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alloydia · 2 days

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Interkosmos program

#hetalia #gilbert beilschmidt #ivan braginsky #aph prussia #hws prussia #aph russia #hws russia #ruspru #Spotify

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roszabell · 21 hours

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this artwork is genuinely from like 2020 and i don’t know how i’ve forgotten about it for this long because it’s one of my FAVORITES.

a young elf stumbles upon a pretty woodland creature during a solo hunt!!! maybe if gilbert is nice, the mysterious boy will have a picnic with him 🌸

#hws prussia #hws canada #prucan #canpru #hetalia #my art #mattie’s fluffy eaaaaarsssssss i’m sobbing i really know myself

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royaltea000 · 2 days

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Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just happy to see me ;)

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cowboy-robooty · 1 day

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warm up doodle i drew yesterday before i fuckin passed out and did not draw anything else

#hetalia #aph #hws #aph prussia #hws prussia #itager #gerita #i mean italys grabbing his ass in the bg #aph italy #aph germany #hws italy #hws germany #cuck pruita #draws

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moskvamilitia · 1 day

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gil slop

#hetalia #prussia aph #hws prussia #gilbert beilschmidt

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paroedel · 19 hours

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“Eh? What? I couldn’t hear you over my AWESOMENESS!”

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raisukujira · 2 days

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p̶o̶v̶: two the most misunderstood characters in whole hetalia fandom

#hetalia #hetalia axis powers #hetalia world stars #aph poland #hws poland #aph prussia #hws prussia #feliks łukasiewicz #gilbert beilschmidt #hetalia gangsta #i swear #i can explain #one day i will

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proosh · 2 days

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what was that about gil having dreams about the future? (no pressure!)

Oh anon my beloved thank you so much; I dropped that little tidbit into that post hoping someone would ask about it

The truth is that while it is a strongly held headcanon of mine, it’s something of half a historical in-joke, and half a metanarrative indulgence. I’ll cover both of these respectively, in case you want just the historical reasoning and not so much my deranged meta-analysis on nations, narrative, and metanarrative. With this in mind;

Prussia as Cassandra, A Meta

A brief historical overview

The Old Prussians practiced omen-reading and regarded seers with high regard, which was acknowledged as valid by the Teutonic Knights (when the omens predicted victory in battle, at least) and was practised by both men and women

White Ladies are supposedly ghosts of women who haunt the Hohenzollern family as omens of misfortune and especially as messengers of coming death. Notably, Queen Sophia Louise was once afflicted by a bout of madness in 1709 and dressed only in her white nightgown and having cut herself on some broken glass and screamed at King Frederick I (grandfather of Fritz) that "the plague would devour the king of Babylon". In part due to the White Lady folklore, he took this with serious regard and proceeded to prepare Berlin against the upcoming plague (which very much devastated wide swathes of both Prussia and the rest of Northern Europe)

Bismarck very probably never actually said the famous "damned foolish thing in the Balkans" quote that people like to trot out about the inevitability of World War 1 so I hesitate to include it here as historical fact, but for the purposes of elaborating on the "historical in-joke" half of this meta I will gesture to it as a vague suggestion of an ironic future-vision that, as I will discuss shortly, I think makes a certain degree of narrative sense.

Now, moving on to the narrative background and arguably the meat of this meta:

Narrative analysis

Entire books could and have been written about the depiction of history, and the fictionalisation of history for the purposes of narrative storytelling, especially in regards to the personification of abstract concepts like nation-states and their associated concepts. Unfortunately I cannot afford to go to university so you are getting this post instead.

For the purposes of this discussion strict literal academic historicity is not our goal, but rather HWS Prussia as a narrative construct within the sandbox of Hetalia as a story that involves and adapts history but is not necessarily directly representative of it.

Within this frame of analysis, Prussia as a character is a distinctly weird choice for Himaruya to make: To establish him as an ongoing, extant entity in the modern day is definitely A Narrative Choice to make, and honestly not really one I could personally imagine making. Perhaps it's a lingering result of questionable initial research, perhaps there's some meat to chew on in regards to this.

Prussia's design is one that stands out, compared to the rest of the mostly-naturalistic cast. We have the initial design concept for him depicting him as an older, rugged man, and we also have his very early canon design that depicts him with blond hair and blue eyes. However, the decision was made at some point relatively early on to change his design to be distinctly and notably Not Natural: Some debate has been made about to what degree is he actually albino, but the design is still notable for being distinctly 'set apart' from the other nations.

From there, we have to start asking questions about why this decision was made. My personal first thought was perhaps it was inherently tied to his creation as an "unnatural" state in the form of the Teutonic Knights. Voltaire's popular quote about Prussia not being a nation with an army, but rather an army with a nation might come to mind. However, we have been provided with the designs of the other Orders and they don't share his design traits in favour of their own design language, meaning that line of question falls short.

