#this isn't even like. a fav character thing my family heritage is just. very very italian lol. my great grandparents emigrated from palermo

[romatito]

So sorry if I asked you this already but how would you interpret Romano’s relationship with Lithuania?? Part of me thinks they may have had a friends with benefits situation or something like that when living in America, but then lost touch after Lithuania was under Soviet rule only to reconnect after the end of the cold war. I feel like today they’re probably pretty good friends, and they are pretty close with America as well and go to visit New York City to check out all the areas they used to hang out at during the roaring 20’s.

HI hello i have been sitting on this for a bit because ive literally been thinking about the relationship between these two recently and i wanted to answer it when i could actually get this sketchy art out lmao. i pretty much agree with everything you said lol, i think they do have a bond that developed during their time living together before the depression hit, and i love seeing other people explore that!

(more of my thoughts under the readmore lol)

i think that initially, it was awkward between them just because they are in two Very different places when they make it to america lol. lithuania may have been poor but he's finally getting space away from the russian empire, able to enjoy being himself again after the assembly of vilnius put an end to russification policies. romano, on the other hand, is suffering the ill-effects of the unification, and poverty is so terrible in his half of italy that tons of his people are emigrating in order to escape it -- once again the lesser italy brother. all of that, coupled with romano's standoffish personality and lithuania's tendency to make himself sick with worry, made interactions... difficult. i think america's blunt, unapologetic nature kind of forced them to interact more than they would have and without him, it would have taken a lot more time for them to settle around each other lmfao.

ofc once they're both more comfortable around each other, i think they keep a close friendship that others don't really expect! like they don't talk too much but they're both glad to see when the other is doing well -- and they'll stand up for one another if the situation ever calls for it.

[reluctant-mandalore]

Thank you so much for the list! I have watched tLJ and the original trilogy and the live action series. I started watching the Clone Wars through reaction videos and I found out the episodes I thought Cody wasn't in, he was there T-T That said I really enjoy the show - something I can't say about the movies. I love the clones. They're my absolute fav now but ngl, it was only cuz I started reading a Codywan fic by mistake and then maybe cuz of you I really shipped them. That said I am always more interested whenever the clones are on screen/having speaking lines etc maybe cuz of shared Mandalorian heritage. Maybe. I wish there was more of them in terms of storyline. I understand there's the books although they don't count as canon now? I get very upset when yet another clone dies or is just casually dismissed. I'm on s2 though. Maybe they will get more screen time later? I will try to check Rebels for that person you mentioned!

ngl (really exposing myself here) I only became a fan of star wars after watching the mandalorian lmao. I had seen the movies in the past with friends and family, they never really clicked for me? Like I enjoyed them to a degree (and I had characters from them that I liked: leia, jango, finn, rey, obi wan, etc), and I always enjoyed the lightsaber duels, but otherwise I was like meh about them. I was never much of a sci-fi fan tbh. So I think that may have played a part, but there were other factors too that were at play when it came to me not being a fan of star wars at the time. But yeah. Only been an actual star wars for a few years now lmao. I dunno why but watching Mando suddenly made me really want to know more about sw! I ended up watching all the movies again, and then began looking into other content like the shows and books.

Also, asdjfsdkf that's funny! That codywan situation actually happened with me but with Overwatch. I ended up reading a fic for Overwatch (it was a Cole x Hanzo fic lmao, though back before cole went through his name change) and then I ended up enjoying it so much I went and bought the game. I don't typically play games like overwatch, but now its one of my favs! Even if I'm terrible at it (lol) and its all thanks to a random fanfic.

There are some books which are canon! Its a lot of Legend stuff that really isn't anymore. There are some lists online with the canon ones (here's one!) if you wish to take a peak! I haven't read them yet, but I've heard really good things about The High Republic books. I'm going to read them eventually myself, though I'm starting off with the Ronin novel I think. I really enjoyed star wars visions, so the moment I saw there was a book based around one of the characters I just had to buy it lol

You do get more clone centered arcs eventually in tcw but honestly there are definitely valid criticisms about how the show does at times shove the clones to the side to focus on other characters. The show is pretty bad at shoving clone issues aside in general as well. I wish we had more in depth exploration into the clones in the shows and stuff. I love the clones a lot too tbh! A lot of them are my favourite characters in star wars (like wolffe, rex, cody, crosshair, fives, echo, etc. Just to name a few).

And yay! I hope when you do you enjoy it! There's also a little more clone content in rebels 👀 but only a bit.