Karelia

Karelia (カレリア, Kareria; Karjala) is a fanmade character in the Hetalia Axis Powers anime series. She represents the Republic of Karelia, and the Nationalist Karelia. She is the second youngest child in the Braginski family, and the half sister of Finland. Her birthday is January 17, and her human name is Elena Braginskaya, Lena for short.

Appearance

Karelia has long, wavy caramel colored hair with a small white hat. She is usually seen wearing a dress and boots. She has turquoise eyes, unlike her siblings. Her skin is very pale due to the cold temperatures of her country.

Personality

Karelia is a laid back, easygoing girl. Although she tends to be shy at first, her true personality becomes visible later on. Karelia is not a person who shows weakness easily, but the constant fighting over her territories between Russia and Finland causes her to get triggered easily. Whenever she is triggered, she will turn into a nervous wreck. Like her siblings she has a "dark" side, which is seen when she is angered. Karelia enjoys playing in the snow, looking at the northern lights, having sleepovers with her sisters, partying, ballroom dancing, and the occasional drink.

She is very close with her siblings, especially Russia since she was raised along with him. She tries to get along with other countries, and is generally a friendly person. Karelia is two years older than Belarus, one year younger than Russia, and four years younger than Ukraine.

History

As a child, Karelia was often fought for and against. Sweden and Russia constantly fought over who gets her territories, but at the time, she thought they were fighting over her. She did not get along with Sweden very well because she believed he was the one who caused all her troubles, but instead got along better with her half-brother, Finland, with whom she spent most of her time while being a part of Sweden. Soon after the Finnish war, she was handed over to Russia, with whom she lived with up until the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Her country's economy was very shaky after becoming an independent nation, but became stronger over the years. Ever since Karelia left Finland, their relationship had become loose, but their people are in hopes of becoming closer.

Relationships

The East Slavics

Karelia is the second youngest out of four siblings. Their family is very close, even though it's one of the biggest full blood families in the entire anime. When they were young, the East Slavic family were not the most powerful, but they often stayed together which caused many victories. As a child, Karelia often cared for her younger sister, Belarus, and to this day, her older sister senses are present. Karelia finds Belarus the easiest person to talk to in the family, she also considers Belarus her closest friend. Russia took very good care of Karelia when they were little, and even know when she's an independent country, he often looks after he to make sure her country is doing well, and tries his best to help her out. Most of that is because Russia feels terrible for treating his sister badly under the Soviet rule, and she has yet to forgive him. Karelia and Ukraine don't get to see each other much anymore because of their countries' locations. Ukraine helped Karelia make friends, and often talked to her when Karelia permanently moved back to the East Slavics. In other words, Karelia has a very close and friendly relationship with her siblings.

Finland

Karelia is Finland's half sister, and they got to know each other during her stay with the Nordics. Finland never focused on the fact that they were not full blood siblings, and treated her like his full blood sister. He wanted to make her an independent nation sooner, but never got the chance when she went back to the East Slavics. Nowdays they want to get their alliance back, and are working on it.

Baltics

Karelia has a stable alliance with the Baltics because of her location,and them being constantly being around Russia.

Prussia

When Prussia was under control of the Soviet Union and had to live with them, he found Karelia to be much like Hungary: easygoing, sometimes aggressive. Due to hunger and mistreatment of her country under Soviet rule, she was not seen often. When she was, she would often talk to Prussia because both of them were quite lonely. Another reason for maintaining a friendship with Prussia was her guilt. She was ashamed because her brother treated Prussia the way he did, so she tried to make it up. To this day, Karelia is one of the people who recognizes Prussia as a country, and sometimes refers to him as the 'Kingdom of Prussia'.

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