Full Name:

Artair Ian McKay

Represents:
Scotland (Alba)

Age:
28

Sex:
Male

Birthday:
30 November

Languages Spoken:
English, Gaelic, Scots

Hair:
Dark chocolate brunette, but he recently dyed it orange/red

Eyes:
Green

Height:
206 centimetres (6'9")
Weight:
105 kilograms (230lbs.)

Appearance:
Artair has thick, short, dyed hair that just goes past his earlobe. Every so often, he would dye his faux
hawk styled hair orange just to fit the 'Scots have red hair' misconception (since some people get
mixed up with the Scots and the Irish stereotype). He has the signature 'Kirkland-Family-Eyebrows’,
and a goatee (both of which he dyes as well). He has pale skin since the region he occupies has a
reputation for cloudiness and has very short winters.
Artair’s body type is somewhere between the endomorph body type and the mesomorph body type
(though he is slightly leaning closer to the mesomorph body type. He trains himself to be like so
because he needs the size and lung capacity to participate different games throughout the year when
he goes to different Highland Games around the country. He does look strange at times, towering over
people at 206 centimetres, but when he is home in the Highlands, he is of slightly average (if not a bit
taller) height.
He usually wears black slacks and a white dress shirt when he is out since that is his choice of ‘casual’
appearance of choice. If not a dress shirt, then he would be wearing some sort of sweater to keep
himself warm. The only reason for Artair to wear a formal outfit (the kilt) is that if there was a special
occasion, go to one of the games, or have to go somewhere that is ‘formal’.

Personality:
Artair is a surly, loud, foul mouthed, penny pinching, drunkard of a Scotsman. That is just him putting
on a mask though. He has to be hard like that since he is the eldest of all the Britain brothers, and
being the eldest meant that he had the most responsibility. With the most responsibility, he needs to
entrust fear into his brothers, and so he acts that way.
In reality, he is a sweet man who cares about those he love especially his brothers. If they need
anything, he would deny it to them at first, but if they keep persisting, then he would bend his back
and give in to what they wanted. Well, unless it involved money. In that situation, he would flat out
refuse it to them, no matter what the situation is (well, unless they cried; if it came to that, then he
would flat out punch them in the face to shut them up). This side of him being maudlin and
sentimental doesn’t come out too often though; it only comes out when his siblings start crying, or
when he is drunk since they do say that the drunk you is the real you; but when it comes to people
that he doesn’t care about, he would feel no remorse if he were to break their nose, or give them the
Glasgow Grin. There would be two occasions where he would do it (that is more known anyways).
They are: when he is personally attacked, or when his brothers are (though the latter gets more result
from him than the former). He does this because in his mind, only he can pick on his brothers, no one
else can.
Love and lust are two very different things to him. He hardly feels lust, though he does feel love often.
Talking about romantic love makes him feel uncomfortable though (well, any kind of love is
uncomfortable for him). To him, what one feels should be kept to oneself, and not be shared out to
the world. Handholding and googly eyes are fine, but once it’s kissing and going further, he feels that
it should be better kept from the world, than to share to. Call him an old man, but Artair strongly
believes in that fact, and he refuses to budge about his feelings about it. He doesn’t care if it makes
him ‘old fashioned’ or anything of that nature. That is his belief, and he will stand by it.
He is very hard working, never giving up at the hardest of times. When the going got tough, and
things were hard for him, he would have to scramble and work at the lowest level of humanity. He
would deal in almost anything just to preserve himself, and his nation; even if it meant going and
giving into Arthur after stealing from him. It’s probably why he is still part of the United Kingdom
today, because he has some loyalty to Arthur; even if he has bullied him a lot in the past, and has
done many, many harmful things to him. They were all children, and children did stupid things that
they would not be proud of when they grew up.
That didn’t mean that he was reckless though. He has been known to act before thinking, and it has
gotten him into plenty trouble. Artair is an intelligent man, yes, but he just lets his emotions control
him. He can refrain himself on most subjects, though his anger has him on a tight leash; a very tight
leash, but he is willing to forgive. It’s just that it takes a while since an old man can hold a grudge for
a long, long time, as in centuries.
Artair is a fairly nostalgic man that yearns for the past quite often despite him disliking a lot of the
past. He does not get depressive when he thinks about the ‘good old days’, but he sometimes gets
angry about how the future has turned out. Most of the time, it is that he is angry at himself for taking
the paths that he has chosen and always wondering what would happen if he had done something
different.
It helps that Artair takes up a lot of instruments and sports in the past. It has taken him many
centuries to learn how to play instruments such as the bagpipes, harp, mandolin, flute and cello
decently; and even now he only has a good grasp of playing the bagpipes. All of the other instruments
he is still at the beginner/novice stage. He practices, yes, but he has higher priorities such as sports.
He loves sports more than anything, and he would train whenever he can. The satisfying feeling of
achieving his goals in sports is worth more than the achievement of playing an instrument well in his
mindset; that, and working out for sports is more beneficial to him for when he is needed to go to war
to help out his countrymen, rather than sitting and playing an instrument.

