yet another veneziano analysis post from urs truly
i really do see veneziano as one of those people who have a lot of suppressed anger. not as in he's secretly an angry, bitter person behind a cheerful mask or anything, but
the thing about anger is that it's what you feel when you don't like the way things are or how you're being treated. anger inspires change. it establishes boundaries. it encourages taking care of yourself. anger is the acknowledgement that things are not okay in their current state. anger is "things should have been different" or "things should be different now."
veneziano, he puts up with a lot, actually. the fact that the two people closest to him died (that's not fair); he was mistreated and objectified by basically everyone around him, even hungary at one point disrespected his boundaries, as a child (that's not fair); the way the people he's closest to often call him stupid, annoying, and other insults (that's not fair); and a lot of other things.
veneziano is rarely shown to be angry, or sad, or anything of the sort. he's shown to be scared a lot, yes, but primarily, he's just happy. relaxed. peaceful.
i absolutely think this is a coping mechanism. he focuses on the good in everything and everyone because what if he didn't? what if he didn't put in the effort to keep the upsetting things from his conscious mind?
he would be forced to acknowledge that maybe he wishes his brother spoke more kindly to him. he would be forced to acknowledge that maybe his childhood fucked up his sense of self worth. he would be forced to acknowledge that it hurts when the other nations think so little of him (and he's surprised whenever they actually ask him for help with things). he would be forced to acknowledge his fear of the people he loves leaving him or dying. he would be forced to acknowledge the childhood self he shuts out.
allowing himself to be angry would be acknowledging that things are not okay, and veneziano can't handle that. he spent so much of his life tuning things out because he had no other option. the majority of his life has, in fact, not been peaceful, so veneziano attempts to cultivate his own peace. peace is freedom from disturbance. disturbance is change. change is anger. anger is unprocessed grief.
veneziano doesn't acknowledge all the things he dislikes or wishes were different, and that displeasure, that grief, gets turned into heavily buried anger. his happiness is a coping mechanism, not a privilege.
