The City Of London

The City Of London is a fanmade character of the series Hetalia: Axis Powers. She is a district of London, capital city of England, UK. She has a square mile of land within London and a whole other government. She is the oldest part of London, dating back to the Roman era and some traditions dating back to medieval times.

Her city is where the majority of financial trade is taken place in the United Kingdom, however She has a small population of 8,000. She is the workplace of many people and although some may not live there the streets can be filled with more that 300,000 workers and people.

The city has it's own police force (The City of london Police) and Mayor (The Lord Mayor of London) who wears a very swanky hat and sash.

She represents the youth culture of England and has gone through many style changes through her years. This change is mostly seen in the 20s through to the 80s, her style changes after world war 2 as she starts to be more defiant to authority, mocking the uniforms, this is prominent during the 60s when the punk era started. After the war her hair was singed making one side shorter than the other, when punk came along she shaved off the shorter side - as explained in the appearance section of this page - This was a symbolism of her cutting off from the older generation and her older self, pushing away from the norms and creating the youth culture, this also explains the strange colors; she is defining herself away from England's traditional values. The youth culture is heavily inspired by music, during the 60s music boomed into this new era taking London - and the rest of the word in fact - by storm and even inspiring the out break in Germany with the Krautrock era, a music that London enjoys listening too still now with it's psychedelic vibes, she still feels the memories of the 60s-80s. Though all music for her is acceptable, she is happy to listen and take in the new styles.



Personality
Although her city is fancy and very well established, she is a punk kind of girl, portraying the youth culture of england, she loves anarchy although usually she's too scared to really do anything she says she will. She loves to rebel against England and hates to admit when he's right, although she has a very close and often enjoyable relationship with him.

Her past times are generally sitting around and being lazy or calculating her income, she also knits and drinks large quantities of all kinds of tea, her favourite being earl grey with one sugar. When she gets drunk (usually after one too many gin and tonics) she will storm out of England's house or her apertment, claiming she is going to go 'Mess with the pigs', a common phrase meaning to mess with the police. In reality, she takes herself to a farm or petting zoo and plays around with the piglets.

She loves to bother England, however she gladly eats his cooking as long as it isn't too burnt, she'll eat the toast he makes. She will help cook and mainly burn the food they make but somehow always manages to get her favourite food right, that being Toad in a Hole (Pastry that has dips in it for sausages to fit, best served with gravy and mashed potatoes).

She's a fun character and owns a bearded dragon called Tom who usually sits on her shoulder and watches her deal with money and watch TV, his tank has a large anarchy symbol painted on the inside and despite generally being taken out of his tank for long periods of time he manages to stay warm even in the bipolar british weather.

She Also owns a small micro pig that doesn't have a specific name, he is lovingly called an array of names such as 'Porkers' 'Porky' 'Bacon sandwich' 'SPG' (A referance to an old English TV show 'The Young Ones' set in London) and more often than not 'Piglet'. He was given to her by England to stop her storming around looking for a petting zoo and he roams her apartment freely, sleeping in her bed with her. She says she's training the small pig to be her security system, hence the nickname 'SPG' meaning 'Special patrol Group'. So far the pig hasn't done the best job of stopping people breaking into her apartment, mainly he just happily trots around with a little police hat on his head.



Despite being a fun person, she dislikes to be touched, stating that there are only two people who have the privilage to touch her, only ever mentioning one to be England. Touching her tends to cause her to show you the back of her hand as it slaps across your face and then after 5 minuties of uncomfortable squirming and complaining that the touch is still there, she will lock herself in her room and play music out loud.

Appearance
London isn't unlike England in appearance, she has dark green eyes and her hair is dyed mainly black with red, acid green and even white highlights, it is spiked to one side and the other side is red, short and usually gelled against her head if it has grown out too much. She will leave it like this for a while before shaving and re-dying the roots.

She generally wears a black, baggy tank top the the Anarchy symbol on the chest, along with a red arm band with her abreviated city name 'LDN' that isn't always present on her arm. She wears black leather shorts and black and red long socks that go up to the middle of her thighs with a pair of large army boots. During cold weather she wears a large baggy camo jacket.



She also wears fingerless leather gloves and a netted arm band that goes from the top of her arm to her elbow. On occasions she will wear a leg brace on her right leg instead of her black long sock as her leg is damaged, she says it isn't always a problem so it's not always on. Her sock hides the screws that hold the leg brace in place.

