I was talking about Rio de Janeiro (city) with my friends, and my friend reminded me of one of the BIGGEST crimes Rio committed. He stole our traditional food, Acarajé. 💀
Salvador is cursing RioCity, SPCity is just enjoying himself cuz he has a complicated relationship with RioCity. Ahhahahaa.
As a proud citizen of Bahia, I am angry so fucking angry.
Also, do you know that blue parrots from RIO? 🥰 THEY'RE OURS, NOT RIO'S, NEITHER AMAZONA'S THEY'RE FROM BAHIA'S CAATINGA BIOME
STOP STEALING FROM US RIO, THEY EVEN STOLE SALVADOR'S PLACE AS A CAPITAL
AND NOW OF OUR MF ACARAJÉ 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠
CHARACTERS:
Salvador (capital of Bahia) is mine
São Paulo (capital of São Paulo), Rio de Janeiro (capital of Rio de Janeiro) are of my friend Let, and RJCity is shared with Juh
EX-BRAZILIAN CAPITALS FIGHT: SALVADOR VS RIOCITY
/reminding you that this is just a silly joke, there is no hate, ofc, but I am ofc pissed off about the Acarajé thing dkdnsksjjs
I know this is kinda boring and I don't do many interesting things here but...
If anyone is interested, I'm going to explain the capitals, cities and provinces a little bit, as well as getting into the mortality of nations a little, at least in this particular universe.
Nations heal very fast from major wounds, healing progressively faster the more serious it is, and it's usually very hard to kill them. However, if they receive incredible and constant damage or something like that, and even their advanced healing can't keep up, they can go into a somewhat deathlike state, all body functions stopping except for the brain, though only the part associated with the subconscious. Their body is by all means like a regular corpse in this time, except it will heal almost instantly and will not rot. Nations have no real memory of this time. The only way to truly kill them is by destroying their nation. It is said that nations are born when one of the first few of a nation, usually children, dies. Instead of actually dying, they will become connected to the land and the people. This is not saying that the first child who dies will become a nation, but it is unknown what the criteria to become a nation may be.
Cities, including capitals, are made the same way as nations are, but the circumstances surrounding their mortality are a little bit different. After their first "death", while they still heal quite fast, if not as fast as the nations, they do not have the benefit of the "death trance". While they age in the same way nations do, they can die in mundane ways such as car crashes. After a representative dies, there is nothing left to do but wait for the next unlucky victim. Again, there is no real pattern in this, and cities often have completely different personalities than their predecessors, though not always. Many of these cities lose the memories of their past civilian lives slowly, though there are exeptions. This is a reason many cities may not have as much paperwork and such, since they're replaced kind of frequently, and the newbies often don't know what they're doing. Because of this, unlike nations, some cities view their human names as their 'true' names as their a little closer to human than a nation would be. They're basically the half-elves of the nation world.
Not really sure what's up with provinces, territories, states, prefectures, micronations etc. Sorry!
-Your friendly neighbourhood city, Ottawa
PS: As for Prussia, well...
He isn't dead, but he isn't a country, but he isn't a city/province/state/territory/perfecture/micronation/etc. so... idk
That's it ! That's the end of Big City Brunch. Thanks for your patience with us through this whole goddang pandemic that interfered with our IRL meetups :' )
I really dig the idea that Nation Meetings have "levels", like local meetings, for an example: all the representatives of big cities (bc I think mostly the big ones would even have representatives) in the same state/land/republic have their own monthly meeting, and then all the states/lands/republics have THEIR meeting that is kinda more fancy and seen as more 'important' than the City Meetings. But then there's the Big Boss, the NATION meeting, and those are only for nations of course and are seen as the Biggest Deal.
I guess I just like the idea that any entity that is distinct enough to have its own local patriotism/economy and specific history, would have a Representative, and they all sit in this strict hierarchy of importance and have their own localized meetings.
And this hierarchy can be kinda irritating to some Cities/States bc often they are actually OLDER than the Nations themselves - considering smaller civilization hubs were here before the larger clusters such as the Countries were born. So they are often older and more experienced, but lower in the hierarchy, and they get the lame meeting with the cheapest coffee in the most depressing conference room ever.
