#England sees every french word he uses as s reminder of france's crimes against him

[captainmicaptain]

I really like thinking about the nations of hetalia. The world twinkle was the most boring season of Hetalia but it is the season im most interested in rewatching because we see more of the differences between nations and people (America's episode! episode 11 fucked me up! i felt like a beaten dog after watching that :( ) Now that im almost done with watching Hetalia, i really want to think more about the nations and how they function. i want to talk about what they would look like if they were more historically accurate too.

anyway, i think a theory could be crafted from this cringefest show. i only watched the dub so my thoughts are based on the dub. if the sub provides more evidence, please let me know.

anywho, i think nations struggle to hold on to an identity when they're younger. young nations don't have centuries of history to look back on. for example, America grew at a rapid pace. i would have to go back and check, but i believe out of all the nations, we see America change his language, outfits, and behaviors the most. i can't remember when atm (Hell its 5am over here. im not awake. im going to be late for work. idgf...i need to talk about THE NATIONS) but we see America's slang change with the age of the show. more modern America has used Millennial slang while talking to other nations and he seems unbothered by the change. i don't think he notices the changes because he's young. because his language has been in an extreme constant state of flux since he broke away from England. everything about him has been changing faster than he can keep up. he's barely 200 years old. America is a goddamn fetus.

now let's compare him to France who's ball are so old and saggy he has to drag them along the floor. his balls are covered in old dick cheese and smell like 3,000 old men left out in the sun for too fucking long. anyhow, with France (and many of the older nations) we see more of them hold on to their past. for example, the Joan of Arc episode. France shows regret for what happened to Joan of Arc. he had zero power to stop. he couldn't control anything that was happening. for everyone else it's history, but for him, its still a recent memory. the world changes and forgets faster than the nations and it's because the older nations are more resistant to change. all the older nations have more consistent outfits throughout the airing of the show. Austria is a good example of this. Japan fought his boss for his right to stay in his room and sulk all day, but America forced him out of his room. there are plenty of examples of Nations being slow or even combative to change.

all this to say, i think Nations do forget have forgotten their old languages. some of them would be desperate to remember. the older nations definitely had moments of stumbling over their words, using weird grammar, and being unable to understand their bosses. the changes are violently thrust upon them. they lose pieces of themselves and the older they get the more they notice. i think each Nation has a different response to this. Like England hates France for forcing him to learn so many French words.

would nations forget their own languages as they go extinct? when the language is suppressed, do they stumble over words and mix up grammar and realize it just doesn't come as easy to them as it used to? do their native languages fade away and get replaced by new languages, languages of conquest and oppression and change? i wonder if they think about them sometimes, all those words they forgot, all those pieces of their culture and identity that got lost to time and violence and the all-encompassing oblivion of history.