#my hetalia

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The most probably in Czech's t-shirt collection, part 1

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Hogwarts AU corner

(note: this is more oriented specifically on Dali's Hetalia OCs whose I worship than general CzechSlov, so this isn't meant for reference!)

What we have so far:

1. Slovakia would be Gryffindor (courage, daring, nerve, chivalry, strong will, restless, short-tempered) and Czech Slytherin (ambition, shrewd, cunning, resourcefulness, determination, fraternity, power). Despite rivalry between houses they become boyfriends and excluding constant arguments, shouting and Quidditch tensions, they get along well.

2. They both play Quidditch and it's very serious business! Czech is Keeper and Slovakia either Keeper or Chaser. No matter which we choose, they’d probably have their own little competition within match (with everyone yelling on them to pay attention to the actual game). If Slov was Chaser, Czech would probably try to distract him with flirting when about to score. And if they were both Keepers, they’d communicate with gestures across whole pitch and compete who makes better acrobatics when catching Quaffle.

3. Rasťo is gay and Václav probably bi (Dali didn't mention it but that's what I think), Slovak is even more oblivious than usual and they/their parents are probably UK immigrants?

What do we need:

1. Where do they spend their free time together, being from different houses? 2. What's their animals of choice? 3. What elective courses they choose? 4. Their favourite wizard food? 5. Their blood heritage and other non-school stuff? 6. What subjects are they good/bad at? 7. How and when they met? 8. Their knowledge about Hogwarts' shenanigans? (secret passages, Room of Requirement) 9. What magical objects they own? (prank devices etc.) 10. What else?

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Západniar, stredoslovák, vyhodňar

Remember my personas for Western, Central and Eastern Slovakia? Well I was thinking about the way they could talk and this is what I have. Some things may make no sense to non-Slovak speakers.

Accent:

(This is mostly based on random dialects, I just took some elements and put them together. There are more things but these are the most significant.)

West’s accent is hard, letter Ľ doesn’t exist for him and he keeps forgetting to soften N sometimes. He tends to replace ia/ie/iu/ô with á/é/ú/ó and pronounce V as F.

Centre has on the contrary very soft and melodic speech, his Ď, Ť, Ň and Ľ are very significant and used even in places where softening isn’t needed. When last in word, he replaces L with U and sometimes Y with E.

East also has strong Ľ, though not as much as Centre. He’s mostly known for pronouncing Ď as DZ and Ť as C, but there’s much more. He doesn’t use long letters much (like á or é).

Quirks:

(based on my personal experiences with people)

West often changes regular sentences into questions by adding “né?”, “šak?” or “či?”. He uses Czech words a lot and instead of “nie som” says “som neni”.

Centre usually says “bol” before past verbs. Uses lots of archaic curse words that nowaday sound more funny than offensive.

East beggins almost every sentence with “Ta” or “Ta to”. Uses “cipana” a lot. His speech is quite fast and hard to understand.

So if you knew Slovak and talked to them, they would probably sound like this:

West: Tak ale počuj, takto to už dalej nemóže byť, ty si sa už načisto scvokol, né? Neni si ty nemocný? Si skvor premysli čo povieš, kamarát! A ked si to už premyslíš, tak radšej drž hubu lebo aj tak je to somarina.

Centre: Keby som ja bou skôr vedeu že ty takýto, tak by som ti TAKÚ bou tresou že ti hlava hen odľetí z krku a rozpľasne sa o stenu, papľuh jeden! Aľe to neurobím bo ja som mierumilovný človek.

East: Ta ci to ty viš že najšumňejše še je u nas na vychodze? Ta to my víme, ta šak u nas oné, staľe vešeľe, dzifčata šumne, roboty ňeto bo u nas už šicko zrobene…

(English translation:)

West: But now listen, you gotta stop this, you went completely nuts, right? Ain’t you sick? Before you talk, try to think about what you gonna say! And when you think about it, then keep your mouth shut because it’s probably bullshit anyway.

