[Fanart] Greece - Chios

[pana.livejournal.com]

Title: Chios
Artist: pana
Character(s) or Pairing(s): Greece
Rating: R
Warnings: non-graphic nudity and graphic violence
Summary: Approximately 42,000 Greek islanders of Chios were hanged, butchered, starved or tortured to death by Ottoman troops.

Comments

[moronokimi.livejournal.com]

Oh goodness D: Poor Greece-san! *throws him Japan*

[pana.livejournal.com]

Japan can sympathize!

[mumumugen.livejournal.com]

I feel bad because, considering Japan could give tips to Turkey on how to carry out horrid deeds like this, your comment of '*throws him Japan*' kept me rewriting efforts to seriously address it over and over, until I finally decided to just follow the great lesson Hetalia has taught us and not take things too seriously.

So all I can think of is of this this one cartoon where Sylvester the cat is thrown into a back yard full of angry dogs (skip to 5:32 and forth) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ob-W5l3-h4), and barely manages to get out alive, only for an old man to come across him, think he's stuck outside his house, and throw him over the fence back inside. I imagine Greece, staggering away from Turkey, only to have someone go 'Oh! Poor Greece, here, play with your friend! (http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a207/MoriyamaUmi/Scans/c_n5t.gif)'

[pana.livejournal.com]

And when you think of how Greece was overtaken by the Axis powers, then things get very twisted, don't they?

Just how sweet is that relationship?

I think this requires more fanart exploration.

[moronokimi.livejournal.com]

Heh, it was never meant seriously--actually I was referencing that one strip with Greece and Japan where at the end of it Japan wakes up naked in bed with Greece XD

[mumumugen.livejournal.com]

Well we're just glad you don't feel inclined to drawing happy things when you draw unhapppy things so GORGEOUSLY, really. This is a very nice drawing, and oh... Hetalia, teaching us a little bit of history every day. You do realize that now I will never forget the Chios incident because of this drawing, right?

So thumbs up to you! Good job!

[pana.livejournal.com]

Oh thank you ♥ I'm sure this won't be the last time I depict one of the massacres.

[feuillu.livejournal.com]

D: Oh Greece!

Your drawings are gorgeous.

[pana.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much!

[kainoliero.livejournal.com]

Poor Greece. ;^; Awesome art. I... I hope it's not wrong to think it's hot like hot like HOT?

[pana.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Don't worry, I also think it's hot.

[ponta-jun.livejournal.com]

I remember having heard about this event for the first time by reading a famous poem written by Victor Hugo (and then we spoke about it several times in history or literature class -when studying XXe or romanticisme-). It was such a tragic event... You caught the tragic of this event perfectly. It is a beautiful pic.

[pana.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much. I'm a bit surprised there isn't more of this stuff around with all the Turkey/Greece art.

[ponta-jun.livejournal.com]

You are very welcome!

I think it is a very sensible topic :/..; (well, most of the topic depicted in Hetalia, and in History in general are that way, but the Turkey/Greece old rivalry seems to be a really hard thing...). Though, I am not a specialist about it. Last year, we studied the Ottoman Empire, and all the conflicts between the different countries/ (religious/ethnic/...) community made me feel very uneasy because of all the violence and the terrible consequences (and also the fact that I find it sad to have to fight that much to be able to have a place to live...).
I wouldn't be able to draw about those kind of things but I think you managed to do it very well!

[pana.livejournal.com]

Going to Greek school for so long, this kind of thing is just drilled into my head. I like the way Turkey and Greece's relationship is depicted in the comic, like a parent and a rebellious son, but when you think of the actual events it's so dark! Hetalia is magical when it comes to taming history.

[ponta-jun.livejournal.com]

Yes, I understand! Yes, I agree with that! Before reading Hetalia, I was a bit anxious of the way it would depict the various relationship between countries and I wondered how it could deal with the so dark and horrible WWI and WWII in a funny way, for obvious reasons. But actually, it managed to do it very well and lightly because of this magical ability you are mentioning ;). I usually don't like making fun of serious events like that, but in Hetalia I think it is made in a very wise way, without hard feelings at all.

[demikkusuu.livejournal.com]

famous poem written by Victor Hugo
god, YOU READ IT? 8'D
ilu.

[ponta-jun.livejournal.com]

Yes, since I am French, it is not that impressive that I read it. You almost have to read it when you are a French student ;). This is a classic of French poetry :3.

[elsabroso.livejournal.com]

I am new to APH, and it has yet to cease to amaze me. It is very interesting how it can serve to give us items ranging from goofy gag jokes/fanfic to being able to tackle the harsh events of history...in anthropomorphic form, of course.

Thanks for this fanart!

[pana.livejournal.com]

Even though I like the lighthearted style of the comic, my favorite fanart always tends to be the darker historical stuff. It's really strange, haha.

I'm glad you liked it.

[heppoko-drill.livejournal.com]

A clean art-piece this is.

[demikkusuu.livejournal.com]

In Humanities, we just covered topics about Greece.

this is beautiful

[lksugui.livejournal.com]

His face shows it all... ;__; Heartbreaking, but beautiful! <3<3<3

[gomimushi.livejournal.com]

gorgeous, but tragic. :(
beautiful work.

[warplanes.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous fanart!

[abbie-chan.livejournal.com]

Oh man this is lovely, and so sad, I almost want to cry. It makes me want to do something with China and Japan re: Nanking/Nanjing.
I doubt I'll do as well as you did though!