could we see a tender rusame smorch bls,,,, ๐๐
Iโve never drawn something tender in my life what does that mean
why do people write matthew as so quiet and soft, have you MET an Ontarian?
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thank you to @syrupyyy for being my supportive homie
Um ๐ฅบ๐๐ hey there syrupyyy ๐ฅบ๐ฅบ is it okay to um... ๐ณ to like Aph England ๐ฅบ๐๐ everyone else says no ๐ฅบ๐ฅบ ๐๐ so Iโd like your opinion ๐ฅบ๐ฅบ๐ข what do I do ๐ฅบ๐ฅบ๐ฅบ๐ข๐ข
Seeing as I am the legal creator of Hetalia, I feel like I'm probably the most qualified person to answer this question. England, as a character, is incredibly complex and hard to define, and it's extremely common for people to misrepresent him. He's just a complicated character, so it's only natural that there's some discourse over whether or not he's a "good" character; On one hand, he's done extremely morally reprehensible things throughout the entirety of his history. On the other hand, the reasons he had for doing these things often stem from his deep-rooted self-hatred and harsh desire to be acknowledged as a capable person by his peers. Or, in the humanverse, he's a character thats shown to want to fit in, but has a hard time articulating his emotions and often ends up hurting others due to him mishandling his temper. He's a person that was never taught to express himself in a healthy way (or at all, in some cases), which brings us to the question: At what point should he be given the benefit of the doubt? If someone is initially deprived of the resources and love that they need to grow, how much leeway should they be given when they're given the chance to be better?
I guess the tl;dr is: is it okay to like aph england, despite his glaring flaws and issues? My answer:
I know that this is meant to be a silly post, but I've been OBSESSED with this concept since I first read the chapter, so-
Romano living with America makes sense. Italy, specifically South italy, had the highest amount of immigration to the US of all the European countries at that time and became very influential on American society later on. They were also "birds of passage". Every European that immigrated to the US had the intention of returning home one day, but the Italians are the only ones that succeeded at that en masse. Half of the 4-5 million that immigrated would return to Italy, some going back and forth for years. This let US Italians maintain a very strong connection with their home country, so it makes sense why Romano would follow them to the US. He's just another bird of passage who isn't actually "immigrating", just away from home for work for a bit. If Romano was the only one to go live with America, I wouldn't question it.
But Lithuania being there is weird. It's hard to track Lithuanian immigrants because they were counted as Russians beneath the Russian Empire until the 1900s. But it's believed that about 20% of the population of Lithuania fled to the US, particularly Jews. Which, while that isn't insignificant....that threshold is VERY low. You're telling me it only takes 20% of a nation's population to compel them to do something drastic? What about the 80% you left behind, Toris!! Further, the Lithuanian diaspora was no where near as big or as influential as the Italian, so what I'm saying is Lithuania should not be there only to decide to just, return home, someday, I guess? But he is, which implies that it only takes about a fourth of a population immigrating somewhere to make the nation follow. America is going to have a LOT of roommates under this model.
All in all, I headcanon that none of them really HAD to immigrate to the US. In true hetalia fashion, I like to think all of them just got bored/curious and wanted to leave home for a while and see what America was up to.
It's hard to put them in chronological order, but from 1840-1914, here's all the countries that I think would've lived with America in the NE, both working for him or just passing through:
Ireland, Various German States (Prussia? ๐คจ), Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Romania, Russia, Austria, Poland, Lithuania, Hungary, Greece, Slovakia, Czech, Ukraine, Finland
China would've been there too, but ONLY at America's house out West. And he would've hated working for someone the age equivalent of a 2-year-old to him.
So- if Romano and Lithuania ended up living with America when a large number of their people immigrated to the U.S.... wouldn't that mean that most of the other nations have lived with America at some point?
Did Germany and China both live with him during the California Gold Rush?
Did Russia live with him after the Cold War?
And just how many nations were living with him after WWII and the Korea War when war brides were coming back to live in the States?
I'm just imagining America's house as the nation equivalent of a Denny's at 3 am. Everyone ends up there, usually because something went horribly wrong, and if they're very lucky breakfast will be edible.
Do yall remember that time when the fandom treated England like the victim of the Revolutionary War ๐ like that mf isn't like 25+ beefing with a 13-16 year old over taxes like let's be fuckin fr ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ
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