106 💙🖤🤍Elagu Eesti!
Another year of unchanged love🥹
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Why prussia still alive? Is there a canon about it? Some said that he is east germany but no one in hetalia call him that and germany considered just one person unlike italy that have two person (romano and feliciano)
Canonically, it seems that while Prussia is still alive, he's slowly losing some of the physical characteristics of Nations - there's that strip where it is heavily implied he can no longer heal instantly from wounds:
I guess he's still immortal but not 100% immune to physical threats.
He's assumed to have become East Germany because, besides the fact that he sometimes calls Germany "West", he is shown to have moved to Russia's after WW2 which mirrors how East Germany was under the USSR's area of influence until the German Unification (following the Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991).
(The 'cardboard car' referenced is the Trabant, the most common car that was produced and purchased in Eastern Germany. Its body was made of duroplast, a hard plastic made of recycled cotton waste and resins, sometimes nicknamed 'racing cardboard' or similar term due to this).
There's also a note where Hima mentions 'Ostalgie' referring to post-union Prussia. Ostalgie (Osten [East] + Nostalgie [nostalgia]) is a term that refers to the sentiment of nostalgia for certain aspects of life in East Germany prior to Unification.
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The existence of Prussia as an alive character nowadays honestly makes as much sense (or lack thereof) as the existence of a living South Italy.
North and South Italy are also terms that refer to a general geographical, historical and economical division between two territories that are officially and politically, technically 100% one.
I assume East Germany still retains aspects of its past as a separate entity despite Germany having been one for the past 30 years.
My personal headcanon on why Prussia is still alive, besides the fact that as long as a "sense of regional belonging" exists in a relevant number of individuals it makes sense for a Nation to survive, is that he is also being kept alive by the love of fellow Nations, especially Ludwig's but not only him.
It is implied in a note that Nation have a certain degree of power on other Nations. While it was most likely just a light-hearted note and shouldn't be taken too seriously, it was mentioned that it was America's strong belief that made Finland become Santa.
So I guess, if some Nations love strongly another one, and there's enough humans who still feel some kind of personal bond with it, it is possible for them to keep the Heta-Country alive.
... On a side note, if this is true, then Feli must feel absolutely devasted that his love couldn't keep HRE alive </3
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