Etruria

I tell the story of this strange family (Hetalia OC's) | Medieval vibes

[lamichicuenta]

Iberian reporting 1 and 2🧍🏼⚔️🧍🏼

[tyrrhenoi]

No han cazado nada, pero hay que quererlos igual.

[lamichicuenta]

Tonotos🧀💞🍋

[tyrrhenoi]

They are the Big 4 Sailors: Venice (Aph Italy/North Italy), Genoa, Pisa and Amalfi.

Pisa and Genoa have been like an old married couple since the Middle Ages. They married somewhere in the Middle Ages without telling anyone. They're always fighting, always arguing, but never let anyone outside attack one of them without the other's consent. They'd tear them to pieces.

Genoa and Venice have been rivals since the Middle Ages to see who could secure the best deals and trade routes. However, they did occasionally help each other out.

Pisa and Amalfi dated for a while when they were teenagers. Pisa was a much better sailor than Amalfi, which made him jealous and envious. She dethroned him as the most important port in the medieval Italian peninsula. He has never surpassed her and detests Genoa for marrying her.

Venice and Pisa had a rivalry in the past, but nothing compared to their clashes with Genoa. However, since Pisa became a satellite city of Florence, its importance and prestige declined, leaving its routes to Genoa. Pisa suffered a similar fate with Genoa as Amalfi suffered with Venice, but to a much lesser extent.

Amalfi and Venice competed for the best routes with Byzantium, but without open warfare. When Amalfi was conquered by the Normans in 1137, Venice acquired all its routes and colonies.

Genoa and Amalfi ignored each other's existence.

And then... There it is, the Papal States. He had Ostia, which is and always has been an important port for the city of Rome, but Ostia couldn't compete with the big port cities. So, yes, the Papal States always tried to get into the Big 4 club, but the other cities always thought it was ridiculous. They never took him seriously, which made him feel frustrated.

[tyrrhenoi]

The other day @lamichicuenta asked me how my ocs born and this is what happened.

Hetalia has taught us that nations can be born in many different ways, but Arezzo, Florence and Pisa are borned from Etruria and his first wife Alba Silvia.

It was an arranged marriage between the princess of the Roman monarchy (shortly after Rome was founded in the 8th century BC) and Etruria, as Rome was still a child and could not marry. Although he was not chosen, Etruria fell deeply and madly in love with his wife, and she with him. It was the healthiest and happiest relationship Etruria ever had.

[tyrrhenoi]

Corsica (Ancient Alalia) is the son of Etruria and Carthage (never ask him how. It's a sensitive subject for him). He was born in the 7th century BC, and his parents, unlike his siblings, took him on their adventures throughout the Mediterranean. As a result, he made many friends across the continent, like Murcia! (a future protégé of Carthage).

For centuries, Corsica thought Murcia must be some kind of god who spat out bronze coins as gifts for his most devoted followers. A couple of centuries later, already under Roman rule, Florence told him the truth about Murcia: that he wasn't a god of metals who spat out coins, but a bronze-addicted gambler like any other. Corsica spent a week crying in his room after that. It was the equivalent of finding out who Santa Claus is. Nevertheless, they have maintained their friendship and remain good friends today.

On the other hand, after romances with human women (and some nations) throughout the Italian peninsula, Etruria met his last lover: Carthage. He was one of his favorite lovers, only behind his first wife, Alba Silvia. Together they conquered Corsica, established new trade routes and conquered territories belonging to Ancient Greece. Shortly after seizing these Greek territories, Romulus (Rome) killed him and took his culture, children and territories, which he molded to his liking. Hence, a devastated Carthage, driven by the loss of his lover, decided to start the Second Punic War, but we'll discuss that in another post.

Aph Murcia oc: @lamichicuenta

Body reference: @albanenechi

[lamichicuenta]

🍋🪙Uno de oros🪙🍋

[lamichicuenta]

Antonio Fernández Boobriedo

[lamichicuenta]

Strawpage request to draw turkspa 🗣️📣🇪🇸🇹🇷💖💞

[tyrrhenoi]

Allow me to introduce you to Florence's older siblings, Arezzo and Pisa, and their father, Etruria.

All three are children from Etruria's first marriage, a human from the Latin tribe called Alba Silva. Therefore, they would also be descendants of Rome (Romulus), a.k.a. the Roman Empire, who would take them in as their grandfather and later adoptive father. Although these were his first children, they were not his only ones. Here you see the sexiest man on the Italian peninsula, which brought him numerous lovers (both men and women). And that is why he had so many offspring.

Although he was very protective and suspicious of his cities at first, shielding them from any foreign influence or attack, over time and overwhelmed by the number of his children, he began to be very carefree, caring only for his favourites. Not to mention that on countless occasions he turned to Rome as a babysitter. They were family, after all, weren't they?

