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Himaruya might hint in Chapter 428 that Portugal and Spain are twins.
The answer to the first question is November 25, 2006. “1125” in Japanese could be read as “iihutago”, meaning “good twins”. So on this day, in Twitter and Pixiv, many Japanese artists draw fan arts of twins. Himaruya might choose this date as the correct answer to hint that Portugal and Spain are twins.
Portugal says that the answer to the first question is about him and Spain, and Spain also says that it is he and Portugal’s important day. In this case, “good twins” day becomes Portugal and Spain’s important day to celebrate their being twins.
In fact, the day of the cooperation agreement of tourism is not well known for the rest of the world, and among the list of dates given by Spain here after, this date (in the year of 2006) is either the earliest or the latest. Did Himaruya choose this date as the answer from this list randomly? I believe that he indeed hints something.
In the official book, Collezione, published last year, there is no mention of Portugal and Spain being brothers, but still it does not mean that they are not brothers. The fun of Portugal and Spain is that every reader can tell they look like identical twins, but they themselves deny it. So if Himaruya confirms that they are twins, it would spoil the fun. And the official confirmation is not so necessary since everyone can tell from their appearance that they are twins.
On the other hand, Canada and USA are confirmed “adopted brothers” in Collezione, which is the case that their blood relation is officially denied.
Another case is that China and other Chinese districts are commonly believed by fans that they are related by blood, but this relationship is also not mentioned in Collezione.
Some fans might be offended by the hinted incest of Portugal and Spain. But this is not the first time of hinted incest in Hetalia. In Hetalia anime, Belarus asks her brother, Russia, to marry her. Also in the Hetalia movie, Paint it White, Switzerland and Lichtenstein enjoy themselves together as if having a honeymoon, while the rest of the world is in chaos. Even in fandom, Prussia and Germany is a popular pairing. And as for UK and USA, although they are not blood-related, it is still awkward enough that adopted brothers end up in lovers.
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Hetalia: Spain and Portugal
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Day 1 - Destiny/Coincidence - England/Portugal
As much a gentleman he could be, certainly in these modern times, he hadn’t been the first time they had met. Arthur had been youthful and wild, ready to fight despite his seize and filled with dreams of adventures on far away of shores.
She had taken him away from either of their bosses to show him a whole new world. She didn’t think he would come to love the new, foreign places as much as she did and even more so.
Being allies still just might mean they were meant to be together no matter what.
Day 2 - Broken heart - Netherlands/japan
The most important thing that Johan remembered of the year 1854 was boarding his ship and looking back at what he was leaving behind. The love he lost did not look back at him, but welcomed new foreigners into her life instead.
Haruka still dreams of the day she hadn’t believed would truly happen and what the Dutch fleet leaving her artificial island must have looked like while she was busy welcoming a strange and younger outsider.
The next time they would meet, Japan would hurt The Netherlands even worse by making his people suffer so greatly at her hands.
He still hurts from all the pain she inflicted on his people and she still and forever regrets letting him leave in the first place on that day so long ago.
Day 3 - Holding hands - Netherlands/Canada
He hadn’t been part of the previous war, but knowing what it felt like he knew he should have been kinder to his sister and certainly her people when he took them in. Now, after having suffered the losses he did, he didn’t have the words to express his feelings for the young nation that crossed an ocean to help liberate his people.
He swore to never forget any of the things sweet little Madeline had done for him and Johan needed to give her something to thank her for all she did to help him.
She might like flowers and at the moment that was one of the few things he could offer her, but that didn’t seem enough for what she had to go through to save him.
He would simply have to keep giving her flowers.
Day 4 - Friendzone - America/Germany
Louise had been skeptical of the other young nation at first, his happy and extravagant style not matching her own introverted character. After her surrender she got to know him so much better and she loved him before she could stop the feeling, the only true doubt was that she didn’t know if her big brother support her feelings for him and now it was too late to ask.
After the spoils of war had been divided and the lines drawn, he was one of the nations that was going to keep a close eye on her and he was determined to not only do that but support her as well.
The first time he saw Louise in a dress, Alfred knew that soldier should have been part of his Hollywood instead and he regretted not having the means to tell the man that helped him gain his independence how he thought about the man’s beloved little sister.
It would take decades, but one day Gilbert ended up setting things straight between the two young nations.
Day 5 - Love letter - Denmark/America
One year Denmark suddenly wrote her a letter to congratulate her on her Independence day and continued to do so the years following. Amelia later learned that after efforts between some of their people, he started celebrating her birthday in his own country.
Years later the amount of letters he wrote to her suddenly increased after she agreed to take control of Greenland for him, so it would be free while his own lands and people where under occupation.
She had fully expected the amount of letter to go down to the annual happy birthday card after she had officially returned Greenland to Magnus, but that didn’t happen.
These days Magnus send her an email every day to tell her about his day no matter if it had been dull, interesting, boring or exciting and she would read them before falling asleep and answering him the next morning.