On her back she hides some truely awful burns from the Blitz - especially as she was inside st Paul's cathedral when the bomb dropped - they are dented and painful so she will keep contact with people to a minimum, such as shaking hands. Other burns up her legs and hips are from the great fire of London, they are equally as painful but less sensitive. She has a knack for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Most of her scars are from the Blitz and the great fire of London.

Before the Blitz took place, Lucidia used to take to wearing light tan colored skirts and long sleeved jackets, a more sophisticated 40s look of the time. However, afterwards she found her skirt getting shorter as she attempted to prevent it getting caught in the leg brace that she hated with passion. This led to skirts in and around England to get shorter and shorter and by the 60s had formed into the iconic mini skirt, happily worn by Lucidia only to be scolded by Arthur for acting improper.

Punk was also starting up in the 60s, a style and veiw that London took a fancy to, the reason being her wish to embrace change after the war, wanting to different herself. Soon she was wearing leather and fish nets, however she didn't enjoy the daily scolding by England or her government and toned the style down, taking on the more boyish look of shorts or black comabts for cold weather, she still prefers the shorts. Despite dressing and acting punk she kept many of her old properties including her government and some politeness towards others, mainly her brother and anyone in her closest circle.

Breif History
The City of London is the site of the Roman city Londinium, the remains of the wall that seperated Londinium to the rest of the country are on display at the museum of London.

The city contains many churches designed by Christopher Wren including St Paul's catherdal. It was also the site of the great fire of London, 1666.

During World War II the city of London was a main target of the Blitz, on sunday 29th of December the city lost 19 churches, 16 of which designed by Christopher Wren after the great fire of London. However, St Paul's Cathedral survived the attack, unfortunately a bomb pierced the dome of the cathedral leaving the high alter in utter ruin. The whole city was in flames. Out of the 34 guild halls, 31 were decimated. And when Paternoster Row, centre of London’s publishing industry, was destroyed, around 5 million books were lost.

The city was left in tatters, somehow, many of the main business streets had limited damage, the Bank of England and the stock market were not hit.

After the attack, Lucidia was left badly burned, damaged and never truely got over the attack, it is the cause of her punk behaviour to attempt to hide the scars she holds.

Relationships
England

She has a very close relationship with England as they are brother and sister, they will sometimes cook togther or sit in England's house or London's apartment, drinking tea and reading. As close as they are they rarely ever talk, generally they apperciate eachother's company. However when she gets bored, London will attempt to bother England. This usually consists of burning bras and threataning anarchy and sometimes threats to become a seperate country, mainly though, she will put her pet bearded dragon on his head while he reads or roll around with Porkers. When they do talk however, it consists of inside jokes and poking fun at each other as well as England sometimes placing in a concerned word or two. The conversations had can be serious, these conversations are often avoided by London.

Scotland

London trades with Scotland on a regular basis, they are not always friendly but certainly don't hate eachother. It's rare but sometimes they will give eachother a smile, their usual greeting being a simple nod, a tired grunt (as their trade often takes place early in the morning) and the signing of a form of some sort. She and his will joke sometimes to lighten up the mood but they are sometimes too busy to talk.

Germany

Again, She trades with Germany regularly also, but they engadge in far more conversation. London is fond of Germany's beer and culture, she enjoys hearing about how her own has imprinted his history. When they meet there is always some memory of the Blitz returning although London has forgiven him to an extent, the scars remain and she rarely allows any physical contact. She holds no grudge against him for what he had done, she doesn't blame him more his boss of the time.

Prussia

Her and Prussia often talk, when London is off somewhere preferably where the sun is shining she sends him to take care of Tom and Porkers which usually ends in a cricket infestation where the albino has spilt Tom's food of crickets and left them to breed rapidly. They have a lot of fun in bars as just friends, nothing political, just plain fun as friends.

Murmansk

Another Fanmade character. London and Murmansk met after the war, both were affected by Germany's attacks and both a similar attitude. They talk often and consider themselves to be good friends, there are a few confilcts based on some kind of pun London pulled out of a hat that Murmansk won't get but other than that they will always make up. They have given each other nicknames, Murmansk calls London 'Queenie' on the basis that she's English and stubborn. London calls Murmansk and array of things as she usually does with things she loves, often by her first name 'Nonna' or simply 'kid' due to their age difference. London is arround 5 inches taller than Murmansk and when asked that number she will answer with 'prussia's penis' just to annoy him.