[profiles] The Mediterranean!

[youkofujima.livejournal.com]

I just realized how much I am learning to spell geographical locations by being in this fandom.

Either way, here is the Mediterranean group!  (sans Turkey, cuz he doesn't have a profile yet on the main site)

GREECE

Nation's name: Hellenic Republic
Capital: Athens
Languages: Greek
Birthday: October 28th
National flower: Olive

Human name: Heracles Karpusi (thanks to equivalent_t)
Height: Unknown
Age: 27 (appearance)

　古代ギリシャ文明発祥の地。
The source of the ancient Greek civilization.

温暖なエーゲ海気候にはぐくまれた美しい風景とオリーブ料理が自慢。
Is proud of his olive dishes as well the beautiful scenery brought up by the warmth of the Aegean Sea.

隣国のトルコとは何回もケンカし支配され、わざと停戦条約をつい最近まで結ばなかったほど仲が悪い。
Was taken over several times by his neighbour, Turkey, during fights.  Their relationship is so bad that they've only recently decided on a cease-fire.

　性格は真面目だけどあんまり気合入れない体質のせいかマイペースというかのん気というか常にだるそうに見える。
Has a serious personality, but because he doesn't have a strong constitution, it's more common to see him being really casual and taking things in stride.

哲学を愛し、歴史を重んじる。
Loves philosophy and respects history.

またギリシャ神話の人間くさい神様たちも大好きだ。
Also loves the Greek gods who are so very human-like.

(By the way, the artist recently answered a question as to what the cross Greece carries is.  It's Mount Athos.)

EGYPT

Nation's name: The Arab Republic of Egypt
Capital: Cairo
Languages: Arabic
Birthday: About 3000 years B.C.
National flower: Water lily

Human name:  Not listed  Gupta Muhammad Hassan
Height: Unknown
Age: Not listed

　古代より高度で華やかなエジプト文明を発展させてきたナイル川のデルタに支えられた国。
A nation that has developed an elegant and high-class civilization since the ancient times, supported by the Nile Delta.

一時はローマやオスマン帝国の属国になったりしながらもその文化を守り続けてきた。文化や歴史にはものすごい誇りを持っている。
Was once occupied by the Roman as well as the Ottoman Empire, but still continued to maintain his own culture.  Is extremely proud of not only his culture but also his history.

　性格は信仰深く人懐こいが、何を考えているのか分かりにくいところもあり謎が多いようにとられがち。
His personality is friendly and faithful, but because it's hard to figure out what he's thinking, there is an air of mystery about him.

Comments

[morphaileffect.livejournal.com]

thanks for translating these! greece is my favorite, design-wise. plus, he and japan are really cute together :)

one thing i wonder about is, why does he have so many cats? ^^;

[youkofujima.livejournal.com]

You're welcome X3 I've always thought that the cross on Greece was really mysterious^^; I love his design, too!

I have no clue...I think it might be because the country itself is crawling with cats? That's the image I have.

[ashusatan666.livejournal.com]

Didn't Egyptians formerly worship cats?

[dorothy2345.livejournal.com]

Youkofujima is right. Greece is in fact crawling with stray cats. They're everywhere.XD

[equivalent-t.livejournal.com]

Of course, I have no idea if that was even close. *shifty eyes*

Anyway, does it speak much about the gutter in my mind that I always think 'SpartaSpartaSparta, oh, and run-of-the-mill paiderastia' when reading Greece's parts?

[youkofujima.livejournal.com]

Close enough for me! XD Unless his name is Hercules, which would just be embarrassing, for all parties involved.

LOLOLOLOLOL SPARTAAAAAAAAAAAA! (and Jfen believes that Greece shared one with Turkey)

[equivalent-t.livejournal.com]

Well.......THAT IS WHY, ACTUALLY. Because Heracles is really...just Hercules in Greek. (Hercules is Latin.) You know, the imagery of that name! That name! It inspires the gutter!

