i'm quite late but i still wanted to post this so: here's argentina (angie) and maría remedios del valle (the capitana/mother of the homeland).
i wanted to make these drawings as a sort-of tribute for the 8th of november (aka. the afro-argentines and afro-culture's day, which is in conmemoration to her) because, despite being one of the most forgotten figures in our history, maría remedios was important, more than people realize.
and since this is about my hetalia oc (oops-) here's how i vision her influence on argentina, not only as a country but as a woman:
angie saw her as a role figure, almost like a mother in a way, she was the closest thing she would get as a maternal figure. during her independence, angie kept maría remedios close, as they helped eachother and made their way through the war, she tought her how to fight, heal the wounded soldiers and many things.
however, after it was over, they took different paths, angie had other wars to fight and she didn't know anything else about maría remedios until it was too late. it didn't help that all this happened when angie was still very young, as she was growing up, she began to forget. it was only in recent years that maria remedios was beggining to be recognized for who she was, after being forgotten for centuries.
argentina forgot about her, just like we argentines did, her people.
i am very aware of what happened to maría remedios and her story, how argentines forgot her and discredited her achievements and efforts (such ignorance being rooted in racism and misoginy).
she is just as important as san martín, manuel belgrano and many argentine figures, we must not leave her in oblivion again.
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Okay so I was on the tv tropes page for this fucker right?
And when scrolling the nightmare fuel page covering him, I had a thought.
What if people made false confessions because of him? Like, not because he manipulated the trial to make the defendant believe he did it, but they confessed because they knew they were screwed anyway.
Manfred von karma is perfect, edgeworth said so himself. This man has gone above and beyond just to get a guilty verdict, no matter if the defendant is actually guilty or not.
Knowing that, if he’s the prosecution, the trial is pretty much over before it begins.
So what if a defendant just confesses as soon as the officially trial begins, because Manfred is going to get them guilty anyway, they might as well skip that whole song and dance get the trial over with, and save their lawyer and themselves the trouble.
Or, confess before Manfred can drive the “truth” out of them, because it’s pretty much the only thing they can do to defy him. If they at least know about the rumors of Manfred setting up trials so that they go perfectly in his favor, the only way the defendant can defy him is make sure all that perfect planning goes to waste. As a sort of “better to die than be killed.” Sort of thing
If you’re going out, you might as well go out with a bang, or at least a middle finger.
It’s bittersweet to think, of a no name defendant, who’s brave enough to rather confess to a crime they didn’t commit and probably even be executed, than give Von karma the satisfaction of adding another well planned victory to his precious perfect prosecution record.
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