Albania (Male)

Note: Albania is a fan-made character.

Albania (Shqipëri/Shqipni) is a supporting character in the series Hetalia: Axis Powers. He represents the sovereign state of Albania, a Balkan Country.

His human name is Arbën Hoxha.

Appearance
Albania is a man who stands at 174 cm tall. He has brown hair that stays as a grown out buzz-cut. With reddish-brown eyes and a big nose, he has slightly tanner skin than his neighbors. He’s got a fair mix of fat and muscle on his body, mainly seen on his big tummy. He used to keep a stern expression, but, nowadays he’s usually seen with a big smile (until his temper gets the best of him).

In most world meetings or other special occasions, he usually wears a light gray tunic-like suit, buttoned further to the left. Beneath it he has a regular button-up shirt and a tucked in black tie. His pants are average dress pants, same as his black loafers. He wears the accessories of black gloves and a qeleshe.

His most casual outfit is a dark red button up shirt tucked into black dress pants with a qeleshe. Sometimes he’ll add a black blazer on top.

Personality
It’s hard to believe when he’s in a bad mood, but Albania is a very happy and sociable man. He loves keeping a big smile on his face and teasing his friends. Sometimes he teases others too much and it’ll end up in a war. But, if you ask him, it’s never his fault. As mentioned before, he’s got a high temper. Because of his bad past, he grew one overtime. It doesn’t take much to make him yell. If he’s talking with someone he’s really mad at, he’ll probably just harvest their organs by the end of the argument.

Albania doesn’t appreciate change. He’ll likely get one impression of you and base his entire image of you on it. This explains his tensions with so many countries. He’s not very adamant on too many of his beliefs, having a high religious tolerance and changing his own religion multiple times in history. Still, he can be very confident in certain things and will not let anyone change his mind on them (Typically on the topic of independence). He is quite the airhead, barely grasping social cues and accidentally dishing out what he can’t take. This leads him to believe that everyone is against him but also wants to be him. Because of these things, he’s often claimed to be the stupidest country in the Balkans.

He’s hard working and stays loyal. He often uses his loyalty as an excuse for his blunt and rather rude jokes. He always gives his opinion, even when not asked about it (it usually isn’t). He’s quite sneaky, lying his way out of lots of situations that he definitely should get disciplined for. He uses this to his advantage for drug and organ trades. This makes others irritated, but he really doesn’t care. He just wants to enjoy his life freely and get revenge on those who want to ruin that sentiment for him.

Kosovo
Albanias little brother, as he says. They have a strong bond and Albania is always trying to help Kosovo, even if it’s through crime. He really does love him, especially how his ego is fed by knowing that he’s looked up to (though, Kosovo usually doesn’t tell him that part due to being afraid his arrogance might explode him). He formerly wanted to adopt Kosovo, but didn’t get the chance due to his relationship with Yugoslavia. He’s since toned down his desire to merge with Kosovo, but still would prefer if it happened.

Turkey
Turkey and Albania keep in close contact with each other. Despite the fights they had during the Ottoman Empire, they like to help one another. He has no real word to describe their relationship. Some could say father and some could say brother, either way they are close. Though, still arguing every now and again, but you can expect that from any relationship with two such high tempered men. They enjoy going out with one another either way, usually just staying at one of their homes and smoking hookah.

America
America is like a hero to Albania. He appreciates the help he got to make Kosovo independent. But, other than that, they haven’t got the strongest bond. He knows that America is like a ruler of the world, and very powerful. (Yet, still not better than Albania!) America doesn’t mind it either, he says that he’s finally getting treated like the hero he is for once.

Serbia
Half of Albania’s personality is just hating Serbia. He takes any chance he can get to yell and annoy him. There’s not a word deep enough to describe the disgust that Albania feels from even knowing he used to share a border with Serbia.

Russia and China
Albania likes to think he had a friendship with both at some point. Russia will usually classify it as an obsession from Albanias part, though. He and China got along well during the 80/90’s, but have since then grown a bitter relationship. China will also deny that he was ever close with Albania. Sometimes when Albania sees them being friends or talked about as close he gets salty, telling himself he’s better than both of them combined and doesn’t need them anyways.

Italy and Romano
Many Albanian immigrants go to Italy, so Italy and Romano have a pretty good understanding of how Albania acts. Sometimes they have Mafia outings together, it’s quite fun when they have the chance to do it as a group and Italy isn’t too scared to come along.

Germany
Albania likes to think he’s on good terms with Germany. He loves the cars that Germany drives, he thinks they’re the best ones he’s ever seen. They’ve got a decent relationship and have held it up for a while. They go out drinking sometimes, usually ending up sleeping at the bar till the next night.

Croatia
Albania enjoys Croatia’s company. His liking for the guy mainly comes from him also being a child of Illyria, Albania’s mother. They get along quite well when they do come across eachother, although it doesn’t happen very much.

Greece
Despite their past tensions, Albania finds Greece to be very stylish and is always crowding his home, while Greece dislikes him and wishes that he would leave.

Trivia

 * His ego is so large that he’s set on the idea of making a “Greater Albania”.
 * He is absolutely convinced that Kosovo loves pears, that’s why he calls him Dardania.
 * Drug dealer and organ harvester as a side job. He uses the black market like Craig’s List and the Dark Web like Instagram.
 * He enjoys baking and cooking, often making pastries for his friends.
 * He joined the Gourmet Food Club at school. (Though, very reluctantly because China is in it.)
 * Albania is very proud that his mother is Illyria. He often brags about it even though everyone’s heard it a million times and they don’t really care.
 * He shakes his head for Yes and nods for No.
 * Insanely paranoid since the 1940’s, that’s why he has so many bunkers.
 * Was illiterate before he was a communist.
 * Due to his high religious tolerance he’s never really been too devoted to any specific religion.
 * He’s never been too big on religion in general, actually. He was the first official Atheist Country.
 * His hair is curly when grown out.

Name
Albania’s name is Arbën Hoxha.

The Albanian first name “Arbën” is speculated to have multiple sources, but the most plausible ones are related to older names of Albania. The first one being the first Albanian entity during the Middle Ages: Principality of Arbanon (Principata e Arbënit). The other source being that it’s derived from the name Arbër, which is based on Albanias name in the Ottoman Empire: Arbëri. This is the name for it in standard Albanian, but, it’s name in the Gheg dialect is Arbëni. Either way, the name is taken from one of the older names of Albanian land. His last name, Hoxha, is a common Muslim-Albanian surname. This is to reflect his barely-dominating Muslim influence since the Ottoman Empire.

Gallery
Art gallery for Albania. All art from Stockphotosbun on Instagram.