Central Italy (Empiretalia)

Description

Central Italy is one of the three parts of Italy alongside North Italy and South Italy. She represents politically just four regions of Italy (Umbria, Tuscany, Marches and Lazio). She is also referred to as “Centro” by N. Italy and S. Italy or other states or cities that are friends with her. She is the least popular of the three and wants to come out of her shell to go find new friends.

Appearance

Central Italy has long brown hair which shade is darker than N. Italy’s hair and the same shade as S. Italy’s. Like the other two, she has a curl that is placed on the right side of her head which is also an Ero-Zone like for all of the Italians. She’s very short and mostly gets teased for that. Her height is given by how many regions she has since Central Italy has just four regions and is the smallest out of the three parts. She mostly wears a hot pink jacket over a white shirt that has a red ribbon on it, a dark grey skirt that matches her socks and her black shoes. She wears this mostly casual outfit because she thinks it’s fashionable and stylish. In formal occasions, she wears her uniform: a beige colored uniform, she often rolls her sleeves up to her forearm; under the uniform she wears a black-dark grey bowtie with a matching black shirt underneath, she also has a black belt around her waist; her pants match the upper uniform, she wears beige shorts that leave space to her brown-black high boots in which she wears white long socks. Sometimes she wears her gloves and her hat along with her uniform: her gloves and hat are both black, her hat falls on the left side of her head, while her gloves are very short and are made of leather. On her hat it's possible to see an eagle silver design, which means she is an aviator. She, very often nags Sardinia to become finally part of her (politically) because she "feels like a part of her is missing". When she once was Chibi Central Italy, she wore a white knee-long dress that was sometimes seen as destroyed after she had died.People say she's the leader of the Italians because of her Parliament power, she is the one that takes decisions which brought the Italies into useless wars. She thinks she's the best and looks down on her brothers, this personality trait is taken from the Florence stereotype. Her ego is so big that she even keeps saying things along the lines of: "Roma caput mundi." (Rome is the capital of the world.)

Historical Facts

She was once an independent country called United Provinces of Central Italy (Province Unite del Centro Italia) which was created by the Kingdom of Sardinia (Regno di Sardegna) and North Italy, the UPOCI was a country that only lived 1 year, starting from 1859 and dying in 1860. After dying in 1860 her groth was stunted and wasn't able to grow correctly. She's the youngest because she was "resurrected" by taking the place of a country named Papal State (Stato della Chiesa) after the Union of Italy in 1861. People say she's the leader of the Italians because of her Parliament power, she is the one that takes decisions which brought the Italies into useless wars.

Personality and Interests

Central Italy is a small and bitter girl who isn’t afraid to speak up about anything she wants with people who are close or not to her. She’s the type of girl that will yell at a stranger if they come too close, to being a good friend who cherishes her family and friends to the point it’s too hard to see the angry and bitter her she has always been. She has a lot of trouble finding friends or meaningful relations throughout the countries because she’s not that known, but she managed to grow throughout the years and found friends, but never stops looking for more. She’s rather shy when it comes to people she's close with and people she likes on an emotional level, she’s also peaceful when she’s in the comfort of her family and friends and always needs someone to protect her from attacks of any sort. She’s the weakest but the smartest. She also likes to sleep a lot and doesn’t want to be bothered by anyone or they will get “A hole through their head” but it was never confirmed if she has a gun or not. Sometimes she starts to talk in the Roman dialect she learned since she was a child, when she was raised by her grandfather: Roman Empire (or, simply, Ancient Rome). A renown city in Umbria, Assisi, is also known as “the City of Peace”, which contradicts at first her personality, but, by getting to know her better, she’s just a shy girl who doesn’t want to be deemed as weak and does anything in her power to show that she’s not somebody people would want to mess with, since she doesn’t like to be deemed as weak, even if she accepts that she is. A lot of times she has shown to have an interest in taking over the Italian Parliament that resides in Rome (The capital of Italy, but also a Central Italian city). S. Italy never let her do such things because it’s impossible to do so, since their boss will never give her the power to do that. Romano is the one that knows her the best since he takes care of her every day, basically. S. Italy is nowhere mad at her for having such dreams, but he doesn’t want her to get in trouble, he doesn’t want to get in trouble either alongside his brother N. Italy. Central Italy loves nature, the sea and “Gli Appennini”, the somewhat high mountains that go through her, in those mountains there lurk packs of wolves, like in the Romolo and Remo Legend. Sometimes she goes to the sea with S. Italy or goes camping with N. Italy in the holidays. She also loves to cook and many other countries appreciate the food she cooks, she learned a lot of techniques from S. Italy. She likes to be as peaceful as she can, throwing words is very simple for her but actually hurting somebody is far from what she can do at best since she doesn’t want to hurt anyone either, she’s far sweeter than how she sounds most of the time and also because she isn't a strong country at all. She also really likes painting, sculpting, writing poetry and all sorts of arts, all because of her traits gained from the Renaissance; she completely loves Leonardo Da Vinci’s art, a very famous artist that was born in her territory. A lot of Central Italy’s personality traits and having Romano as a mentor led her to be a Tsundere. A lot of the time, she voices her desire to become an "adorable idol", even though Germany always tells her to shut up, resulting in her getting even more angry at him.

