How did I fall? It was because of fanarts and fanfics. I can't for the name of God write the name of the writer, but the first fic that made me ship them was "World Worst Vampire". Fanarts were popular then, but I continued watching the show till I get to the part were Nyotalia appeared for the first time. Oh boi, I don't know what happened then, but the female version made me fall hard. I still love the canon version, of course, but the only reason I'm still in this fandom is fem!RusAme.
Yees WWV is a very colorful and interesting fanfic! :D
Also I feeeell. I used to be just like “this pairing is interesting” towards RA, but the trigger that made me fell hard is thanks to one fic. And for you, the trigger is the nyotalia.
And same, for me, the reason i’m still in the fandom is the canon version of RusAme, haha. Oh my, to think I created my main blog for hetalia stuffs only and now here I am, lol.