Shipping before Hetalia

[sara-rojo.livejournal.com]

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?

Comments

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[bolkonsky.livejournal.com]

D'aww I think I ship Canada/Netherlands now.

Although I thought North Italy would look a little more... Italian. I guess Romano does, but Veneciano's red hair kind of confused me. Not that I know that much about Italy to begin with, but in terms of the Italian stereotypes, that's definately not what I pictured.

lol everyone I've shown the anime to is thrown by the red hair. IIRC he wasn't so auburn before, that trait just sortof evolved with the anime. But uh, being Italian-American with goddamn Italian curls I was expecting both Italies to be curly. Like more than one curl. 8| I don't know man, that whole side of my family is dark-haired curly. We're from South Italy, ultimately, if that does anything for you.

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[blowjobsalways.livejournal.com]

YES! Curls is definately something that would have made more sense. And that is true, his hair was darker in the original sketches. Maybe colour-wise, they didn't want him to be too close to Japan or somthing.