Hetalia World ☆ Stars - Chapter 285 Original Translation: Y4nderenka // Spaghettifelice // Donamoeba

A little comic I rediscovered while packing and decided to finish based off of this really nice TED Talk

I’m also really getting into the 2Ps now; they’re a riot. 

Lithuania

Name: Toris Laurinaitis House: Hufflepuff Age: 16 Year: 6th Blood Status: Muggle-born Patronus: Badger Hobbies: Quidditch and Care of Magical Creatures Anything Extra: Ever since Toris found out he was a wizard he dived head first into the wizarding world. He’s fascinated with it all. The idea of quidditch astounds him to this day. His best friend is Felix a Pure-blood he’s constantly having to fact check whatever he says because he gets kicks out of telling him something that’s completely wrong. He’s Team captain and a Beater for Hufflepuff.

Pottertalia

before I was a Hetalia blog I actually had a Harry Potter blog. I figure hey, why not take my in depth Harry Potter knowledge and apply it to Hetalia. So here is my sorting of Nordics.

Sweden: Slytheirn. He was REALLY HARD. I had to think about this one for awhile actually. But he’s a Slytherin when you get right down to it. Much like another charter I’ll talk about on this post. His outward personality is much like a shell. He remains serous and stern and only reveals his true feelings to very close friends. Yet he’s also strong and fierce when he has to be. He won’t back down from a fight but he also would never just rush in without a plan.

Norway: Ravenclaw. Ive seen him in Slytheirn and I can see that. But Ultimately I placed him in Ravenclaw. I don’t think Norway would be happy with being a Slythern he’s too soft spoken. The main reason why he’s Ravenclaw is for his interest in the unknown. Ravenclaws are know for being excepting of all possibilities. Norway is typically off in his own world talking to his magical friends that only he can see and interact with. He’s reserved and more of a home body. This is a Raven claw to a T.

Finland: Hufflepuff. Of course he’s Hufflepuff. He’s the mom friend of the bunch. Honestly I don’t have to go into this one too much. He’s a Hufflepuff, it’s Finland for crying out loud.

Denmark: Gryffindor. Again another obvious pick. Denmark is loud, proud and everything that makes a good Gryffindor. He never backs down from a challenge even if he can’t win and the idea of danger thrills him. He stands up for his friends and is a major right fighter. Something tells me he’d make an excellent quidditch player as well. Maybe a beater…but that’s a different post…

Iceland: Slytherin. Now I didn’t put him here because he’s sassy. I put him here for why he’s sassy. He uses it as a front. As in that’s not his real personality. It’s a bit of a splash guard. If he pretends to be serious and cool no one will question him or pick on hi instead. Draco Malfoy used the same personality type. He pretended to be cool but was actually a giant nerd. (I’M NOT COMPAIRING HIM TO MALFOY’S ACTIONS! Just his personalty.) When he lets the mold break he shows us that he actually does care about his friends. But it’s his trope he’s adapted that lands him comfortably in Slytherin. I think he would like it there.

Other parts:

The Axis, Face Family,  The Baltic Trio, Soviet Siblings, Extras 1

I think it’s become obvious by now that almost every single nation embodies a good balance between likeable and dislikeable traits. As such, it’s important to lay out some essential characteristics if we’re to understand who England is as a person, his motivations, his faults, and his highpoints.

While England can be invariably cruel and pessimistic – especially towards America– this stems from a latent insecurity that he keeps within himself. He pre-emptively spites others to protect himself from the rejection he’s historically experienced. In modern strips, his temper has calmed considerably, and this spitefulness has transformed more into sarcastic banter and blunt teasing.

Nonetheless, what this post will account for is why England’s loneliness caused him to have such a volatile temperament, not to mention poor relationships with others.

The following character notes are of utmost importance in preventing England’s personality from being misinterpreted. [x]

He’s quite bad at expressing himself. He himself knows that people often misunderstand him, he uses this fact for self-depreciating jokes. 

He could easily be the most pitiful one in this webcomic. 

His temper was quite stormy during the decades after America’s independence. 

Put another way: England’s historical isolation caused him to develop a poor sense of self-worth. To compensate for this, he worked hard to improve his nation and external image of himself. Meanwhile, the insecurity remained even as he emerged as a world superpower. Because he was so used to being teased and berated, England treated others in a similar manner, only for this to work to his own detriment.

Arrogance and boastfulness quickly got the best of him. He fell hard and even deeper into isolation after the American Revolution. His violent temper towards America is a manifestation of his strong fear of rejection. What you’ll see is that England is deeply considerate of others and wants to befriend them, but unfortunately closes up and defensively makes scathing remarks to protect his fragile self-image.

