#hetalia thoughts

[brishollow]

Love your Lithuania art, that's him fr. I offer you this Poland I drew because why not

This is beautiful thank you for sharing

[thisisnothowithappened]

Being a Hetalia fan is humbling, because the Hetalia fandom is old. Now it’s not X-Files or Star Trek old, not Buffy or Scrubs old, but old enough to where every other idea I’ve had for a piece of fanart or vid has already been done like fifteen years ago. It’s a humbling but connecting experience.

[the-nado-hunter]

Random Hetalia character head cannons/hc histories and characterizations that float in my brain but I’ve never written down - starting with England, America and Germany since I’ve thought about them the most lol:

England:

- Was the reverse of Alfred where he actually physically and emotionally aged much slower than most nations. He was barely not a teenager when he first took in Alfred (and his other “kids” by extension) when he was not at all ready/had even fully matured himself.

- I have a hc that nations who “get too big” (meaning the territory under their name grows) they kind of lose themselves and get less distinct and coherent in their motivations and sometimes don’t feel themselves at all, too many voices in their head so to speak. Unfortunately Arthur “lost it” during a pivotal part of his relationship with his family, hence all his strained relationships.

- Once he took on those responsibilities he suddenly jumped in physical age a bit. So while Alfred sees him as being SO much older (calling him an old man) his time in the nation equivalence of life stages was uneven and all over the place.

- it wouldn’t be until the 60s/70s/80s that Arthur had the time and ability to “make up for lost time” hence his musical and punk phases. He finds himself in some ways.., also likely dissolves into addiction problems at the same time.

- In the modern era he still has many anger issues but he’s a lot more calm and sure of himself, however he’s got a built up emotional wall and a whole lot of hidden self hatred that’s going to take a long long time to resolve, and he isn’t quite there yet and tends to lash out and push people away rather than deal with things.

America:

- He was very sheltered by Arthur at first, he was kept out of almost everything for most of his early life. If Arthur wasn’t present (which he often wasn’t due to the two having vastly different understandings of the passing of time) there were people hired and cycled out to take care of him. He can’t help himself though, even if he’s being treated like a sheltered little prince he wants to go run free in the fields and get into shit. He’s basically a Disney princess in his early life is what I’m saying lol.

- reality hits him like a ton of bricks when he’s roughly looking/acting about 14-15. He realizes likely through being exposed to other nations starting to come in and managing to slip out to talk to people just how much has been hidden from him and the resentment grows. And he starts REALLY growing even faster.

- Despite all that he went full on into a “fight” coping mechanism and never stopped. He put on a “mask” at one point in his life and it hasn’t come off. He’s never really deeply dealt with anything so he progressively seems more and more obtuse and seemingly arrogant to overcompensate for not wanting to face any sort of pain.

- He’s deeply deeply lonely and desperately wants closeness and to open up- yet at the same time the idea of seeming “weak” or “vulnerable” is terrifying to him. Him and Arthur are more similar than they would like to admit with how they mask and push people away despite really REALLY needing love and closeness.

Germany:

- it depends on if you accept the “Germany is HRE” theory or not, but either way I tend to think they at least have the same body but might be different entities or ‘spirits’ so to speak. That being said I imagine Ludwig specifically not only was “born” into a body that was preexisting and therefore already past a decent part of childhood, I imagine that his body was at first incredibly weak, frail, and he was very sickly for quite some time.

- I’ve written a fic about this, but I personally hc Ludwig from about 6-15 years old in appearance being almost completely unable to walk and needing braces and assistance to get around. His brother obviously loves and cares about him, but Ludwig couldn’t help but feel frustrated and like a burden. He really does look up to his big brother and is worried about being weak and reliant on others for the rest of his life.

- Ludwig GETS his strength, and as soon as he’s able to walk on his on he becomes obsessed with being as strong and capable as he possibly can be. He wants to never have to rely on anyone again, feeling an odd sense of guilt for needing so much help.

- he’s, in the end… kind of socially inept. Gilbert isn’t exactly the pinnacle of a socialized man himself - So despite being mostly independent and capable he doesn’t really understand social situations, or how to understand himself and others. Feliciano is both jarring and someone I think he becomes interested in him because Feli is capable in something he never has been and really is teaching him a lot.

- Unfortunately Ludwig had in face overcompensated for his past feelings of being a burden he’s taken so much on and has become such a protector that he’s almost unable to set boundaries and say no to requests to take on extra work- malicious or not.

- we already know Ludwig tends to explode and bark directions at people, to me it’s always been a clear sign of how much stress he’s under- but he winds up just appearing scary and he once again takes on more responsibilities and feelings of “something must be wrong with me”.

- i think many in the fandom have joked about it but Ludwig to me is SO repressed and SO gay it’s not even funny

-I would expect poor Ludwig to hit a breaking point and have a nervous breakdown eventually, which I do want to write at some point, just gotta not procrastinate lol

[sunnylolli]

Imagine some of the countries giving kindergarteners and elementary schoolers a tour of a museum to try and make it interesting for them and spark some sort of interest or fascination with history and politics, so they'll be involved with the country more when they're older.

So they'll recreate an event or give more details to make it more entertaining to listen to or to watch - In particular I have this little moment in my mind of Alfred standing in front of a painting and putting on a whole show about what the weather was like and how he felt that day. That he had a tummy ache when he fought a battle, that he lost a tooth fist fighting a dog, etc.

Alternatively, imagine Arthur getting way too into it and going way off script because he keeps remembering little stories and other tales he remembers as he's talking about things like the plague and the political drama between the crown and the parliament back when England first shifted to a constituitional monarchy.

And I love to think that for Mathias he'll honestly keep no details back and will entirely forget what agegroup he's speaking to. He'll show these kids ways he used to plow his way through a battlefield with an old battle axe and a sword and they'll absolutely love it and ask to hold the weapon. Which he of course let's them, who's he to deny curiosity?

[silvertin07]

Hetalia Headcanons #1

Switzerland is saving everyone’s phone contact as their national Currency.

America: USD Canada: CAD Britain: BPD comment for exceptions below

[thirdlotusprince3]

A/n: Probably China.

[if-you-like-pina-colada-s]

Ok, here's another one for yall:

What's your headcanon for how the nations were born/created?

[hetafluidtexan]

Random Thought on Nation Deaths

Ya know how the nations are immortal? And death is less “horrific, deep, and massive tragedy” and more “minecraft falling down a ravine and loosing 64 cobblestone”?

Do ya ever wonder if and what the nation's more funny or weird deaths were like and how many times they've happened?

Like yeah they almost certainly died of say bubonic plague or got blown up in a war by artillery or some other major grand scale and pivotal event in their history

But what I mean is all the more random and inconsequential stuff

Like maybe, Romano getting smoked by choking on a tomato and only N.Ita knows and teases him about it because "how did you die to a tomato lmao"; Or like France being overdramatic on a rooftop in Paris after his breakfast got burnt, leans on a rusty guardrail he kept putting off maintenance for, and learns why that was a bad move as it just falls he splats on the ground and thus loses his favorite morning gound

Just random kinda stupid stuff like that that can happen when you're immortal and regenerate/respawn from death as easily as you do in Minecraft