#herakles karpusi

[iamsebo]

char sketch from memory with some random customizations and so on

today this was the only thing that kept me awake 🧍🏻

[coralcatsea]

Headcanon 1: Greece has a bunch of statues at his house.

Headcanon 2: America likes to put cheap party necklaces and hats on them. If they're holding out their hand, he'll leave candy or some kind of trinket in it.

Free Day

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[peachtalia]

work drains me so bad that I can’t do full pics like I’d want to but here’s practice sketches while I get the hang of how I wanna draw their facial features, I wanna do other characters too but I’m mainly focused on them rn lool

also ignore bros hair parting being on the wrong side in some

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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.

[derehono]

And here is the last part for now!

Unclaimed Island

Unclaimed Island bears this name only as a courtesy to the old tradition since for generations it was a motherland for many infamous pirates, gangs and a centre of criminal world together with a slave market. It was possible to find any kind of shopping, any information, just a right price was needed. For quite a long time it was also disarrayed and unorganised, there was basically no rules there. Maybe it was a reason why pirates liked it so much and even some regular sailors were there.

It was changed with arrival of Arthur Kirkland. He arrived there as a captured witch and a vessel off valuable information on Diamond Court, but instead of getting answers out of him and getting a hold of his magic, he caused a massive riot. There was actually quite a lot if people who preferred to have some changes after centuries of chaos and he was the one who took over the responsibility for Island’s improvement. He did some things that most people did not like such as abolishment of quite a lot of illegal places and activities (but not all, especially not ones that sold information), cancelled a market and started creating an economy for the island. As a result, he was able to start creating some other infrastructure other than pubs and brothels, so more sailors started coming over but shooing some other pirates. A legislative system was also created.

Unclaimed Island is very close to the sea border with Kingdom of Hearts so it was natural that refugees started arriving to the island. There was a massive amount of just regular civil people who searched refugee on the Island and it changed the nature of island drastically. It was still focused on the sea and sailors but it also meant there was more fishermen, schools for building and organising boats, some legal sea exports arrived. A huge amount of families also arrived there so laws became not too much but stricter and schools, nurseries appeared. Sailors still love this place and most of the pirates either, but definitely some part of them preferred other places. Additionally, political refugees from Kingdom of Clubs arrived and settled on the island, even though their number is still smaller than refugees from Hearts.

Current leader is Arthur Kirkland.

His one of the main helpers, right hand and his next successor is Willem Janssens. He is one of the refugees from Kingdom of Hearts so he was not really long on the island, but showed his dedication and determination in improvement of island. He is especially good at developing the economy of island, but not too talkative. His family still in Kingdom of Hearts and he personally saw how his younger sister was turned into the stone. During evacuation his smaller brother disappeared and he just hopes that he is still alive.

Two more important persons there are Herakles Karpusi and Gupta Muhammad Hassan. They are both main researchers who are helping with the investigation on the Catastrophe. Usually they give their findings to Arthur with possible leads, he searches for the artefacts, gives it to them and they try to either decipher it or to find a hint. They are quite strange duet from Kingdom of Clubs and Kingdom of Diamonds, but they worked out.

Tribes.

Despite world being mostly divided by Kingdoms, there are still tribes. Mostly they are worshipping world in a little bit different manner, more ancient one.

There are a lot of tribes all across the world, mostly they are accepted and no one bothers them. Nevertheless, the discriminatory trend in Kingdom of Clubs is quite concerning.

Witches.

There are three main witches houses that inherited the most of Dragon Blood’s power. They also created this way three main categories of magic: transfiguration, spirit possession and communication, and spells. Those branches are divided between main witch houses but they are not limited.

Witches are mostly located in Kingdom of Diamonds since they believe it was final resting place of Dragon. However, it brought them a great disaster that is called Witch Trials. 70% of all witches in Diamonds were killed and the rest started hiding. Those were the majority of witches overall, so they keep a big resentment towards Diamonds. Some of the survivors started wrecking the kingdom, bringing a misery but it is a minority.

The most open to the world is House of Potescu. They are located almost on the border between Kingdom of Clubs and Kingdom of Diamonds, at the middle of lush pine forrest. Thanks to their location, they were mostly unaffected by Witch Trials and they were able to live peacefully. Despite them being a Witch House, they live almost like a royal. They live at the lonely ancient castle, protected by the nature and hold truly aristocratic manners. However, maybe they look like royals, act like royals, they are holding a key to transfiguration magic. They are able to transform into different creatures and from the very beginning of life, they have a second magical form. This is what could be called werewolves but they fully control it. They also have extended life span. Current Head is Anica Popescu who prefer not to use his second form a lot, but his younger sister Marceline Popescu almost all the time uses it.

