Commonwealth of Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico is a fanmade character for the anime and web comic, Hetalia Axis Powers. She represents Puerto Rico, officially known as the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, a country in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands. Her human name is Carmen Maria Vazquez Rosa, called Carmen.

Appearance
Puerto Rico has wild, below-the-shoulder length, curly brown hair and dark brown eyes.At one point during her childhood she had her hair braided back and held with a brooche (during the Spanish rule) and then later on she cut it below her ears. She was often seen in a traditional jibara dress or-- in rare, rare occasions-- a 19 century European gown; nowadays she wears simple short jeans and t-shirts. She has slightly narrowed eyes, hinted to signify Asian ancestry and light tanned skin.

When she was a child she rather thin, sickly at first and barely spoke at all. Several years of hard work did not give her a dainty curvaceous figure but a slim runners body with strong arms. It is said she has a slightly gruesome scar on her right hip. Despite the scar she is described as a rather pretty girl and nicknamed "La Isla del Encanto".



Personality and Interests
Puerto Rico is a sarcastic young woman who is described as something akin to a hot-tempered, family-oriented older sister. She is very stubborn and close to her culture and has been shown to be eat pretty much anything, like America does, but to a lighter degree. She is very claustrophobic to the point of having panic attacks.

In the beginning, Puerto Rico showed no signs of being able to speak and communicated herself by gestures. It is also shown she have learned English during Britain's invasion and also some French, though she has never been seen speaking it.

America
Main Article: America

Puerto Rico and America seem to have a strange love/hate brother/sister relationship. They are sometimes at odds and sometimes at good terms, but they almost always seem to be together-- both are competitive and try to beat the other in any competition available. Despite not getting eye-to-eye sometimes, they seems to be on good terms almost always and she is rather supportive torwards him.

It is hinted the two are blood cousins since his mother (Native America) and Porto's mother (Boriken) were said to be sisters.

San Juan (Emanuel)
The deceased brother of Puerto Rico, he was originally the representation of the full island--due to the fact that when Spain arrived he renamed the island San Juan and the capital was actually Puerto Rico, at first; however as time passed, people started calling the entire island Puerto Rico and considering themselves as such islanders. In the 1520's the names where changed, people claimed themselves to be Puerto Rican and she became the full island. They had a very close and personal relationship up until his death, which left her shocked and pained.

Boriken (Yuisa/Luisa)


Representation of the island of Boriken, Puerto Rico and San Juan's mother, she was a brave woman and leader of the Taino in her island. Her name stood for land of the high lord, something she took with pride. She died before she could meet her daughter however. She was described by her son as a also hot-tempered, family oriented person and friendly person, physically similar to Puerto Rico minus the fact she straight, black hair and her daughter has dark brown, curly hair. Her latinized name, Boriquen, became a nickname for Puerto Rico herself. She is the cousin of Native America and hinted to be America's aunt.

Spain
Main Article: Spain

Puerto Rico did not really begin to meet Spain very personally up until much later. Shortly after her "birth", he traveled to Mexico after the discovery of gold over there. By the mid 16th century he came back with plans to fortify the island against invasions by England, France and other of his enemies at the moment. Their relationship was not the best at first as Puerto Rico blamed him for what was happening to her brother San Juan and her island. As time progressed however they began to grow more used to each other and get along quite a bit. Antonio allowed Carmen more liberties and even promised her self-governing under, which was short-lived due to America's invasion happening soon after. In recent time sthey have a nice friendship and she is trying ti imitate his educational system.

Cuba
Main Article: Cuba

He is her older brother and they grew very close together, so close even, that Puerto Rico took the design of her own flag from his, took many of his customs and supported him in each of his fights for independece. The two had a strong brother and sister bond; Puerto Rico learned a lot from Cuba and he helped her shape her thinking. Sometimes she can start a sentence saying..."When I was younger,Cuba always use to tell me..!" showing the reader how close the two are. After he gained his independence however, America cut direct ties between both of them and thus they don't relate much. She still cares much for him however.

France
Main Article: France

France wanted to take over Puerto Rico at one point, setting fire to Spain's colonies and planning to burn the capital, however his attempts failed because of Spain's heavy fortification. France later teams up with Spain in order to defend Puerto Rico from England, who attacks her in 1797. Despite the fight previous to England, many of his people immigrated to the island, especially to Yauco,and the two have a good-term relationship nowadays

England
Main Article: England

During the Anglo-Spanish war, England was intent of taking the island by force yet failed, along with several other attemptd throughous the lates 16th-18th centuries. Their countries political relationship was never really deepened, not even after WWII. Between Carmen and Arthur however, is a good mutual relationship where they admire each other's culture.

Trivia
· Puerto Rico's full name actually corresponds to Carmen Maria de los Angeles Vazquez Rosa (カルメン·マリア·デ·ロス·アンヘレス·バスケス·ローザ ,Karumen· Maria· de· Anheresu· Basukesu· Rosu)

· Her birthday is still not confirmed, it is between July 25th (The date of when it became a commonwealth), September 24th (Grito de Lares) and April 16th (the acknowledgment of Puerto Rico and it's people as Puerto Ricans.)

·Puerto Rico is nicknamed Boriquen/Borinquen, but should not be confused with Boriken, her mother.

· She has three younger siblings, the island-municipalities of Moca (Ana Vazquez Rosa), Vieques(Kaya Vazquez Rosa) and Culebra (Javier Vazquez Rosa).