Greetings in Southern Italy are a little more intimate than in other places.
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The NA bros track Santa together.
I will never post a spooky selfie, Tumblr, but I will post the 2Ps with their beloved Pokémon
Lithuania, in his head: Alfred isn't a religious man...It's a little strange to see him praying like this.
America, mumbling: Oh, dear Lord, please don't make me parallel park.
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 Some of the Extras.
Austria: Ravenclaw- We all saw this one coming. Austria is about as Ravenclaw as you can get. Really there snot much detail to go into this one. We all already knew he was Ravenclaw.
Hungary: Gryffindor- Of course Hungary is a Gryffindor. That daring girl was always diving head first into an challenge even to armies much larger that herself. She has that “I can do it myself” attitude that all Gryffindors seem to posses.
Spain: Hufflepuff- Okay I know a lot of people put him in Gryffindor or Slytherin just by default but I really love him in Hufflepuff. Just think about his personality. He’s always so helpful. I mean look at how he waits on Romano hand and foot. A Gryffindor wouldn’t do that. And a Slytherin certainly wouldn’t.
Switzerland: Slytherin- As where Hungary has a “I can do it myself” Way of thinking Switzerland has more of a “Do it yourself” life style. This is Slytherin through and through. A Slytherin would never get involved in something unless it benefited them somehow. Switzerland sees no reason for anyone’s conflicts to ever involve him seeing as he will never get anything out of it.
Liechtenstein: Slytherin- I put her in Slytherin for the exact reason i put Belarus in Gryffindor. I think she would want to be sorted where her brother was and I think Switzerland would have told her to ask the hat to put her there, because he is over protective of her. I don’t think Slytherin is a good fit for her she’s more of a Hufflepuff but I think that she would have known she would be a nervous wreck without Switzerland.
Face Family, Axis, Nordic 5, Baltic Trio, Soviet Siblings
Note: This theory will make use of Freudian theory. While I recognize that Freud’s ideas do not bear much contemporary relevance, that shouldn’t take away from the fact that many of his concepts (e.g., erogenous zones, childhood memory repression, catharsis) are nonetheless employed by Hima in the series. The purpose of this post is to give some insight into the psychologies of the characters.
Terminology I’ll go over: Psychosexual stages, causality, regression, fixation.
Yes, that’s right. Freud’s ideas are very much prevalent in the series. A big area of his work was analyzing the impact of childhood on personality development. Freud believed in causality, meaning that who you are as an adult can be directly traced back to your childhood.
How you’re parented and brought up is the most crucial factor. I don’t need to go into this in too much detail, but basically, we go through five stages of development titled: Oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital.
For this specific post, we only need to focus on the early stages of development, which focus on sensual (sensory) pleasure and stimulation, often for the purposes of soothing and experiencing relief.
Each stage has corresponding needs. If these needs are not met (under-gratification) or if they are too easily met (over-gratification), then the person develops a fixation.
A fixation essentially means that the person is stuck at that level of development, which causes them to develop a problematic and unhealthy personality type.
However, it’s only when that individual is met with confrontation or a stressful situation that they regress back to the stage in which they developed this fixation. The stress causes them to revert back to the age where their needs weren’t met, and as such, they engage in childish behaviours.
For example, if you get into an argument with someone and they start behaving selfishly, like a toddler, then you have every right to poke fun at them for having Daddy or Mommy issues. Or, there are those who bite their nails and pick at their lips, something akin to the soothing acquired from sucking one’s thumb as a child.
America’s tricky in that he’s fixated at two stages of development. I’ll go over each of them separately.
The oral stages revolves around gratification through the mouth and lips. Tension and stress in an infant is reduced as they feed from their mother. It soothes them.
Over-gratification, as in the infant is fed too much or too easily, results in an oral-incorporative personality. In this case, it would apply not to how America was parented, as England wasn’t present in his life for long periods of his childhood, but rather the time that he spent in isolation.
In isolation, America only looked after himself. That’s why when he emerged from this isolation he came across as selfish and egocentric to the other nations. He had gotten so used to satisfying his own needs that he had trouble putting others first. [Please note that this is not the case in modern strips.]
Now, consider how much responsibility America had when he became a major manufacturing power in the years leading up to WW1.
Then, consider how he evolved to the status of a superpower following WW2. That’s a lot of responsibility for one nation to take, and as such, you would think that it would have caused America a lot of stress.
Well, it did.
Ex: He’s visibly distressed and disappointed in himself when the Stock Market crashes in 1939. He assumes all the blame given that it was his economy that had propped up the global market at the time.
While he doesn’t always show it, a lot of America’s habits help reduce this tension and stress. Not only that, but it helps him cope with the loneliness and lingering effects of isolation that he still feels when interacting with other nations.