And sometimes a 'higher representative' goes to one of the 'lesser meetings', like Russia checks out what all his Republics are up to every x months, and it's a big deal! They all probably yell at him about the bad coffee in their respective languages, and it gives him the biggest headache ever.
But it's nothing compared to that time he goes to the City Meetings, and it's like a Celebrity entered. Both a celebrity who is also the pain-in-the-ass boss! So.. yay... but also nay? :D It must be a confusing world.
watching hetalia headcanons slowly start filtering back onto my dash in recent months and i’ve been thinking (again) about my own approaches to things and how i’ve been sort of ignoring nations in favour of cities (and city-states!) because that’s been my interest for most of my studies
(I’m currently thinking more about modern colonial cities in a North American context - which is completely different from my approach to ancient city-states in the Mediterranean so bear in mind i am talking about younger cities that have a vague consciousness of older municipalities around the world but are mostly kind of just absorbed in their own immediate contexts and struggles, which perhaps i can write more about later)
and i think - at least in terms of my own context and background, my own approach to the subject and my motivations for portraying cities, that is, modern ones, I tend to think about ‘how do they reconcile their inhuman aspects’ and ‘what is their relation, if any, to other levels of representatives (i.e. provinces and countries). I seem to be coming to the (tentative) conclusion that municipalities are probably the most concrete (pun), the most down to earth, the most connected and the most ‘human’ appearing relative to the others who represent far more abstract entities.
many municipalities outlive and predate more arbitrary provinces and nations (and likewise, occupying or destroying a city has been vital in the conquest of nations) and are typically concerned with a much smaller area and population - they have more knowledge and more experience with their limits and thus, I suspect, are much better at going about their daily business, interacting with their citizens, and they sort of get more caught up in the day-to-day concerns and aspirations of their people (which is for example why ed uses his position to nurture his more mundane interests in waste management and data collection). I think that sometimes they forget some of their more inhuman aspects until they’re struck with a quite startling reminder, often tragic and often involving an event such as the death of a close human friend or a sudden awareness of how slowly the problems of the world seem to change.
I do like the suggestion that humans have an awareness of national avatars that can sometimes cross into a struggle to cope with their presence, even causing physical or mental distress, and sometimes is just a ‘taken for granted’ ‘oh yeah that guys our country’ attitude. I feel that even if nations love and care for their people that they interact with them less easily than cities do, and they do have bigger picture perspectives which aren’t necessarily wrong but can feel detached? i guess? and I think the way they do things is more to just mimic humans rather than to live real human lives because they have this weird combination of age and youth and immortality and invulnerability that just makes them a little. forgetful about how humans perceive them. and they’ll just say things like ‘ya i just zoned out for 3 days staring at my pet bear’s eyelashes sorry im late’ like its normal.
Cities on the other hand tend to have generally easygoing relationships with humans who are less bothered by their presence - instead of international relations, municipal avatars are more preoccupied with faking birth certificates and trying not to take up unnecessary space in hospitals when they accidentally get injured and mistaken for humans. It’s this convoluted bureaucratic comedy that they’re responsible for perfecting since nations couldn’t be bothered to figure that out for themselves (and of course capital cities are responsible for the mess of paperwork nations leave in their wake by existing lol)
Manhattan: Of course we do, well most of them…some of them are kinda lame or they’re like really fucking annoying. So we obviously know our cities in New York…like Will (Albany), Stephen (Buffalo), Noemi (Rochester), and I don’t really know Emma (Schenectady) all thag well like she’s ok…? Will, he’s usually nagging us to do like stuff for him and it’s so annoying ugh. I don’t even know what I saw in him. As for Stephen, so fucking annoying, like no one cares he’s the second largest city in the state- sometimes I think he’s part of Canada! Noemi, she’s like nice, don’t really have an issue with her. Outside of New York, if you’re not a major city, we, or I at least I won’t really talk to you.
Note: Lynn & Will used to date a few times. Also the red notes are Lynn.
Manhattan: The other boroughs talk to other cities in the tristate or Pennsylvania like Jersey City, Hartford, or Philly for example. Since I tend to handle some of our international and US domestic business, I do know cities across the country and internationally like Maxime (Montreal, belongs 2 @canadian-streets ), or cities like Chicago, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Mexico City, you get the idea. And of course we have cities we don’t talk to like Boston, fucking annoying masshole.
