It’s Georgian Independence Day!

Colonial Florida, Carolinas, & Georgia

CW: depictions of violence

Just sharing some information on some of the southern states I have worked on.

I’ll start with Carlisle “Carl” Graves/ South Carolina & Margaret “Maisie” Ferguson / North Carolina. They’re half siblings. Carl’s father is probably some sort of English county personification (most likely Dorset), and his mother is an English woman with some French Huguenot heritage from Barbados who migrated with her family to South Carolina. Given the fact she’s in the tidewater south and given her class, having a kid out of wedlock was taboo so I imagine his father arranged for her to marry a man, who is of a northern English / Scottish background. They end up moving to North Carolina’s back country to be with his family, and have Maisie. In my lore, there is some discrimination, or prejudice especially in this period against personifications born to human parents. I imagine most settler colonial personifications have human parents, but the few that don’t like Carl, that has 1 personification parent, I believe that gives him some social clout. Also I decided to make North Carolina younger because tbph South Carolina was the seat of power and colonial North Carolina didn’t really get going without South Carolina. I also don’t go by earliest permanent settlement for a state-level oc, it doesn’t always make sense to me for a variety of reasons.

Anyways Carl is a bit controlling, and he’s more of a tidewater southerner, and Maisie loves her brother but doesn’t appreciate his controlling behavior. Also one final note on carl, he can come off a bit cold but he’s quite the stereotypical ideal of a southern gentleman. Charming. Polite. Etc. Maisie is more of an Appalachian ngl. I’ll discuss Maisie another time. But Carl’s , and his friend/neighbor, Curtis Bartlett/ Georgia childhood was marked by constant fights with the Spanish and their colonies especially Louisa Flores / Spanish Florida.

Obvs, that isn’t a great situation for a kid to find themselves in, and it does impact Carl’s controlling behavior and also makes him rather jealous of Alfred later. Alfred wasn’t always the US in my lore, and Carl believed that he would’ve been elected/ selected by his peers to represent this new country given Carl’s history and background. Also one other thing is prior to the Revolution, Alfred was not universally liked by his states. Actually he’s never been universally liked by his states lol. Anyways Carl does resent Alfred for a number of years.

I split Florida into two because it didn’t make sense to have 1 continuous Florida given the fact that most Floridanos (the Spanish settlers) leave during Florida’s British colonial period. Louisa ends up having a kid with an Anglo-American settler from the colonial backcountry, this kid is Elena/ Elaine Moore, who comes to represent the US state of Florida. I think Louisa hides the fact that Elaine is her kid for both their sakes since Elaine comes out really pale in comparison. I’ll discuss Elaine more in the future, she is 110% Florida woman tho lol, but sometimes you’ll see me draw her with much lighter skin and that’s cause like if Elaine isn’t going outside and tanning highkey she passes as a white woman.

White passing and its history is something I want to explore more in my lore, but yeah that’s all I’m gonna leave it with the basic info on these southern states. I will say out of all them, Maisie / North Carolina & Carl / South Carolina are major players in my Nor’easter lore lol

Some more 'lore' for Melodica.

I should probably mention around this time that Turkey is probably still the Ottoman Empire, so ignore him being called Turkey here that was a mix-up lmao.

Basically, Melodica (my made-up country oc) is sandwiched between the Ottoman Empire and the Russian Empire. So, this causes some 'ping-pong' with whose house she's staying at, with the fluctuating territories. This is all literally made up and based on me scrubbing through maps for fun. Oh, Georgia is also in this comic, it's odd designing countries that are not officially designed in Hetalia. But I tried my best. The first two images would probably take place in modern times when the two are on better terms. (Mel may have picked up a certain intimidation tactic over the years...)

@moicat

Here are mochis of my state OCs (+ Staten Island)

It be like that sometimes 🇬🇪🇬🇪

(She loves them)

i had the revelation that georgia, in my au, would've only been physically 6 years old during the american revolution... cue the hijinks of a group of 13-17 year olds converting this little girl into an england hater

Tamar Davidasuli, the personification of Georgia

A commission I did for the lovely https://kavkasia.tumblr.com ! This is Georgia, I have to say i’m falling for him %D 

Some post Soviet visuals with post Soviet countries, ofc with a blue filter as we all know that's how Russia looks like :D pls click art for better quality.

The year is 1918, the Caucasus trio has recently split up after attempting to be a single nation for one (1) month, and there's no way they would ever be in the same room like this.

The Kartvelians!!!

I honestly don't remember if I introduced Chveneburi before but it's Chveneburi!!!

Aka muslim Georgian immigrants from Georgia between the 19th century and early 20th century!

I feel like a lot of Georgian nationalists are really interested in the Laz people, which is understandable they're both Kartvelian after all, but Laz people don't seem to care much about the Chveneburi nor the republic of Georgia😕 but I find them to be extremely cute!

Chveneburi and Georgia giving love and attention to Laz💕

Bonus Georgia!

Soooo how do world meetings go for him now

“...help?”

M!a kid elnur 3/5

Did a thing while listening to God’s Country and Devil Went Down To Georgia

As the arrow says, the person on the right is Georgia (Gianna Jones)

Random fact #18

Guinevere's (aph Georgia's) biological father is Scotland. He gave her up to Alfred's custody after the revolution. They all think that Gwen doesn't know.

My fav headcanon about Tamar (Georgia) is the one with Zaharia.

Zaharia was her mortal, adopted son, whose whole family died, so Tamar as a close friend of his mom took him with her.

[And here is the place to cute scenes where she tells him goodnight stories, but actually she doesn't know how to treat children, so she's just telling him how she defeated her enemies, or where she's doing homework with him, but she never actually went to school, so she's also learning tho she would never admit she doesn't know something etc]

She even went back to the army, just because he decided to become a soldier, and Tamar would (and certainly did) kill someone just so her son would be safe. [I'm sure some people thought that they had an affair because at that moment both were in their twenties, so she didn't look as his mother]

And then in 1921, she sends him away, so he will be safe and wouldn't end up in gulag, and Zaharia peacefully lives his life, probably with some pretty girl and their children. Sadly he didn't see his mother anymore, they just exchange a few letters, because 💫Soviet Union💫

Also, she knows his grandchildren and keeps in touch with them.

Hetalia OC: Georgia

Human Name: Bedisa Beridze "Age": 18 (By appearance) Gender: Female Height: 165 cm (About 5'5” Ft) Hair: Long, dark brown hair Eyes: Light brown Personality: Georgia is a proud, passionate, and fiercely individualistic girl. She's a hard worker but also loves parties. Georgia is known to be incredibly warm and hospitable and loves when people come to visit her. Though she sometimes says things that are offensive without realizing it.  And, when it comes to Russia, she can be incredibly hostile and stubborn.

Likes: Football, chess, and making wine

Fell back into the Hetalia fandom whoops.

Decided to redraw the OCs I did back around 2014. I’ll probably try to redraw Armenia, and Azerbaijan next.