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hetalia2009-05-21 10:20 pm
x-haphazard-x.livejournal.com) wrote in hetalia2009-05-21 10:20 pm
[fanart] Animals
Title: Animals
Artist: me
Character(s) or Pairing(s): England, Japan, China, US, Germany, Italy, Russia
Rating: G
Warnings: Uhh. Animals!
Summary: Hetalia characters as animals?
So I got the idea for this during a dreadfully boring rehearsal. The drawings aren't that great, I know, but I think I want to do more with this...
The top three are kind of obvious (Unicorn = England, Kitsune = Japan, Dragon = China) but the bottom three are probably less so. America is the Coyote from Navajo legend (Navajo language as code was very important for Americans during WWII), Germany is Ratatoskr, the world-tree squirrel (uhh. Don't look at me like that. It was the only thing I could find that was vaguely related. And Germans are, uhh, dilligent and organized, like squirrels?) Italy is a snake (apparently in Rome they were considered good house protecting spirits or something), and Russia is the bear from Russian folktales (bears are apparently the most flexible archetype in the stories, though they're always dull-witted. *shrug*)
Really I need practice drawing animals.
So uh. If you have any other ideas for countries --> animals, I'm open, and if you have any better suggestions for Germany and Italy, I'd definitely be open to them too. The requirement is that they have to be part of legend or mythology or folklore, and not have any human parts, though they can be anthropomorphic (so that means no satyrs for Greece, etc).
Thanks for looking! Comments and critiques are welcome!
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Coat_of_Arms_of_Sealand.png
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I LOVE IT.
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Snake!Italy is awesome funny
great little sketches!
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I think wolf might fit Italy, considering it was the she-wolf who took care of Romulus and Remus, the creators of Rome. :0 (And I think Germany's creature is actually from Norse mythology. ._. Ratatosk was an Icelandic creation, Germans only adopted the mythology later and changed it around. ...You could try the dragon Fafnir from the Nibelungenlied as that is a German creation.)
The bear is actually Finland's national animal... but since Russia already is one, Iku-Turso might be another. That's a sea monster from Kalevala, Finland's national epic - it's basically a huge squid. And I mean really huge. Big enough to wrap its tentacles around a ship. Yes yes, sounds like the Kraken, I know... (Oh, and Iceland just has to be Sleipnir, the eight-legged horse of Odin. While Norway can be Gullinbursti, the golden boar of Freyr. XD Both from Norse mythology. Denmark strikes me as Grendel from the Beowulf epic.)
(And Greece? ...He's totally the Pegasus. There's also a reason for that - the Pegasus is sometimes called "Runoratsu" aka "The Poem Steed" in Finnish. It's the symbol of poets and daydreamers. And well, Greece slept through the whole world conference. XD)
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Thanks for all the suggestions! These should really help.
I'm still looking for some Gaul --> France and First Nations --> Canada, now. And Korea would be awesome, too.
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And for Canada I'd say a white horse. I love this folklore story (http://www.americanfolklore.net/folktales/manitoba1.html) quite a bit.
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And... I guess if I were to fit it into Hetalia, it'd make sense. We've got a unicorn, a pegasus, an eight-legged horse... and then a horse-horse.
I'm thinking for Korea, maybe a tiger?
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