Day 6 - First love/Crush (mob! AU) - Germany/North Italy
Before his little brother had walked into the room, Gilbert would have preferred to make a deal with the real head of the Vargas family. That had been before he saw his reaction to the pretty little Italian woman has shown up as a representative for her grandfather
His little Lutz had stopped moving the moment he saw Feliciana Vargas and the young woman hadn’t stopped talking since that very moment, not noticing how red Ludwig’s face had turned when she hooked their arms together.
The pale man couldn’t help the sound that escaped his lips, “kesesese..” seeing that the bond between the Vargas and Beilschmidt families would be even tighter than anyone would have thought of before this evening.
Gilbert was the first to know.
Late submission for @engportevents. Prompt First Kiss.
Late submission for @engportevents. Prompt Nostalgia.
Treaty of Tordesillas.
@hetaberian-hetaevent prompt historical.
Fairytales
“’Mando, ‘mando!” He could hear his little brother calling out to him, but young Armando just wanted to play outside with his friends. Not spend his time with Antonio, who had started to follow him around everywhere since the kid had learned to walk on his own. Sort of.
Then their mother had read that fairytale to them and Armando had assisted her. Since that one time ‘Tonio wanted him to tell him the story all the time, because only Armando did the voices just right.
And as soon as the story ended, his baby brother would demand that the story would be told again from the very beginning.
He couldn’t wait for the kid to learn how to read himself and leave him be, but for now he had to find a hiding place where Antonio wouldn’t be able to find him or he would have to read him the same book for the fifth time today.
Day 3 prompt fairytales for @hetaberia-week
Made this prompt a human!au.
Prompt summer for @hetaberia-week
Prompt Sea for @hetaberia-week
Antonio stumbled inside, having finally made it all the way home after a long day together with his best friends. He loved it when he, Francis and Gilbert managed to spend time with one another. Still, the Spaniard was happy to be home again.
His plan was to get changed into something comfortable and clean, none of their clothes ever seemed to stay clean when they did anything together. Which really had to be killing Gilbert even if he would play it cool and never admit to it, Germany had to get it from someone.
He also desired a nice glass of wine, which he wanted to drink sitting in his back garden looking at the stunning view. So he got changed, grabbed a bottle and a glass and was about to walk into his garden when he noticed the door wasn’t closed. Tony was sure that he had closed and even locked that door.
He set the bottle and glass aside and cautiously walked outside, but not careful enough because as soon as he was fully out of his house a voice called out his name.
It was a voice he knew all too well and then he saw someone sitting in one of his garden chairs. On the table was another bottle of wine and two filled glasses.
There was his brother, the one he was never sure he got along with or not, waiting for him to get home and spend the evening looking at the view.
Day 2 prompt Wine for @hetaberia-week
"I don't like them like that. There's just no way. Me? Liking them? That's... not...
All of this was Antonio’s fault, he decided, because everything that went wrong in this messed up family unit was always that man’s fault. Even the fact they were a dysfunctional family, and not even all related to each other, was Antonio’s fault.
Calling this so named Tomato gang together was also the Spaniard’s fault. Why did he keep dragging Johan back into this illusion of a family? The next question the Dutchman asked himself, had to ask himself, was why he allowed himself to be dragged into these informal meetings. He fought for decades to get the freedom he had now. Freedom for himself and his people. Freedom from Spain and from this messed up family that that man had forged.
None of his bosses would have forced him to attend this informal meeting if he had insisted on being too busy to go on a vacation to Spain. If only he had told them he had too much paperwork to handle right now, needed to catch up on some extra sleep or simply said to that he had no desire to go meet with the other nations. They would not have forced him to go, rather have him absent from some small get together than start an international incident and he could have stayed comfortable at home.
But that last one would have been a lie. There were people there that Johan did want to see. One of them was Emma and he wanted to see his sister more often but even though their homes were so close to each other they were both so busy that they didn’t get together as often as he wanted them to. Then again, Johan would like to see his both of his sibling every day.
So here he was, at a party he didn’t want to be at and in his room to avoid all the whispers about how nice it was that both Johan and Rosália were there. Not willing to fuel their gossip he stayed away, but Holland was happy to see Portugal.
“I don’t like her like that.” He told himself as he walked circles in his bedroom. There had been the years that he had had this crush on her, but that was back when he had still been in his teenage years and Portugal had been the first one to take control of the seas. He was and always had been at the water’s mercy and so he had been awed at her skill on board of a ship.
“Me? Liking her” No, there was no way he still felt like that. That crush was from so long ago and from a boy, not a man. He no longer held these feelings for her.
“That’s… no...” He said aloud. He was not in love, he was not, and he would show all of them he did not love her by enjoying this evening without even glancing her way.
He left his room with full confidence of his plan but after no more than four or five steps he knew this plan was doomed to fail because he wouldn’t be able not to look at her. The truth was that he truly loved Roasália, it had never simply been a crush. No, Johan had been in love with her from the first time he has seen her in charge of a ship.
Day 5 prompt "I don't like them like that. There's just no way. Me? Liking them? That's... no..." for @nedportweek.