The hardest one to find is House of Bodevik. They do not have a permanent place to live, they constantly travel with spirits and lost souls. They can live in waters, they can live in firests, they can live among humans, as long as their ancient friends are with them. Spirit Realm is also the place that they can visit and possibly even call it a home. It is a chaotic and mysterious place where you see world differently, but they love it. They are usually not talkative and prefer to stay with their spirits, but sometimes they need communication with humans. They help spirits as much as they can, guide them, and protect sacred places. Current Head is Sigurd Bondevik, he is rarely seen and there are rumours that he spends most of the time with spirits in waters.

The most hostile one is House of Kirkland. These children of forest are hard to find, they are residing in the desolate forest in Kingdom of Diamonds, the forest is dark and covered in thick fog so people are avoiding it. They resonated with forest and use its wisdom to create even more spells, more magic to use. Both dark destructive magic and light healing magic are at their command, and for a long time they used that power even outside of their forest, helping anyone who needed it. However, with the beginning of Witch Trials, they had to mostly use its power just to defend themselves. Unfortunately, the past leader was violently killed but she left her four children in relative safety. Current leader is Scott Kirkland, he mostly specialise in Light magic. His brother Alistair focuses on runes and potions, middle brother Dylan started taming dragons, and the youngest specialises in dark magic.

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G: Unfortunately, he was not as eager as I was to try those positions... Still, I like to help him as much as I can with it. High blood pressure is not healthy and disrupts sleeping schedule...

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[lachiny64]

doodle

[dappy-dappernette]

I decided to doodle some Hetalia characters I barely draw

I think style is turning more toony

The Greece one looks different because the first more were doodles I did tonight qvq

[askpirateukplush]

Kiku & Herakles

[ask-thehellenicrepublic]

“Radio broadcasting became available in World Academy as a medium of entertainment. The idea was pitched by Greece, a failing student in section Mediterranean Europe, soon to be transferred to Eastern Europe. This project was made so he can pass his classes.”

Photo taken by Kiku Honda, Newspaper Club interviewing Greece about his radio broadcast project.

Ask him now or he will be dropped out.

ps. hahaha sorry for the low quality camera, we don't have enough budget.

-Greece

[coralcatsea]

Headcanon that Greece will randomly start dancing the Sirtaki at any given moment, either to make things more fun while moving from place to place or just because he's bored at a meeting and wants something to do.

He'll grab other nations and drag them into it if he can. The energetic, easily distractible nations (e.g. America, Spain, Italy) are always easy targets.

Watching certain nations dance around, of course, draws the attention of even more nations, and then nobody can focus.

England always becomes distracted by whatever America is doing, many others watch in confusion or amusement, and Germany is easily exasperated by these shenanigans. Even more so when Prussia decides to join in.

[peachtalia]

I wrote a whole infodump on Herakles headcanons on a priv acc (yk for human version since I prefer to view the guys that way) so I’ll paste it all here cuz fun. It’s gonna be super disorganized and may not carry All of my ideas cuz it’s just me writing whatever came to mind in the moment but I’ll try to organize it the best I can from what I wrote. Also plz take into consideration that I’m not entirely following canon here and a load of it is headcanons with some of canon sprinkled in. Also this is a wip ig

I doubt anybody would read my word vomit cuz I didn’t bother to clean any of this up and my sentence structure is def abysmal as fuck but ig u could say I’m putting this here for my own sake but anyone else is free to read if u would like!!

cw talk of parental loss tho

Okay so I’m gonna ramble about names here cuz it interests me a lot. Obv I’m not Greek or in Greece I just have a deep interest in other cultures and like to research a lot and stalk forums and videos on experiences etc. My ideas may change over time as I learn more about the culture. He feels a bit more old-fashioned to me but anyways yeah nah if I happen to say anything innacurate plz lmk @ anyone who actually reads my word vomit haha

So anyways I def don’t see it as my place to bash on him being given the name "Herakles" cuz I Do know that in Greece they would seem to occasionally give Greek mythological names to ppl (ex: singer who's birth name is Artemios); but I noticed they most often use Christian names tho (also fun fact my irl name is the fem version of an old Greek saint and seems common there along with Hispanic countries that would often do the same lololol)

But at the same time I’d wanna assume that being named Herakles would kinda fuck u over since it would be a huge name to live up to. But that’s just me. Plus to me that adds to his overall life theme

Also I’ve mentioned this before but ppl for years would dunk on his surname claiming that it's "not a real Greek surname" when ... it actually IS, it's just super rare based on what I’ve collected. Admittedly ngly I’ve even been a part of this when I was a kid smh (See: Greek actress with the birth name Evgenia Karpouzi, the fandom would always use the spelling "Karpusi" but that's not language accurate to the more commonly taught Greek language romanization based on what I’ve learned.....

