Albania (Male)

Note: Albania is a fan-made character.

Albania (Shqipëri/Shqipni) is a supporting character in the series Hetalia: Axis Powers. He represents the sovereign state of Albania, a Balkan Country.

His human name is Arbën Hoxha.

Appearance
Albania is a young man who stands at 174 cm tall. He has light brown hair cut into a buzz-cut. With reddish-brown eyes and a big nose, he has slightly tanner skin than his neighbors. He used to keep a stern expression, but, nowadays he’s usually seen with a big smile (until his temper gets the best of him).

He likes to think he’s proudly representing his country by wearing a podgur for men most of the time. He has an off-white shirt under a buttoned up vest, usually covered with a black vest that’s complimented by a golden edge. He keeps his first vest tucked in under a red jelek. His pants are off-white, having bold black seams. He wears normal black loafers for shoes. He sometimes wears a Qeleshe, but finds them to be uncomfortable at times. His more casual outfit is simply a gray tank top with either black Nike-shorts or black pants.

Personality
It’s hard to believe when he’s in a bad mood, but Albania is a very happy and joyful man. He loves keeping a big smile on his face and teasing his friends. As mentioned before, he’s got a high temper. Because of his bad past, he grew one overtime. It doesn’t take much to make him yell, if he’s talking with someone he’s really mad at, he’ll probably just harvest their organs by the end of the argument and sell them online. Though it doesn’t seem like it, he really is embarrassed of his past; he’s glad it doesn’t hold up to him, but that’s usually because people forget he exists. His ego is large nonetheless, always trying to insert himself into big parts of history and claiming every genius to be Albanian.

Albania doesn’t appreciate change. He’ll likely get one impression of you and base his entire image of you on it. This explains his tensions with so many countries. Which seems sort of surprising as historically shown, he’s really quite peaceful; he only attacks in self-defense. He’s quite stubborn about things, but surprisingly has a very high religious tolerance. Because of these things, he’s often claimed to be the stupidest country in Europe. He is quite the airhead, barely grasping social cues and accidentally dishing out what he can’t take.

Despite all his traits, he still has allies by the end of the day. He’s hard working and stays loyal. He often uses his loyalty as an excuse for his blunt and rather rude jokes. He always gives his opinion, even when not asked about it (it usually isn’t). He’s quite sneaky, lying his way out of lots of situations that he definitely should get disciplined for. He uses this to his advantage for drug and organ trades. This makes others irritated, but he really doesn’t care. He just wants to enjoy his life freely and get revenge on those who want to ruin that sentiment for him.

Kosovo
Albanias little brother, as he says. They have a strong bond and Albania is always trying to help Kosovo, even if it’s through crime. He really does love him, especially how his ego is fed by knowing that he’s looked up to (though, Kosovo usually doesn’t tell him that part due to being afraid his arrogance might explode him). He formerly wanted to adopt Kosovo, but didn’t get the chance due to his relationship with Yugoslavia. He’s since toned down his desire to merge with Kosovo, but still wouldn’t mind if it happened.

Turkey
Turkey and Albania keep in close contact with each other. Despite the fights they had during the Ottoman Empire, they like to help one another. He has no real word to describe their relationship. Some could say father and some could say brother, either way they are close. Though, still arguing every now and again, but you can expect that from any relationship with two such high tempered men. They enjoy going out with one another either way, usually just staying at one of their homes and smoking hookah.

America
America is like a hero to Albania. He appreciates the help he got to make Kosovo independent. But, other than that, they haven’t got the strongest bond. He knows that America is like a ruler of the world, so powerful! America doesn’t mind it either, he says that he’s finally getting treated like the hero he is for once.

Serbia
Half of Albania’s personality is basically just hating Serbia. He takes any chance he can get to yell and annoy him. There’s not a word deep enough to describe the disgust that Albania feels from even knowing he used to share a border with Serbia.

Russia and China
Albania likes to think he had a friendship with both at some point. Russia will usually classify it as an obsession from Albanias part, though. He and China got along well during the 80/90’s, but have since then grown a bitter relationship. China will also deny that he was ever close with Albania. Sometimes when Albania sees them being friends or talked about as close he gets salty, telling himself he’s better than both of them combined and doesn’t need them anyways.

Italy and Romano
Many Albanian immigrants go to Italy, so Italy and Romano have a pretty good understanding of how Albania acts. Sometimes they do Mafia stuff together, it’s quite fun when they have the chance to do it as a group and Italy isn’t too scared to come along.

Germany
Albania likes to think he’s on good terms with Germany. He loves the cars that Germany drives, he thinks they’re the best ones he’s ever seen. They’ve got a decent relationship and have held it up for a while. Albania thinks his personality is quite interesting, he tells himself that they’re really similar, but sort of opposites (like how Germany seems rude but is actually nice, Albania sees it similarly to how he’s usually happy but can turn rude easily). They go out drinking sometimes, usually ending up sleeping at the bar till the next night.

Croatia
Albania enjoys Croatia’s company. His liking for the guy mainly comes from him also being a child of Illyria, Albania’s mother. They get along quite well when they do come across eachother, although it doesn’t happen very much.

Trivia

 * His ego is so large infact that he used to be set on the idea of making a “Greater Albania” (AKA: annexing parts of Serbia, Kosovo, N. Macedonia, Montenegro, and Greece because they had a high Albanian population). His dream slowly faded but he still fantasizes about it every once in a while.
 * He is absolutely convinced that Kosovo loves pears, that’s why he calls him Dardania (land of the pears)
 * Drug dealer and organ harvester as a side job. He uses the black market like Craig’s List and the Dark Web like Instagram.
 * He enjoys baking and cooking, often making pastries for his friends.
 * He joined the Gourmet Food Club at school. Though, very reluctantly because China is in it. They usually just avoid eachother unless they need something passed or tasted.
 * Most of what Kosovo owns is given to him from Albania. The UÇK, practically all of Kosovo’s clothes, culture, and more is a gift from Albania.
 * Albania is very proud that his mother is Illyria. He often brags about it even though everyone’s heard it a million times and they don’t really care.
 * He shakes his head for Yes and nods for No.

Gallery
Art gallery for Albania.

All the art is from Stockphotosbun on Instagram (me) because he’s my design (RIP).