#eduard ludwig

[germanpostwarmodern]

Martinus-Kirche (1961-63) in Berlin, Germany, by Eduard Ludwig

[ask-adicks-powers]

estonia hetalia

[maibluemen]

really though, tolys's vibes in the og webcomic especially are very much like. "most sane guy in the room at any given time" like i said ivan is michael scott, well. tolys is pam.

[myrddin-wylt]

NATO members who get gold stars: Alfred, Arthur, Herakles (he's on thin ice though), Eduard, Raivis, Tolys, Feliks, Croatia, Slovakia, and Romania.

NATO members who get the "world's okayest ally" mugs for Christmas: Ludwig, Feliciano, Ned

NATO members who wear the DUNCE hat: Francis, Sadik, Matthew, Elizaveta

Alfred's special little boy who can do no wrong: Iceland

NATO members who get participation trophies: everyone else

they have a "NATO member of the month" award that goes to whoever pisses off Ivan the most. you'd think Alfred wears it all the time but it's usually one of the Baltics.

[council-of-beetroot]

Hetalia: How Common are Countries' Human First Names in Their Country

Alfred - 366th in the U.S.

Matthew - 152th in Canada

Arthur - 179th in England

Francis - 7th in France

Ludwig - 172nd in Germany

Kiku - 242nd in Japan

Antonio - 5th in Spain

Ivan - 18th in Russia

Feliciano - 1,302nd in Italy

Feliks - 2,671st in Poland

Erzsébet - 15th in Hungary

Eduard - 120th in Estonia

Raivis - 311th in Latvia

Natalya - 5th in Belarus

Sadık - 251st in Turkey

Gilbert - 1,065th in Germany

Roderich - 2,597th in Austria

source forebears.io and disclaimer I cannot guarantee if this is 100% accurate. Still I thought it was interesting. Note these numbers are how many people living in the country with the name not popularity of a given year. Numbers include both masculine and feminine names.

[jinsai-ish]

I want this fanfic so bad man

It's eating my brain!! I can't stop world building!

Like, they go to different colleges maybe but in the same city? Probably have an apartment instead of dorms for that reason.

Matthew goes to a college more famous for sports than academics obviously. Studies something like bio or forestry or journalism, whatever. I kinda like forestry? He's really there for the hockey. Scholarship, obviously. Plays lacrosse in the spring, but it's more just to keep in shape for hockey. Tino, Berwald, Mathias, and Ivan are on his team. Katya goes to the same school but is an upperclassman. Ivan goes there because his sister does, and also has a hockey scholarship but he moonlights aerospace engineering classes at the other college.

Matt was the quiet kid in high school who you were shocked to find out went to underage drinking parties and got arrested for smoking pot and setting things on fire.

Alfred got an academic scholarship to some big time tech school - engineering, physics, aerospace, computer programming, etc. Would play baseball except he's too focused on his studies but he and Kiku go to every game. Gilbert probably goes there. Eduard, Kiku, and Ludwig definitely do.

In high school, he did Mathlettes and baseball, as well as played the violin, and figure skating. You know, that kid with way too many hobbies who you wanted to hate because he excelled at everything but he was too damn friendly.

Obviously in highschool everyone knew them but now that they're in (different) college and their teachers and classmates don't know about the identical twin thing, which is about to save Matt's ass with the drug test thing.

Or, at least, that's their one braincell-ed plan.

Please send help.

