lenape. Both of the twins hated living wiht the Confederacy at first. This led Oneida to have the twins visit Lenape every once and a while. It took a while for North to warm up to them, but he eventually did. North made sure to visit Oneida and her siblings as much as possible and loves the gifts they give him when they were still alive. He was also quite happy when Oneida didn't think of him and his siblings as colonizer scum. He wonders what she would've thought of Princeton and Trenton if she had met them.
===Tuscarora (Kateri)===
When Tuscarora came up to present-day Pennsylvania and New York State after the Tuscarora War, North didn't trust her. However, when Oneida sponsored her, North gradually accepted her into the family. Although, still wary of her, they were on better terms before she died. Despite Tuscarora having a loud and obnoxious personality, North had handled her and loved her as an older sister.
===Lenape (Kitchi)===
Before Oneida and the Iroquois Confederacy, North and South were rasied by Lenape. They were only brought over to Oneida and the Confederacy as Lenape gave them over after he was added to the Covenant Chain in 1676. Both North and South think of Lenape as their father and treated him as such. Both North and South still have the necklaces he gave them before he died, although only South wears his.
===America (Alfred F. Jones)===
America doesn't see North as he tends to forget he's there. They usually don't talk much, but America's obnoxious behavior tends to push him away as he already had to deal with Tuscarora and her personality for a while.
===Netherlands===
The Netherlands had a tendency to forget he was there and didn't really get to know him. North is quite thankful for this as he still had a hard time trusting Europeans and still does. They don't talk and the only reason they see each other is if North accompanies Upstate to go visit him. North doesn't really like Netherlands as he took North away from South so South could go stay with Sweden, took him away from Lenape (he was gave back around the 1670s, before Lenape was added to the Chain) and he killed off his older sisters and brothers.
===England (Arthur Kirkland)===
North hates England. He used to like England as he seemed nice towards the other 13 and America even if he forgot about him. However, when he found out of England's murderings of his father and his siblings' people, he started to really hate him. This was fueled by the American Revolution. Now, even being a yard near him, North'll glare at England until he scurries away.
==Trivia==
*New Jersey's state flower is the Violet Sororia or just the violet.
*The American Goldfinch is New Jersey's state bird.
*New Jersey's birthday corresponds with the day New Jersey became a state.
*New Jersey is the third state admitted into the Union.
*Other nicknames for North are Mikey, Jer, Jerry, Jerbear, Newie, Joey and Quinn.
*New Jersey, New York City and New York State are polyglots. Some of the languages they know are English, Spanish, Chinese, French, Italian, Arabic, Polish, Russian, Swedish, Dutch, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca and Tuscarora. New Jersey also knows flower language and Morse code.
*The New Jersey Devil's name is the Brooklyn pronunciation of New Jersey.
*During Colonial times, New Jersey was thought of as a girl and was dressed like one. It wasn't until the early 1900s did they found out he was a boy. Turns out, Oneida and North decided to see how long he could go without people knowing he was a girl. They thought it was funny. Too bad Oneida never got to see the end.
*New Jersey used to have different names during the Colonial times, them being Halona, Scarlett Violet Jones. He also had Scarlett Violet Verhoeven as a name.
*North and South used to be called East and West New Jersey respectively.
*He isn't picky because of the diverse amount of food from different cultures in New Jersey.
*He collects a variety of Monopoly editions.
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