Likes:
-His brothers: He won’t admit aloud, but he really cares about his brothers, and he loves them. He
wouldn’t be necessarily lost without them, but he wouldn’t be the man he was now if it weren’t for
them.
-Football (soccer): The game is his life. He would always play with the children when he could. He’s
just not that good at it; though when he has to play against Arthur, he gives it his all. No matter how
battered he may get, he refuses to let his little brother win.
-Rugby: Second on the list compared to football. He doesn’t play the game as much, though he enjoys
watching it, since he’s too old to get so close and physical.
-Kilts: They’re not skirts, and they’re mighty comfortable.
-Sweets: He denies his love for it quite often since he considers it ‘brat food’, but he loves it. He eats
it on a daily basis, though only in small doses.
-Rural Areas: It’s so serene and calm, and it gives him a place to hear himself think.
-Whiskey: No better drink, to be honest.
-Fae Folk: He enjoys spending time with them more than with anyone else. He even has a pet Wild
Haggis that follows him around; and he has been known to create young ones behind the cabbage
patch under the thistle berry bush with the fae on more than one occasion.

Dislikes:
-Nordics: He has a slight dislike of the Nordics, but even saying that is going a bit far. He still has hard
feelings about what they did to him in the past.
-Critics: Especially if they are critiquing his cooking. He is a Britain Brother after all, and his cooking
isn’t the best, but he does try. Besides, at least his cooking isn’t the top on the grossest foods in the
world. He was runner up.
-Skirts: The kilt is different than the skirt. If anyone calls the kilt a skirt, then he would have to pull
his trusty dirk out and harm them.
-Public Displays of Affection: He would prefer it if people shared their intimacy in the comfort of their
own homes, and not where the world could see it.
-People who do not believe in Fae: Being related to Arthur Kirkland, he has a weak sense to feel and
see Fae Folk. Heck, he was the one to classify them into the Seelie and Unseelie courts.

Strengths:
-Stamina: He has enough energy for doing vigorous tasks for days on end without sleep, or very
minimal sleep. Even if it is just a small task as a fun hike, he could go for hours without stopping for
food and rest.
-Loyal: Artair is very unlikely to betray one he is indebted to, or one he cares for. He is a good ally,
and he does not go to blab to the enemy about anything; even if he is irritated at the one he is loyal
to.
-Strategist: Artair is fairly logical when he is not angry. He likes to plan things out, and makes sure
things go step by step to fit into his needs.
-Fighting: He isn’t proud of this one, but he is a fairly good fighter. Give him a weapon and he will be
able to pick up on how to use it fairly quickly.

Weaknesses:
-Blunt: He can be blunt a lot of the times, and it could be very hurtful and make him come off as
being rude to the other party(ies).
-Cynic: He will think the worst of people fairly quickly. It is not his fault; he just does not trust them
as much since the time his lands were pillaged.
-Tears: When he is around people who are crying, he would break down and fall to their whims. He
cannot help it, since it brings up his motherly instincts of when he had to take care of his younger
brothers in the past. He is a puppet to the crier if they see them crying.
-Irritable: He may be kind to some, but if you rub him the wrong way he will hurt you (eg. He will
shout, scream, yell, and punch you if you step in front of his line of sight of the television). 

Quirks:
-Accent: He speaks in a thick Highlander accent, though he can talk in a North Eastern English accent
if he tries. It’s just that the Highlander accent is easier for him to speak in, and he doesn’t have to
think as much as he would have to when speaking in a North Eastern English accent.
-Vulgar: Let’s just say he will tell you exactly what he is doing when he is in the toilet, and he will not
hold anything back.
-Pirate’s Tongue: He knew how to swear before he knew how to count.

Fears:
-Pollution: He is afraid that his lovely landscape would be lost if more pollution happens, but he knows
that he cannot do anything about it.
-Losing his brothers: He doesn’t know what he would do without them; they are basically his life since
he had seen them all grow up and partially raised them.
-Unrequited Love: He is afraid that he would love someone that doesn’t love him back, and so he
pushes a lot of people away because of that.
-The Curse of MacBeth: As strange as it can be, the man is afraid of a measly curse because of the
things that he had heard the mishaps that has gone on when the name is said in the theatre vicinity.
He blames Arthur for that one to help ease the fear, since it is a Scottish play written by an
Englishman that just had to be coincidentally cursed.
-Losing Nessie: He has grown feelings for the Loch Ness Monster. He loves all the fae folk, but he
fears about Nessie the most.

