Greece

**Greece** is an eastern european country located in the Balkan peninsula who takes the form of a 21-year old young woman. She is a main character of Country Stories and some CS Presents entries.

## Appearance

Greece is an olive-skinned girl who has hazelnut colored eyes and long, brown hair with highlights of a darker shade, which she usually ties in a high side ponytail with the help of a light blue bunny ear ribbon, half of it being light blue and glittery, and the other half containing her flagacce. She wears a pair of white sunglasses above her head, but she never uses them the proper way, as well as a pair of Alpha symbol earrings.

Her everyday outfit consists on a white, asymmetrical heart-shaped tube top with a light cleavage adorned by a gold chain with many small sapphires hanging from it. Her arms are adorned with a plethora of accessories, including a deep sky blue fabric armband shaped into a scrunchie by a pearl-covered elastic and a white lace with a small sapphire hanging from it tied around in her right arm; withher left arm sporting a gold bracelet and a pearl bracelet. She wears a gold choker with a big sapphire hanging from it, supported by a gold chain. She wears denim shorts with a fabric belt that covers the zipper, with front pockets decorated by gold chains and a rolled up hem. Her footwear consists on thigh high white socks under a pair of sky blue heeled sneakers with an Alpha symbol motif, gold lining and white shoelaces. During the cold months, she wears a handmade white wool poncho over her top.

## Personality

Greece is regarded as Eastern Europe's "big sister", and this claim has a lot of truth to it; Greece is a girl who enjoys watching over others, assuring they're okay and cheering them up; she is also a feminine girl who can lose control over adorable things and worries quite a lot about her appearance and wardrobe.

Greece is very naive when it comes to sentimental affairs, however; she doesn't realize indirect friendship purposals until much later, not to mention the almost null realization of Italy's romantic crush on her, but one day, there may be something or someone that opens her eyes...

Even if it doesn't seem like so, Greece can feel overwhelmed with the responsibility of keeping Eastern Europe's mood fine and will get infected with everyone else's bad vibes, when this happens, she can get so angry that in the matter of minutes and without thinking, she could kill someone; fortunately, this almost never happens.

## Relationships

Italy: Italy is one of Greece's best friends who also acts as her fashion and styling advisor; the two have developed a deep-rooted friendship and a close history of working together, getting through good and bad times together, this has caused Italy to develop a romantic crush on Greece, but she doesn't seem to notice it just yet.

Spain: Spain and Greece are known as "Europe's partners in crime" as most of the crazy plans to get money or just have fun that are performed by the entire bunch are planned by Greece and Spain together. They enjoy each other's company and have gone through similar situations, which has turned them into close friends

Ireland: Ireland is Greece's best friend without a doubt; even when their personalities are completely clashing and Ireland doesn't have the best reputation of the continent, Greece was able to see the good side of her and helped her open up to everyone else slowly.

Serbia: Greece's younger cousin and one of her closest relatives; Greece seems to be one of the few people who not only get along with Serbia, but also one of the only who are able to tame his wild and agressive personality; in the end, they both have lived similar experiences and enjoy being family.

Montenegro: Greece's other younger cousin and her other close relative. It is thanks to Greece that Montenegro has been able to push beyond her limits and become braver day by day; Greece is also Montenegro's go-to place for a girl's talk.

## Trivia

* Greece's human name is "Helena Samaras"; her first name is a reference to her actual name written in classical Greek (Hellas), while her last name has no background in particular, it is just one of the most common surnames in the country.
* Greece's personality is based on the "Cool Big Sis" trope: A young woman (usually in her mid to late teens, sometimes in her early 20s) will be the character everyone thinks is cool due to the maturity, competence and style her age brings along. She will be considered as a candidate to Team Mom and a mentor-like figure to boys and girls alike.
* Her magical ability consists on Superhuman strength, which means she is able to lift great quantities of weight with barely any effort; some actions she has performed using this ability are breaking tables with a fist, carrying gigantic rocks and breaking a couple skulls. This power has earned the nickname "Greercules"
* Just like the rest of the Balkans, Greece carries a knife with her all the time, her knife is names "Hades" and has a motif of said deity. It is said Hades can keep the blood of relevant people in Greece's life on it for a long time.
* Greece's favorite food is chicken gyros and her favorite drink is frappé, which is also considered her national drink.
* Greece, along with Iraq, Iran, Japan and Egypt, is a reincarnation of the Premieres, the 7 civilizations that shaped both Western and Eastern cultures. Quite redundantly, Greece is the reincarnation of Ancient Greece.
* Her designated oshi mark is the tropical drink (🍹)