CANT STOP LISTENING TO PUKAPUKA VACATION!!!!

also forgot my watermark oops

i wish italians were real

lads tonight we are thinking HARD about the itabros and how their concurrent existence makes no sense……like overall it seems that cultural-regional divides do not matter when it comes to nations being born and there is always just one nation that represents the country as a whole, “north-south ____s” don’t exist except probably for legally recognized north/south divides like northern ireland and ireland, nk and sk…. except for veneziano and romano. like if I’m wrong then why isn’t there a north china and south china considering their cultural differences lol.

anyway in my head this is the entire basis for romano’s envy and inferiority complex towards vene, imagine being complete anomalies among nations, your birth is unprecedented and even now nobody knows or can explain why there are two of you, not even the older nations…..you’re freaks among already immortal eldritch beings!! At least one of you is a mistake and it’s probably not the one who is generally better at everything and well-liked by everyone else!

Thoughts on the Itabros Birthday

I like to think that every nation has two birthdays: the day they popped into existence, marking their 'birth' and the day that made them who they represent today (such as a unification or an independence day).

For example, say Veneziano's original birthday is March 25, 421 AD (The Feast of the Annunciation, the traditional founding day of the city of Venice). Romano's original birthday is historically a little more complicated, but knowing that he's canonically much older than Vene, let's just say that his original birthday is April 21, 753 BC (which aligns with the Roman myth of the founding of the city).

With many nations, their original birthdays are lost to time after so long has passed and they have undergone so many changes into their present-day national personifications, so they choose to adopt a new birthday that symbolizes their growth and who they have become.

So, here's my theory. The Itabros didn't get to choose their own modern birthdays. Because the Risorgimento was so tumultuous and uneasy, the government figures and officials thought it would boost morale and make the transition smoother if their personifications showed support of the unification, so they were almost forced to adopt March 17, 1861 as their 'official' modern birthday.

Out of ease and habit, Vene and Roma pretend to publicly celebrate this as their birthday every year. But they have both chosen dates that they identify with more to actually celebrate!

I love the dates that @irl-romano proposed for the Itabros' birthdays! So Veneziano chose June 2, and Romano chose April 25 (but you'll have to check out their post to see why!).

Lazy afternoons

Poland: (To Italy) I can be your partner for the next race.

Romano: Sorry Poland, it’s a big brother and little brother race.

Italy: Maybe there’s a race for lonely children!

Romano: That’s “only” children, Veneziano. A lonely child is what you’re gonna be when I sell you.

in honor of finishing my fic, i sketched all the monsters i could think of that pop up!

description at bottom

including, but not limited to: the great lakes sirens (canada, america), the nachzehrers (germany, prussia, austria, kugelmugel, hungary), the roman centaurs (rome, italy romano, italy veneziano), and the classic oxenstierna family (sweden, finland, sealand, ladonia) and bondeviks et al (norway, iceland, denmark, hong kong)

Happy (belated) birthday to them!

oh shit theres two of them

I may pretend feli is my fave but if a boat was sinking n I could save only one life………..it was good 2 know u feli