Oral-incorporative personalities reduce tension through oral activities (duh). This would include things like smoking, drinking a lot, chewing gum, eating excessively, and being overly talkative. Hmmmm.
Doesn’t America overeat?
Isn’t America an overly-talkative person that just so happens to get on a lot of the other nations’ nerves?
Notwithstanding that America is completely aware of the fact that he’s not well-received in the international community?
This brings me to my next point. An oral-incorporative personality-type also possesses a high degree of gullibility. Following Freud’s allegory, they swallow everything they’re told.
With America, this gullibility of not being able to read the atmosphere is an act.
It’s nothing more than a running gag and shouldn’t be taken seriously, especially if you look closely at his interactions with the other nations.
It’s a stress-reducing mechanism that allows him to avoid confronting reality, given how stressful his position as a superpower must have been. Point is, he’s more than capable of reading the atmosphere as seen in the example above. He simply chooses not to.
Similarly, America also embodies aspects of an oral-sadistic personality type. Under-gratification, as in the infant is not fed enough, results in this personality type. It means that they were weaned off early from their mother.
These people tend to be verbally abusive, or, in less serious cases they use “biting” sarcasm. Note again the use of an allegorical reference to infancy.
That said, we know that the nations often get frustrated with America for making reckless mistakes. More importantly, these mistakes are attributed to his youth and inexperience.
In that case, America being weaned off from England too early and not learning the proper ropes of how to conduct himself in accordance to tradition would be what is most relevant here…
Not many people know this, but America can be verbally abrasive (it’s not quite abusive) and sarcastic. The whole arc covering his and Canada’s childhoods are full of heated arguments between the two of them.
Ex: America gets frustrated with Canada when the latter refuses to let him see England following the Revolution.
The argument ends when Canada slams the front door on America.
Ex: America explodes at Canada upon hearing that the latter intends to gain his independence by being on good terms with England.
It’s the softness of the approach that doesn’t sit well with America. Canada is still fairly sheltered at this point, and hadn’t experienced/ travelled the world like America had. Put another way, Canada comes across as too idealistic to him.
“Is your head a field of flowers?!”
Ex: Russia gives America a ticket to Siberia for his birthday. America blows his nose with it.
[Yes, laugh. I didn’t come up with these terms.]
This stage of development centers around potty training. As toddlers gain control, autonomy, over their bodily functions, the authority that their parents assert over them regarding how they regulate these functions is met with hostility. They want to enjoy their newly-acquired independence and go whenever they want. The parents are the only barrier to that. Essentially, this stage is a battle of wills between the stubbornness of the toddler and their parents.
Sound familiar? Does the American Revolution ring a bell?
As America became increasingly sufficient, he realized that England’s authority was too imposing; it restricted his growth and freedom as a nation. He therefore pushed back and fought for his independence, his autonomy.
America fits best with an anal-retentive personality type. Similar to how a toddler will sometimes refuse to relieve themselves, these individuals tend to withhold their emotions and hoard their belongings. This also ties in nicely with how America pretends not to read the atmosphere.
Ex: America’s been shown on a few occasions to hold his tongue and not say what he really thinks.
Ex: He has a problem with over-manufacturing [hoarding].
Ex: While this doesn’t apply in the present, when he first came out of isolation, America would only do favors if it served to his own benefit.
Notice how similar that is to the behavior of a toddler. They lack the intellectual capacity to think of anyone but themselves.
Lastly, in terms of stress, you’ll also notice that America is often equated with child-like imagery.
This is especially the case when his ideas are challenged. The stress of it causes him to revert back to childish behaviour.
Ex: When proposing a world defense plan, he crushes bundled spoons to intimidate other nations into agreeing with him.
England berates him for this childishness too.
In sum, America’s childish behaviour is often an unconscious reaction to stress than it is arising from selfishness. Not only that, but a lot of his ‘obnoxious’ habits (e.g., eating excessively) can be attributed to him relieving his stress through them.
Name: Lovino Vargas House: Slytherin Age: 14 Year: 4th Blood Status: Half-blood Patronus: Hummingbird Hobbies: Quidditch and Hexing students in the hall Anything Extra: Romano tries to distance himself from his unmotivated little brother. But the two can be seen mingling from time to time. Romano like causing trouble but is terrible at getting away with it so he spends a lot of his time in detention. But he’s really not a bad guy. He plays on the Slytherin quidditch team as a Seeker.
Hetalia World ☆ Stars - Chapter 285 Original Translation: y4nderenka // spaghettifelice // donamoeba Scanlation: cosyanet // jammerlea Please link back to our Tumblr when using translated images on other sites.
Hetalia World ☆ Stars - Chapter 286 Original Translation: y4nderenka // spaghettifelice Scanlation: cosyanet // jammerlea Please link back to our Tumblr when using translated images on other sites.
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North Italy ver. is coming soon!