#Aph ancient rome

[renonv]

do you fw romechu. by any chance. grandpa rome and china. by any chance (pleading)

HELL YEAH I fuck w them heavy style 🫦

[tabrisangel]

welcome to the underground how was the fall

[marmartea]

Sketching the Italy brothers to check how bad of a case of same face syndrome I got, but a certain grandpa sneaked in ....

The customary 3/4 headshots are under here

[aphetaliamessages]

APH Nations' First Kiss

Italy: Holy Rome

That one's obvious as hell. We all saw it

Germany: Italy

The only person he's ever kissed. His first kiss as Holy Rome, and again as an adult. He was too awkward for anyone else before him.

His beefcake powers were not stronger than his absolute disaster gay syndrome

Japan: Alfred during Truth or Dare

He hated it. "Friends don't kiss friends! It's FORBIDDEN! And not in a hot way!!"

...Well, that was his first kiss on the mouth 🇬🇷

America: Forbidden kiss during the Cold War

Alfie certainly Became One With Russia that night. It was Russia's first as well

France: Some random guy in 1352

He was 18 in human terms and feeling adventurous. Little did he know the real adventure would begin 300 years later when an 18 year old Pirate England would swashbuckle into his heart

England: France. When Iggy came back as a pirate

He was really only ever meant for one man. No amount of tsunderism can allow him to escape Fate. It was also the day he lost his virginity 😌

China: A soldier

He would smooch the other Chinese soldiers in the tents. When he met Romulus that was all out the window tho

Canada: Cuba

They shared an ice cream like those 50s kids in the movies

Prussia: France

He drunkenly kissed him once, during the 1700s, at a party. Fran tasted like cigarettes, gross.

Ancient Rome: Julius Caesar

Turns out Caesar was even more of a manwhore than Rommy

[forkbirtuna]

hey vro… saw on the region ur taking reqs…. Can you draw rome plz 🥰

Here he is!! I've actually never drawn him before so hopefully I made him justice :D

[j0jorocityisntokay]

GERROME ALERT

GUYS LOOK AT THE CUTEST THING @currentlyamerican DREW FOR ME SHAKCNWKCJWKFJKWJCSMS THEY’RE ADORABLE!!!!!! 🥺🥺🥺🥺🙏🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️❤️

[itagerhardcoreyaoi]

i like them alot

[hetalia-rng-showdown]

Hetalia RNG Showdown - Quarterfinal #9

Pick a character, any character! You can pick your favourite, a contender, a darkhorse, an underdog, or just pick the most chaotic choice possible!

This polls opens December 25 2024 12:00PM PST and closes January 1 2025 11:59AM PST.

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Last year, as a festive seasonal treat, the showrunner arranged some Yuletide chaos joy by rigging the tournament to allow for a FACE family Christmas Day matchup. This year, the tradition returns with another family unit that would be fun to spend the holidays with. Buon Natale!

Please be respectful in the comments and tags, these polls are all just for fun!

[j0jorocity]

@pin4tre DREW THIS FOR ME!!! <3333

[nordiic-five]

go caesar it’s ur death day

[renonv]

Realized I never posted the stupid fucking sticker I made for discord

Da modern version

[tabrisangel]

dost anyone fw romechu heavy by any chance

[marmartea]

Pompeian red

[aphetaliamessages]

Li Xiao got an angry phone call for that last part

Part 1 | Part 3

[the-phoenix-heart]

Please do spill some of your Mama Greece hcs sometime if you feel comfortable because I love your thoughts on her

You have unleashed a beast Grammy. Here's a brief life history of my Mama Greece. (I can say so much more)

Human Name: Helene (also Lavinia, we'll get to it)

Her father was Mycenae (Mycenaean Greece). She looked up to him greatly as a child.

I headcanon that the City-States of Greece were also personified, and that Helene represented the Greek World as a whole, the one that followed after Mycenae Greece. The City-States aren't really related to her, I kind of characterize them as a cousins.

The City-States don't have much personality that I've decided, but Sparta was a women and a badass, and Athens was a philosophizing misogynist.

For a long time, because Helene represented the Greek World as a whole and the City-States were in charge of themselves she mostly got to spend her time doing whatever the hell she wanted. Disguising herself as a man often, and becoming a genius in mathematics and philosophy. She wasn't so much bothered with war and work for a long time, though she was was a skilled sword woman. She spent much of her time in this period in a hedonistic lifestyle (and I like to think she was involved with the Cult of Dionysus)

And then there was Persia. Their relationship was one you could call enemies with benefits. Vitriolic, Helene didn't much like him, but he was a good fuck. Their relationship got worse overtime, though there was a mutual respect between the two. Basically the France and England of the Ancient times.

When Macedonia began to conquer Greece, I characterize this as him killing off the City-States. Now obviously these places lived on, but it was still a turning point in Greek history, and I think eventually Macedonia would go after Helene - to become the "true" Greek World - and Helene would kill him in turn.

This is when Helene takes on a lot more responsibility. She becomes more a warrior and get into politics. This is also around the time where she and Persia have their final match and she kills him.