Anywho now onto headcanons and stories I like to apply to him lol

He seems the type whose mom is very huge in the historical arts and preservation field and might've been a Greek history professor and took a huge role in curating and preserving Ancient Greek ruins and artifacts...arranged heritage festivals and exhibitions etc.. Taught culture... Maybe pushed him to be very talented and knowledgeable as a kid and would actively pass down her own knowledge onto him and set pretty high standards for him while also spoiling tf out of him and also being caring yet not as present as a mother due to her career. He grew up very involved in the arts both creative-based and performance-wise but probably mostly the latter. He seems like the type who would be quiet and a bit of a loner at times but was also a lot more enthusiastic and expressive at times.

So anyways yeah not only does he suffer under the curse of living in the shadow of his mothers legacy and not meeting the public expectations in following in her footsteps but a lot of his life is basically formed around her and he wasn’t left with much room to actually form his own personal style due to how heavily influenced he was by her own interest and life path and her passing when he was idk 14 made it even harder for him to even try to let go of any of this cuz besides all of her leftover belongings and the collective community memory of her, it was all he had left of her from within himself so letting go of any of it to make more room for developing his own personal sense of style outside of her existence felt like betraying her or going against her wishes.

He feels deeply guilty for not taking on her legacy after her passing and following in her footsteps but he still does what he can to contribute here and there and still holds a load of pride in what he learns from her + what comes from his roots and besides hanging out with and feeding street cats he still has a lingering fascination and interest in philosophy and observing and maintaining historical sites not only cuz it’s great but also cuz it reminds him of her. It Would also make sense given how canonically he’s portrayed having a home that’s cluttered with his mom’s old things and artifacts that he never wants to get rid of since she passed while he was young.

As for his beef with Sadiq I see it as a ‘obnoxious goofy uncle and petty nephew’ sort of conflict lol. But I like to see it as like. Sadiq was a younger college student of his mom’s who would also do volunteer assistant work for her, so naturally he’d meet Herakles thru that. And with him being that type of guy would screw around with Herakles and poke fun at him yk like how those older guys would treat young kids sometimes and purposely provoke them in a joking yet annoying manner (I have lots of experience of this) and Sadiq himself never saw it as a big deal but yk Herakles Hated that shit and he’s the type to take that kind of stuff to heart. Also Herakles would envy the time he spends with his mom cuz here he is able to get involved with her work life and meanwhile Hera is being some kid at home who sometimes gets to go to his moms work sometimes.

And ooomfg when his mom passes u know damn well that envy turned into pure vitriol cuz Sadiq was able to spend more time around his mom before her sudden death. But Sadiq (still unaware of how deep this shit goes for Herakles) takes Herakles under his wing cuz he feels super bad to say the least.

Now Herakles has one of those large Greek families but he’s autistic* as shit so while he can be loud with them he’s also quiet and a bit of a loner at times so he’d be super reliant on his mother for initiating his interactions with others and she’d take a big part in involving him in family gatherings so u know damn well the second she was gone he didn’t know wtf to do anymore or how to connect with others on his own without her being an extra support lol yk like that one social person that helps interactions go smoother.

* yes I am aware that autism may present differently depending on culture but I’m autistic myself and am basing this on observations I’ve made thru autistic ppl I’ve known in different countries and who also have a similar familial dynamic culturally. Even tho I’m in the US I also have this experience myself with my Viet family members. No duh it’s not ‘just an autism thing’ but yk headcanons

Not to mention him being depressed as fuck over her passing and beginning to self isolate. And being so pitied by family members 24/7 SUCKED Ass so idk ig eventually (after many years and moments of Herakles mostly blowing people off) ppl began to avoid him and stopped inviting him to things like yk that sad thing that often happens whenever someone’s going thru a loss and ppl don’t know what to do about it. He’d ignore their invitations often for years. Of course they’d still try to call or send something or visit every now and then but only very occasionally. It’s like an ‘idk what to do’ sort of thing.

