Republic of San Marino

San Marino (イタリア San Marino ) is a fan-made character in the series Hetalia: Axis Powers. She is the representation of the enclaved microstate surrounded by Italy. She received the name Sofia Marinus  ( ソピア  マリヌス Sopia Marinusu ).

Appearance
San Marino is a small, short girl (who is said to be even shorter than Liechtenstein albeit still taller than Monaco and Vatican City in the European group) that resembles both Veneziano and Romano; she has Romano's dark brown hair and amber eyes of Veneziano, with a curl similar to Seborga. Her skin tone is more similar to Veneziano's fair complexion than Romano's olive, since she is closer to the north than the south. She likes to dress fancily and lady-like, often depicted in a purple dress with a chalk-white bow-tie around the golden-rimmed collars, purple leggings and beige doll shoes. Her hair is partly tied back into a high ponytail with a magenta cyclamen flower hairtie, which is San Marino's . A golded, rectangle barette with the three towers of San Marino crafted on it clasped on the left side of her hair, this is her most prized possesion.

Personality and Interests
San Marino is a pleasant, kind, very polite, calm-headed and old-fashioned who enjoys her own wealth. Although she is still very forgetful, quite clumsy and tiny in population, in her old days she's shown to be very fiesty as she declared wars on several countries in which she promptly just forgot about it right after that. She also has an incredible luck and charm that helps her gain the alliance and respect of many countries that were willing to protect her during the war timeline when her close neighbours are clashing with each other, but instead she remained neutral and simply welcomed refugees from many different countries, the number of people which grew to be three times her original population at the time.

She enjoys baking and festivals, her favorite and most popular festival is the ‘Medieval Days’ during the last weekend of July, in which her people turn back the hand of the clock and transform the historical city into a true medieval village.

Italy
Although she is being taken care of by Italy, San Marino is more of a motherly figure to Italy than he is to her, although it is sometimes questioned when others saw a young, short girl patting on Italy's head or comforting him. Italy himself sees her as a big sister to heart and doesn't really care that she's a lot shorter than him. She also adores Italy's food and imports them into her own country.

He is also a tad bit overprotective over her as he also agrees to 'check for danger' in the goods imported from a third-party country to her own, but not as much as Romano's protectiveness. Italy oftens stands in the front with Romano when San Marino is behind them whenever they're together.

During WWI, Italy used to be quite hostile towards San Marino's neutrality as he think she might somehow betray them when they declared war on Austria-Hungary.

South Italy (Romano)
Romano, in contrast of Italy, is often being seen scolding, helping and keeping an eye out for San Marino as she is quite clumsy and forgetful most of the time. San Marino however gets dissappointed that she's 'being such a child' to him even though she's the older one'. However, she tags along and stays behind him with Italy whenever they are seen together.

She tries to help him out whenever she can. Romano also seems to be calmer and more mature when he acts toward San Marino. This may be due to her 'serenity'.

America
San Marino and America seems to be on good terms. In the past, president Abraham Lincoln is an honorable citizen of San Marino as they are both republics - an endangered 'species' during the time. Their bosses are said to be on excellent terms with each other. She's seen curtsying and talking happily to him when they saw each other.

France
They used to be quite closed due to the fact that France's boss during the French Revolution, Napoleon I is friend with one of her Regent Captain, Antonio Onofri. He promised to guarantee and protect her independence, even offering to expand her territory but the offer was declined when she thought it would only cause her revenge and trouble from other countries in the future. They are not quite so close now, but France and Napoleon will always be a friend and father-figure to her.

Germany
Germany finds it weird and shocking that a seemingly little girl can be older than both him and Italy, but acts surprisingly respectful to her (letting her pat him on his head). He once briefly stayed in her country, but was driven out by the Allied Forces in the Battle of San Marino.

England
England still has a sour behaviour towards her due to the fastest goal scored by San Marino's team during World Cup qualifier on 17 November 1993, embarrassing and shocking him. However, she saw him as a potential football coach, always looking at him with hopeful eyes when she sees him play and writes it as one of her 'Top 10 Things I Wanted'. Asides from that, diplomatically, she's in good terms with England.

She also used to declare a war on him, but after being questioned, she denied the fact. England is the only person that has ever hurt her by bombing her country.

Liechtenstein
When they first met, Liechtenstein thought San Marino was a little girl lost in the streets during the trip the Italy brothers and her went to see Switzerland. After they found the Italy brothers, she became shocked when she found out that San Marino is actually even older than her brother. They became good friends after that.

Austria
San Marino was believed to have declared war on Austria, but similar to England's situation, she didn't remember anything when questioned and denied it with an innocent smile.

Trivia

 * No-one knows if her curl also acts as her erogenous zone or not, simply because none of the guys dare to do it, only Liechtenstein has ever touched it, but she never tells.

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Character created by cookiekrio on deviantART