Greece is born around this time. Either he pops out of the ground and she finds him, or she actually gives birth to him. I headcanon he comes out of the ground. Either way, he is her and Persia's son and is born during the Hellenistic Period. (What will eventually become Iran is also born of this union and Idk if Helene had any contact with her at this time)

Gonna skip forward a bit to her relationship with Rome. Rome is a complex relationship. They did deeply love each other, Rome more so. He would call her the Venus to his Mars. That said, he still cheated on her frequently, and she could never truly forgive him for taking over her. Still, they were married. They were a devoted, loving couple. She was a vital part of him and his muse in many respects. And she helped raise his children. Romano was her son with Rome, and she was one of Veneziano's mothers (Vene has two mothers, her and Gaul, and Rome is obviously his father.)

(Rome tried to bring Gaul back home once and Helene shut that shit down quickly.)

She lived off and on between her house in her homelands and Rome's villa. I don't know where Greece was at the time, although a part of me wants to say Greece was not allowed to be raised in Rome's home with his sons. So possibly Greece spent most of his time when he and his Mama would visit Rome living with the servants and Helene would be sure to visit him throughout the day and make sure he was doing alright. When they would return to her home she would make sure she could be as openly affectionate with him as possible.

The "Divorce" happens when she becomes the Eastern Roman Empire, which Rome wasn't exactly a fan of. She moved to Constantinople with Greece, though she and Rome may have sometimes had secret trysts.

I have this imagine in my head that when he died she found his body and slipped his bloody helmet off of his head and placed it on her own. She renamed herself the Byzantine Empire and took on a new human name, Lavinia. The ancient of wife of Aeneas.

Also, as Byzantine she marries Kievan Rus (Olga) or at least they become a couple for a while, which makes her technically Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus's other mother. There was some love there, but their relationship was strained. She was not much of a mother to Rus's kids as well, though Ukraine has memories of Mama Byzantine and how powerful and glorious she was.

As for Romano and Veneziano, both were territories for her at a time, but I think she would have left them in their respective territories to be educated/raised by their people in charge. They are just a reminder of their father and what he did to her, though she does miss them and sometimes visit them. I think losing Romano would've been harder on her than losing Veneziano. Romano was always her favorite of the two, plus the loss of Southern Italy was different than the loss of Venice. She willingly gave Veneziano indepdence. Romano she held onto for a long time but eventually lost.

...Plus little Veneziano would eventually take the attitude of "Fuck You This Is Mine Now" and played a part in her weakening when he not only funded a trip to reinstate a deposed Byzantine prince but then looted and pillaged Constantinople when he didn't get his money back and took some more of her lands. Bad Veneziano. Sit in your corner and think about what you've done (I genuinely don't know how this works with his canon personality but this did all happen irl) (also yes I see Veneziano as Venice because I find that to make the most sense and be coolest for his character)

And then we fast forward to her eventual death at the hands of Turkey. Do I think he loved her? ...I think he was in awe of her. I think he loved the idea of her. I think he looked at her history and I think he wished that he could be like her or wished that he could be with her. But also, he did kill her. In my imagery laden mind he finds her under an olive tree and killed her there. Maybe there was a fight. Maybe she finally accepted it.

tl;dr: Helene starts as the heir to a power vacuum after the death of her father, but instead of taking charge and responsibility she spends her time doing as she pleases and learning while the city-states handle things. Until Macedonia roles up and she kills him before he can kill her and she takes charge, she kills her rival and sometimes lover Persia and he gives her her greatest treasure Herakles, her son. And also has a daughter that she doesn't interact with much. She marries Rome to survive and forms a loving, if dysfunctional marriage and has another son Romano, and there's also Veneziano who is her son with Rome but also Gaul. When Rome is killed she takes her place as the Byzantine empire and spends years just trying to survive and adapt and persevere until finally she accepts her death at the hands of Turkey.

For personality headcanons: I characterize her being motivated by a fear of death to collect as many skills as possible and adapt to her surroundings. The Greeks HATED talking about death and I think that would bleed over into her actual beliefs. I think she rarely, if ever, let herself die, because she was always afraid that she would die for the final time.

By the end of her life she is a full on genius. Math, language, astronomy, art, philosophy, even music and theatre. She had this insatiable curiosity and need to learn that sometimes overtook her best instincts of survival.

Physical Headcanons: 6'0'' because I can. Her body fluctuates between incredibly muscular, on the thicker side, and thin from weakness over her many years of life. For some basic ages: By the the she kills Persia she is physically in her early twenties. Late twenties when she marries Rome. Early thirties when she takes over as Byzanties. Early-Mid forties at her death (Turkey is into Milfs).

This is what I think she would have looked like probably around the time she married Rome. It is missing a few details. She's not as tanned as I imagine her, she doesn't have the moles I imagine her having, and I couldn't get her nose right-I imagine she has a hooked nose.

[j0jorocityisntokay]

@ceriseautonomy DREW THE SILLY OLD MEN FOR ME OMG <33333

honestly I feel like Rome would constantly be all over Germania 😭 like Aldrich is annoyed by it but he has a hard time saying no to him lol

he’s a clingy boy but it’s okay we love him for it ❤️