Relations

Central Italy doesn’t have many relations since she’s the least known, but even if she has less than others, most of her relationships are meaningful and good:

South Italy

C. Italy and S. Italy have been attached since “Il Regno delle due Sicilie”. South always cared for her and made a house for the two of them, until the Kingdom broke and C. Italy was divided in a lot of small states. Though, none of the two ever forgot about how close they were, so to this day they’re very close and united, more than North will ever be with the two of them. This is also why Centro has a lot of features that resemble South. However, the two of them get in arguments sometimes because C. Italy wants to rule Molise and Abruzzo, she does the same with N. Italy because she wants to rule Emilia-Romagna.

North Italy

C. Italy is not as close to N. Italy like S. Italy but they still hang out sometimes. She thinks he’s way more relaxed and positive than his brother but still, she prefers to hang out with S. Italy that was the one who raised her basically. Sometimes N. Italy and C. Italy cook together and she teaches him how to cook good food by giving him some recipes. Roman people have a secret recipe to one of their dishes and only tell it to trusted people or no one at all.

Russia

Central Italy has shown a lot of interest towards Russia since the very beginning. Their friendship started when Italy’s boss became a very close friend with Russia’s boss, making the two hang out more even if she was a bit scared at first. Together, Russia and all of Italy built a very strong economy that is still around. Italy is still Russia’s best economic partner right before Germany. Central Italy built monuments in her land for him in, mostly, Firenze and Rome the most important cities of Central Italy and Russia didn’t hesitate to do the same for her, building a little Italy in Moscow to show gratitude. Central Italy often sees Russian tourists in her land very often while Russia sees Italian tourists in his country too. To this day, they’re closer than ever.

Greece

C. Italy never got to know Greece that well but the few times they’ve hung out, she found a lot of common interests with him, for example: unconditional love for cats, being artistic, sharing a wide part of history and being lazy. Though, at first, Greece was diffident of her at first because of the WWII Italian invasion of Greece, but their relationship is getting better by the minute. They also got close because of Crete.

Vatican City

C. Italy and Vatican City are not the best of friends, but they get along rather nicely, even though Vatican always bothers her with questions and completely useless information. Vatican City is C. Italy’s roommate alongside San Marino and they’ve learned how to be nice to each other. C. Italy actually likes Vatican’s dark side too, thinking that it’s cool; Vatican doesn’t know that she knows about his shady activities.

Germany

The both of them don’t like each other. Germany doesn’t like her at all because of her attitude and the whole WWI and WWII betrayals that Italy committed, while she doesn’t like him because of his attitude towards her and S. Italy since she cares a lot about him.

Serbia

The two got along quite well before WWII started and the start of the nation of Yugoslavia. They have been best friends for quite a while in those times. In today’s times, she still is very close, but she escaped from him in fear because he had killed a lot of Italians. He did this because Italy had conquered parts of Yugoslavia. She, soon after, got forced to kill Serbia with her own hands by America, who wanted to stop Yugoslavia once and for all. She refused to complete the mission she got assigned. Serbia remembers the time where C. Italy, N. Italy and S. Italy switched sides in WWI to stand up for him and tried his best to re-build a good relationship with her by bringing a lot of her factories in his nation. Today, a lot of Italians go to work in Serbia and love staying there, while Serbians go visit or move to Italy every year. The two of them built a solid and close friendship and now are economic and strategic partners.

Ancient Rome

C. Italy is the favorite grandchild of A. Rome. He doesn’t really know much about her but he made her his favorite just because she represents (mostly) Rome and he thinks she did a good job doing so. S. Italy and N. Italy (South mostly) are jealous of the treatment she gets from grandpa Rome. She secretly finds her grandpa annoying in many ways but doesn’t show it to keep her image as clean and innocent as possible.

America

While America doesn’t care about Central Italy, she hates him. All of the times her people moved to America to find a better life they were discriminated and deemed as “less” than Americans. Today, things changed but C. Italy knows how to hold a grudge for a long time really well.

Quotes

“Why can’t Countries just be called Cuntries?” Centro in a world meeting.

“I’m out of here.”

“Did you just call me cute?!” Centro’s Tsundere moments.

“Can I please just hit some sense back in you all?” Her thoughts during world meetings.

"I-I'm not sleeping! Of course not!" She's very sleepy.

Trivia

-She loves attention of any sorts, she just loves making friends, but at the same time, if a stranger approaches her weirdly, she’ll be ready to run or insult said stranger.

-It is stated that she is jealous of South and North Italy.

-She’s a troublemaker but at the same time refuses to join any argument that happens (very often) between North and South.

-She has San Marino and Vatican City as roommates.

-She loves to wear cute and fashionable clothes rather than traditional clothing or military uniforms. Because she claims that style is the most important thing. "If someone looks at me for the first time, they'll only see my physical appearance. Not my personality!"

-She once was designed to have an accessory that represented Sardinia until she became a separate character.

-Her birthday represents the "Presa di Roma" AKA "Breccia di Porta Pia" or "Sacco di Roma". On the 20th of September the last step to uniting Italy happened: Central Italy was born and the Papal State collapsed.