[historical-hetalia]

Hetalia Nation Ages Based On History

China / Yao Wang - 30

France / Francis Bonnefoy - 30

England / Arthur Kirkland - 30

Japan / Kiku Honda - 29

Spain / Antonio Fernandez Carriedo - 29

Denmark / Matthias Kohler - 29

Czechia / Verushka Novakova - 28

Norway / Lukas Bondevik - 28

Hungary / Elizaveta Hedervary - 28

Sweden / Berwald Oxenstierna - 27

Romano / Lovino Vargas - 27

Italy / Feliciano Vargas - 27

Portugal / Joao Carriedo - 26

Austria / Roderich Edelstein - 26

Turkey / Sadik Adnan - 26

Thailand / Somchai Metharom - 25

Russia / Ivan Braginsky - 25

Netherlands / Jan Janssens - 25

Switzerland / Basch Zwingli - 24

Liechtenstein / Liesl Vogel - 24

America / Alfred Jones - 24

Luxembourg / Henri Schmidt - 23

Greece / Heracles Karpusi - 23

Belgium / Hannelore Maes - 23

Monaco / Gianna Bonnefoy - 22

Ludwig Beilschmidt - 22

Romania / Vladimir Popescu - 22

Cuba / Juan Machado - 21

Bulgaria / Dimitar Ivanov - 21

Finland / Tino Vainamoinen - 21

Lithuania / Tolys Laurinaitis - 20

Estonia / Eduard von Bock - 20

Poland / Feliks Łukasiewicz - 20

Latvia / Raivis Galante - 19

Iceland / Emil Steilsson - 19

Egypt / Gupta Hassan - 19

Canada / Matthew Williams - 18

Australia / Christian Kirkland - 18

Vietnam / Linh Chung - 18

India / Nitin Gadhavi - 17

New Zealand / Zachary Kirkland - 17

South Korea / Im Yong Soo - 17

Cameroon / Chinua Konga - 16

Cyprus / Andros Nicolaou - 16

Seychelles / Michelle Laroche - 16

Ukraine / Katyusha Chernenko - 15

Belarus / Natalia Arlovskaya - 15

Moldova / Aurel Popescu - 15

Slovakia / Jozef Kovać - 14

*shrugs overdramatically* I don't make the rules, I just enforce them

[blackswaneuroparedux]

An artist has to pay for the gift of his genius. Wagner paid. He was defeated, one way or another, all his life. His own self-destructiveness always pursued him. There wasn’t one of his triumphs that was not spoiled, at the moment of triumph, by his own self-destructiveness. But what he couldn’t do, his characters do. In his operas, he splits his many-faceted self into those characters. He drains off the evil in himself and, as the long dramas move towards their great catharses, he brings the good together. Hans Sachs does what Wagner wanted to do but never could – renounce his own wilfulness and open up in understanding and compassion to others.

M. Owen Lee, Wagner and the Wonder of Art: An Introduction to Die Meistersinger

Of Wagner’s great operas, “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg” often gets overlooked when the conversation of “greatest works” begins. Perhaps partly because the story is pretty straightforward and is also admittedly one of the composer’s more intimate operas. The opera opens on Midsummer's eve, Nuremberg in the 16th century - a setting many productions have played loose with for example I went to one of Glyndebourne's production that updated the setting to the early 19th century.

The story revolves around the real-life cobbler-poet Hans Sachs and the guild of mastersingers - poets and musicians who pursue their craft according to traditions and rules. A goldsmith's daughter, Eva, and a knight, Walther von Stolzing, fall in love, but Eva's father has promised her to the winner in the forthcoming song contest. Walther must learn the mastersinger's art rapidly, under the wise tuition of Sachs (considered Wagner's most generous and human character) - and despite a challenge from the foolish town clerk Beckmesser.

The premiere of Richard Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg was generously supported by Ludwig II of Bavaria, at the Munich Court Opera on 21 June 1868. Hans von Bülow conducted, and Franz Strauss, the father of Richard Strauss played the French horn at the premiere. It was enthusiastically received, and Eduard Hanslick wrote in Die Neue Freie Presse, “Dazzling scenes of colour and splendour, ensembles full of life and character unfold before the spectator’s eyes, hardly allowing him the leisure to weigh how much and how little of these effects is of musical origin.”

