She is a terrible, terrible driver and should never be allowed behind the wheel of a car. (Portugal has the most automobile-related deaths in the EU.) However, she is extremely good at handling all kinds of ships, and she's the perfect person to sit shotgun because she's an excellent navigator. When she's drunk, she starts acting remarkably like her casually affectionate brother, becoming very touchy-feely and a bit flirty. She says that when she drinks and when she's on the water are the only times she fully relaxes. Portugal always likes to cuddle, but she has too much pride to seek that sort of contact from most people. The time she's spent as a ship's navigator in centuries past and as a soldier in the old days and more recently (military service being required by her government for all citizens, she signs up herself now and then to show solidarity) has left her with a bit of a dirty mouth when stressed or worried.
Part of why she's such a bad driver is that she's an adrenaline junkie. Portugal is someone who once held significant power, and who took to the battlefields and the oceans herself, damn the consequences. So it's little surprise that in the modern day she seeks out danger and excitement. The fact that there's some risk to life in Ruby City will be, to her, one of the upsides to the situation.
Portugal is extremely loyal if she decides to give that loyalty to someone, and it is both a strength and a weakness because it can blind her to their faults. The reverse is also true; she is very slow to change her opinion if she dislikes someone. Similarly, when she loves it's with all she has; sometimes the love can change from romantic to platonic (or nearly so) and vice-versa, but once you matter you always matter, outside of betrayal. That is the only time she really turns on someone. It's very nearly impossible to get her to forgive or to forget.
Portugal is a tall woman who appears to be about twenty-five or so; she's slender rather than curvy, with long dark brown hair and gray eyes. She's tan from living in a Meditteranean climate.
History: Exactly when Portugal was born is a mystery even to her – she vaguely remembers Roman Lusitania, who she assumes is her father. This would put her birth sometime before the fifth century, when Germanic tribes invaded. This, she remembers clearly, and suspects that it's the origin of her gray eyes. She also remembers the time she spent under the rule of the Moors, African Muslims, as a rather confusing time. It was the last period when she and her brother were united in wanting to throw off the yoke they were both under, which led to the Reconquista. (She managed escape several hundred years before all of her brother's land was freed.) After that, though, she had to break free of the control of one of the regions that belonged to her brother, Galicia.
Re: [Fandom OC] Portugal/Madalena Almeida|| Axis Powers Hetalia || no reserve || 1 of ?
Part of why she's such a bad driver is that she's an adrenaline junkie. Portugal is someone who once held significant power, and who took to the battlefields and the oceans herself, damn the consequences. So it's little surprise that in the modern day she seeks out danger and excitement. The fact that there's some risk to life in Ruby City will be, to her, one of the upsides to the situation.
Portugal is extremely loyal if she decides to give that loyalty to someone, and it is both a strength and a weakness because it can blind her to their faults. The reverse is also true; she is very slow to change her opinion if she dislikes someone. Similarly, when she loves it's with all she has; sometimes the love can change from romantic to platonic (or nearly so) and vice-versa, but once you matter you always matter, outside of betrayal. That is the only time she really turns on someone. It's very nearly impossible to get her to forgive or to forget.
Portugal is a tall woman who appears to be about twenty-five or so; she's slender rather than curvy, with long dark brown hair and gray eyes. She's tan from living in a Meditteranean climate.
History: Exactly when Portugal was born is a mystery even to her – she vaguely remembers Roman Lusitania, who she assumes is her father. This would put her birth sometime before the fifth century, when Germanic tribes invaded. This, she remembers clearly, and suspects that it's the origin of her gray eyes. She also remembers the time she spent under the rule of the Moors, African Muslims, as a rather confusing time. It was the last period when she and her brother were united in wanting to throw off the yoke they were both under, which led to the Reconquista. (She managed escape several hundred years before all of her brother's land was freed.) After that, though, she had to break free of the control of one of the regions that belonged to her brother, Galicia.