#(So we have Paddy in Joe's role Charlie as Sarah Harry as Mary and Michele as long-suffering Gerry)

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I think explaining in bullet points how we got here will be more informative than me trying to explain anything, so here goes nothing:

- Got obsessed with Hetalia at age 14

- Met someone online who became a dear friend. I had a couple of UK OCs, he had a Sicily OC.

- Mash em together because that is what you DO with OCs. Agree on an art trade, where I get art and they get a story.

- I'm 14. I don't know shit about Sicily. We are of course like 'Hey how about a Mafia AU?' for the story.

- I end up needing Human OCs to fill some roles in the story. It is supposed to be one-off, the OCs were supposed to be killed off. Nothing big.

- Uh-oh, someone got attached to blorbo from their braaain. The worldbuilding spirals out of control. I keep making more Human OCs. It takes me 2 years to finish the fic and by the end of it, I love all of these motherfuckers dearly and have already made 30 new ones.

- It's always the same basic pattern for the AU: The Heta characters are mob bosses and each of them have two right hands. From these Trios (sometimes we have 4) spiral all other OCs - Parents, friends, acquaintances, foes, etc. That is how I ended up with over 200 OCs for this thing.

- If you see me blog about the Irish, that's basically: Harry (My Ireland OC), Sophie (My Northern Ireland OC), Paddy and Charlie. Charlie is Harry's childhood best friend while Paddy was already a right hand to Harry's and Soph's father Aaron. He helped raise the two, especially Soph, since their mother Freya died in childbirth.

- The Sicilians, which usually accompany them are Michele (Sicily OC, mine now) as well as the twins Marco and Lorenzo. They ran away from home at age 12 and Michele, only 18 himself, turned them away at first, not wanting them to throw their life away for this hellscape, but eventually took them in when he couldn't persuade them to go home. So he raised them and they ended up his right hands.

- For all the other OCs .... Again. Over 200. And there IS a Mainstory and various more or less canon stories over on my ao3, but the purpose of the AU is less to tell one tightly knit story where we focus on a handful of protagonists and everyone else supports them. It's more creating a bunch of colorful characters that all populate this world and are the protagonists of their own stories, which overlap and intersect with the other characters' stories, but aren't necessarily affected by much of the other bullshit going on in this world.

Does that at least partly clear things up?

I'm willing to answer all and any questions to make you less confused about my OC posting lol

Tbh I have no idea what to ask I'd need like. A general introduction first because what I got doesn't amount to much