fic premise meme time! alfred, shortly after the revolution, visiting francis at versailles as a means to thank his monarchs (marie antoinette and louis xvi 👀), but alfred is *incredibly* thrown off by the lavish lifestyle of versailles and francis doesn’t exactly seem like himself (perhaps he feels ashamed of the sheer amount of over-indulgence around him? hmmmm) (anyway, this is just an excuse for someone to write versailles!francis hehe)
oooh Versailles francis would be super interesting to write! he would definitely be put off by it. I also headcanon that nations have a sixth-sense kind of gut feeling and he just knows that this is his ticket to disaster. he doesn’t know why but he just knows. also if you don’t mind me adding - I like to think that despite his discomfort he enjoys it to an extent because, well, it feels like he’s caught up to someone. He remembers the lavish palaces of the Roman empire whose boot he lived under and seeing himself reach this level of opulence feels like he’s finally proved himself as, if not superior, then at least equal to old man Romulus
(btw poor Al, his puritan heart won’t be able to take that trip)
I also can’t help but mention what an amazing job @rebelsandtherest did with a similar premise of America visiting France after the revolution in her fic Amity which I highly recommend
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once in a while i hear from people that i produce some of the only hetalia content they still enjoy and while i am always chuffed to hear it i realize that most of my content is so niche that it’s barely recognizable as hetalia sO HERE IS AN HETALIA FOR YOU! :D
i have struggled A Lot with my relationship with aph/hws canada over the past decade and I’ve mostly realized that the only way I can make him palatable and relatable again is to portray him (ironically?) closer to how he was in canon with a few of my own tweaks… maybe in there somewhere he has a heart but it gets obscured by his 1. extreme passive aggressive sass and 2. tendency to let every single force in his life no matter how small define himself for him and Maybe if he actually did something about his mental health / quarter life crisis he’d be less of an asshole.
Like, the only reason everyone thinks he’s so nice and polite is because he is constantly apologizing for being a literal train wreck but making absoultely zero effort to be less of a train wreck because for some reason people think his executive dysfunction is Cute and Endearing when it’s actually horribly destructive.
but these days i still find him relatable because i’m currently trying to unpack a lot of figurative and literal baggage and it’s really hard to do when no one’s ever encouraged you to do it on your own before.
also he lives with a polar bear and that can’t be very good for his floors
Alfred's favorite holiday is Halloween, because he gets to see his little brother again
A redraw from 2022!
This was so fun to revisit, I really think my painting skills have improved! The first one is heavily edited in an art program, whereas this one I left untouched!
It’s pumpkin dance man! October is a good month.
Feel free to check out my shop!
Edit: pumpkin dance sticker sheets are up in my shop!
In the new World Stars chapter, one of our translators explained that in the first couple panels, Aerica is speaking like a hardcore otaku and using a sort of archaic-samurai/ninja style of speaking called "gozaru".
Being that Aerica (in reality) was founded by sci-fi nerds and will reference sci-fi series like Star Wars, we ended up giving his dialogue some Yoda speak phrasing lol
Interestingly enough, I searched a little about how Yoda speaks in Japanese, and this Reddit post came up, with a note saying that in Japanese Yoda uses correct syntax, but an archaic vocabulary. So I think our choice to convert it to Yoda speak turned out to be very fitting!
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