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hetalia2010-02-05 10:37 pm
sara-rojo.livejournal.com) wrote in hetalia2010-02-05 10:37 pm
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Shipping before Hetalia
Hi guys!
I was wondering if this happened to you....
Did any of you, upon first hearing the premise of the series, think about pairings before actually reading or watching a single strip/episode?
I'm asking for two reasons:
1)this happened to me in both directions; pairings I'd never had thought of (GerIta, without going further) and pairings that I shipped as soon as I heard "gay male personifications of countries" (which immediately prompted "France and England LOL" from me).
2)The second reason is that people seem to ship pairings between characters that have yet to appear, like New Zealand/Australia, Argentina/Brazil, Philippines/America, England/Portugal, Mexico/Spain....while some are evidently following previous interactions of characters in similar relationships (any colony/empire ship, for example, seeing as there are hints to five of these couples in the canon), some of them don't follow this logic. So people ship countries now, not characters...usually following a Real Life Politics/History logic, or at least that was my case with FrUK
I'm curious if this happened to you guys before you got into Hetalia, like it happened to me...
EDIT. as a post-thought question...what did you expect the characters to be? did you immediately think about some character's characterictics? did they end appearing in Hetalia? were you disappointed if they weren't?
I was wondering if this happened to you....
Did any of you, upon first hearing the premise of the series, think about pairings before actually reading or watching a single strip/episode?
I'm asking for two reasons:
1)this happened to me in both directions; pairings I'd never had thought of (GerIta, without going further) and pairings that I shipped as soon as I heard "gay male personifications of countries" (which immediately prompted "France and England LOL" from me).
2)The second reason is that people seem to ship pairings between characters that have yet to appear, like New Zealand/Australia, Argentina/Brazil, Philippines/America, England/Portugal, Mexico/Spain....while some are evidently following previous interactions of characters in similar relationships (any colony/empire ship, for example, seeing as there are hints to five of these couples in the canon), some of them don't follow this logic. So people ship countries now, not characters...usually following a Real Life Politics/History logic, or at least that was my case with FrUK
I'm curious if this happened to you guys before you got into Hetalia, like it happened to me...
EDIT. as a post-thought question...what did you expect the characters to be? did you immediately think about some character's characterictics? did they end appearing in Hetalia? were you disappointed if they weren't?
Purple eyes as well
When I was growing up, we always thought of Canada as a potential refuge, since we live close to the border (and my people, being traditionally somewhat socialist, often felt at odds with the rest of the US). I used to draw little pictures of "Canada" when I was, like, 11 (I'm in my 40s now). And he looked a lot like he does in Hetalia, so when I discovered this manga, it kind of freaked me out a little. Like a blast from the past. But I love it.