With all that said, let’s tie this back to the strips and go through some examples.

We know that having America as a ward helped ease England’s temper. He even admits to this.

What’s important to point out here is that this was during a time when America was England’s primary ally.

England escaped the alienating atmosphere of Europe by visiting America. America’s unconditional love was England’s security blanket. 

This security blanket was lost after the Revolution, thus explaining why England’s temper explodes in the following years. He was all alone again.

England wants to be friends with America, but has trouble overcoming his loneliness. His crippling fear of rejection is often the cause.

In fact, England can be quite shy at times. If anything, it proves how skeptical he is to open himself up to others, let alone make the effort to get them to see him for who he really is.

He embarrassedly offers to be America’s friend when he realizes that the latter doesn’t have any, only to defensively fall back on anger when America rejects him.

It’s a cruel cycle of desiring to be close to another person, opening himself up, and either 1) rudely spiting them, inciting rejection or 2) politely engaging them as a ‘gentleman’, only for this to incite rejection as well.

His anger is a shell – it’s a tough habit to break, even though he woefully recognizes how problematic it is in impacting how others perceive him.

The fact that he doesn’t expect positive reactions from others is chiefly illustrated with how embarrassed he gets when he does receive praise.

Nonetheless, England keeps trying to mend things with America to the extent that these efforts are excessively nosy.

He’s skeptical that Lithuania will be treated well in America’s house, and takes it upon himself to visit them. Curiosity is a form of caring, however skewed and counterproductive as it may be.

Point is, England’s covertly reaching out to America here, likely because he knows firsthand what it’s like to be directly rejected by the latter. It’s the next best thing he can do.

As touched on above, it’s not just America that England’s isolated from. He’s not referred to as the Black Sheep of Europe for nothing, after all.

During the Splendid Isolation Period, and having experienced many political rejections as a result of tensions with Russia, he desperately tries to convince himself that being alone isn’t all that bad.

Eventually, he’s able to successfully form an alliance with Japan. Of particular emphasis is the strip’s title: 

“The anglo-Japanese alliance between two lonely people.”

I really don’t think it can get more explicit than that.

Further, this alienation among the other nations is a repetitive theme in the series. England’s often left out of excursions and activities.

One example that best demonstrates this is when Italy, Germany, and Japan take it upon themselves to interview other nations about their Christmas traditions. The whole strip entails England hiding in the background, fidgeting nervously as he waits to be interviewed, only to be forgotten about.

Interestingly, it’s Japan who remembers to interview England at the last minute. The two share an implicit, but undeniably deep understanding of each other.

Another way that England compensates for his loneliness is by turning to the supernatural – his fairie friends. America thinks he’s crazy, but what he doesn’t realize is that England likely summons these friends to mitigate his loneliness, and therefore prevent himself from going mad.

The imagery of a child-like imagination is later used to describe England’s love of and desire to live in a world entirely made up of fantasy. He lives in his mind because it’s safe. Similarly, he talks to his [real] fairie friends because he knows that they’re safe too; they won’t ever reject him.

I’ve brought this up before, but I think this is a good note to end on. During the Anglo-Japanese alliance arc, which focuses on the subject of loneliness, why is it that England is given the Kappa’s Miracle Cure?

It’s a medicine said to cure any illness…

…but what illness is there to cure if you’re an immortal being that will automatically recover from illness anyway?

It seems to me that the cure was intended for something less tangible, yet just as hard to cure:

Heartsickness and accompanying feelings of loneliness.

Gilbert, no but yes 

Hetalia World ☆ Stars - Chapter 281 Original Translation: y4nderenka // donamoeba Scanlation: tsuckishima // jammerlea Please link back to our Tumblr when using translated images on other sites.

Prince and Knight AU: Alfred is the sole survivor of a raid on his village and is taken in by the royal guard. The first few months of his training as a page are terribly lonely until he meets the prince Ludwig, who heard of his tragic past and reached out to him in kindness. Alfred falls in love at first sight and dedicates himself to the prince’s service, vowing to become a knight to defend his people and his prince. He keeps the kerchief that Ludwig gave him when they met as a token of love and wears it proudly on his armor.

Thank you @gerame for that good shit

The Assignment

      Room 612 was cursed it had to be Arthur could think of no other explanation why his superior’s office with the best intentions manage to become steadily dreadful every time he step foot init. It was untidy, stacks of papers took the place of where people should, majority of the floor space, on his boss’s chair, the neon green chesterfield sofa, which was a blessing because it was most uncomfortable. Tea cups and new paper clippings had conquered the mahogany desk. Each wall donned various hideous post modern paintings that pulse or spun endlessly making even casual on lookers dizzy.

