Spain

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Spain is a supporting character in the series Hetalia: Axis Powers.

Since most of the other characters were recieving official human names from the years 2007 to 2008, Spain was given one as well; Antonio Fernández Carriedo  though he's sometimes known as Antonio Hernández Carriedo due to some confusion during the Japanese-to-Spanish translation.

Appearance
Full Artice: Uniform Guide: Spain

Spain is one of the darker European nations featured in Hetalia, having dark brown hair, tanned skin (the tone of which tends to vary), and green eyes. His appearance is said to be that of a stereotypical Spaniard's, with clear-cut features and a seemingly unshakable happiness. His hair is slightly curly and has been stated as very stylish despite him not paying much attention to it. His choice military outfit consists of tan trousers with puttees wrapped below his knee level, and a matching jacket with sleeves rolled up at least three-quarters of the way down his arms. He also wears shorter brown boots and a length of brown cloth around his collar, tied into a bow shape.

Character Summary
Known to most fans as amicable and passionate, yet at times a bit too laid-back, Spain can be described as a cheerful country with a mysterious aura of conflicting light and darkness. He’s generally friendly and good-natured when it comes to interacting with others and his country is said to have one of the lowest-rate sales of dating advice books. He likes to take life at his own pace and makes no attempt to “read the atmosphere”, sometimes going as far as coming off insensitive and/or clueless. His being the “Kingdom of where the sun never sets” seems to apply to his character as well. However, if you are to get him angry or drunk, it would be best to keep your distance; a strategy he normally wouldn’t mind you applying. He hasn’t (and probably still won’t) changed with the times, either.

He’s shown to have a very special place in his heart for his friends especially the Italy brothers, to the point where it’s been revealed that one of his biggest fantasies was having the two children live with him. Nowadays, he seems to try and maintain a good relationship with most of the other nations with the possible exceptions of America, England and the Netherlands, who are all shown not to be very fond of him in turn likely due to past grudges.

In his past, Spain was a very powerful kingdom and sat among the strongest pirate nations. He was also a traveler, and was one of the nations to voyage back and forth from the New World several times to set up colonies and bring back riches. However, his golden period came to an end with the interventions of England, The Netherlands, and even the younger America. They tossed him straight into an era plagued by war, poverty and debt for quite a while that factored into his not participating in WWII. He was also the nation to take custody of the southern half of Italy (or Romano) as given to him by Austria for a long period of time, and he spent a lot of effort and money on spoiling him rather than treating him like a proper subordinate. As such, his desire to be called "Boss" by his charge fell flat.

Austria
Before the Italian Wars, Austria had conquered Spain, and they were later on married within the House of Hapsburg. Austria was also the one who handed custody of Romano (South Italy) over to Spain, but he still refused any proposals to take him back or possibly exchange his northern half for Spain's. They stayed on relatively close military terms as allies until the time of the War of Spanish Succession. He later on also allied himself with Prussia and France against Austria during the War of Austrian Succession.

Italy
Italy often refers to Spain as Big Brother Spain, and Spain also desires that the Italy Brothers will live with him one day. When the Italies were young, Spain wished Romano was cuter, and wanted to trade Romano for Italy because he was a harder worker. During the War of Austrian Succession, Spain promised Veneziano that they could be together forever when the fight was over, however his thoughts and possibly his expression scared Italy into running back to Austria in tears.

South Italy (Romano)
Spain is very affectionate to Romano, having raised him since he was a young child, so Romano took after him in culture, beliefs, ect.

Spain received Romano from Austria, and was instantly dissapointed as Romano was somewhat lazy, and was insulting to Spain. After meeting Chibitalia, Spain begged Austria to switch Italies with him, and was disappointed when Austria refused. Strangely enought, though, he refused to give Romano to France, despite his willingness to raise Romano, and even started a war over that.

Historically, Spain spent a large sum of money on Romano, to the point where even his bosses reprimanded him.

AU (Alternate Universe) Versions
'NOTE: A great deal of the information surrounding the AU versions of this character are purely fanon ideas - headcanons, if you will. Little official information has been given on the alternate universes; please do not believe any of the details not stated to be confirmed as canon to be official.'

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