Most people think that it’s because a lot of characters in
British movies are unable to swim. That doesn’t make much sense to me, as it
doesn’t explain why he didn’t learn to beforehand. I see it more as a metaphor
for his own arrogance.
England thought very highly of his royal navy, and we know
full well that he loves to gloat. Because of his self-perceived “invincibility”
on the waters – yes, I’m referring to one of his character songs, sue me – he probably
didn’t feel the need to learn how to swim.
(Part 2) And maybe this is a topic that Hima will never answer on purpose. Whether it is to keep it light hearted and funny, or to focus on creating newer content. Or perhaps he doesn’t think it really matters for the stories he wants to tell. That being said, it’s still weird, funny, and cool how several theories seem to make perfect sense. Figuring things out ourselves is also a lot of fun.
Ella: I agree! Some things definitely go deeper than the surface level, and then there’s just parts that make you wonder why you ever joined the fandom. (Although, Nekotalia always cracks me up.) There are also things that will probably never require an explanation.
I’m leaning more towards: Hima is constantly changing or removing things to fit new plots. We see that a lot with deleted strips or contradictory material on his blog. He’s also very receptive to what we want as fans, and I just think that’s so cool.
It is fun, mostly because it disproves critical opinions of Hetalia on the basis of it being thoughtless.
Really? Because with all do respect, this doesn’t look like a healthy
like-reblog ratio to me.
Honestly, I’m indifferent on whether Hetalia becomes popular
again. What bothers me and many others is that the people in it who don’t like problematic
content aren’t as supportive as they should be. Don’t get me wrong though, there
are still many WONDERFUL people in it.
It’s just, as an online community, we’re supposed to
interact more. At least, that’s how most people get their fun from it. Sure,
there are some people who do it just for themselves, but at the end of the day,
you’re putting out material for people to see and respond to.
Hetalia doesn’t have to be big. We just have to connect with
each other more, otherwise more people are going to get discouraged and leave.
Anon said: You might have done
this one before idk and it probably can’t be answered without more information
from Hima but do you think you could do something on how the nations are born
or how you think they’re born? Are they actually birthed as a human and become
countries, or do they just appear, or variations of that sort?
I think the problem here is that
there isn’t one way for a nation to come into being. You’re right though, it is difficult to confirm anything, but we can speculate from the material we are given.
Hima seems to show us multiple
nuanced methods of how nations are born/come into existence, so rather than
focusing on this process, I think focusing on how they continue to exist is
more important. What links them is their nationhood – micro-nations included.
Anyways, we see from America and
Japan that they can be born as toddlers. Either that, or they existed before
without being detected by the other nations.
However, they can also be born as
babies, namely Egypt.
We also know that nationhood can
be achieved by humans, as seen with the Republic of Nikoniko who went from a
middle-schooler to a micro-nation, and then back to an aging human again. Even
though Japan finds what happened to Nikoniko’s fluctuating nationhood status as
an “anomaly”, it’s still a possibility.
Overall, this is just the tip of
the iceberg in terms of the many ways that nations can be born. As long as
there is some claim of belonging and belief from the people, then that’s likely
what gives them their immortality.
I guess what I’m trying to say is
that there is no true answer. Instead, what I’ll probably do is analyze the
many different ways nations form themselves in another – more detailed – post.
There are plenty of more examples where you see personifications possessing
nationhood, despite lacking sovereign status. Becoming a nation seems to be a
rather flexible process!
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