Within a year of its premiere, Meistersinger was performed across central Europe, and Hans Sachs’s final warning at the end of Act III for the need to preserve German art from foreign threats became a rallying point for German nationalism, particularly during the Franco-Prussian War, the Wilhelmine Reich, the Weimar Republic, and most notoriously, during the Third Reich. But - and quite rightly so - many contemporary productions have attempted to redeem it as one of Wagner's most approachable, tuneful and likeable works.

The opera itself was not based on any major myth the way some of his other works were and its tame and comic nature make it seem ripe to overlook in the context of his other massive philosophical works. Yet this opera is every bit as good, if not better, than many of Wagner’s best works. It’s overture has become a staple of the standard orchestral repertoire, but its themes of longing and the nature of art and its purpose are among the most immersive and potent discussions that the creator engages his audience in. The main draw I think is the character of Hans Sachs himself that Wagner himself readily identified with.

As a 15-year-old Wagner saw Deinhardstein’s comedy “Hans Sachs” on a Dresden stage, which captivated him instantly. It was about the Nuremberg poet and Meistersinger Sachs, who was known for his poetry in the 16th century. The art of the Mastersingers went back to minstrels who made music according to free rules and who recorded their art rules in fixed tablatures as they gradually settled in the cities. This art was subsequently administered by the guild masters, of whom the shoemaker Sachs was the most famous.

17 years after his experience in the Dresden theatre, Wagner felt the need to create a cheerful counterpart to the tragic “Tannhäuser”. He recollected the comedy and created his first sketches in 1845 during a spa stay in Marienbad. His involvement in the Dresden Revolution and the hectic flight to Switzerland interrupted the work and it was to take another 15 years before he resumed work.

Why it took him so long to write could partly be explained by financial woes which despite taking a heavy advance he failed to turn in a credible draft. It was not until the work on the opera continued when Ludwig II of Bavaria relieved him of his financial needs and he was able to complete the work by 1867. But also he needed time for ideas to marinate as it was only later that Wagner had come across a chronicle by Wagenseil (“von den Meisters Singer holdseligen Kunst”), which gave him a comprehensive insight into the rules and regulations of the Meistersinger.

But yet another reason exists which was the emotional turbulence in his life, in particular his relationship with his then secret lover, Mathilde Wesendonck. At the invitation of his Zurich patrons, the Wesendonck couple, Wagner spent a few days with them in Venice in 1861. There he discovered that his secret lover Mathilde Wesendonck was pregnant with her husband’s fifth child. After the love affair was already in a crisis, Wagner realised that this love, which inspired him to “Tristan and Isolde” was over. Now Wagner decided to philosophically transcend this indirect “rejection” and saw himself as Hans Sachs, who renounced love for noble reasons.

The philosophical framework for this was provided by Schopenhauer’s work “Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung” (The World as Will and representation”), which he had become acquainted with a few years earlier. In Schopenhauer’s pessimistic view of the world, the will of the predator “man” results in destructive torments. This inherent mania leads to war, self-destruction and loss of love, whose only way out is renunciation (of the will).

Thus the shoemaker poet Hans Sachs became a Schopenhauer figure whose world philosophy Wagner expounded in the delusional monologue of the third act. This philosophical change explains the paramount importance of Hans Sachs’ figure in Wagner’s Meistersinger: Sachs is the master himself. Wagner identified himself with no other figure more than the cobbler-poet, and he has him quoted in the third act “Tristan and Isolde”: «Mein Kind, von Tristan und Isolde kenn’ ich ein traurig Stück. Hans Sachs war klug und wollte nichts von Herrn Markes Glück». (“My child, I know a sad tale of Tristan and Isolde. Hans Sachs was clever and did not want anything of King Marke’s lot”). Isolde now became Eva!

Apart from Sachs, all other figures fade away, even the revolutionary hero and iconoclast Walther (who also has a little Wagner in him) must take a back seat to the light figure Sachs. If the Junker Walther were the hero of the final act in a “normal” opera, the third act now becomes the two-hour “Hans Sachs Festival”, which begins with his Wahn-monologue and ends with his «Verachtet mir die Meister nicht» (“Don’t despise me the masters”), forming one of the most gigantic par force tours in all of opera literature. The part of Sachs demands the whole range of the singer’s repertoire: high lyrical passages, long declamatory stretches and of course the high passages of the third act and the enormous final scene.