From there, I think it's not unreasonable to suggest that Prussia was designed - in his final, canon form - with his dissolution in mind. It sets him apart visibly from the rest of the established nations, and fundamentally Others him from the rest of the cast - a similar design concept used with Russia, who is within the canon framework of Hetalia, heavily associated with the sinister supernatural as signaled by his unnaturally coloured eyes.

Therefore, on a narrative level, Prussia's appearance foreshadows his own death, and his death was inevitable from the very beginning.

(Turns out the Calvinists were right, huh?)

With all that in mind, I don't find it unreasonable to take that dramatic narrative irony and apply that inherent 'friction' to the rest of Prussia's story: His narrative is haunted by his own death.

By virtue of his creation and his design (and within the framework of the text, his existence) he is doomed to die, and that singular event ripples back through his narrative almost like a psychic shockwave. Everything he Is points towards The End.

When that End comes, it 'releases' a good deal of that narrative tension. Himaruya has said that he designed Prussia to be something of a villainous character and the dissolution provides the suitable narrative endpoint in that regard. However.

The narrative framework of Hetalia continues, as the history it adapts tends to do, which begins to create a new form of narrative tension due to The Decision to have Prussia continue existing into the 'modern' setting. Himaruya has been incredibly cagey about this and besides the ongoing mystery of The HRE Situation the topic of Prussia's ongoing existence is something he's been noticeably coy about in his discussions and implications of East Germany and the following Reunification, but that's an entirely separate essay from what this one is about.

Fundamentally, I think that Prussia - as a narrative construct - is inherently and on a foundational level tied to his own eventual nonexistence, and the dramatic tension of What Comes After. I think he knows, on some primal, unfathomable level, and rages against it right up until it comes for him and he has to learn how to pick up the pieces of himself, his legacy, and his own narrative.

With that intrinsic narrative irony in mind, I don’t think it is too out there to suggest that he possibly (unintentionally, unconsciously) channels the future-sight that keeps cropping up in Prussian history, as noted above. At least in some form, I think he resonates with the coming End in a way that he cannot fully comprehend or articulate and like the Cassandra of myth there is nothing he can do to warn about or avert the doom that he sees and senses.

Troy could not be saved, and neither can he.

But that's just a theory. A game theor—

If you’ve made it this far, thank you so much for reading! This really got away from me and I really do hope that it's at least somewhat comprehensible.

#hws prussia #hetalia meta #mine #my writing #from the askbox

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artemiswolfheart · 2 days

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Hey, it's them. I may colour this and add shading in the future, who knows. Just have them for now.

#hws prussia #aph prussia #hws lithuania #aph lithuania #hetalia prussia #hetalia lithuania #gilbert beilschmidt #tolys laurinaitis #lietpru #pruliet #aph pruliet #aph lietpru #hetalia #artemis' art #open commissions #digital art #art #fanart

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sketchytea · 58 minutes

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And we will never be alone again 'Cause it doesn't happen every day Kinda counted on you being a friend Can I give it up or give it away?

pruliet commission for @maibluemen, thank you so much for commissioning me! ✨

#the song just crept into my brain on its own as i was finishing this up and the vibes just fit to me #pruliet #commission #art #my art #fanart #hws #gilbert beilschmidt #toris laurinaitis #hws prussia #hws lithuania #maibluemen #digital art #artists on tumblr

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ask-aphdeutschland · 17 hours

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and more sketches but this time w my Bavaria OC and also Prussia but I used Astarion as a reference because they are both dumbasses I love them both ok anyway enjoy I will try to answer asks and draw art on here again soon, i pROMISE))

#ooc #hws prussia #my art #bavaria oc #hetalia bavaria oc #hetalia fanart

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skronky-bird · 21 hours

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He's really good at his profession

#hetalia world stars #hetalia #aph prussia #hws prussia #skronky bird #played around with some settings hehe

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roszabell · 1 day

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the emotional carnage of asking gilbert the question about whether people would fuck marry or kill him, pls expound more on that 👀 for scientific purposes

this is from when i said this back in like october but i’m thinking about it again.

gil knows that a good majority of ppl would say ‘kill’ either seriously or only half-joking, and he definitely is loud and proud about how there’s more people than are willing to admit that want to fuck him. “ik everyone wants to kill me but do not deny that some of you sick fucks wanna tap this and can’t heheheh.” but his stomach hurts bc he is so 100% sure that there is not one person in the world who would want to marry him

and honestly why wouldn’t he think that? canonically he’s never been ONE person’s first choice, or been chosen at all romantically. and why WOULD someone want to marry him anyway? he’s so broken and no one can stand him. <- inside gil’s brain

when is gilbert not experiencing emotional carnage tbh

#hws prussia #BTW #HES NOT CORRECT MATTHEW WOULD DIE TO MARRY HIM #asks

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royaltea000 · 2 days

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