Moscow

Moscow (モスクワ, Mosukuwa) is a fan-made character for the anime and manga series Hetalia: Axis Powers. She represents the capital city of Russia and received the human name, Anastasia (アナスタシア, Anasutashia, Russian: Анастасия, Anastasiya).

Appearance
Despite being a federal city of Russia, due to a diet consisting of cabbage soup and porridge in her earlier years, Moscow is very small and frail-looking with a childlike disposition. She has short chestnut curls and gray eyes, and usually wears white fur-lined coats with boots and mittens, accompanied by a long scarf and a mini ushanka perched at the side of her head. Owing to catching a cold from France, Turkey and even Russia, her cheeks have become permanently rosy.

As a child, she wore Russia's old tattered clothes and, at one point, a Red Army uniform with an armband bearing the Moscovian flag.

She is also often accompanied by her brown bear, Misha, and a sunflower-patterned umbrella.

Personality and Interests
Moscow is a quiet, shy, and very sincere city who rarely gets noticed. She appreciates architecture and music, and her hobbies include winter sports, abusing emoticons, eating caviar and drinking chamomile tea.

Moscow speaks very little, so she relies a lot on little gestures to communicate with people. However, since she was always being bullied and kidnapped when she was younger, Moscow has developed a defense born from xenophobia which makes her exude a violent aura whenever she feels threatened. Because of this, her initial offers of friendship tend to be misunderstood as threats and she ends up scaring people away.

Having lived alongside Russia, Moscow also grew up thinking that smiling intimidated people, so she rarely smiles out of fear of making people afraid of her. On the contrary, Moscow is a very hopeful city with a big heart, and is ever optimistic that she will be able to speak out and make a lot of friends one day.

Like Poland, despite being beaten down several times, she always manages to come back stronger than ever and at one point was able to single-handedly push back Germany. She's also very competitive when it comes to sports.

Moscow has a noticeably large amount of animals, most notably Misha, a clumsy bear who people were afraid of because he was so strong. Others include an unnamed two-headed eagle and a hungry dragon, to whom she fed her meat rations so that it would stop terrorising the public.

She also has a habit of ending her sentences with '-ski'.

Russia
Russia wasn't actually aware of Moscow for a while, even though she had been following him for many years, and only noticed her when he heard her sneezing at his feet. Moscow is very fond of Russia, and, though quick to critisize Russia's bad points, is just as fast to take offense when someone else does. Russia in turn, though he has a tendency to forget that she's there, does care about her, and treats her with considerably more warmth than with other nations. Moscow arguably spends the most time with Russia and is actually present at all of his meetings, but her presence is never noted since Russia always places her in his shadow. The sunflower-patterned umbrella that Moscow always carries is also a gift from Russia.

Italy
Italy and Moscow are childhood friends, and they get along very well, he being one of the few countries who did not bully Moscow at some point in his life (although this is probably because he often gets bullied by those countries himself). However, since Italy is scared of Russia, it is usually Moscow who invites him to go sight-seeing. They both share a love of art and music.

Lithuania
During his time as part of the Soviet Union, Lithuania was usually the one who was left to take care of Moscow, since Russia often forgot and the other Baltic states didn't even know she existed. Though the two initially regard one another with fear (Moscow, because Lithuania and Poland had kidnapped her in the past, and Lithuania, because he had expected her to be like Russia), they share a quiet respect and friendship. Poland, typically, doesn't remember who she is.

South Korea
A completely unexpected friendship which largely stems from Moscow's avid fascination with South Korea's hair curl. Moscow admires South Korea's liveliness and confidence and, in turn, South Korea is more than happy to share his culture with her. Due to certain circumstances they are unable to visit one another often, but it is noted that they stay in touch with one another, since Moscow carries around a phone which can contact South Korea wherever he is, and vice versa.

Canada
Upon meeting Moscow immediately mistakes Canada for America's clone and, horrified, tries to force a befuddled Canada back into America's body before he can multiply again. Despite the initial misunderstanding, Canada and Moscow are good friends, although Moscow continues to refer to Canada as America's clone, and they often play ice hockey together to encourage one another to interact more with other countries.

Greece
Perhaps because Greece is also a small talker, he seems to have no problem interpreting Moscow's strange little gestures and Moscow feels very relaxed when she's with Greece. They have shared a mutually comfortable relationship for a long time now, and Moscow seems to smile a lot more in Greece's presence.

Trivia

 * Moscow doesn't have a known birthday, but she is celebrated on Federal City Day, the first weekend of September.
 * Moscow's childhood diet of porridge and cabbage soup is a nod to a Russian proverb, 'Щи да каша – пища наша' - cabbage soup and porridge is our food.
 * Misha is also the name of the Russian bear mascot for the Olympic games.
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