Marco Jentzsc sings a snippet of Walther's prize song in David McVicar's 2011 production.

[hetacupid]

Hetalia Human Names

NOTE: This is my personal interpretation and the names may diverge from canon and established fanon. Also I might update this every so often to make it more accurate, depending on the information I find.

Table of Contents

The Main Characters

Western Europe

Northern Europe

Eastern Europe

Southern Europe

Western Asia

South Asia

East Asia

Southeast Asia

Oceania

Micronations

Former nations

The Main Characters

Italy Veneziano: Feliciano Vergano

I chose the name Vergano instead as it keeps the essense of the original surname, but is actually Italian.

Italy Romano: Lovino Vergano

Germany: Ludwig Beilschmidt

Japan: Kiku Honda

Prussia: Gilbert Beilschmidt

America: Alfred Franklin Jones

I like the headcanon of his middle name being "Freedom", but Franklin is my personal favourite.

England: Arthur James Kirkland

I came across this in a fic a while back and never looked back. This man needs a middle name.

France: Francis Bonnefoy

Russia: Ivan Braginsky

China: Yao Wang

Canada: Matthew Williams

Western Europe

Austria: Roderich Edelstein

Belgium: Laura Janssens

Liechtenstein: Erika Vogel

Luxembourg: Henri Janssens

I've also used the name Gabriel before, but it doesn't seem to be used much in Luxembourg, so Henri would be more fitting.

Monaco: Louise Bonnefoy

The name Louise and it's masculine variant, Louis, appear a few times in the Monaguesque royal family.

Netherlands: Willem Janssens

Willem appears a few times in the Dutch royal family, and it sounds a bit older than other suggested names, which reflects his age and general vibes imo. I really like this name.

Switzerland: Sebastian Zwingli

Personally I see his name "Basch" as a nickname for Sebastian. It's also easy to adapt to his official languages: Sebastian/Sébastién/Sebastiano. The Romansh variant would be Bistgaun, but the archaic version seems to be Bastgaun, which is more similar to Basch. I headcanon that he goes by the name "Basch" in all languages to make it more cohesive.

Northern Europe

Denmark: Mathias Rasmussen

I'm from Scandinavia myself and I don't know if it's widespread, but I've heard people say "all Danish people are named Rasmus" more than once, so I like to incorporate that into his surname.

Estonia: Eduard Kaasik

Around 50% of Estonia is covered in forest, and one of the most common tree types is birch. Kaasik is a common surname and means "birch forest".

Finland: Timo Väinämöinen

Iceland: Eiríkur Steinsson

Steinsson means "son of Stein (given name meaning stone)",. Also Emil isn't traditionally Icelandic, but it's widely used. Personally though, I prefer the name Eiríkur.

Latvia: Raivis Bērziņš

The surname Galante corresponds with the modern Latvian opera singer Inese Galante, but I couldn't find anything to suggest it's commonly used or that it's Latvian at all. Bērziņš is one of the most used Latvian surnames and means "birch tree", like Estonia's surname. Personally, I don't see the Baltics as siblings, but I think this would be a cute reference.

Also, based on what I read, surnames became common in Latvia around the 19th century, with Bērziņš being one of them. Latvia could have picked up whatever the people around him (Estonia) was using and made it his own.

Lithuania: Tolys Laurinaitis

Norway: Sigurd Bondevik

Sweden: Berwald Oxenstierna

Eastern Europe

Belarus: Natalya Arlovskaya

Bulgaria: Mihail Petrov Isporov

Isporov is the family name and is derived from an alternative name of Asparukh, the first king of the First Bulgarian Empire.