Seeing the Turkey part of 2007's Chistmas event, I tend to agree with JFen....*cough*

[youkofujima.livejournal.com]

OH DEAR GOD. HAHAHAHAHHAAH. That's just terrible... XD;;; I think at this point, calling him "Greece" would be better than calling him "Heracles..."

*coughs* Oh god yeah. That, and the Austria arc was just O_O But I keep feeling like I'm missing things. There's a huge support of Lithuania with only gloves on in the Jfen, but I didn't see it.

[equivalent-t.livejournal.com]

It could be worse. They could abbreviate him to Hera, and that's just...so wrong on so many levels! Not as....embarrassing, though, I'll admit. XD

I know the feeling. Could've been a fandom fetish thing, I guess...I don't remember seeing anything about it either. :/ Of course, I sometimes skip the author's notes, so.....

[youkofujima.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, that, in my opinion, is worse. ^^; maybe just calling him by his last name would have to suffice. (He seems like the type to get a bit "ergh" about it, though)

That, and also about the scar on China's back. So far, the only canon scarring I've seen is Lithuania's. I guess the Jfen is closer-knit with their "mosou" than we are?

Also, the recent appearance of Hong Kong created a really crazy explosion on the sites, as well as the J-Tegaki. XD;

[morphaileffect.livejournal.com]

sorry to interrupt, but - hong kong has appeared??

[youkofujima.livejournal.com]

YES! And he is as cute as a button!!! (http://blog-imgs-21.fc2.com/h/i/m/himaruya/20080601153829.jpg) SO CUTE. The artist says that "his face looks like China's, but due to a curse, his eyebrows have become thick."

[morphaileffect.livejournal.com]

hahahah oh wow he IS cute! made even cuter by cursed eyebrows XD XD

[youkofujima.livejournal.com]

SO CUUUUTE. XDD and he has a little flower on his shirt.

GOD HOW DID HE GET THAT CUTE. I think I need a "mochi kaeri" icon.

[equivalent-t.livejournal.com]

I guess the Jfen is closer-knit with their "mosou" than we are?

Probably. I was in this fandom once where a character was tied up and about to be executed by a racial supremacist group, and somehow fen turned it into bondage moe. XD;;

Hong Kong deserves it. *shifty* Didn't Belarus also create an explosion? Maybe fen's a bit starved for new countries at this point.

[youkofujima.livejournal.com]

Wow O_o which fandom is that?

Hong Kong definitely deserves the attention. I can't wait to see his relationship with China and UK (though right now I'm drawing mad amounts of HK+Taiwan even though Taiwan wants to marry Japan more than anything else). I wasn't around when Belarus first showed up, but I think she did cause an explosion, though smaller than the explosion that Seychelles caused?

Heck, I'm starved for new countries. Or just stories about existing countries.

[equivalent-t.livejournal.com]

Code Geass. Love the canon, but fandom's just crazy.

The eyebrow curse is so another reason for China to curse UK well into eternity. XDD I can't wait, either. We haven't seen much of China or UK's colonial thing lately, and US-Canada doesn't really count. And Belarus...well, I wasn't around when Seychelles came into the picture, either, but I can imagine. Belarus was just this quiet, yandere-looking maid. But Seychelles was hilarious. More to work with for fans.

Right. I want Belgiuuuuum. ;_; And Austria-Hungary, and Cuba, and, and, and...

[youkofujima.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, Code Geass.

Seriously. A lot of people who ship USA/UK don't seem to really touch upon the fact that THE OPIUM WARS HAPPENED AND UK WAS A REAL JERK ABOUT IT. And Hong Kong is pretty much the child of a date rape the war. UK is shown to be really nice and sweet to USA and Canada. Makes me wonder how he treated Hong Kong (considering the way HK looks...) Seychelles is more cute and there's more about her personality that was shown than Belarus. All we see of her is her picture and that small appearance of her threatening Latvia with a knife in The Book.

I want Belgium, I want more Austria/Hungary, I want more Prussia, I-I...

