Weimar

Weimar (ワイマール) is a fanmade character for ''Hetalia: Axis Powers. She represents the city of Weimar, Germany and is located in the middle state of Thuringia''. Her human name is Greta Neidhardt.

Appearance


A rather plain-looking person at first sight, Weimar has medium-length, dark brown hair and dark brown eyes. Due to her small population, she isn't very tall. Her normal attire is "something classy and neat," usually suits. She reserves dresses for warm days and her uniforms have been tucked away until needed again.

Personality and Interests
She is proud and will never admit her feelings to anyone unless she's about ninety percent sure that she won't be rejected by them. However, she is tolerant of everyone and loves giving visitors a warm welcome if they ever stop by the Grand Hotel Russischer Hof, or Russian Court.

To the rest of the German family, she's extremely relaxed and slightly dull, a person who likes tradition and the days of old. She hasn't changed much over the centuries at all, and still has an old view of things and a "classy" sort of air at first glance (not remedied by her love of antique clothing). For the most part, she's rather quiet, though she can never resist the temptation to be a tour guide, especially when in the more rural areas where people might get lost easily. When being a guide, she doesn't exhaust herself even while pointing out all the buildings and going in-depth about their creations and history. (Despite her easygoing nature around new people, she can be a real handful around those with whom she is familiar and isn't above mischievous pranks or teasing.)

Greta is a small city and is not very strong consequently, but what she lacks in both logic and strength is made up for by her musical skills - the residence (for a short while) of Bach, Liszt, and Berlioz, this isn't much of a surprise. Her favourite place to relax is none of the buildings, but in the Park an der Ilm/Park on the Ilm. She often sits in silence and watches the people go by, or brings either Russian or German literature with her. Otherwise, she can be found near the Wittumspalais and Town Hall, drifting around and making sure nothing catches on fire.

Name
Greta is a diminutive of "Margaret," meaning "pearl."

Germany / Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Weimar is a part of Germany itself. She always finds herself treating him with the utmost respect and using her stiffest voice around him. She really looks up to him and wishes that he could be more proud, as the one time she really mattered was the Weimarer Republik, or the Weimar Republic, during which she was the capital of Germany. Inflation during that time became so high that it was necessary to carry Marks in wheelbarrows to the store just for a piece of bread. If this is ever mentioned, she will go into a depression.

Prussia / Preußen / Deutsche Demokratische Republik
Got closer to him during the German Democratic Republic and made fun of him sometimes. They play pranks on others together. The unfortunate victim of these pranks is almost always Germany. Weimar still thinks he's awesome and is of the opinion that he's one of the best military strategists around, which is probably true.

Russia / Rossiyskaya Federatsiya
A relationship that went up and down all throughout history. The late 18th-19th century (c. 1797-1862) is the amount of time during which Russia and Weimar had the most contact. Those years brought Weimar a lot of gifts from Russia, even a church that the nation had taken from its own soil. Thus, Greta had a little crush on him during that time and when it is mentioned, she will drift off in remembrance. However, the same doesn't apply to present-day or Soviet Ivan. During the Soviet occupation of Germany, she was part of the GDR (German Democratic Republic, or Deutsche Demokratische Republik) from 1949 to 1990. In her case, being under Ivan's rule wasn't all that bad (her leaders carefully kept her away from the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, instead settling for the Christian Democratic Union), but admits that it was better being united with everyone under Germany.

The Netherlands / Nederland
One of her Dukes was once married to a princess of the Netherlands' (Princess Sophie of the Netherlands), so she's friendly to Netherlands (and slightly fond of him). ("...[Sophie] was very different from her husband, and, though extremely ugly, was a most imposing Princess. She was clever, too, and upheld the reputation of the Weimar family. She was a Princess of the Netherlands by birth...and kept and maintained at her court the traditions in which she had been reared. Notwithstanding her want of beauty, moreover, she presented a splendid figure, being always magnificently dressed and covered with wonderful jewels, among which shone a parure of rubies and diamonds that were supposed to be the finest of their kind in Europe." ~Catherine Radziwill)

America / The United States of America
America scares her ... badly. His Air Force dropped nine-hundred sixty-five tons of bombs on her on February 9th and 27th and March 10th, 1945. However, she also has a deep-seated admiration for him.

Twin Towns and Sister Cities
Trier, Germany; Blois, France; Shiraz, Iran; Siena, Italy; and Hämeenlinna, Finland. She gets along with all of them fairly well because she's promised to help them all whenever they're in need.

Humans

 * Hates that she used to be friends with Ilse Koch.
 * Hermann Giesler, an architect, was supposed to redesign the city (the plans were never finished).
 * Admires the following people: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Duchess Anna Amalia, Carl Friedrich (Charles Frederick), Maria Pavlovna, Carl August, Johann Friedrich the Magnanimous, and Walter Gropius.

Trivia

 * Greta loves onions due to her annual Onion Market, which makes people from all different places come over with onion products. INFORMATION ON THE ZWIEBELMARKT (Onion Market): Very old (358 years old, first taking place in 1653 with but five-thousand inhabitants.) It takes place on the second weekend of October. This is the time of the year when she's happiest and up to one hundred twenty-thousand people PER DAY visit the onion stalls (in total, up to three hundred fifty thousand).
 * She is afraid of fire and detests it. First was the 1424 fire; then the Duchess Anna Amalia library burned in 2004, some forty or fifty thousand books from the collection being destroyed and irretrievable. It pisses her off, due to the fact that the library is one of the oldest libraries in Europe and contains - or used to contain - more than one million texts. There have been several major fires in the past, too, one of which drastically affected the town's growth - so please, no fire or she'll just freeze up and, eventually, faint.
 * Plays the violin.
 * Her birthday is August 28th, the same birthdate as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
 * Proclaimed a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1998.