Please I need to hear more headcanons about italy being smart and not a total ditz because I 100% agree!
imo Feliciano is genuinely sweet, sure, but he's unusually stubborn and independent-minded compared to the other Italians, and somehow this keeps catching people by surprise.
in particular, when he wants something, no one can talk him out of it. which sounds like bullshit but Feliciano won't even listen to the fucking Pope. literally not even the actual head of the Catholic Church can get Feliciano to obey. and not just regarding major, political matters, but seemingly for anything. like yes, Feli is well aware the Pope has forbade him from selling marble to the Jewish synagogues in Venice, but they're willing to pay and you know, money talks. maybe try harder next time, Your Eminence. and yeah, Feli also knows the Pope also doesn't like the whole pagan-esque "marriage to the sea" ceremony he does every year (and on Ascension Day/Holy Thursday, no less), but you know, it ain't the Pope making him rich and building his maritime empire, is it?
so Feliciano can be amazingly bull-headed and persistent. like the year is 1389 and Feliciano is playing the game of empires with big boys like Byzantium and Turkey, and he's fucking winning! tiny little Venice is the head of a fucking empire that controls territory in Croatia, Greece, Crete, mainland Italy, and elsewhere. or it's 1202 and Venice has built all these fucking boats for the Fourth Crusade, and he expects to get paid for it regardless of where the money is coming from. sorry, Herakles, but not really sorry. git gud scrub.
I'm just so proud and amused. you simply cannot tell this little fucker what he can and cannot do.
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