Minami Italia

南イタリア, Romano (ロマーノ), Lovino Vargas (ロヴィーノ・ヴァルガス), South Italy
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Birthday:Mar 17
Age:23
Nations name: Repubblica Italiana Italian Republic Capital: Rome Language: Italian National flower: Daisy Human name: Lovino Vargas Height: Unknown appearance South Italy better known as Romano is North Italys older brother who represents the southern half of the country. He has dark brown hair which according to Hidekaz Himaruya is because he has Arabic blood in him and because he has a somewhat dark personality. In the anime adaptation and in more recent official artwork his eyes are brown and he is shown with fair skin. In earlier artwork his eyes were colored green and he had an olive complexion. Like his brother he has a curly ahoge which sticks out on the right side of his head as opposed to Italys which sticks out on the left. Despite many speculations that they are twins it has been confirmed by Hidekaz Himaruya that Romano is supposed to be older than Italy by a few years. In their childhood the two knew of each other but never met until after Grandpa Rome had passed away. The two were separated again afterwards when Austria had taken Italy to his house and Spain had taken Romano. Eventually the two were reunited when Italy was unified but even after unification they were still on difficult terms even to this day. Italy adores Romano while Romano usually brushes him off and tries to ignore him. This is mainly because Romano had always been jealous of his brother. Italy was favored more by Spain than he was he inherited their grandfathers artistic talent and Italy according to Romano looks more like their grandfather than he does. However amid all the hard feelings Romano does care about Italy and wishes that he would admire him more. For most of his childhood he lived with and was raised by Spain who had controlled South Italy while Austria controlled the North. Romano worked at Spains house as a maid but didnt accomplish much because he usually slacked off slept or just plain refused to do anything. If he did manage to find himself actually doing chores he was quite clumsy when it came to doing so. Because Spain raised him eventually great similarities between their cultures came to be such as religion customs and even Romanos love for tomatoes. Romano always treated Spain very coldly and acted as though he hated him. Spain was always very affectionate towards him and although Romano will never admit it he actually cares for Spain deep down and even gets somewhat jealous when he sees Spain with someone else. Their relationship to this day is still quite close. Unlike his brother Romano hates Germany with a blazing passion. Several times hes tried getting revenge on Germany for hanging around Italy and for making him eat German foods. All of these attempts unfortunately for him have failed. He seems to possibly hate Germans in general something that apparently stems back to his childhood. Romanos philosophy about Germans as revealed in one strip is that they are all uncivilized country bumpkins with bad physiology. It also appears that Romano dislikes France as well. His personality is noted as being dark and his outlook of the world is noted as being bleak and biased possibly due to the fact that his mafia constantly controls him and leads him around. Romano appears to be tough when compared to Italy but in reality he is just as cowardly and weak as he is. He loves pasta and tomatoes but has a noforeignfood policy especially when it comes to potatoes and cheese. He acts friendly and nice towards women but is somewhat rude and unsocial towards men. His hobbies include hitting on girls siestas cooking and farming. It is mentioned that he is a skilled pickpocket despite being quite clumsy and not very good with his hands. He has the nasty habit of speaking vulgarly most often saying the words dammit and bastard. When agitated he makes the random sound chigi much like how his brother says veh. Also to note is that his human first name Lovino means the wine in Italian and his human last name Vargas is a common Spanish surname not Italian.
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