Have you heard about the petition to get Hetalia a seventh season?

I have @sevanadium forwarded it to me through a PM. Here’s the link for anyone interested. https://www.change.org/p/make-hetalia-season-7-happen

What would you say if I told you that a lot of the nations had
Roman look-alikes – more like clones –
in the far past? Insane, right? Well, believe
it or not, it’s true.

First, there’s Augustus and Agrippa.

It’s crazy to me how uncanny they both look to North Italy
and Romano respectively. Despite some personality differences, they also share
a lot in common. Augustus is charming, charismatic, and weak at fighting.

Meanwhile, Agrippa
wasn’t given the inheritance he expected from Caesar (the title of Emperor). We
see the same thing happen with Romano and North Italy, as the latter inherits
most of Ancient Rome’s wealth once he passes on.

Further, Agrippa also shares Romano’s reserved nature, and
is only kind to those whom he is close with.

There’s also this picture that Germany draws of Italy. It’s almost
identical to the facial expressions Augustus makes.

Note: It’s manga Germany is referring to, not a textbook.

Now here’s Augustus again:

But it doesn’t stop there. There are plenty more Roman look-alikes.
Here are just a few more examples.

Tiberius looks scarily similar to a Sweden without glasses. He
is also feared by those around them and is perceived as anti-social.

Mark Antony looks a lot like Denmark.

Japan resembles Ancientus quite a bit too.

Gothicus looks like Genoa.

Probus too looks a lot like
Norway, and is even stated that he perplexes people and is often misunderstood
for this.

Now, I know what you’re all
thinking, and as much as I want to blow the whistle and say that there is, there
actually isn’t any reincarnation present. Sorry to disappoint. Anyways, what’s happening
here is extremely strange, but also fascinating.

In a brief inter-text character
note, it’s stated that Quintillus is able to break dimensional boundaries and
travel through time. For example, he’s visited Japan and China before. What I want
to talk about more is Quintillus’s recent visit to Germany.

Prior to Quintillus’s visit,
Germany was doing research on Roman history, reconstructing it to make old records
more accurate. It’s for this specific reason that Quintillus visits Germany; to
clarify that his older brother Gothicus wasn’t as bad as people have portrayed
him to be.

Of course, true to his love for
science, Germany doesn’t believe that Quintillus is the ghost of a real Roman
emperor and dismisses him. What’s odd is that in the last panel,
Germany says, “That Roman boy is interesting.”

I don’t know, but to me this
indicates that Germany might know that Quintillus is a supernatural being, but
is only able to acknowledge this in private. You’ll see with Hima that he’s
obsessed with linking Germany to Italian culture and Roman history. Another
Holy Rome hint perhaps?

Nonetheless, let’s get back to the
proof against reincarnation. One would think that maybe as Germany is reliving
history, he imagines it with the faces of those around him, hence the
look-alikes. A sound argument, but the strips prove
otherwise.

Here,
Ancient Rome is seen talking to Probus, Norway’s Roman look-alike.

Then, Gothicus, Genoa’s Roman
look-alike enters the scene and talks about how he’s not positively talked
about in modern textbooks. This confirms that the look-alikes are in fact real
and are not just a product of Germany’s imagination.

If I had to guess, I’d say that they’re
all in heaven in this scene, since they’re long dead. If they exist seperately now, then
clearly, they haven’t been reincarnated into their nation look-alikes.

Still, I can’t help but wonder why
Hima has made them look so uncanny to one another.

Are there any other reasons why England’s cooking is bad?

Well, to be fair, it’s stated that recently he’s been getting into baking!

But as for normal cooking, I remember this panel. It says that his food is better fit for another dimension, which likely has something to do with his fairy friends.

Update: My Save Year Ch. 5

ellawritesficssometimes:

Summary: Depressed and rejected by his family, Arthur longs for a new beginning during his first year of University. There he meets Alfred, an optimistic bright-eyed oaf with a sunny smile. An unlikely romance develops between them, one that was already doomed from the beginning. (USUK, multichapter)

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12554533/1/My-Save-Year

For once, it was peacefully quiet in the cafeteria. It was the second day of reading week, so most students had already left campus. I needed a change of space, and since there were less people around, I had no problem eating my meal here. I had this awkward aversion to eating in front of people for no other silly reason than I felt uncomposed while doing so. Usually, if I wasn’t making my own meals, I’d take the meals from here and eat them in my room. Now, I didn’t have to worry much about that.

