Crete (Empiretalia)

DescriptionCrete is the biggest Greek island only second of Cyprus. She is cheerful and always in a good mood. She’s positive any day and wants to spread her happiness and carefreeness to her friends or pretty much anyone she encounters and sparks a conversation with. She has an innocent face and attitude at first, but inside she’s a born troublemaker. She is said to be very wise, though.

Appearance

Crete is a young woman that loves her traditions and Greek history. She still admires the people of the past and dresses like them. She’s mostly seen with a gold colored long dress and red shoes. She sometimes wears flowers in her hair and her dress, sewing them to the skirt or the sleeves. Her long dark brown hair is her pride and joy, she loves trying out new hairstyles whenever she can and takes care of her “Greek goddess-like” appearance to appear far more magical than she already is, having 2 of the rarest beaches in the world: pink beaches, she takes care of those as well, spending so much time admiring the sunny skies of every day made her skin turn of a slightly tan color. Her appearance attracts many tourists from all around the world, she always knows how to keep a smile and guide and entertain each and every one of her tourists, gaining good reviews on any travelling website, in short: more money for her and Greece. She claims having a mysterious and old charm to her appearance contributes greatly to the tourism rates.

Personality and Interests

As beautiful as everyone deems her to be, her personality is far from what anyone would assume her to be like: she’s a young and happy spirit that sometimes goes too far and becomes and infamous troublemaker among her friends. She doesn't realize how much her behavior l makes pretty much everyone laugh or be angry, no in-betweens. She, though, loves to provoke people to gain their reactions. No one knows if she can ever be serious but, in reality, she whenever she needs to, she isn’t serious at world meetings since she deems them as stupid and go far from what the main objective for those is: solving world problems, no significant problem has ever been solved by them, though. Crete is much more serious in meetings between her and her brothers Cyprus and Greece. She has an interest in gardening, she loves flowers and will never stop obsessing over flower patterns whenever she sees one, it’s a must-have for her. She has a mother mentality, kind of like older, now deceased countries. She tries to care for countries here and there, even if she fails to become a trustworthy figure to them, she doesn't give up easily, as she says: "Persistence is key". Like a nosy mother, though, she involuntarily teases her closest friends about people they would be in a good relationship with. She never gets discouraged from setting people up, in fact all she wants is her country friends to be happy with one another. Because of her happy and carefree spirit, she feels like she needs to help anyone she encounters, it might annoy the others, but she only means well. She’s very wise when it comes to giving advice. Her favorite place to go in her free time is the sea.

Relations

She is a very friendly and outgoing girl. She’s the world’s friend and loves to meet new people all over the world. However, not everyone feels the same way about her crashing into conversations…

Greece

She and Greece always had a smooth and good relationship until Crete decided to claim to be independent and become the state of Crete. She, though reunited soon after with her brother Greece once and for all, living happily as a Greek island. Greece never really likes to mention that his sister decided to become independent, but he accepted that fact and moves forward. The two try to solve economic problems together in private meetings between her, Greece and Cyprus. Their teamwork might not do much, but it always strengthens their bonds more and more each time.

Cyprus

She and Cyprus have always been the greatest of friends and best of siblings. They often visit each other to hang out and forget about the problems of their countries. Despite Cyprus being a bit introverted, Crete always manages to read him like an open book, knowing always what to do to help him out with anything he might have trouble with and make him feel better again. They always back each other up no matter what since “Islands have to stick together to become stronger”.

Central Italy

Crete and Centro have a weird relationship. Centro deems it as a love-hate friendship, while Crete deems it as just a normal friendship that she has. Centro is the main victim of Crete’s teasing, alongside San Marino. Centro got used to it after a while of knowing her and having her under the Federal Italian States.

Quotes

"Persistence is key. If the countries don't seem to trust you, show them every little bit of your niceness." -She is wise… but in weird ways.

“Welcome, welcome! Take a seat, I’m about to explain to you everything about me!” -Crete sometimes contributes as a tourist guide. Who can ever know her better than herself?

“But… But I’m a great sister!” -Whenever someone tells her that she’s not a good sister.

“Big brother! Big brother! Come here and listen to the sea’s waves!” -When she calls over her brother to visit her once in a while.

“What do you mean? I’m never lonely. I’ve got plenty of visitors!” -Crete gets often asked how it feels to be a lonely island in the Mediterranean Sea, somewhat far away from both Greece and Cyprus.

Trivia

-She actually feels lonely, but never admits it. She, most of the time, drowns the feeling of loneliness with the joy of seeing new and foreign faces every day.

-She has a pet goat named Dedalus.

-She keeps at her house a lucky charm: a dolphin plushie that Greece gave her when she was little, since the dolphin is the national Greek animal.