Happy Birthday Portugal
Despite of the very fast art, hope you like it~ I made it with all my love. Happy Day portuguese friends!
As last year, I put them a lot of symbols, so I'll explain this mess a little bit:
In my headcanon, nations have several phases in important and formative points of their histories, so I chose the roman province (Lusitania) and the islamic Portugal, under the influence of Cordoba's Caliphate. The contrast of Faiths on him (The Pagan, The Islamic and the Catholic) is the point of the picture. That is why I divided Port in a trinity, too.
In the same idea, some phases are not humanoid; his primal form, before being the tribe of "Lusus", is a dragon; which is in the shield since then, and of course a sea dragon or a marine serpe, like a big spirit around himself. So yes, deep down he is a dragon~.
The appeareance of the central figure, on the other side, represents three mixed phases: The Templar, Age of Discoveries (The Navigator, as I call him), and the modern Portugal after WWs. No more an Empire, but with blue blood yet, with the pose of a king. Clothes are not historical accurate because they are a mix of several ages: Vasco Da Gama's style; some parts of templar armor (the arms and the sword, the cross in the chest); imperial green but at the same time with a touch of modern militar uniform; everything sharing flag's colors with the cape and the throne.
The little one is more savage and quiet, but protective, since that's the memory of Portugal about himself being Lusitania: only to protect his little brother of Rome. He's longer hair and simple cloth.
The provocative teenager is also a little bit pirate, because he has the old loved eye scar (which for me Port had it, but time erased it) and he stole the golden scimitar from his old tutor (aka Hassan, the older cousin of Ottoman), and killed him it 8D.
Also! lavender is not in a flower form this time, but in the color of the hat and the handcuff; with them, some cock feathers (black, red and green), part of the symbolic animal he has.
The compass, the most famous instrument for discoveries, is on the floor; but the sword points it with human blood. I think I don't need to explain why.
And of course, the coast (the floor) and the sea beyond; and the phrase of the country at his feet.
Thanks for reading!~
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Can you draw Netherlands? And the version of him but how finland see him? And...well... some NedPort? Sorry, I know bad grammar...Ah! Thanks so so so much!!
you ain’t gotta worry about grammar ever on this blog!! And I fucking love Ned but I never draw him so here you go!!
Also completely forgot about that scene between Fin and him so I had to do some research ajsjsnsj hopefully this is what u meant lol
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nedpan vibes in 1600: battered but ambitious castaway meets shogun, aka "behave yourself or get beheaded weird foreigner, i don't trust you but i trust portugal and spain even less and if you're at war with them hmmm...enemy of my frenemy potential there. tell me about foreign affairs will you so i can cross-check portugal’s claims, oh and draw me some maps too… hmmm you know we should have tea in my quarters where you can talk more foreign affairs and we can play shogi just for me to, y'know, pick apart how you think..." (sidenote: i love associating kiku with japanese black pine trees, especially since you see them painted all over the gold-foil screen doors in the shogun's castle/palaces.)
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