Murmansk

Murmansk (ムルマンスク) formally Romanov-On-Murman, is a fanmade character for the series '''Hetalia: Axis Powers. '''She represents the Arctic Russian port city of Murmansk.

Personality
Murmansk comes across as a rather upbeat woman, she is optimistic, brave, and sensible.

Although the first impressions a person would have of her are that of a somewhat naïve and not at all similar to her country, Russia, she can be an extremely corageous, intelligent and strong-willed person when required. However she is quite content with a quiet life, dislikes large crowds and noise, and often prefers the company of animals to people, except the one animal that she absolutely cannot stand; mice.

Murmansk has a pet Russian bullfinch named Oleg, when she found him with a piece of barbed wire wrapped around his wing, making him unable to fly. She took him in, nursed him back to health and then released him, however by then, Oleg had had a taste of life as a domestic animal, and flew back to Murmansk merely a few hours after she released him.

She has one brother, Norilsk (Kliment Engylachev) as they are two of the coldest places in Russia.

Appearance
Murmansk is a very short woman, which has earned her some ridicule and teasing for, especially from Norilsk, who happens to be rather unnervingly tall.

She has a heart-shaped face, pale skin and pleasant features, her eyes are dark blue, almost navy, her hair is strawberry blonde, curly, and reaches her mid back.

She almost always wears a long, padded, blue coat, a hat, a scarf, knee length boots and dark grey gloves, her city's climate is often sub-zero temperatures, so she makes sure to wear plenty of layers under her coat.

Brief History
In 1915, World War I demands/needs lead to a railway station being constructed between Petrozavodsk and the Murman Coast, located in Northwest Russia. It became known as the Murman station, in which, Murmansk found herself a small home.

After the station was constructed, Murmansk secured herself a port, naval base, population and land, her railway was frequently used to ship military supplies and weapons to those who needed it. On July 6th 1916, her small town was given the name Romanov-On-Murman, and remained as such until the following year 1917, after the February revolution, when she was given her present name, much to her amusement and confusion.

During World War II, Murmansk became a link the Western World for Russia, of which she was glad, her job remained quite simple as the war went on, shipping supplies and military arms to the Soviet Union, much like she did in the first World War, the supplies were shipped to her from the Arctic Convoys, and she took her duties very seriously, prided herself on having a decent port and railway station, on which she lived, and on owning several trains and other modes of transports, including a small tug.

Throughout the first year of the war, Murmansk encountered some very close calls from Germany's forces, almost to the point where she was almost accustomed to seeing Germany on a regular basis, before they were driven back by her defenses and a little help given to Murmansk by General Winter, driving her attackers back with the cold.. In 1941 however, during Oporation Silver Fox, carried out by Germany, who launched an attack on Finnish territory, along with a number of others, Murmansk found herself overpowered, with her port and railway suffering extensive destruction, however the oporation proved unsuccessful, due to, again, the cold, Soviet resistance, and bad preperation, which ultimately lead to poor assumptions.

After the attacks, Murmansk considered herself extremely lucky that she remained alive, and from that, she learned to be much more cautious when dealing with her enemies, and endeavoured to keep at least a few of the links to the Western World still running, throughout the rest of the war however, she remained in Russia's service. Her tenacity, stubborn defence of her port and railway, and loyalty to Russia, lead to a commemoration, and Murmansk was designated as a Hero City on May 6th 1985.

Throughout the duration of the Cold War, Murmansk prided herself on being the centre of submarine and ice breaker activities.

Relationships.
Norilsk:

Murmansk has a love-hate relationship with her big brother, she is grateful to him for being a constant source of support to her during the wars, through letters, as he too was preocupied with the situations, however she is often annoyed and upset by his tendency to make fun of her for her height and power, and he is also somewhat resentful towards her for being designated as a Hero City when he wasn't. However they are on good terms with each other and don't dislike each other, they merely regard each other with a slightly frosty attitude.

Russia:

Right up until 1985, Murmansk had never met her country, during her earlier years, Russia was aware of her, but not in any rush to visit and meet her. This caused her to feel very little towards him in return, but she felt enough loyalty to him to keep supplying him and various other allies with weaponry during the wars. It was only after her designation that Russia felt it right to write to her, and request to see her to congratulate her. Since then, Murmansk has formed quite a close relationship with Russia.

America:

The Cold War caused Murmansk to feel extremely hostile towards America for a long time before she met him again, years later, and, upon some enthusiastic persuasion from him to put the past behind them, she agreed. Afterwards she found that she could actually get on with him rather well, as long as neither of them mentioned the war. America regards her with a slight awe and a little jealousy at her Hero City title, but has respect for her because of that.