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[em-s-wttt-room]

Oh ho ho, it's my time to shine baby!

First question - where is it?

Easy. Everywhere. I've always liked the idea that the Statehouse is in almost a "pocket dimension" as in, it's everywhere but also nowhere. It's a huge-ass house in the middle of what looks like bumfuck nowhere. Just absolutely surrounded by a few miles in every direction of forest, mountain, river, grassland, you name it. Basically what I call "everyman's wilderness" - a bit of almost every type of wilderness/nature you're gonna find all across the country. Also, specific advantages that personifications get in their place of power (in this case, home state) also work in the House (ie. they heal as fast as they would in their state ect) because the Statehouse is in America. Not a specific location. It's just America. It's in every state at once.

Second question - how do you access it?

Now this one's a bit more complicated.

[also it's made its way into the folklore of literally every state/region lmao]

So long story short, you access the Statehouse (if you can't teleport) by walking/driving down an empty road for a long amount of time. There isn't a specific amount technically, just sort of. a while. I think it's the easiest to pull off in the larger and/or emptier states, but you can still do it literally in the heart of NYC if you really wanna. You just gotta find an empty road (somehow) and spend a few hours driving up and down it. But the point is it has to be either a trip with a faraway destination that you don't plan on stopping before, or just aimless wandering. So you have mortals accidentally finding this house that's not supposed to be there, in the middle of terrain that's not supposed to be there, and you look behind you in the direction you just came from, and there's just that endless wilderness as far as the eye reaches, but if you focus you can see the road you were on, it's just a couple miles out now. And when you leave, if you look back behind you, nothing is there. Like it never existed. Boom. Folklore.

[also, not quite related but idk where else to put it, but the statehouse has a sort of uncanny feeling for mortals. that "i'm not supposed to be here" kinda feeling]

Third question - what does it look like?

This is actually the one that gave me the most trouble when figuring it out and I really don't know why.

So basically, it's a ginormous house built in I'm thinking the Colonial Revival style of architecture, though this is up to change. But, what I have figured out is that, nowadays, it almost resembles a college campus. It's actually multiple buildings in a sort of circle.

[geez this is really difficult to explain coherently. i really ought to draw this shit someday]

The Statehouse itself is a sort of plus shape? i suppose? Basically a building with four wings, each for one region. In the middle you have the commons, with a huge living room, an enormous kitchen and shit like that. And each wing has its own kitchen and small commons. Alaska's garage is on the far end of the West wing right next to an empty room reserved for if Hawaii ever decides to come over.

Now, I'm not sure do I want every room to be a TARDIS-esque situation (bigger on the inside) or not, but right now they're just enormous rooms with space for just about anything you need. Each room has its own bathroom, accessible only through the room itself. Every room also has a balcony.

[also, a thing i couldn't figure out how to fit in the body of the post so you get it here. the view out of every room's windows is the view that you'd see in that state. this started happening after the first time alaska came to the statehouse and felt incredibly homesick about the fact that he couldn't see the stars. so the statehouse basically went "i gotcha bro" and now each view is personalised. don't ask why. it's magic]

Additionally, there's a garage for all of their cars/vehicles (there's probably at least one tractor in there). The meeting room is in a separate building given how huge it is, along with Gov's office and "house" (it's literally just a bedroom, a bathroom and a kitchen, not like he sleeps much anyway), and an additional room for when IDC drops by. And there's a building with a shitton of guest rooms, for whenever another personification visits.

Then there's a place for every sport you could probably think of. I'm talking football, baseball, basketball, hockey, you get it. There's also a pool and a climbing wall for Colorado.

The idea of a amphitheatre-esque thing for movie nights is still up in the air, so that might become a thing.

Aaannnnddd that's it, I think. I really can't think of anything else right now.

@and-the-flame-burns Hope this is satisfactory! :]

question submitted by and the flame burns

what’s everybody’s opinion on where the statehouse is and what style would it be in?

Like, what state would it be in, or if you wanna get specific, what city? And for the style, like that U shape or a specific type like in the way German buildings are in or English buildings (pls not English style, I won’t yuck your yum but I’ve SEEN how they build buildings)

like I want the specifics if anybody has it. It is in 1700s American style which is a more closed off type of building style or is it more modern with the open spaces. Or is it “desirable” and 99% of it is sleek white.

or is it underground? I’d love to hear from somebody who thinks it’s underground

i want an in depth analysis if anybody has it

[em-s-wttt-room]

To be fair, I haven't either now that I think about it. Tho the only space where I could meet a Nathaniel is online, considering that I don't live in an english-speaking country so I does kinda make sense. But not even a language-specific version of the name. There just don't seem to be many relatively young Nathaniels

And, yeah. He really is the kinda guy who just has painfully basic names. In my AU the first human name he goes by is Daan, literally the Dutch form of Daniel. Dude's just basic lmao

whenever I see a NY (wttt or not) that has a human name it’s always a specific genre of names that I can’t describe

Bruno

Jengo

Thomas

i don’t know any others but it’s a very specific genre of names that I am incapable of describing. I wouldn’t be surprised if someone named their AU’s York “brick” because it’d fit him anyways because his resting face can be compared to that of a brick

[em-s-wttt-room]

Valid tbh. I don't think I'd be on that list tho lmao - my York's name is Nathaniel

whenever I see a NY (wttt or not) that has a human name it’s always a specific genre of names that I can’t describe

Bruno

Jengo

Thomas

i don’t know any others but it’s a very specific genre of names that I am incapable of describing. I wouldn’t be surprised if someone named their AU’s York “brick” because it’d fit him anyways because his resting face can be compared to that of a brick

[em-s-wttt-room]

To be fair, mine's a bit of a middle-ground. They "spawn in" as older pre-teens/young teens (12-13 usually, with the occasional 10-11) and either spend their formative years alone/with very few people (ie. Wyoming growing up basically in the woods (ignoring the bison situation for now)), or they get taken in by a human (ie. most of the OG13, but for example, New York who was unofficially adopted by a local widow (and kickstarted a local urban legend, but that's a story for another time lmao)). Again, they're 11-13 physically and grow up normally until an age where a human stops physically growing (ie. around 20-25) and don't grow much further from there.

And on the topic of learing shit, they know basically what an average human child would know at that age (although they seem to know far more sometimes, as they're basically aware of everything going on in their place of power) and learn from there. Though the specifics of language are a bit different. They sort of immediately know their local language when they manifest, and every time their territory changes hands between world powers, and thus changes the most commonly spoken language, they can learn that new language far quicker than a human could. For example, when New York manifested, that area was owned by the Dutch, and was a mostly Dutch-speaking place, so he instinctively knew and understood Dutch. And then in 1664, when the British took over, he basically learned English in a week (keep in mind, for a normal person, fluency in English takes about three years), he just had a horrible Dutch accent that took it's sweet time dissapearing. But he learned some other things that a normal child doesn't know at that age from his caretaker (example, she's the reason he's so good with kids nowadays).

So, very long story short, however you turn it around, personifications make for some weird ass children lmao

For those who believe that states come into existence as babies do they have to be taken care of by parents or would they be somehow self sustainable who takes care of them, randos? other states? Countries? Continents? Is earth their mother?

And for those who believe they spawned as adults, did they know everything when they were spawned in or did they have to learn from others how to live?