Czech: Tereza Novakova

Hungary: Erzsébet Héderváry

Moldova: Marcel Popescu

Poland: Feliks Łukasiewicz

Romania: Vladislav Popescu

Slovakia: Jozef Novak

Ukraine: Iryna Chernenko

Southern Europe

Greece: Herakles Karpusi

Portugal: João Silva Ferreira

Spain: Antonio Fernandez Carriedo

Western Asia

Cyprus: Stasinos Karpusi

Stasinos was one of the first European poets who wrote the epic poem Cypria.

Turkey: Sadiq Adnan

TRNC: Tarkan Adnan

South Asia

India: Rajesh Thakur

East Asia

Hong Kong: Leon Wang / Wong Kulung

Macau: Chen Wang

South Korea: Im Yong-soo

Taiwan: Mei Lin

Southeast Asia

Thailand: Prasert Chakri

Vietnam: Lien Nguyen

Africa

Cameroon: Emmanuel Mawdo Ahidjo

Many of the most commonly used forenames in Cameroon are of French or English origins, such as Emmanuel.

Mawdo means ‘elder’ in Fulfulde.

Ahidjo refers to the first president of Cameroon.

Egypt: Gupta Muhammad Hassan

Seychelles: Michelle Mancham

Americas

Cuba: Carlos Machado Rodríguez

Oceania

Australia: Daniel Kirkland

New Zealand: Zachary Kirkland

Micronations

Hutt River: Christopher Kirkland

Kugelmugel: Leopold Edelstein

Ladonia: Erland Oxenstierna

Molossia: Jacob Jones

"JJ" :)

Sealand: Peter Kirkland

Seborga: Romeo Vergano

Okay listen. I have no explaination, I just really like this name. Also, if the names of the trio is Peter, Wendy, and Romeo, they're all named after characters from literature. I think that's fun.

Wy: Wendy Kirkland

Former Nations

Ancient Egypt: Neferure

References the only biological child of Hatshepsut.

Ancient Greece: Helene

Ancient Rome: Marcus Valerius Maximus

Marcus is the praenomina (given name) and refers to how Romulus and Remus were said to have been twins of Mars, the god.

Valerius is the nomen gentilicium (hereditary name) and means “to be strong”.

Maximus is the cognomen and means “the greatest”.

Germania: Alaric

Holy Roman Empire: Otto Beilschmidt

Personally I like the idea that HRE and Germany aren't the same person, but share the same body.

[germanpostwarmodern]

Martinus-Kirche (1961-63) in Berlin, Germany, by Eduard Ludwig

[lithugraph]

found this in my notes/outline. Have some character birthdays and heights for The Book Smuggler:

Gil: January 18, 1842–6ft

Tauras: February 24, 1842–6ft1

Eduard: July 30, 1842–6ft4

Ludwig: October 12, 1848–6ft4

Raivis: November 18, 1856–5ft7

Ivan: December 16, 1831–6ft7

Feliks: November 11, 1841–5ft8

[writernotyetauthor]

I so excited for your CanLiet Scott Pilgrim vs the world au idea

I who love to read that fanfic, omg i so excited

So my AU idea—

It’s not a 1:1 comparison of the story/characters for obvious reasons 🫥 spvtw has got its own issues but AnYwAy:

Our boy Matthew takes the place of Scott Pilgrim as he attempts to win the heart of Ramona Flowers *cough cough I mean* Tolys! And by defeating his seven evil exes. The ideas for the exes are as follows (some I’m more certain of than others):

Eduard: kinda iffy on this one, but I could see him fighting with the nyos as a tie in to the “demon hipster chicks”.

ALFRED: need I say more? American movie star slash skating star played in the movie by Chris evans of Captain America fame???? Match made in heaven.

Feliks: so this one gets interesting. Tolys and Feliks are exes, but who is the singer of The Clash at Demonhead? The ex of Matthew and current gf of Tolys ex #3? I think Ukraine. The vegan (or whatever else gives Feliks his special powers) police are Czechia and Slovakia.

