I saw someone say that
Spain is an angry drunk in canon. Is there any truth to that?
It’s canon. He’s scary
enough to change Sweden’s facial expression. Although, he gets “sentimental”
when he drinks wine.
Source: Hetarchive (Bamboo Thicket, eng trans., Oct 6th, 2011).
Have you done an in depth analysis of the
relationship between France and England? If so, would it be too much to ask you
to link it? ^^, If not, could you do one?
I have [x]. Next time, please go to my Post Directory. I don’t want asks like this to become a habit. All links are provided.
Um, this question might be kinda dumb but I’m
honestly not sure… Is Japan’s first name “Honda” or
“Kiku”? Because in fanworks I’ve seen it both ways and it’s a little
confusing.
His first name is Kiku. They address people by their last name first in Japan.
Do you happen to know why Turkey wears a mask?
At first I thought it was part of his Ottoman Empire outfit, but we still see
him wear it in modern day. Why is that?
I’ve already answered this [x]. It’s another Q & A, so I know it’s harder to find 🙂
It’s canon for personifications to change titles. The Prussia = East Germany connection has not explicitly been made in canon, but it is heavily hinted at and is very obvious.
Source: World Stars Chapter 1.
Ex: Prussia began as a Catholic Order, evolved into the Teutonic Knights, and then into Prussia. Hungary began as an equestrian tribe. Liechtenstein was originally Austrian nobles.
Guysssss you know what I want more of? Nations doing celebrity things? I mean, it’s canon that Alfred is in Amazon commercials so what else can nations do??
They could be in commercials or make cameos in music videos and movies? How fun is that?
Alfred 100% will be in an Alexa commercial like ‘Alexa, reorder my American flag tank top’ and he’ll get it just in time for a barbecue only to have mustard spilled on it so he has to order a new one, using Alexa too?
Or Arthur making a background appearance in one of the Harry Potter movies and living his dreams? He gets to have his own fuckin wand oh my lord
And Laura(Belg) advertising Belgian chocolate over seas and recording the commercial in different languages cause she speaks so many????
What about Kiku voicing a background character in an anime or a cartoon? And getting to go behind the scenes to meet the animators and just kinda be a kid for a day?
Francis getting to be in a magazine for high end brands cause he’s not only a huge fan and wears that kind of stuff all the time but he also is just…Magazine material? You can BET that he’ll mail all of his friends a copy too oh jeez
Nations are people too and get excited over this kind of stuff!!! They’re used to being beheaded by their people and now? They get to do fun things!! 🙂 🙂
Did you mean…canon 😀 ?
Romano didn’t make the cut for the movie, so he and Prussia decided
to make one together (It didn’t work out, but it’s the thought that counts.)
Source:
Hetarchive (Bamboo Thicket, eng trans., Feb 14th, 2015).
America makes films all the time but is too afraid to show
them to England, his greatest critic.
Source: Volume 2.
America and Estonia make a film together. It’s a collaboration with several others nations!
Source:
Hetarchive, Estonia and Russia’s Gentle Argument.
Hello! I was wondering if you knew if Prussia
was a different nation before he was the Teutonic knights? I think I read that
somewhere but Im not sure
Hi! This post should
help. It discounts the notion that Prussia was originally a Baltic by charting
the history of the different titles he’s held throughout his life [x].
Hello! I read somewhere a couple years ago,
that once Italy thought he was chubby and ate only a bite of pizza? Something
like that hahaha I remember reading some kind of list of canon things and found
about that
Hi! Yes and no. It’s not the
pizza that made him fat. He just so happened to be eating the pizza when he
realized it.
It’s about the
demographic relationship he has with his people. He gained weight due to rising
obesity rates.
Source: Hetascanlations, World Stars Chapter 7.
i hope this isn’t a
dumb question, but ive always wondered if there was any info in canon about how
the nations get around to see each other in their respective countries so fast
😮 it seems kind of inconvenient for everyone to be so far apart from one
another!
Not a dumb question, but please refer to my post
directory next time. I have an in-depth post on that here [x].
Basically, aside from water/ continental distances, it’s possible for nations
to teleport and traverse to other nations on foot.
Ex: Lithuania stumbles across Greece during the Halloween 2013-2014 event.
eLLa. hELp. I
remember it, but can’t find it anywhere. It’s an ask Himaruya answered where he
states what kind of house America would live in as well as some other
characters. I can’t find it.
It’s from this blog post on Bamboo Thicket, July 3rd,
2008.
Source: Hetarchive, eng trans.
Question: Boss’s house seems very big, Poland’s is a castle, Japan’s is a quite detached single-family Japanese house, but what kind of homes do the rest live in? Are there any who live in apartment buildings or high-rises?
Response: “That’s a good question. They live in homes that match each era
and culture, economy, and also their moods, so it’s not like they’re permanent,
but I feel like Italy maybe is living in the same house that he’s remodeled
again and again.
America lived in a log cabin at first, and next was an austere English-style
building in the suburbs, then recently moved to an apartment building near New
York, and he seems to move quickly and randomly.”
hi js got back into hetalia after like 2 years and i never
really looked at hima’s blog and the later mangas before so i dont really know
about how he works things out, but when i js checked, hima’s been on a hiatus
(?) for half a year already, has he had breaks this long or is it possible
hetalia wont be updated anymore.
Hi! Welcome back, and yes. If you look up the timelines on his blog updates, he went through a long period of blog inactivity
during 2012. I’m not comfortable on speculating anything, sorry!
Sure! I’ll show both sides just to be fair, though.
1) Prussia and Fritz.
The two shared a very close relationship. Prussia viewed him
as a father figure and gets depressed at any mention of him in the present. He
also sleeps with a photo of Fritz on his night stand.
France oversaw Napoleon’s rise to power, similar to a father
figure.