History:
Scotland is a part of the United Kingdom (UK), which occupies the northern third of the Great Britain.
It has England to the south of the border, the North Sea as the east, and the Atlantic Ocean as the
north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the southwest. Along with the mainland, the
Scotland would have 790 islands as well.
Because Mother Nature has given the country the gift of glaciation plenty of times in the past, little is
known about the country in the Mesolithic period. Though some think that 12,800 years ago, the first
post-glacial hunter-gatherers came to Scotland because the ice sheets reduced in size after the last
glaciation gift.
Around 9,500 years ago, people started to make permanent settlements, and started to build villages
6,000 years ago. When the Romans came, they mainly invaded and occupied Southern Scotland,
though it was more of a series of short interludes.
Kingdom of the Picts was a state that would eventually be known as Alba (Scotland).The building of
“Pictland” was because of Roman imperialism.
By the early 8th century, the Kingdom of the Picts was largely the same as the kingdom of the Scots
in the reign of Alexander in 1107-1124. However, when the tenth century came, the Pictish kingdom
was taken over by what was the Gaelic culture.
A base of territory in eastern Scotland, north of the River Forth and south of the River Oykel, the
kingdom managed to get control of lands that lay to both the north and south. In the 12th century,
the kings of Alba added the English-speaking land to the south east and took over lordship in the
Gaelic-speaking Galloway and Norse-speaking Caithness to the territory.
When the 13th century came to an end, the kingdom took the land size about its modern borders, but
the process of cultural and economic change that began in the 12th century made sure that Scotland
looked different later on in time.
The impetus for it was the rule of King David I and the Davidian revolution. Feudalism, government
reorganisation and the first legally defined towns began at this time. The institutions and immigration
of Franco and Franco-Anglo knights and churchmen facilitated a process of cultural osmosis, whereby
the culture and language of the low-lying and costal parts of the kingdom's original territory in the
east became English-speaking while the rest kept the Gaelic language--aside from Northern Isles of
Orkney and Shetland since they were under Norse rule until 1468.
The death of Alexander III in 1286 and his granddaughter's death broke the succession line of
Scotland's kings. It led to the intervention of Edward I of England, who manipulated the time of
confusion to make himself seen as feudal overlord of Scotland. Edward made a process to see the
person with the best claim to the vacant crown, which was soon known as the Great Cause, and
resulted in the enthronement of John Balliol as king. Scots hated how Edward messed with their
affairs, and the relationship quickly broke. War started and King John was nicked by his overlord, who
took personal control of Scotland. Andrew Moray and William Wallace came as principal leaders of the
resistance to English rule in what would soon be known as the Wars of Scottish Independence.
The struggle changed dramatically when Robert de Brus, Earl of Carrick killed John Comyn in 1306 at
Greyfriars Kirk in Dumfries. Robert de Brus was crowned king as Robert I in less than seven weeks
after the killing. Robert I battled to win Scottish Independence he remained as king for more than 20
years, beginning by winning Scotland back form English invaders bit by bit. Victory at the Battle of
Bannockburn in 1314 showed that the Scots won their kingdom; however, it took 14 more years and
the production of the world's first documented declaration of independence in the Declaration of
Arbroath in 1320 to finally get legal recognition by the English.
The war with England continued for several more decades after the death of de Brus, and a civil war
between the Brus dynasty and their long-term Comyn-Balliol enemies lasted until mid-14th century.
Though the Brus dynasty was successful, David II's lack of an heir gave his nephew, Robert II, the
right to come to the throne and make the Stewart Dynasty. The Stewarts ruled Scotland for the rest of
the middle ages. From the end of the 14t century to the Scottish Renaissance, to the Reformation, the
country experienced greater prosperity. It was despite the warfare with England, with increasing
division between Highlands and Lowlands, and a large number of minorities.
In 1603, James VI-King of Scots got the throne of the Kingdom of England and became King James I
of England; he left Edinburgh for London. Except for the short period under the Protectorate, Scotland
was a separate state, but there was conflict between the crown and covenanters over the form of
church government. After the Glorious Revolution, the abolition of episcopacy and the over throw of
Roman Catholic James VII by William and Mary, Scotland briefly threatened to select a different
Protestant monarch from England. On 22 July 1706, the Treaty of Union was agreed between
representatives of the Parliament of Scotland and the Parliament of England; the next year, twin Acts
of Union were passed by both parliaments to make the United Kingdom of Great Britain come into
effect from 1 May 1707.
The deposed Jacobite Stuart claimants had stayed popular in the Highlands and north-east, mostly
among the non-Presbyterians; though the two major Jacobite risings launched in 1715 and 1745
didn't remove the House of Hanover from the British throne. The threat of the Jacobite movement to
the UK and its monarchs effectively ended at the Battle of Culloden, Great Britain's last pitched battle.
The defeat made the way for large-scale removals of indigenous populations in the Highlands and
Islands, known as the Highland Clearances. Scotland has had mane famines in the past. Since the late
1690s, the country has had famine which lowered the population by at least 15%.
The Scottish Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution made Scotland turn into more of an intellectual,
commercial, and industrial powerhouse.
Almost 700,000 Scots served in World War I, mostly on the Western Front. At least 74,000 of them
lost their lives.
With that, between 1830 and 1930, 2 million Scots left the country to look for better lives in other
countries. After World war II, Scotland experienced industrial decline which was severe.
It is only in recent decades that the country has enjoyed something of a cultural and economic
renaissance. Economic factors that have helped to the recovery include a resurgent financial services
industry, electronics manufacturing and North Sea oil and gas industry.
After a referendum on devolution proposals in 1997. the Scotland Act 1998 was passed by the United
Kingdom Parliament to create a devolved Scottish Parliament.