Raw Umber - how do they react when they get sick? Lithuania
This man will go to work with a fever, a headache, practically at death’s door… knowing that what he has more than likely cannot pass to human. They are kind of different species. What makes a nation sick to me, is things with population, economy, war, or other types of stressors, and not so much a cold or flu. They don’t get hit by pandemics or epidemics themselves.
He will attempt to go to work even if he feels like shit… sometimes it requires talking to if he’s really sick. He just doesn’t want to burden anyone else with his problems and continue to try to make life easier for those he works with. He’ll always say things about how he can handle it, that he just simply wants to live… that life is life. He was tremendously on and off sick during the 20th Century and struggles with it. He feels useless and meaningless if he isn’t putting forth his best effort. Lithuania begins to feel like he is letting his people or friends down if he doesn’t show up to help. He can easily slip into a negative line of thought, so he tries to work as much as possible if he’s needed.
His tendency to overwork is one of his greatest things in line with his insecurities. He isn’t the most secure person these days and likes to be in control of anything he can. Work and what he does with his autonomy is one of them and by ‘giving into a sickness’ he is essentially betraying himself.
That’s not to say he won't stand up for himself. If someone is demanding him and it’s something that really, really goes against his moral grounds, given the ABILITY to say no (in times during USSR he had no choice in the matter), he will in fact decline to do a thing.