Arthur was marveling at the newest addition of wall to wall windows behind Mr. Hutchinson’s work space. Someone clearly thought that it was too hard to see at the dirty mismanaged brick back of the local muggle halfway house with the previous two uneven windows that inhabited a year earlier. When Mr. Abdul large heavy set man dress in blue robes busted in. A assortment of enchanted colored files trailing behind while permission slips and formal requests buzzes about like a swarming files being sign and initial by a bewitched quill he parted the the chaos with his free hand to better see his subordinate . “Ah! Mr. Kirkland! Your here already? I thought we wouldn’t be seeing you for at least another day or two. How was your trip?” “Chilly and wet It’s been ages since I’ve traveled this far by broom I forgot how cold flying can be and how brutal English winters are. ” Mr. Abdul eyed Arthur’s wardrobe a ratty decade out of fashion dark blue green robe litter with moth holes matched of with a proper witch’s hat in the same condition. “Well of course good grief man where’s your coat?” “I don’t have one I chucked mine years ago didn’t have much use for it. Thankfully I’d saved this or I would of freeze in my thobe.” “Ah well you better invest in a proper one it’s cold in New York.” “New York? I thought you wanted to see me about the Manzar case because I just would like to say Monhobi was compromised and we where given bad intelligence by those blokes in foreign affairs-” Abdul put up a hand to stop him. “I know Thomas’s report made crystal clear. All in all we where quite impress on how you where able to handle that disaster. So impressed that we think you would be a splendid fit for your new assignment in New York.” “What is it?” “How much British news are you able to get in Aub Dubai?” The change in subject threw Arthur “Not much I can’t spare my owls to spending a day or more having it fly all the way to England and back just for the paper.” “I figured as much well long story short the Magical Congress has a right mess on their hands by this fellow here” Mr. Abdul snatched a red file from the parade behind him and presented it’s contents. 

Arthur gaped at the head shot, He knew the man in the photograph he hadn’t changed much from their last encounter. Same short blonde haircut, square glasses, near prefect teeth the only real difference was that he had traded the reminding of his baby fat for laugh lines. They where highlighted as the photo looped his smile. Arthur fumed internally at the fact that he was still handsome. Abdul began explaining “This is Alfred Jones, age  28, Muggle born, leader of both Wizarding Awareness and the Magic Rights movement. Two campaigns that are hell bent on exposing our world to Muggles and integrate the two. For years Mr. Jones has been a manageable nuisance but over the last few months he’s tripled his number in supporters. Over half of them wizards and witches themselves. Public displays of witchcraft are becoming rampant. Frighten ignorant Muggles are terrorizing the magic population. Muggles are occupying once wizard only spaces upsetting the locals It’s gotten to a tipping point, that the Magical Congress has ask the Ministry for assistance.” “So your outsourcing me to the yanks to help with damage control.” “Yes but your task isn’t damage control its to nip it at its source we want you to complete a full sweep on Mr.Jones.” Arthur was puzzled “A sweep sir? This man clearly needs to be locked up you need a Auror not a Obliviator .” “Would love to but we can’t Mr. Jones hasn’t actually broken any laws.” “What? But you just said that-” “Mr. Jones isn’t the one doing any magic, his supporters are. Can’t really he had his wand destroyed some time in his teens. All he does is talk, protest, march, and raise awareness of the magical community.” “That still breeches the Statute of Wizarding Secrecy.” “True but the secrecy is a international law and we know how difficult that is to enforce. Americans have freedom of speech as a fundamental right and it would greatly harm national relations of our two countries at the mere hint of censorship. Not to mention that there’s a heated debate within Congress about if Mr. Jones can be even be classified as a citizen of the wizarding sovereign which has open the a flood gates about magical citizenship. Mr. Jones is such a high profile case now that if we to act unjustly it very likely he’ll become a martyr for the cause enraging and strengthening his base.” Arthur felt slightly overwhelmed himself and he wasn’t even part of the congress “That is quite the mess.” “But! he is a threat if not the threat of exposure to the wizarding world and dealing with such threats is a Obliviator job, your job. So get some rest buy a cozy coat and arrive at this address by Thursday morning. All the details you need are in here.” He handed over the red file to him "Make us proud Kirkland!“ And Arthur was promptly shooed out of his office. ——-Author Note——-

I was in the mood do some writing this week I decide too so mess around with HP AU. I don’t know if I will continue writing takes me forever and a half (it’s embarrassing how long I spent on this tiny piece) 

Also I’m sure the grammar sucks and there are all kinds of errors. I don’t have a beta nor really wanted to bother with one I just wanted to write.

@mcmac125 I approve