[equivalent-t.livejournal.com]

I know. I ship USA/UK and sometimes I wonder if they remember that UK is really, really, really a jerk. Somehow they manage to remember the Spanish Armada thing and it doesn't occur that he's, well, not that nice. And prone to laughing like a grade B villain. Opium wars would be a very interesting arc to read...I'm particularly interested about China's reaction, too. That was the end of 4,000 years of tradition/'old culture' pride, wasn't it?

I just hope that Prussia isn't dead now that he's rejoined Germany. He did appeared in the Christmas event, after all.

[youkofujima.livejournal.com]

UK has years upon years over USA in jerkdom, seriously. Man, that panel with UK cackling over Spain's drooling body with Shakespeare standing behind him makes me laugh, but it's just that in history, he pillaged and plundered. Even the artist says he was a 元ヤン, which should go to show what kind of guy he was.

There are doujins about the Opium Wars, but nothing official as of yet, but yeah, it was the end of 4000 years of old culture, tradition, and the hikkikomori status of China as the "Center Nation."

Yeah, he did show up in the Christmas event...but I think he might have "married" Germany? Or at least is dwelling with him, like Austria did at one point.

[equivalent-t.livejournal.com]

Yeah. The 20th century was the American Century, but the British Empire'd been doing its thing for, what, 500 years? Arthur's my favourite character, but a large part of him was that unlike WWII's Axis countries, he was depicted as actively enjoying it. You do not need to whitewash someone into cuteness/ukeness to pair him off with a top, dammit.

Then again, some parts of the BL scene in fen seems to be somewhat adamant about its characterizations. I digress.

I'm still having headaches over how 'marriage' works. On one hand, in a lot of cases, you can just drop in and live together, or work at the more powerful partner's house. On the other hand, France-UK. Maybe it only works as a 'marriage' when both sides are relatively equal, but that theory does have its problems.

[equivalent-t.livejournal.com]

By which I mean---I'm perfectly OK with UK being cute, but handling that pairing in the typical BL way---or the 'otome characterization'---tends to make me headdesk. Uh-uh. If USA behaves like he does in half the fics, UK would probably switch his coffee with shoeshine powder. You don't need SAMs to be a jerk, after all.

[youkofujima.livejournal.com]

*nods* I understand completely. He's mellowed down and is trying to hide his pirate-y, opium-dealing past (like a parent trying to not let his kid know that he used to be a biker gang?!), but seriously...FIVE HUNDRED YEARS of it dies hard. There are even some UK/Japan<--USA fics/doujins out there where I imagine that if USA did that sort of thing to Japan in front of UK, there's not gonna be happiness in the house. O_o;

The terminology seems to be a bit blurry (though, we're really not supposed to take it seriously...*laughs*) I think most of them just drop in and live together cuz there's an unequal balance of power, and the more powerful you are, the less chores you'd do? I'm thinking of Hungary's role in Austria's house during the Chibitaria arc...

[equivalent-t.livejournal.com]

On that point, you do have to wonder why USA is so popular as the predator character. Yeah, he's no saint, and there's probably a fair number of ugly things bubbling under that chirpy exterior---but why is he the sex fiend anyway? Is it the kichiku megane? Really the megane!?

Okay, probably the same reason UK is a hand-wringing, weeping housewife. I once again digress.

(though, we're really not supposed to take it seriously...*laughs*)

I blame my science teacher! He drilled us to 'always try to figure out how things work'! Though, he'd probably never intended it to be used for country slash...

[youkofujima.livejournal.com]

I guess yeah, it's the megane, and the fact that people just think that the Americans are the people who start having sex when they're in fifth grade? Or maybe it's just that he's a super power and therefore domineering?

Still can't see UK as the housewife, though. If anything, that is Lithuania's role, and even he can kick Knights of the Teutonic Order's ass. Something that a chunk of the fandom needs to see is that if these are surviving nations from centuries of wars and stuff--there's no way any of them are going to be shrinking violets, exactly.

*laughs* I doubt my history professors ever wanted me to be interested in history for THIS reason, either.

