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I think you might be looking too deeply into Russia and America’s interactions. There’s also some issues of honestly thinking they don’t hate each other even a little bit. There’s plenty of proof that they don’t exactly like each other too much. Plus, I know that the characters aren’t meant to depict their governments, but even Russian and American people aren’t exactly fond of each other.

1) I don’t think so at all. In the examples I provided, you can see them deliberately trying to piss each other off. Russia gets America a ticket to Siberia for his birthday and I believe XS condoms if it’s a reference to the “Reduce your opponent’s willpower strip!”.

America deliberately feigns ignorance judging by how oblivious his performance is despite the sarcasm it reads as. He then jokes that the [condoms] will only last him a month and that he’ll use the ticket to Siberia as a tissue.

That said, I don’t think I’m reading into that interaction too far by reaching the conclusion that America is calculatedly toying with Russia here. He’s able to match Russia’s passive-aggressiveness with ease. He didn’t just pull that whole scheme out of nowhere. He knew full-well what he was doing. 


2) I never said that they didn’t dislike each other at all. [Hate is a strong word.]

“It’s a misconception that Russia and America don’t get along [x]. During the Cold War, their relationship was a myriad of passive-aggressiveness [x] and yes, dick jokes [x].Presently, the two get along really well. Although, the passive-aggressiveness remains.”

I then link to chapter 53 of world stars, which shows them in a café laughing and enjoying themselves and speak of how they still have a passive-aggressive dynamic going on.

Another post: 

“Russia even admits that he sometimes wants to “smash his [America’s] glasses into ten equal parts.”

3) Even though you mentioned this, American and Russian people not getting along doesn’t necessarily impact the personification’s relationship with each other. They have a far deeper history than present relations. Also, you’re conflating Russian and American politicians with how civilians of each may relate to each other.

4) It’s not that they don’t like each other, period.

This is why I show both sides of the equation, because their relationship isn’t only defined by strips that depict them from WW2–end of the Cold War. Even then, they still didn’t outright hate each other.

Selectively using evidence can make it seem like they don’t like each other at all, but truth of the matter is, there’s just as much evidence showing that they get along and are fond of each other. Point is, it’s better to use both sides to capture their relationship.

Q & A

For those curious,
it’s 116 f or more up there. Yikes. I’ll take our 83 to 96 f later today. I
wanted to ask yesterday, but the ask box didn’t seem to
be connected to the server (at least that’s what it told). How do you think the
Republic of Ireland is related to the UK brothers? It’s not been stated they
are a sibling, or even a relative, so that makes me curious. Happy Canada Day
up there 🎆

[Thank you! The ask box situation has been fixed, but the
read more coding issue still hasn’t been resolved! I’m so sorry, but I can’t
always answer asks right away….]

Himaruya isn’t sure what to do with Ireland, so no relation
has been confirmed [x]. Thus far, we only know that England is the son of four
siblings, including Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland [x]. 

If I’m to speculate here, they could be siblings if Himaruya ever decides to elaborate on the
character. Aside from historical relations, geographic proximity is
occasionally used as a defining factor for sibling relationships.

Given that Northern Ireland is England’s sibling and was originally
partitioned from Ireland, I don’t think this is too much of a stretch. Things get even
more complicated when you see that Northern Ireland is listed as England’s older brother… what a can of worms, eh?

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Do you happen to know why people say APH
England doesn’t know how to swim? I’m pretty sure that was a joke in the comic
strips, but everyone seems to consider it canon.

Like you said, it is a joke, stemming from how British
people in horror films have a tendency of not being able to swim. I know I’ve
talked about this before, but my opinion has since shifted. I personally wouldn’t
consider it to be canon given the context [x]. 

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Which Hetalia character has the biggest amount of
ships/harem? Why is it that a lot of the characters can be shipped with everything?
(including fridges apparently).

(Fridges aren’t even the
brink of some of the madness in the fandom :P)

In my experience of
reading fanfiction, I would probably say England. He’s very versatile and fits
well in several dynamics. (e.g., FrUk, UsUk, AsaKiku, EngSey, EngBel, EngIta, and SpUk). 

People have different tastes; of course it’s going to vary. 

How do you think the Eastern European countries (Ukraine and
Hungary in particular) would interact with their Romas/Gypsies? What would
their relationships be like?

From what I can recall, there is no canon
depiction of this. It’s difficult to say due to the fact that citizenship in one country
doesn’t have meaning in their way of life. 

However, given that the nations
represent all people within their territories, including those of different
ethnicities, race, religion, and class, Hungary and Ukraine would personally treat them the same way as they
would with any other citizen, even if they don’t possess citizenship. Citizenship
is a social construction. I believe what’s more important is the fact that
these people live in certain jurisdictions.

I know you said Luxembourg was referring to Belgium and
Netherlands as older siblings are terms of endearment rather than him being
biologically related but, do you think he could at least be related to Belgium
considering that a lot of his former land now belongs to Belgium and their countries
have close relations? (sorry for this being long.)

(Please don’t be sorry!)

The corroborating source
I mentioned in an earlier post [x]. 

The post [x]. 

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It’s complicated because
as I mentioned before, the Bamboo Thicket post and the corresponding Hetarchive
page state two different things. The post is listed as a rough
translation, but the fact that Himaruya refers to Luxembourg using terms of
endearment instead of directly confirming a sibling relationship to Netherlands
and Belgium in the question is pretty clear.

I don’t know what else
to say. If it doesn’t claim that they’re biological siblings, then they’re not. I’m not a translator and don’t speak Japanese either. Still, what I would like to look into more is why that translation is cited
as rough…

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