Unlike Etruria, Rome was a good father and a very family-oriented man (mostly with the children of the Italian peninsula, don't ask other nations). Upon Etruria's death, Romulus took in all those little rebels as if they were his own children. He raised them with great affection and allowed them to flourish culturally and economically, growing much more than when they were under their father's control. Although many loved him more than their own father, Etruria's favourites were not so thrilled with the ‘change of government’. Nevertheless, even Etruria's favourite sons were satisfied with Romulus' treatment for more than 600 years and did not live as well and comfortably as they did with him until the unification of Italy in the 19th century.

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(Sorry, as always, for the image quality. That's what happens when you don't know how to use a drawing tablet.)

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ろーま爺ちゃん2771歳おめでとう！ Felicem diem natalem!!

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Rulers of Iberia

[tyrrhenoi]

Heirs of the Etruscans (pt. 1)

𝓕𝓵𝓸𝓻𝓮𝓷𝓬𝓮 / 𝓕𝓲𝓻𝓮𝓷𝔃𝓮 (Tuscany)

Human name: Bianca Donati

Physical Age: 24 years old (21st century)

Birthday: 25th March.

Father: Etruscan (nation)

Mother: Alba Silvia (human)

Adoptive maternal grandfather (adoptive father): Roman Empire (nation).

Siblings: Pisa and Arezzo.

Half-siblings: Siena, Lucca, Volterra, Grosseto, Livorno, Carrara, Pistoia, Ravenna, Modena, Bologna, Parma, Ferrara, Mantua, Perugia, and so on.

Lovers: Italy Romano, Milano, Boccaccio, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Donatello, Artemisia Gentileschi and more than half of the artists who have passed through Florence.

Likes: art, literature, philosophy, politics, science, revolutionary artists, museums, architecture, geometric gardens, commerce, some of her siblings, and the Medici family.

Hates: some of her siblings, bad taste, those who hinder her plans, France, the Holy Roman Empire and the Papacy (depending on the era), contagious diseases, disorder and vulgarity, art without purpose, excessive modernity without roots, mediocrity, the people who forget the past, bankers who ruin her reputation, lack of courage or motivation.

Times as capital: 1.

Personality: astute, intelligent, conceited, courageous, determined, stubborn, brave, seductive, Machiavellian when it's necessary, controlling, creative and visionary, resilient, fickle, demanding, perfectionist, selfish, protective of those she loves, affectionate with those she loves, very sensitive although she always hides it.

𝑹𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒏𝒂 (Emilia-Romagna)

Human name: Clarice Elia Polenta

Physical Age: 25 years old (21st century)

Birthday: 23rd July.

Father: Etruscan (nation)

Mother: Picena (nation)

Adoptive maternal grandfather (adoptive father): Roman Empire (nation).

Siblings: Modena, Bologna, Parma, Ferrara, Mantua, and so on.

Half-siblings: Florence, Pisa, Arezzo, Siena, Lucca, Volterra, Grosseto, Livorno, Carrara, Pistoia, Perugia, and so on.

Lovers: Byzantine Empire.

Likes: Dante Alighieri, her boyfriend, her family, mosaics, Christianity, art, literature, architecture, history, fountains and gardens, the beach and her friends.

Hates: Turks, the Ottoman Empire, heritage thieves, oblivion, indifference, the future, modernity, those who turned it into political bargaining chips and bullies.

Times as capital: 3.

Personality: Cheerful, optimistic, strong, resilient, wise, protective, loyal, artistic, proud, resentful, envious, jealous of its heritage, distrustful, nostalgic, affectionate with its own, it lives in denial of reality and dreams a lot of its past glories and sometimes finds it difficult to adapt to modern times, as if it still wanted to relive the Byzantine era.

Small disclaimer: In my AU, countries (regions, provinces, counties, etc.) can have children with humans. However, the nation where the human was born becomes the grandfather or grandmother of that new personification. Example: Etruscan (nation) slept with a human woman from Rome (Roman Empire) and became the father of Pisa, Florence, and Arezzo. Since the human woman came from the Roman Empire, her "maternal grandfather" (and adoptive father when Etruscan died) is the Roman Empire, but they are not related by blood.

[tyrrhenoi]

Let me introduce you to Florence. She turned her back on her greatest poet (Dante) in favour of other artists, and now she keeps crying to Ravenna to give him back.

(Sorry for the quality of the picture).

[kusurrone]

imagine if Dante committed his afterlife journey of the comedy in a silly cat hat

[kusurrone]

canto I of Inferno

[nikoisme]

Some more doodles of owl Athena protecting her warrior of the mind from weather conditions :D