Natalya: “You had a straight phase?” I think we’d all prefer this battle to play out like in the comics instead of… what happened in the movies 😬. But I also think she would totally rock Roxanne’s outfit!

⬇️

Lovino & Feliciano: So these two I feel like is the biggest stretch, esp since I’ve never really seen any feli/ tolys stuff but dangit I needed another pair of siblings Tolys has some connection to and I’m starting to run out 😭. When it comes to the battle of the bands, I keep imagining some kind of Måneskin thing for them & I think that’s be sick.

Ivan: 🥲🥲🥲

When it comes to ideas for a Knives Chau-ish character (bc euugh Scott why) the ppl who came to mind were either like, Ludwig or Gilbert. Who are in college at least. I’d be leaning towards Gilbert because of the prucan precedent and because of Tolys and Gilbert already having somewhat of a rivalry. He’d be some kind of international grad student or something.

For other characters I…. Havent thought about as much 😅. Sex Bo-Bomb would probably consist of a bunch of Matthew’s friends/exes who haven’t already been giving roles.

If I were to develop this more, I think it could be cool to expand on the music aspect of it, esp with alternative punk/rock/whateva music from the different countries. My knowledge of that is kinda limited but I’d love to learn more about it!

So yeah! That’s the bulk of my idea. Ya mentioned reading it as a fanfic but I think it could work as a real fun hetagame too! If I wasn’t bogged down with other projects & hetagame ideas I’d make it mself. Until then imma keep rolling it around in my brain and maybe draw Tolys with a bunch of different hair colors.

[myrddin-wylt]

What certain members of NATO did to earn the DUNCE hat

Matthew🇨🇦: showed up meetings clearly high out of his gourd like five times in a row.

Jan🇳🇱: sold Matt weed in the NATO HQ parking lot.

Gilbert🇩🇪: started a fight in the war room.

Ludwig🇩🇪: did nothing to stop the fight in the war room.

Toris🇱🇹: beat Gilbert's ass in a fight in the war room.

Francis🇫🇷: posted a video of the fight in the war room on Twitter.

Arthur🇬🇧: threw up on important documents because he was hungover.

Mathias🇩🇰: didn't bring enough bagels for everyone.

Sadik🇹🇷: took a call from Ivan in the middle of a meeting.

Herakles🇬🇷: intentionally rear-ended Sadik's car in the parking lot.

Feliks🇵🇱: uses every joint-military exercise as an opportunity to shoot Ludwig in the ass.

Tereza🇨🇿: blew cigarette smoke in Ludwig's face during an argument.

Emma🇧🇪: doesn't show up to meetings despite being the host.

Erzsebet🇭🇺: she didn't even do anything wrong but everyone is mad about Orban so she wears the DUNCE hat anyway.

Raivis🇱🇻: may or may not have been involved in the Nordstream pipeline incident.

Berwald🇸🇪: keeps sneaking into NATO meetings via increasingly zany schemes.

Eduard🇪🇪: disrupted a Russian press conference with a dildo strapped to a drone.

Signy🇳🇴: nothing anyone can definitively prove but Alfred made her wear it anyway.

[council-of-beetroot]

Hetalia where everything is the same but every nation has the most common surname in their country

Eduard Tamm

Raivis Bērziņš (Eduard and Raivis would both have tree related surnames which i find cute)

Tolys Kazlauskas

Feliks Nowak

Ludwig Müller

Ivan Smirnov

Arthur Smith

Alfred Smith

Matthew Smith

Antonio García

Herakles Papadopoulos (I love the last name Papadopoulos)

Sadık Yılmaz

Wang Yao

Sato Kiku

Kim Yong-Su

Francis Martin

Feliciano Rossi (that's funny because it can mean red haired)

[lets-curse-each-other]

JJK characters as masterpieces of art 1

Eduard von Grützner, "Mephisto" (1895)

