There are so many, but I'll go with 6 for Germany, please. :)
🔍is there something about them you think isn't as recognised as it should be in the fandom? (a personality trait, relationship with another character, historical time period that isn't explored much with them, etc.)
Ludwigs age and how it impacts his ability to connect with others.
Age wise he is neither a member of the cohort of older European nations that surround him, or a member of the New World cohort of younger nations in the Americas. He exists in this isolated middle ground that has often left him feeling like he looking in from the outside.
Despite years and years of complicated relationships with one another, there is a sense familiarity that ties together geographic neighbors who have "grown up together". They might not always be best friends or have even semi normal relationships within another. But these relatively small group of other immortal beings, is all they have ever know.
Ludwig birth in the 1871 happens so late in pre world wars European history. All while the birth is also shrouded in mystery, rumors, and tall tails. From the moment Gilbert showed up with him, his much older peers either A) Didn't trust him because nation are always going to highly suspicious of a new personification sharing their land. And truthfully? most nations were freaked the fuck out by him. He looked like the long dead Holy Roman Empire all while everything about him pointed in the direction of Gilbert engaging in some form of unholy activities to give him life. With Gilbert refusing to confirm or deny anything , most nations do their best to keep their distance from the creepy fast growing HRE lookalike who they weren't convinced wasn't a demon B) Many wrote him off as Gilberts newest ego project/scheme to gain more power and figured eventually he would fade while Gilbert would over C) He was viewed as nothing more then an awkward, uncomfortable in his own body child, who could barley get words out of his mouth with stuttering and turning bright pink out of embarrassment. No way that kid was going to be a real threat. He was just as much of a threat to the old guards power and secretary as Britain's brat across the ocean was.
By the time Lud hit his late teens, while he was excelling academics (economics/military strategy/political system/historical dates), he had near zero social skills. And no one in Europe really cared to help him gain any. Which is when Gilbert put him on a boat in the 1880s and sent him to Alfred in hopes he would make a friend and learn how to be a "real boy" despite his unique birth/life.
It is almost as though he does a full 180 flip when it comes to his personality. He becomes almost obsessed with defending the legacy he had been raised to believe was his to inherit. A calculating and cold part of him comes out while before he was actually a sweet kid once you got past the creepy blank look on his face. Engrosses himself in military life trying to emulate his brother. Any anger or frustration regarding being ignored/belittled by his peers, comes straight to the surface. He is stuck in his own mind.
Post WW2, Ludwig pretty much shuts downs emotionally and mentally. While Gilbert is getting his ass kicked every which way by Ivan, Alfred is spends the majority of the 50s trying to get Ludwig to even speak or make eye contact. From there, a borderline neurotic personally is formed. Emotions/feelings/ (good and bad) are is so deeply suppressed inside of him that it comes out it spirts of either anger and extreme anxiety. Which has just added to his feeling that unlike everyone else around him, he can't form these surface level relationships.
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