no way! I actually did it!! here's all 93 hetalia characters, my beloved
the last time I did one of these was like 7 years ago 🥲 here's the previous ones: 2016//Sept 2015//Feb 2015
hope you all enjoy, this is my little treat to the hetalia fandom, also the last digital art I'll do for the next 5 months but I've got something else big to post in a while plus sketchbook stuff!
Can you draw Haiti, in a military uniform during the Haitian Revolution? Thank you very much for wonderful and historical art
“The Good Lord who created the sun which gives us light from above, who rouses the sea and makes the thunder roar–listen well, all of you–this god, hidden in the clouds, watches us. He sees all that the white people do. The god of the white people demands from them crimes; our god asks for good deeds. But this god who is so good demands vengeance! He will direct our hands; he will aid us. Throw away the image of the god of the whites who thirsts for our tears, and listen to the voice of liberty which speaks in the hearts of all of us.”
The Haitian Revolution took place between 1791 and 1804, and was an insurrection by the slaves of Saint Domingue, now Haiti, against French colonial rule. To this day, it is considered the only successful slave rebellion, establishing an independent society of liberated slaves.
I TRIED ON THE LIGHTING.... I TRIED
The quote from before is Dutty Boukman’s speech, one of the early leaders of the Revolution. Born in Senegambia, he was captured, enslaved, and sent to the new World, where he ended up in Haiti as a carriage driver and a vodou priest. He played a key role in northern Haiti, where he presided over a religious ceremony in 1791 that would kick off the revolution. He is said to have give this speech during the ceremony!
You’ll notice that her uniform looks remarkably similar to those of the American Revolution. This is because the two events took place very close to one another- in fact, many of the freed people of color in Haiti had served in the American Revolution themselves.
Women played a large role in the Revolution. People like Suzanne Belair had leadership positions in the army, as well as countless other women who served integral roles in the information networks that organized the rebellion.
I probably should’ve added golden embroidery on her collar and wristcuffs but I legit forgot IM SORRY
This was the original sketch for this, cuz I wanted to try to doing more dynamic poses, but it just didnt feel right to me? Part of the reason I took so long to do this was because I took months to mull over it until I had a better vision of what I wanted!
sketch I did to get her features down!
I had to do a screencap redraw of my boy
the current situation
(i'm team finland btw but i actually enjoy all the nordic entries)
the furry madness continues
I know that this is meant to be a silly post, but I've been OBSESSED with this concept since I first read the chapter, so-
Romano living with America makes sense. Italy, specifically South italy, had the highest amount of immigration to the US of all the European countries at that time and became very influential on American society later on. They were also "birds of passage". Every European that immigrated to the US had the intention of returning home one day, but the Italians are the only ones that succeeded at that en masse. Half of the 4-5 million that immigrated would return to Italy, some going back and forth for years. This let US Italians maintain a very strong connection with their home country, so it makes sense why Romano would follow them to the US. He's just another bird of passage who isn't actually "immigrating", just away from home for work for a bit. If Romano was the only one to go live with America, I wouldn't question it.
But Lithuania being there is weird. It's hard to track Lithuanian immigrants because they were counted as Russians beneath the Russian Empire until the 1900s. But it's believed that about 20% of the population of Lithuania fled to the US, particularly Jews. Which, while that isn't insignificant....that threshold is VERY low. You're telling me it only takes 20% of a nation's population to compel them to do something drastic? What about the 80% you left behind, Toris!! Further, the Lithuanian diaspora was no where near as big or as influential as the Italian, so what I'm saying is Lithuania should not be there only to decide to just, return home, someday, I guess? But he is, which implies that it only takes about a fourth of a population immigrating somewhere to make the nation follow. America is going to have a LOT of roommates under this model.
All in all, I headcanon that none of them really HAD to immigrate to the US. In true hetalia fashion, I like to think all of them just got bored/curious and wanted to leave home for a while and see what America was up to.
It's hard to put them in chronological order, but from 1840-1914, here's all the countries that I think would've lived with America in the NE, both working for him or just passing through:
Ireland, Various German States (Prussia? 🤨), Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Romania, Russia, Austria, Poland, Lithuania, Hungary, Greece, Slovakia, Czech, Ukraine, Finland
China would've been there too, but ONLY at America's house out West. And he would've hated working for someone the age equivalent of a 2-year-old to him.
So- if Romano and Lithuania ended up living with America when a large number of their people immigrated to the U.S.... wouldn't that mean that most of the other nations have lived with America at some point?
Did Germany and China both live with him during the California Gold Rush?
Did Russia live with him after the Cold War?
And just how many nations were living with him after WWII and the Korea War when war brides were coming back to live in the States?
I'm just imagining America's house as the nation equivalent of a Denny's at 3 am. Everyone ends up there, usually because something went horribly wrong, and if they're very lucky breakfast will be edible.
Randomly selected #Hetalia characters I drew for the Spanish live I did on my Facebook page 💜
why do people write matthew as so quiet and soft, have you MET an Ontarian?
I keep my embarrassing little thoughts in the tags where they belong
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