Vatican City (Empiretalia)

Description

Vatican is a calm type of person who enjoys staying on his own. He’s very solitary at times but also very popular. He’s the smallest recognized nation in the entire world. He’s very loyal but also very unexpressive and unemotional at times. He’s also very angry towards people who bother him but fakes to smile at them so he can help them out but also keep his artsy and nice façade. Some people say he hides dark secrets

Appearance 

Vatican is different from all the other Italians, because of this he labeled himself the black sheep because of his looks and also his country in general since his mother tongue is Latin and not Italian. He has blonde hair and brown eyes. His hair is fairly short behind but it seems longer on the sides and in front. He usually wears the military uniform that is of a dark blue color alongside the black military hat that falls on the left side of his head. He wears an orange and blue cape that signifies his respect and want to be a swiss guard to protect his country like he wished he did in 1870. He is also shown to dress as a common priest or higher up in the vatican from time to time. He wears boots underneath the uniform pants. On his waist there’s a black belt that makes the clothes puffier and ‘cooler’. He does care about his appearance a lot because of that ‘dark secret’ of his: when he’s home alone, usually at night, he’ll go in his basement to hide government secrets like Aliens, new gods and other religious stuff. He has a dead look in his eyes and looks like he has never slept before. All of this can be reconducted to Central Italy's soul being that of his father, the Papal State.

Psychology

Vatican's psychology is deep and complex: he seemed to have a sudden change in personality after the Breccia of Porta Pia, which made him lose all his freedom as an independent country, also losing a loved one in the process. This situation threw him into a deep hate-filled sadness for the Italies and how they handled the situation. He began to not express himself anymore since wearing his heart on his sleeve hurt him much more than he could have imagined. He shows no emotion what-so-ever to signal maturity and authority, even when he's getting involved in serious curruption, he feels like his end will be near, so why not do everything he wants right now? His hatred for Centro stems from the fact that he believes she was the reason why the Papal States was annexed, just to save a girl he didn't even know personally at the time, despite having cared for her in the past.

Vatican became a closed-off person, he had no one to look up to, no father figure, no parents at all. He had to grow up alone, far too fast, eventually realizing that the world wasn't what he expected it to be: he saw what war led to with his own eyes as a wake up call. He indeed answered the call, eventually becoming a leader for his small yet powerful country. But he isn't perfect. He has the anatomy and mind of a human, a human that was never given proper care or regulations for everything he has been through, leading him to coping by living with the guilt and pain that stemmed from all of his history, he never learned to move on so he has aways been stuck in the past, crying over spilled milk over and over, never getting tired of it.

His life has been hallow ever since he decided to take this path in life. Being bossed around and treated as less than a country by the italies for almost 60 years made him realize that he couldn't trust anyone, or so he thought. San Marino has been there for him more than one time (Reasonings in San Marino's Wiki), he had eventually helped him get out of the situation with the consensus of Italy. In 1929 Vatican was finally free. Physically but not emotionally. To this day, Vatican, in return, affects Italy's politics as a constant reminder of the past.

In short, a man who has been told to grow up too fast, suffering the consequences and never getting out of his constant emotional loop.

Personality and Interests

He’s an incredibly generous and nice person when it comes to his state and people who are interested in him, his territory and his boss, which is the pope. He’s not as nice and polite towards people he doesn’t like, especially people who think he’s a hypocrite and a liar. Even if he denies it, he’s very hypocritical but will never admit his wrongs, he just hides them and tries to play it off cool, like nothing happened. He shows to have a very big ego underneath his façade, no one knows who he really is but he’s shown to be grumpy and really tired. A lot of people have made allegations about him and his boss but he always denied them, people still wonder how many of the words that came out of his mouth are the truth and which are lies, no one can tell since he’s very convincing when he lies. Unlike popular belief, he’s not very religious and he’s almost never shown talking about religion or doing religious things unless it’s a holiday, though he always attends the pope’s masses and speeches, of course. His personality is very similar to S. Italy and C. Italy’s but he sometimes annoys them or angers them. He always praises himself if no one does and shows off all of his generous acts like letting in his country immigrants, helping them and helping out Italy’s homeless people, he always feels very happy when people praise his actions but he doesn’t show it. He’s very secretive and holds an off-limits library underneath his country, it’s full of bookshelves that go on for 50 miles, the library has old scrolls and books that no one but him, the pope and authorized people, know the contents of those old writings. People (especially America) think the books hidden from the public are about and depict government secrets, aliens, Satan, religion in general and even illegal actions that happened in the Vatican. However, Vatican refuses to answer to all of those claims and keeps the secret even further from public display and knowledge. He doesn’t want anybody to know of the hidden side of him, most people that think to know of his dark past and current actions say that he’s satanic, usually by conspiracy theorists, and has a lot of ties with a lot of nations’ governments. He’s very famous for those rumors and doesn’t plan on addressing the truth any time soon.

Historical Facts

Vatican is not very fond of Central Italy and the Italian brothers as a whole. He can never forgive the three for killing his father to appease their selfish needs to bring their little sister Centro back. La Breccia di Porta Pia is a taboo topic for him.

Relations

Vatican City is not an outdoor type of guy, he mostly prefers to stay in the comfort of the walls that surround his country, declaring to be neutral so he won’t have to bother himself getting an army or fighting. He says often that he “has more important things to do”.

Central Italy

 Him and Central Italy aren't very close, of course. Sometimes he annoys her with his attitude but she always reluctantly forgives him. She didn’t mind him being independent at all, he existed even before she was technically born. The two don’t fight but Vatican doesn’t trust her knowing about his secret life since she might tell North and South so that he could be completely exposed, all she has are some vague speculations about him but she doesn’t seem interested in knowing the secrets.

San Marino

They never interacted much, except from when Papal States was alive, but sometimes they hang out, always out of boredom or with Central Italy that brought them together originally, since they’re both surrounded by her territories. San Marino acts cool around everyone but Vatican City describes him as stuck up and talentless behind his back, even if he puts on a friendly attitude towards him. Vatican feels like he owes him since he helped him get independence from the Kingdom of Italy.

South Italy

Him and South Italy quite get along but do not have much ties other than sharing the same religion and having a quite similar personality.

Quotes

“Don’t ignore me.” One panel featuring Vatican and Centro, where she ignores his questions.

“I’m just cleaning […] No, the Pope told me to do it alone.” A comic featuring Vatican being mysterious.

“Who told you to come in here?” Anytime Vatican sees someone in his house without permission.

“Can’t a man have PRIVACY?!” He’s very secretive.

Trivia

-He hates to talk with America since he often makes conspiracy theories about him.

-Central Italy and him actually get along sometimes.

-Russia, with his boss, visited him and his boss and turns out that they have a lot in common. A future friendship between the two countries might spark.

-He likes to cure his city, he wants to make it the best ever possible for everyone that lives there and that visit it.

-He has a deep seated hatred for the Pope, claiming that he “knows too much.”

-He hates it when Sealand, Wy and Seborga knock at his door so they can get him to become part of the micronation squad. He always slams his front door on their faces, yelling "I'm independent, now! Leave me alone!"

-He was supposed to be a spoiled and snobby king, it explains his royalty-like appearance.

-He's the only Absolute Monarchy left in the whole world. He's the smallest actually recognized country but he's much more powerful than what he seems.