Centre: If only I knew that you’re like this, I would hit you so hard that your head flies off your neck and splatters on the wall, you donkey ass! But I won’t do that ‘cause I’m a peaceful person.

East: Like you know that East Slovakia is the most awesome of all? The, like, we know, like here it’s always fun, girls are pretty, there is no work because everything is done already…

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Abych se přiznala, mám headcanon že části země mají možné personifikace ale ty nejsou nesmrtelné, nejsou schopné přežít věci co personifikované státy a města nebo části velkých měst jsou jen probuzení lidé s o něco dělším životem

Pokiaľ by oblasti mali svoje personifikácie, podľa mňa by ich bytie malo podstatu odlišnú od podstaty národov. Regióny sú medzinárodne prakticky bezvýznamné, a hoci môžu byť známe aj v zahraničí (napríklad Provensálsko), väčšinou ide len o kultúru. Pokiaľ ide o mestá, tie sa neviažu na ľudí, ale na miesto a obyvateľom mesta môže byť človek akejkoľvek národnosti. Avšak nemyslím si, že sa jedná proste o “ľudí s dlhším životom”. Rozdiel medzi regiónmi/mestami a národmi je najmä v tom, že sa viažu na podstatne menšie územie a tým pádom ich moc a vplyv sú oveľa menšie a väčšinou zostávajú na vnútroštátnej úrovni. Existujú mestá staršie než dnešné národy a oblasti čo v minulosti zvykli byť samostatné štáty, na to nesmieme zabúdať.

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Last night I was thinking about stereotypes within Slovakia. They seem like completely different personalities but if you put them together you realize that they actually share very strong bonds and together make Slovakia who he is. They’re not really OCs or something, more like… personas? I really don’t know.

Western Slovakia looks like a cool guy but in fact is just as dork as other two, he’s just the best at hiding it. He thinks he’s smarter, more advanced and better in everything and tends to be cocky towards others, but perharps that’s just his way to show affection since he’s actually very caring. He often has verbal fights with East.

Central Slovakia is a cheerful, easy-going person. If he happens to hear your stomach growling he’ll feed you until you feel sick. He often pretends to be dumber than he actually is just to piss others off and if you want any answer from him, well then good luck. He’s generous but at the same time very envious.

Eastern Slovakia is very temperamental and the most idiomatic. He has high self-esteem and is very sociable and always full of energy, probably person with the fastest speech you’ll ever hear. Has the highest alcohol tolerance from them all. His jokes are really terrible but in his interpretation they sound funny.

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Clothes

With Slovakia I'm 100% sure that he's not wearing traditional clothing. And while I can easily see him to wear kroj for some certain occasions or even just when he's in mood, it's definitly not his everyday outfit. As a folkloric soul however this breaks my heart and so I decided to make a little compromise - Slovakia probably carries a shepherd bag around.

As for general clothing, Slovak would probably wear layered clothes, especially during colder seasons. It's not uncommon there to have cold morning, then hot noon and then cold afternoon, and if you don't want to tremble/sweat during some part of the day, this is smart thing to do. Aside from this I don't think Slov's clothes are somehow remarkable and is actually rather simple or even prudent and tries to blend with crowd. This doesn't apply for fem!Slovakia though who enjoys bright colors.

I haven't been to Czechia for years but I have this one strong headcanon for Czech's clothes, which is that he absolutely loves to wear t-shirts with dumb text or picture. He probably has huge collection for every occasion and/or person with quotes like "save water, drink beer" or "there's lighting over Tatra" (for Slovakia), etcetera etcetera.

I also think that Czech dislikes wearing military uniforms for world meetings and it's pain in the ass to convince him to wear full uniform. And Czech being rather stubborn invividual usually ends up wearing only jacket, pants and maybe hat and then he has random t-shirt with shoes and bag. His everyday clothing usually consists of t-shirt, jeans and sneackers and that's about it. I also think Czech is one of those people with "flipped switch" who wear jackets during summer and sweatshirts during winter.

