[news] ANIME DECIDED

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THERE IS NO ICON THAT CAN REALLY DESCRIBE MY CURRENT SENTIMENTS, BUT!! (EXCUSE ME WHILE I KILL YOUR FRIENDS PAGE)

HETALIA WILL BE ADAPTED INTO AN ANIME.

Read about it here.  Also, scroll down to see the sample images of Chibitalia and Cowboy!America, which will be on the new trading cards planned.

OH MY GOD WHAT THIS IS LIKE CHRISTMAS IN JULY BE STILL MY HE--*DIES*

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[youkofujima.livejournal.com]

Aaah, damn. Requesting!anon will wait, and while that happens, will try to stop being such a greedy pig and tell passerby!anon to draw and fulfill someone else's kink.

Ohhh that'd be nice. A private showing...<333

Oh dear, maybe? Or would he just bask in the fact that there is so much pain to be caused and then to torment HK the next day when the boy can barely walk right? A vicious cycle...!

*nod nod* In my mind, they're a bit like Stands (think Jojo's Bizarre Adventures) of the nations themselves. I believe me and equivalent_t had a discussion about this, and there was discussion of not only the physical endurance but also how much the population affected the nation-tan. HK might actually be extremely durable, just for that.

Probably, as HK gets older physically, he'd get more and more quiet and secluded in a "cold shoulder" way. If UK were any more cruel, at that point he probably would have killed all of HK's birds. Or something. Too much mousou.

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Yep. I do think they are something like that: ripples and reflections of a country and a culture - the people and the land rather than (exclusively) the government, though the latter plays an important part defining the "personality" of a country (imperialism as the M.O of England being reflected on Arthur.) It's tricky, of course, and I think there's no absolute rules for it, so I for one play with guidelines rather than rules.

I think the trickier cases are that of countries which split up, merge, are born or "die." I submitted once on 4chan that the nation-tans would remain, in some form, as long as the culture sticks. Rome is a dead culture altogether, so he's a ghost now. Someone said Prussia may persist as East Germany.

I do wonder if Hong Kong existed as long as China did, or if it came to be when it was formally separated from the former. For me, I think one can assume he's like a small brother to China (let's not really trouble ourselves TOO terribly, as, if we went into detail, China would not even be a country to begin with, but a hivemind of lands up until it was unified) and then Arthur came thundering in.

I think it's a matter of playing it by guidelines rather than rules, like I said. But that's just me.

MEANWHILE I think that Hong Kong will go through phases. First, he'll suffer (the poor thing), slowly moving onto being jaded and acceptance, and from that will be born a sort of callousness... indifference. Hong Kong would notice that the one thing Arthur can't do is make him *feel*. After all that time and experience, he can control himself enough (INDEPENDANT ECONOMIC ZONE HOHOHO) and, along with the self-esteem boost that came from standing against the communist government, the population growth and the financial boost, he'd find himself noticing he doesn't have to put up with Arthur's abuse anymore. I figure by the 1950s-1970s (while Arthur was otherwise preoccupied with the cold war), he was finally giving Arthur the cold shoulder. And poor Arthur would realize that HK has escaped him too, but that at least Alfred doesn't have hard feelings against him. HK on the other hand...

And yes, Arthur probably killed his birds. Dark pairing is dark.

[youkofujima.livejournal.com]

Definitely agree with you on that. The culture and the history of the nation, as well as the population as a whole, affects the nation-tan in a way of their process of thought as well as what they believe in (because history is a really subjective matter, and the nation-tans are probably victims of their own population's beliefs of what is the "correct history," despite being the ones who experienced it firsthand). As for the personality of the country being in tune with the government, that opens up a can of worms, because it's totally awesome to think that it affects the nation--but the government is usually such a SMALL portion of the nation itself that one wonders about just how much titter-tottering between "the people's views" and "the head's view." ...and sorry, I ramble.

Oh dear, I know what you mean there. Because technically, Hong Kong will lose a good chunk of autonomy come 2047, so what will happen to him? And what will happen to Taiwan should she forced to go back to Nii Nii's house? A lot of people say actually that East Germany's population still are very proud of their Prussian roots, so I can see that Prussia is in a way still alive.

Hmm, one way to look at it is probably on a prefectural level? Because before China became unified, it was a lot of little tiny nations, and HK can probably arguably be one of them--and then with the Qin (not to be confused with Qing) Dynasty, Nii Nii became the actual physically strongest nation-tan that reigned over all the other prefectures, while a few continued to survive in the shadows--not really growing while Nii Nii thrived? Which can explain why when Arthur came in, HK was still a little boy.

Or something. I. My mind just.

OH LET'S NOT FORGET ABOUT THE TRIAD. HONG KONG'S WAY TO DEFY MORE. And the Kowloon Walled City. Hong Kong would definitely be able to hold his head high again well after the economic boom that he got, and then when Arthur finally turns his head back to look at HK after the Cold War issue, he'll have this terrible deja-vu of how Alfred towered over him after just a few short months (though HK does not tower over him, it's still a considerable growth spurt).

Killed them in front of his face? Or in a sneaky way? Both are so deliciously evil.