However, he later becomes terrified of him. The context is
that during Halloween, ghosts of past bosses are able to visit Earth. Napoleon
becomes furious because he thinks that France has become too soft.
She angrily berates him for wasting too much resources on
Romano.
Sources: Hetarchive, Boss Spain Doesn’t Understand 1 & 2.
4) Russia and Peter the Great
The two both underwent a process of Westernization. Russia
was sent to France to study his culture. There was a lot of intermingling with
French nobility at the time.
Sources: Hetascanlations, World Stars Chapter 298 & 299.
5) England and Queen Elizabeth II
She encourages him to give America a gift for his
bi-centennial. She also warns England not to ruin his health, as he becomes violently
ill every year on America’s Independence Day.
Source: Volume 4.
Disclaimer: In
this post, I will not consider nor speculate a Holy Rome = Germany connection.
I’ll only be covering canon material.
Guardian-Sibling
Dyad:
The strength of the two’s relationship begins before Germany’s
birth. Prussia zealously worked towards consolidating the German states into
one sovereign nation. While Germany has plenty of older brothers, Prussia steps
in as his main caretaker.
Source: Hetascanlations, World Stars Chapter 12.
Ex: In the scene depicting Germany’s birth, there’s a clear moment
that demarcates Prussia’s status as the closest elder brother.
Germany’s a source of pride and joy for Prussia but also
someone whom he loves deeply. As such, he protected Germany—a then helpless
and inexperienced child—from political enemies.
This period of impotence doesn’t last very long, however. Germany
learns the ropes of being a nation very quickly and respectively ages just as
fast. He’s immediately immersed in the world of politics.
Ex: As a young adult, Germany participates in the first
Industrial Revolution. Together with his brother, the two co-engineer several technological
inventions.
Source: Hetascanlations, World Stars Chapter 57.
What I particularly want to stress is that while Prussia
loved Germany, he’s very much a regimented and strict person due to his
combative history. In turn, Germany was raised to be cool-headed and to not
disclose his emotions. There’s also the whole Germanic stereotype where they
don’t show their emotions, as revealed with Germania—their ancestor.
Source: Hetarchive (Bamboo Thicket, eng trans., Feb 24th, 2015).
It’s for this reason that I believe Prussia becomes surprised
at the thought of Germany reading romance novels and immediately dismisses it,
referring to the latter as a “battle-crazy guy.” Truth is, Germany was actually an avid reader of romance novels at the time.
It proves my point that the
emotional bonds that they shared was embedded in a war and politics mindset. It’s
a very backwards way of looking at how men aren’t allowed to show their emotions,
or, if they are, it has to be in a manly and comradery-oriented environment. It’s
important to contextualize the fact that this takes place in WWII.
Source: Hetarchive, Buon San Valentino pt. 2 & 3.
Ex: The two bond by participating in war missions together.
Source: Volume 6, The Awesome Me’s Biography.
One last aspect that I want to highlight before moving onto
other sections is that there’s a significant gap in their relationship post–WWII.
Prussia fell under Russia’s control. If he wanted to
communicate with other nations, he had to write letters, and even those were censored
heavily.
We later learn that the two brothers eventually move in
together during German Unification. Hints of their lack of communication reside
in Germany’s surprised and pitying expression at Prussia’s shabby attire.
Source: Hetarchive (Bamboo Thicket, eng trans., Oct 8th 2013).
New Wine in Old
Bottles:
…or should I say new blood in old bottles?
The basic idea of this theme is that while Prussia and
Germany may appear to have different personalities, the two
are also very similar.
They both
like beer, they’re both
neat, and they’re both
meticulous researchers and documenters.
Sources: Volume 6, Awesome Me’s Biography + Hetarchive (Bamboo Thicket, eng trans., Dec 23rd, 2014) + Hetascanlations World Stars Chapter 28b.
Passing the Baton:
One last theme revolves around generational inheritance.
Putting aside the reason why Prussia still exists—too many theories on that—the matter of him disappearing was once brought up by a fan. Even though Himaruya
states that he’ll be living with Germany for a while, the possibility of
Prussia disappearing isn’t shot down definitively either.
Source: Hetarchive (Bamboo Thicket, eng trans., Jan 17th 2015).
The main point I want to devote attention to is the mention
of Prussia passing down his knowledge and awesomeness to Germany. How I
interpret this is that it’s Prussia passing on the baton of his nationhood and
legacy to Germany. He raised Germany and now Germany’s the one providing for
him in the post-Soviet era. The roles have reversed. Prussia’s no longer a
nation, whereas Germany wouldn’t have existed without Prussia.
This message becomes more obvious in the “Private Concert”
strip, where Prussia gives Germany a private flute performance. The inclusion
of flashbacks and the ending is of particular relevance here. The strip ends
with Prussia encouraging Germany to take on the flute.
Source: Hetarchive, Private Concert.
The symbolic meaning surfaces when it’s revealed that
Prussia hasn’t healed from a dog-bite wound, lying to Germany about when he received
it. He claims that it was a recent scrape and given their extraordinary biology,
Germany dismisses it and remarks that the wound will heal right away. It’s
through the dog’s internal dialogue that we learn that Prussia was actually
bitten a week prior—the fact that he hasn’t healed suggests that he’s losing
his nationhood and/or becoming human.
The passing on the baton theme becomes relevant in the sense
that the flute is used as a metaphorical device to represent Germany taking on the
full helm of their legacy. Just like Fritz used the flute to rally the motivation
of German troops (i.e., leading the charge), this scene is Prussia being
cognizant of the fact that he hasn’t led the charge for a long time.
Source: Hetarchive, Christmas 2011 Event.
And who
better and more competent to lead it than Germany?
When you don’t pay attention in class and have to learn the material at the last minute
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