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Wounds and scars

In past he was never into fighting and wars and he participated purely out of necessity. Most of the time he fought alongside Hungary, but there were times where he did 80% of work and then Hungary took all the credit. He was slightly annoyed about that, but he didn't care enough to argue and now he regrets it.

If Slov has any scars that "just don't want to heal", I think it would be one or more bullet wounds from the Černová tragedy where gendarmes shot to civilians that purposely blocked their way. Hungary afterwards blamed Slovakia for everything, saying that crowd was violent (not true), that it was his own people who was shooting (they were magyarized Slovaks) and that it's his own fault in first place and serves him right. If Slov had any trust in Hungary left, it was completely gone after this. In the same time when Czechs heard about event they rushed to support Slovaks.

When Czech's wounded and it's "not serious enough", he'll usually leave wound just like that. I think he gets minor wounds like burns or cuts all the time since he's prone to accidents but they usually heal right away. His pain resistance is not as high as Slovakia's and when he's in pain he swears a lot, A LOT. He however tries his best to pretend it doesn't hurt as much as it actually does.

In past he was opposite of Slovakia - he enjoyed figting to the point he "visited" his neighbours just to have one-sided fights with them (Hussite era). He has lots of small scars from this period that he's kinda proud of. After he was made part of Austria and lost control over his freedom he had relatively significant personality shift and became more passively agressive.

As for scar, I'd give him some long slash wound from the Battle of White Mountain, which is basically end of the Bohemian golden age. The main reason why it won't fade away is that this event was his worst humiliation and his worst failure all-in-one**. And the scar reminds him of that so he's kinda self-conscious about it.

* "he's just really good when dealing with physical pain" I like imagining Slovakia saying that he's "used to it" when someone asks him whether he's in pain and then watch their reactions... it's not really a lie but when put like that it sounds really angsty :D

** "it was his worst humiliation and his worst failure all-in-one" Slovakia never experienced something like "golden age" so while he knows it was terrible for Czech, he can't truly understand how terrible, and Czech is aware of this. After Černová shooting occurs and he meets with Czech, first thing he says is "I think now I get rough idea of how you felt back then... not same, but close enough".

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Music

In Czechia there's saying "every Czech is a musician" and the Czech himself is very proud of this fact. I imagine him to know to play on all sorts of instruments and he usually plays when he wants to impress someone or when he needs distraction. He knows huge number of songs but when playing for himself he usually improvises. I don't think lyrics are much important to him and places importance on melody, but sometimes when he finds song that speaks to him on emotional level he can get pretty sentimental.

In Slovakia's case it's much less known fact that Slovaks describe themselves as "singing nation". He's rather vocal-oriented and while - when it comes to custom music - Czech prefers instrumental songs played on piano/violin/guitar, Slovak usually uses nothing but his voice in form of singing, humming or whistling. In the same time unlike Czech who usually plays classical music, Slovakia's known for his folk songs and traditional music, being just as proud of it as Czechia is proud of his musician skills. Both words and melody are equally important to him and song with beautiful melody but terrible lyrics (or opposite) can easilly piss him off.

I can easily imagine Czech joking about how they could create a duet band with him playing on instrument and Slovakia singing (which is in fact secret message to tell him that he loves when he sings but shhh), with Slovakia blushing and telling him to shut up. Czech also often uses lame excuses to make him sing for him (- I can't fall asleep, will you sing me a lullaby~? - I think one well-aimed punch will work better in your case). He also likes to secretly listen to him singing with Slovak pretending he doesn't know he's right there.

When Czech's playing on whatever instrument, Slovakia usually sits next to him and alternates between watching his expression and listening with closed eyes and he can read his mood from the way he's playing (- Did you have argument with Austria again? - Huh? How did you know?!! - It sounds more agressive than usually and you tend to play Mozart when you think about him - Wow, you're scaring me brother...)

Bonus: if they tried to find for each other songs that describe them the most, Czech would (not taking this much seriously) show Slovakia this while holding his belly from laughing so much and he would just look at him in complete silence with dangerous expression and then show him this, making Czech's smile fade especially after last words when he looked at Slov's face