#huetalia

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That face when your eldest son enters a political marriage with the kid of the man you helped kill and at some point you have to meet them but you know it probably will not go well

(additionally, your son is also head over heels for them, which makes things even harder)

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Drawing Challenge for the month of November, also to celebrate the return on Hetalia. If anyone wants to use the prompts for different fandom or characters, use day 15-16 as a Genderbend day instead. 

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HRE (Agilulf) raised Gilbert for a while after Germania passed, despite being quite young himself. But even after Gilbert was finally taken under the wing of the Teutonic Knights, Agilulf kept in touch as often as he could. Especially since he knew early on that his own fate was sealed.

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boo

Historical Headcanons? Any characters really, whomever jumps in your mind. Any era too although personal I adore the 16th-early 18th century and WW1 and Weimar Germany.

Holy Rome during 1600s especially thirty years war with all that infighting n stuff and high death toll and "scorched earth" policy?

Oh boy I have a ton of historical headcanons, so I'll just do a few shorter ones based around the characters I have drawn on my blog so far, HRE and Prussia, and the eras you mentioned. These aren't particularly deep but I hope you still like it!

HRE is a young adult (17-18) in my headcanon around the late 1500s onward, but throughout a majority of his adult life, his health was constantly hanging in the balance. HRE as an actual country was always being pulled in different directions; as far as I know, it was hardly a functional Empire. So that definitely reflected onto HRE.

He always knew he was going to die slowly, and did his best to ensure no one knew he was in pain/coughing up blood. His health took a definitive nosedive in the 1700s, though he was a stubborn mule and refused to remain bedbound despite Prussia, Veneziano, Hungary and Austria trying to get him to stop. It became clear he was going to die when most of them (who HAD been younger than him physically) surpassed his age.

They didn't succeed and he died on the battlefield, despite the wound not being particularly deep. Prussia was present.

He never really had too many portraits done of himself, despite his wealthy estate, so Germany doesn't really realise how similar they look.

HRE raised Prussia! He was raised until he had to join the Teutonic Knights, which HRE totally forgot to mention he represented. Oops. Over time, he became Prussia, and tried to be HRE's right-hand-man. He was very close to HRE as a result.

Prussia went a little crazy after HRE died. Both just going off the wall for many years, but also desperately wanting to bring his brother back. Then Germany was... born! Probably not related at all.

The Weimar era was super interesting but one main thing that always stuck with me about it was that it was pretty gay. Lots of gay bars/clubs/etc in cities, underground for sure, but an open secret. It was definitely an era of exploration before politics took a sharp turn. I would consider this era to be Germany's (as in, Ludwig's) gay awakening.

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miss hungary is actually the beefiest of the entire cast

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a quick lil doodle of Agilulf (HRE) giving Gilbert some brotherly headpats. Only took 200 years for Gilbert to age from physically about 7 to 14! They sure grow like weeds, eh?

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why is your ivan that tall, He doesn't need to be that tall lmaooo (I'm being silly dw)

LOL I SAID TO IGNORE THAT HE AND MATTHEW SO TALL (JK I'm also being silly)

Also I'm going to just explain my reasoning because I want to.

It mainly ties into my headcanon that he really only grew to be unreasonably huge (like, 7'4 AND beefy) during the Soviet era. Nation height is effected by a combination of land size and population height average - the basis for their adult height generally starts somewhere around the average height give or take a few inches, then they can get taller over time. Unfortunately for some nations, that doesn't always happen (mainly bc I think short king Rome is so funny).

So in Ivan's case, he was tall before - something like 6'6, so still quite tall compared to the average human height back then - he grew very quickly (and painfully) during the Cold War era. The thing is, height doesn't really go back down, it only goes up. So even when the USSR dissolved, he remained that height.

And I know you didn't mention him but I'll mention that Matthew is just tall. He hunches over a lot though. So my little sketch of him he's standing straight, but that's unusual for him. He grew very slowly in comparison to Ivan, over a much longer period of time, and only reached his final height after Ivan reached his current height.