I wasn’t being overwhelmed by floods of people loud enough to make my ears ring, my jaw tight, or for the hairs on the back of my neck to prick. It was just me, my notes, the comfortable dim lighting, and the pitch-black darkness leaking outside from the windows. I had never felt so settled, calm, and relaxed. Late October was my favourite time of the year. I loved how it got dark out early. I loved the crisp air, as well as the smell of dead leaves that everyone else hated. I loved the warm drinks, scarves, trench coats, and the smell of pumpkins.

I loved…

No. I was in love with a certain idiot, and it was turning me into a complete sap.

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Who is Hercules Mulligan in Hamiltalia?

Spain as Hercules Mulligan:

A Spaniard interfering with the British government

I take their territories, supplies, and then I profit on it

To mi amigo’s revolutionary covenant

Sí, that’s what happens when you run up against us ruffians

We in the Caribbean now, somebody gotta conquer it

Antonio Carriedo, I need no introduction

When you knock me down I get the fuck back up again!

In this strip, Hima touches on the morbid theme of
immortality and how painful it would be to live forever. The strip begins with
a young man dreaming of a childhood memory of a time spent with his
grandfather. There, his grandfather shows him a photo that he took with France
when he was just 18 years old.

After being woken up, we find out that in the present day of
the strip, the young man is working in Paris. When he sees that France hasn’t
aged since the time the photo was taken, he impulsively confronts France and asks
him why this is.

France’s answer, true to his philosophical history, gives a
vague and abstract explanation. Basically, to break it down, he states that the
nation is to be thought of as a ship; the government as the mast; the citizens
as the wind; and the sea as time itself.

If there’s a good wind blowing and the mast is straight,
then the country will keep pushing forward. In other words, as long as the
people (the wind) keep believing in and identifying with the nation and that
the government (the mast) is still functioning properly, then the nation’s
existence and immortality shall continue.

He also states that
the ship can get stranded, which I interpret as the nation losing their
nationhood (immortality); they’re no longer able to push forward having lost
this status via annexation, military occupation, or any other forms of
abolishment.

However, France also comments that if there’s someone to fix
the ship, then you can keep using it forever.

Fix the ship – the
nation – huh? That’s odd, because if you look two panels up again,
there’s a small dialogue bubble that says:

“A wise German said that.”

That’s weird. A wise German…could he be talking about
Prussia? It wouldn’t make sense for the German to be human. Humans don’t have
the first-hand experience of understanding what it’s like to be a nation, so it
would be difficult for them to comment on the process.

There’s also the fact that if you touch on the Germany-Holy
Rome reincarnation theory, it falls directly in line with France’s explanation.
When the Holy Roman Empire dissolved, the separate sovereign German states and
their respective German people still remained. They didn’t just get up and
disappear. It was the state that disappeared, hence the immensely clever title:
“Though I May Depart, You Shall Remain.”

Holy Roman Empire died because he represented the fragmented
and uncoordinated unison of those separate sovereign states. Then, nearly
seventy years later, Prussia united those states to form one sovereign nation –
Germany. Could it be that this example is where France is getting his knowledge
of nationhood from?

Just think about it. Prussia fixed the ship that was German
national identity and united the people into one sovereign nation – Germany.
Before, the Holy Roman Empire’s governance was weak, therefore the mast wasn’t
held up straight. But, with one sole government, the German Confederation
became stronger. It wasn’t the lack of people that was a problem for the Holy
Roman Empire; it was simply a matter of a weakened state.

This is why I believe that Germany was born as a child –
rather than a baby – and already had an existing body. He was resurrected from
his time spent as Holy Rome, and since his people and their history had already
developed, he started from where he had left off before dying. Although, it’s
still a bit wishy-washy why he wouldn’t retain his memories from before…

To wrap things up, it would seem that Prussia fixed the ship
of German identity, united it into one, and then straightened the mast of
governance by centralizing it.

Following this logic, because Prussia united Germany, he was
able to bring back his brother. The people always remained, but with the state
situation stabilized, the personification was able to exist again.

Perhaps this is why France claims that the ship can exist
forever…as long as it’s fixed. The people never left, but the state did.