Euan Macleod, "Seated Figure Beneath Rocks" (2012)

Daniel Ludwig, "Tempest" (2021)

N. C. Wyeth, "The Giant" (1923)

Caravaggio, "The Crowning With Thorns" (1607)

[bul-bor]

hws baltic headcanons

i have been home from school for two weeks and im already mind-numbingly bored

here are head-canons for the baltics bc they’re the best, also gonna add what ages i think they are physically bc the ones they have are Not Correct

As a trio...

they go on a baltic tour every couple years! they take like... 5-6 weeks off of work to travel their countries together and appreciate each other’s cultures :D they always start in Lithuania and go north from there

Raivis can’t drink in public due to how he looks physically, so he ends up DD’ing a lot of the time

eduard has transitional frames and gets laughed at every time for them

eduard and raivis can certainly TRY and get tolys to play video games with them, but he can only learn one console at a time (”I brought my ‘Whee’ remote for games!” “Tolys, it’s on your phone.”)

When they live together/vacation together, Tolys is very much the “it’s 6:30, let’s get our day going!!” (when he’s having a good day)

eduard is only on 4 hours of sleep by 6:30

raivis doesn’t move from his bed until 11:30 AM MINIMUM

in world meetings they’ll pass notes to each other and do hypotheticals and bets to pass the time

3 v. 1 who do you think we can take in a fight RIGHT now? -E

lunch says that the meeting ends early for the world cup qualifying match -r

Be honest- Do you two think that aliens are actually real?? No wrong answers :) -T

Lithuania/Tolys (26)

he’s not a pushover!! i think, if anything, he’s conflict-avoidant, but he picks his battles

along with this, he’s gotten A LOT more vocal with how he feels. Not necessarily to an Alfred or Ludwig level, but he does find himself raising his hand 3 or 4 times during meetings

i! think he plays the guitar :) is he good at it? different question

no

but his singing is not the worst, so it kind of makes up for it

big dogs or bust

he def gets a dog, in part to stay active and to get out of the house at least once a day

journals on the regular and is learning to establish boundaries with others

i think he’s pretty goofy and mischievous behind closed doors >:)

doesn’t drink coffee anymore

UNDER THE RIGHT CIRCUMSTANCES*, loves arm wrestling because he wins 80% of the time and almost everyone is surprised by it

*has ingested enough alcohol to not be shy about it

Estonia/Eduard (23)

knows he’s the most musically inclined between the three of them, isn’t humble about it in the slightest

GOSSIPER- you’ll be like “nobody can know this” and eduard will be like “nobody = tolys and raivis”

raivis and tolys won’t tell anyone for sure tho

likes to bring the Nordics and the Baltics together for small parties

this group dynamic works surprisingly well!

one time, tolys brought along feliks and throwing feliks into the mix somehow off-sets this balance so bad

super grouchy without 8 hours of sleep

coffee drinker ONLY on days when he needs it

developed a dependence for a little bit, then never forgot the migraine he had when he missed his morning cup

loves other people’s animals, doesn’t necessarily want his own

he likes anything to do with water- boating? bet. fishing? bait. oh we’re swimming? he has trunks on underneath his slacks

the con to this is that he burns the easiest out of the three

Latvia/Raivis (16 (but he has a baby face))

i think he’s HILARIOUS online, but cannot land a punchline in person to save his life

cat person for sure

now that he lives alone, he had to adapt a new routine to turn all the lights off in his house without absolutely sobbing

tolys ALSO has this problem, so they end up on the phone with each other anxiously warbling while they run around their separate houses

saw someone else say this, cannot remember who, but every time, without fail, raivis falls asleep on the train

it was thru one of eduard’s get togethers that he got his little gig babysitting sealand

REALLY wants all the younger appearing nations to all hang out, but is much to shy to initiate it

accident prone as hell, if he can avoid complicated cooking he will

BUT, if someone’s with him, he his all for utilizing his entire kitchen for a single meal