[mod post] Another Hello

[youkofujima.livejournal.com]

Hello, everyone, this is your community moderator.[Poll #1217657][Poll #1217657]

And in case you're wondering, the human names of the nations are:

Turkey=Sadiq Adnan

Prussia=Gilbert Beilschmidt (aka: Gil)

Canada=Matthew Williams (also, his bear's name is Kumajirou)

Sealand=Peter Kirkland (nickname: Sea-kun)

Belarus=Natalia (I can't find her last name)

America=Alfred F. Jones (aka: Al)

UK=Arthur Kirkland (nickname: Iggy Iggy)

Germany=Ludwig (family name unknown)

Japan=Honda Kiku (or, in the west, Kiku Honda)

Italy (north)=Feliciano Vargas (nickname: Veneziano)

Italy (south)=Lovino Vargas (nickname: Romano)

Austria=Roderich Edelstein

Hungary=Elizabeth Héderváry

Spain=Antonio Fernandez Carriedo (nickname: Oyabun)

France=Francis Bonnefoy (nickname: Oniichan)

Switzerland=Vash Zwingli

Greece=Heracles Karpusi

Egypt=Gupta Muhammad Hassan

Russia=Ivan Braginsky

Lithuania=Toris Lolintis (thanks to herbalriver)

Estonia=the closest I got was "Edward"

Lativa=Raivis Galante

Poland=Feliks Łukasiewicz

China=Wong Yao (Yao Wong in the west.  Nickname: Nii-Nii/Aniki)

Korea=Im Yun Soo

Finland=Tino Väinämöinen

Sweden=Bernard Oxenstierna (nickname: Su-san)

Sweden and Finland's dog=Hana-tamago

For nations that don't have human names, their names are made to sound like nicknames.  For instance, Hong Kong is currently known as Hon-kun or Hon-tan.  Taiwan is Tai-chan, Cuba is Qba, etc...

If you have any questions or concerns, please leave a comment or send me an LJ message!

Comments

[youkofujima.livejournal.com]

Yes, you brought up the same point that mumumugen brought up, and it's a valid point. It appears quite a bit of the people who have replied to this post believe that using character names waters down the point of Hetalia.

What I wanted to take into consideration was of course the concerns of the other members by bringing this into light, hopefully have a bit of a vote, and then let the votes decide.

[splintertalon.livejournal.com]

I think it's one of those situations where there isn't really a catch-all answer, you just have to do your own thing to a certain extent and respect what other people want. For example, I think it's best to keep the country names here, but if an individual wants to use human names in their post and keep that consistant in the replies, that should be a reasonable rule? It wouldn't take much to leave a little one-line at the top of one's post stating their preferance if it's very important to them. And if I was a Japanese-speaker and used the Japanese fansites it would be perfectly reasonable to have to abide by their rules in their sites. So maybe a half-and-half rule could be achieved?

I hope I didn't come across as mouthy or anything in my reply. I do worry about that a lot because it can be hard to judge tones of voice via text.
Oh, and thakyou for the formal hello to the newbies up there, which I missed last time around. :)

[youkofujima.livejournal.com]

*nods* I guess so far we'll go with the usual routine of playing it safe and then hankering down when it really does seem to take a turn for the worst. If people want to use human names, it's all good--though for consistency and convenience's sakes, the tags are mainly nation.

Don't worry about it, and it really is hard to judge tones or even guess the body language/expression of the person over the internet.

^^/ Welcome again. I really do hope you enjoy this place.