Romano

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Romano is the representation of Soulthern Italy, or Italy Romano. He appears in both Hetalia: Axis Powers: Paint it, White and Hetalia: Axis Powers (anime) as a supporting character.

His full name is Italy Romano, used to distinguish him from his younger brother Italy Veneziano.

In 2007 and 2008, Himaruya gave some characters human names, and Romano received the name Lovino Vargas.

Appearance
Full Article: Uniform Guide: South Italy 

South Italy has dark brown, straight hair with a long curl in the front that extends to the right of his face and acts as an erogenous zone, similar to that of his brother's. His skin is slightly tanned and his eyes are a sort of yellowish-green. He could be described as "cute" by ladies, although his expression is usually twisted into a scowl to mirror his grouchy personality when not flirting. His typical "alternate WWII" military uniform is different than his brother's, despite them both being Italy; His uniform bears many similarities to Spain's, being a darker tan colour uniform with high, brown boots.

Personality
South and North Italy bear many similarities, but their differences are alarmingly evident. Romano has a stong liking for women and fine food and he can be as weak and/or cowardly as Veneziano at times, but his brother's all-around good-naturedness is missing in his character. While he retains charm when impressing the ladies, Romano is normally very rude and disrespectful towards other males, Nations included. He shows a particular hatred for those who try to get close to him or his brother (such as Germany and Spain), supposedly to protect them from any posers who would use them only to benefit from Grandpa Rome's fortune, and will normally refer to them sourly using rude titles such as "the Kraut" or "Bastard". However, this grouchy attitude extends freely to most any other male Nation, France in particular.



But despite his need to protect his "idiot brother", Romano has always had a rather strong case of an inferiority complex. Veneziano has always been the cute, desirable child, who's more skilled than him in painting, dancing, cooking, trade, and what seems like everything else (to him), causing Romano to give up trying to appeal to people. Even their grandfather chose Veneziano over Romano, and after Italy was conquered by Austria, he was simply dumped on Spain, who initially wanted to trade Romano back for his own brother. This lack of hope to be loved like Veneziano was lead him to become unenthusiastic but highly defensive and skeptical of others.

Some Italian stereotypes he portrays include: his physical fragility, the rudeness some Italians are known for (particularly those from Rome), the prominent erogenous zone (curl) he has, etc. (He is also suspected to enforce some stereotypes of the Italian Mafia).

Relationships
Italy

Italy is Romano's younger brother, but Romano doesn't seem to truly care about Italy. They also have a strained relationship as not only Italy grew up with others, but Italy is friends with Germany, who Italy despises.

Spain

Romano was raised by Spain, but shows reluctance to be near him, and even dislike of him sometimes. Romano often refers to Spain as 'Tomato Bastard'.

Germany

Romano despises Germany, and often tries to hurt him (ex. throw a grenade at) which ends in failure. Romano also refers to Germany as 'Macho Potato' or 'Potato Bastard'.