http://swimmuffin.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] swimmuffin.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] hetalia2010-05-04 01:27 pm
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Question: Teen!America cowboy outfit?

So I don't know if this is allowed, and if not, please delete.

So, I'm sure everyone has seen the pictures of teen!america in the cowboy outfit, right? Ok. then my question is this. The American cowboy did not appear until the late 19th century, long after America gained independence from England. So why is teen!America running around in cowboy gear? Westward expansion hadn't even really started at that time...

Ahh...sorry if this is a dumb question, but it's been bugging me for some time. thanks for any help! :D

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[identity profile] ahmerst.livejournal.com 2010-05-04 08:37 pm (UTC)(link)
A rip in the fabric of space and time itself, courtesy of Brittania Angel.

Actually I have no idea and have wondered this myself.

[identity profile] nupinoop296.livejournal.com 2010-05-04 08:37 pm (UTC)(link)
I heard somewhere it was just a pic for Children's Day. So...for the cute?

[identity profile] nupinoop296.livejournal.com 2010-05-04 08:38 pm (UTC)(link)
That would make some warped kind of sense.

[identity profile] swimmuffin.livejournal.com 2010-05-04 08:41 pm (UTC)(link)
...that's the most plausible explination i've heard yet. imma go with that for now....

[identity profile] swimmuffin.livejournal.com 2010-05-04 08:42 pm (UTC)(link)
children's day? i kno that's a japanese holiday...but did hetalia have some special on it?

[identity profile] nupinoop296.livejournal.com 2010-05-04 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
No, I think it was just something Himaruya was doing for the holiday himself. That's also where that pic of young!Canada comes from, I believe.

[identity profile] knedsaid.livejournal.com 2010-05-04 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Image

The author drew it for Children's Day last year. There were a few others, so it's not really canon timeline wise? And the Timeline is just really warped. XD

[identity profile] fivedayslater.livejournal.com 2010-05-04 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I heard somewhere that the West was where America supposedly grew up. Maybe it has something to do with that?

[identity profile] kakkobean.livejournal.com 2010-05-04 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
When America expanded out into the West, he had a massive fit of childish glee--and that de-aged him for a bit. It was a spectacle of AMAZING, and all of the countries around the world marveled at how it could have possibly occurred. Hungary took pictures. Japan came for World Fairs. England got extremely possessive. Germany wanted to do tests.

...Aaaand then WWI happened and America got older again. >.>

[identity profile] castrooo.livejournal.com 2010-05-04 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
maybe he was like wow i want to make a cool outfit thus he made this and who knows later into the future he was like wow i am going to wear this outfit again but itll be cooler and boom.

[identity profile] psykam.livejournal.com 2010-05-04 09:32 pm (UTC)(link)
this. so hard.

[identity profile] haro.livejournal.com 2010-05-04 09:41 pm (UTC)(link)
It's just a picture he drew. He drew a bunch of characters as younger versions of themselves in period clothing he found that he liked. So teen!America isn't really running around in it, as much as Hidekaz just thought it would be cute to put him in it. I think the intent was just 'it's children's day, so I'm drawing younger characters in clothes that are well known from their country.'

Teen America is not the only one that's incorrect. Hidekaz notes that France's outfit is from the Napoleonic era. And France was certainly older than he was in that picture at that time.

[identity profile] adele-1.livejournal.com 2010-05-04 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Because it's cute and pedo, dangit!!!

[identity profile] anyaotaku.livejournal.com 2010-05-04 10:37 pm (UTC)(link)
THIS.

[identity profile] swimmuffin.livejournal.com 2010-05-04 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
but england "found" america on teh east coast and then america moved west...if he had been found on the "west" coast, he'd belong to spain

or china. :D if teh ming dynasty hadn't gone all isolationist and shit...-3-

[identity profile] swimmuffin.livejournal.com 2010-05-04 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
hmmm...that's true...i kno teh korean outfit is also wrong. XD

[identity profile] swimmuffin.livejournal.com 2010-05-04 10:47 pm (UTC)(link)
YOUR ICON YES. XD

[identity profile] swimmuffin.livejournal.com 2010-05-04 10:47 pm (UTC)(link)
*nodnod* that would make sense...do they have other children pics?

[identity profile] ihatesasuke.livejournal.com 2010-05-04 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW THIS TOO.
orz...

[identity profile] nupinoop296.livejournal.com 2010-05-04 10:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I like this one.

[identity profile] anyaotaku.livejournal.com 2010-05-04 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)
The situation called for rape!icon. No it's not my default

8D Agreed like whoa

[identity profile] mcsourface.livejournal.com 2010-05-04 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)
MARRYMARRYMARRY~ ♥

[identity profile] nupinoop296.livejournal.com 2010-05-04 11:14 pm (UTC)(link)
For that event? I dunno.

[identity profile] kakkobean.livejournal.com 2010-05-04 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
*high fives*

America: We're expanding? Into the West?
President: Yes.
America: OMG SQUEE--*changes*
President:...the hell?
America: SHIT, NOT THIS PUBERTY CRAP AGAIN!!

[identity profile] swimmuffin.livejournal.com 2010-05-04 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
i kno, rite? they've got some pretty awesome awnsers up there...
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