[princessarisa.livejournal.com]

......I'm curious. What IS Jfen?

[youlover.livejournal.com]

Jfen = Japanese fandom. I think!

[festivewind.livejournal.com]

Greece x Japan! Greece x Japan!
I bow to you for taking your time translating these every night.

[youkofujima.livejournal.com]

Greece/Japan XDDDD <3333

Thanks ^^/ glad you guys are enjoying it!

[kamachiono.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the translation. (Oh man I love Greece muchly...Needs more Egypt around though -sighs-)

Oh man it's funny how I sometimes forget how much of jerks some actual countries were back in the day. But the way she draws and gaggishly uses them, makes me forget and go all "AWWW EVERY COUNTRY IS AMAZING!!"

I mean seriously UK has been a jerk to almost everyone...Even USA had its own moments....And Spain...Well most of it's victims are dead within American soil now aren't they? owo;;;;

[youkofujima.livejournal.com]

You're welcome X3 glad you like it^^/ (Greece is so awesome, and we hardly see any of Egypt! We see more of Turkey and there's no profile for him XD; what gives!)

Seriously! The artist (male O_O surprise) made them so cute, I didn't remember about the CONQUISTADORS until you mentioned Spain's dirty dirty little past! Oh god. XD;

[kamachiono.livejournal.com]

I know right? The interactions of all three really make me giggle. I really wonder when they drew them since other artists know what Turkey looks like huh?

Indeed! (That is a surprise!) Ahahaha yeah I kind of forget about history until I think about it. Then I look off to the side wondering "Yet...sooo...cute."

[youkofujima.livejournal.com]

Actually, we did see a bit of Turkey during the Christmas incident, I just noticed! The last panel, with the really darkened figure, is Turkey XD we see his face!

Too cute. Damn them XD;

[kohikki.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the translation!

Greece is so cute!

[youkofujima.livejournal.com]

You're welcome X333

Greece really is cute X3 he'd love your icon XD

[sapphirus.livejournal.com]

..If I'd known or realize you made an LJ comm for it, I'd have joined it earlier than now. D: *goes on reading spree!*

[youkofujima.livejournal.com]

*laughs* XD My nation-slashing ways are actually rather unadvertised on LJ, isn't it O_O

[rubychu.livejournal.com]

haha egypt is probably 394839 years old @___@

[beldarius.livejournal.com]

OMG, thank you for translating this. ...I think Greece is one of my top favorites in the whole Hetalia. <3

I know you're gonna look at me weird for saying this, but... I keep imagining him pregnant of all things possible. o________o My mind is always working all weird on me.

[pana.livejournal.com]

Haha, Greece's surname means "watermelon".

[chainey-clink.livejournal.com]

Oh gods, Egypt! <3

[rokakujin.livejournal.com]

I kinda like egypt very much ;W;
he always appears in a very calm way~ having him beside masked!turkey is so hiloarious XD I wish there're soon be scanlations about the orient XD

[drgaellon]

If you want to include it, the Greek text says "Hellenike Demokratia" (The Greek Democracy).

[heldrad.livejournal.com]

I wonder how Heracles is written in romaji o.o...herakuresu?

[yoshi3782.livejournal.com]

haha i was laughing sooo much Karpusi means watermelon in Greek and i think Heracles should be holding a frappe instead of the cross haha (only greeks noe that joke lol)..and oct.28 is OXI day! i love GREECE <333 japan also <3 lol

[sybarisofcirfis.livejournal.com]

I have a doubt! x__x in the profile says the Greece's birthday is on October 28th but I see that everybody say that is on February 3rd

[9tix1.livejournal.com]

The date of birth thing has startles me as well; But behold, I have found a solution; First it was October 28th but Himaruya changed it to Feb 3rd and Feb 3rd was printed as Greece's birthday in the manga.

You can see more info about it on Hetalia Wikia（´ v｀)

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[matuniko.livejournal.com]

THE NATIONAL FLOWER OF GREECE IS AN OLIVE?!