[Fanart] Loves me, loves me not

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Title: Loves Me
Artist: sobdasha
Characters: Chibitalia, Holy Roman Empire
Pairings: HRE/Chibitalia
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Description: Chibitalia, Holy Roman Empire, flowers, and the timeless game of "(s)he loves me, (s)he loves me not."

I was inspired by some illustrations recently and wanted to try more shading techniques, and so then I had to draw something first. The shading part didn't succeed quite as well as I'd hoped I'll have to print the lineart out and try again when I figure out what to do better but I am glad for the excuse to play with this conceit:

Somewhere along the line someone will have taught N. Italy about pulling petals off flowers and playing "he loves me, he loves me not." And I imagine that Italy would fail horribly at this game, because he isn't tsundere enough to worry in secret about whether people like him--he'd just bluntly and unashamedly ask. So instead he'd be sitting around plucking petals while saying "He loves me, he loves me, he loves me..."

Holy Roman Empire, on the other hand, would be hiding at the other end of the garden, agonizing over it and trying to figure out how to beat the system without actually resorting to such blatant cheating as counting the petals before picking his flower...

So, a pair of pictures:

Loves Me 01 (lineart)


Loves Me 01 (shaded)


Loves Me 02 (lineart)


Loves Me 02 (shaded)


also I thought the original pencil lineart was rather charming, but it's also rather large so I'll just link to it here

I hope the idea at least was cute!