#and central highland tribes tho i was never told specifics

[hoasens]

I'd love to hear more about ur Champa oc ! and her daughter ! (no pressure tho)

of course!!

- champa was known for being a seafaring nation, she traveled often and had a talent for shipbuilding, she controlled the spice and silk trade between south and esea asia, she’s an ambitious girl

- matrilineality and the role of woman are incredibly important in cham culture, the creation myth for the champ people has the goddess lady po nagar as the founder of the nation, hence why i made champa a woman

- she was briefly allies with vietnam as they had common enemy from mongol invasions

- champa wasn’t a centralized kingdom, it was made of different polities, she didn’t really “die” until the last polity was annexed by vietnam in the 19th century

- cham isn’t her only child, i think cham represents the group that live in current central and south vietnam as well as cambodia, which is where the majority of cham people live

- her other children are also spread through malaysia and hainan, i also don’t think the way familial ties within hetalia work the same as humans, i don’t think they were born in the typical way, i like the idea of cham and her siblings being born from sea foam as that’s in the creation myth

- cham was born around the 14th-18th century during the decline of the champa kingdom

- her people faced a lot of forced assimilation and genocide in the contemporary era, fortunately the culture and people are still flourishing to this day. though, persecution in the modern day hasn’t gone away completely

- on that note, i don’t feel too comfortable going super in depth with the oppression of the cham people in the context of original characters and hetalia, i have indigenous heritage from my grandparents on both sides but my family assimilated into the majority kinh ethnic group and i’m not connected to the cultures to really write about the indigenous experience, i only identify as vietnamese.

thank you so much for asking! i’ll eventually draw and make more content for these this mother and daughter duo