So yeah he’s an only child and was raised by a single mother with a busy and active life where he was always expected to become her shadow whether intended or not. Wow. But despite his family inching away from him, bro still has that younger Cypriot cousin who vibes with him and relates with his quietness and occasional loner behavior so he’d often hang around him cuz the rest of the family would overwhelm him sometimes, therefore even during this time he was the last to stick around for the most part and they’d often hang out in silence. He is a bit more chatty than Herakles tho at times. Idk his name yet. That one Cypriot cousin has a younger brother I think, who’d hang around Sadiq but Herakles’s a #hater and doesn’t really like him for that. He’s the type to threaten to cut ppl off from association and he gets petty and stubborn as hell and holds grudges like u cannot believe. Obviously despite his spite he does still care for Sadiq deep down. He says what he wants but he doesn’t actually wish the guy any real harm and would get super bothered and upset if anybody were to attempt to do so.

Oh yeah and I also mentioned before that I see him being narcoleptic lol *maybe* he occasionally dealt with cataplectic symptoms and it would make sense given how rarely he seems to express strong emotions but I still don’t know. I’m not as knowledgeable in cataplexy I admit. But he’s def on the narcolepsy spectrum and lacks a load of motivation and drive in his life overall. Some of it comes from his mildly nihilistic view on life and some of it is depressiveness and the inability to help himself more on his own accord. It probably took a lot for him to get on a stricter medication routine for it. He tries to take care of himself at the bare minimum but he still doesn’t quite cultivate the best or healthiest of habits. He’s often got others around him trying to help him out and check up on him. Think also of the comic strips of Ludwig trying to help him organize and clean his house and get his finances into check.

Idk how his mom died. Maybe it’s one of those things never spoken about but it was sudden and he was at home when it happened and just remembers it getting super late and dark and him wondering where tf she is each time he’d wake up and him attempting to call her work and go to voicemail each time.

Also back on the topic of his tendencies but Herakles can for sure be the sore loser and jealous type but only depending on whether or not the matter involves Sadiq. Otherwise he’s like eh whatever it’s fine I’ll get it next time) and as I said above he’s also got a somewhat nihilist mindset and wishes to just spend his time doing as he pleases lolll his philosophical info dumps would get mind breaking at times and he just drones onnnn and onnnn and on about it it’s like the kind of stuff that’d make u lie on ur back with ur hands behind ur head staring up at the sky like “yeah……..wow…😕” and would prob put u to sleep cuz he speaks in a slower and softer tone. And you’d prob experience a strange yet vivid dream in the moment. He’s got an ambient and nostalgic feel to his presence that’s hard to explain and melancholy yet oddly calming.

Oh also he still practices Orthodox Christianity besides being an atheist on the most part and not even following any religion or religious rules or moral code bc it’s what he was raised doing with his mom and he feels like it’s what she would’ve wanted lmfaooo I guess it’s for nostalgia’s sake and paying respects to her. Maybe he’s an atheist. Idk. Perhaps his philosophical ideals and stuff he’s learned influences his view on general spirituality and religion so in a way he feels like in the end all gods are all to reach a similar point and intention and are an outer extension/projection of our own subconscious beings and are vessels of hope and focal points for moral code and explanations for the world around us. Or maybe he just views them as beings created to give people’s lives purpose. Or he believes all things at once. Who knows what goes on in his mind.

As for his narcolepsy, his mom may have assumed at first that he was the type of child to nap a lot or that he was lazy, but over time she’d realize something is probably up and would recognize that he wouldn’t be able to help it most of the time and that he actually isn’t the lazy type and works hard when he can. She’d get called by teachers often yelling about his tendency of zoning out and sleeping in class and she’d just respond with “Oh yeah? Well maybe your class isn’t interesting enough if he’s always falling asleep in it!”

So yeah. A load of his life was built around her from the start, and he relied on her for a lot, I mean she’s his mom and all too and the only closer(?) family member in his life given that he’s an only child and has no father. The sudden change of her leaving completely threw his life off course so for years he’s been in some sort of endless state of limbo where he’s both apathetic both saddened yet he might not make it so obvious when around others. He just appears quiet, apathetic and carefree for the most part.

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Self insert x Canon commission for my friend @littlegreeklover! Thank you so much for commissioning me!

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it's impressionist wannabe hours!!

[giripan-askblog]

G: Hm...Yes, we do... I like it, it feels warm and endearing...