by puffins » Sun Mar 24, 2013 1:04 pm
I first heard of Hetalia in 2009 when I was nine, almost ten... My friend who just turned nine was obsessing over it. She told me I should watch it and complained about how it was rated M. I didn't want to watch it. Anime made me uncomfortable because my mom disliked it and the M part I thought my mom wouldn't like. I wasn't allowed on computers back then either. And my friend was talking about yaoi, which made me very uncomfortable. I was nine back then. I'm a teen now. I like it. Proof we really grow up... xD So I never watched it. Now after I moved and everything, (and allowed on the computer) my new friend invited me to CS in 2011 because we both roleplayed... So I saw Hetalia on here a few months after and was like hm, and my friend told me she liked it and I should watch it since I was into Death Note. I was like eh because I thought I was gonna betray my younger self. Then I made a few more friends since I only had one at first that introduced me to the one that invited me on here. I also had one other that I met at the new kid thing. One of my friends I met on the bus brought me to a group of people and they talked about Hetalia. I was seriously getting interested but still thought nah. (Even though I secretly researched it a bit) After that in the grade I'm in now in September or something I went to my church classes and a new person was there talking to my friend who liked anime and stuff as well as me. They were talking about Hetalia and I felt left out and kept butting in to talk about Death Note. They mostly ignored me. A week or two class after, I said I knew about it and I wanted to watch it. They encouraged me to. So when I went home, I finally did... Omg, it was amazing! Germany was my first favorite country. A week or two after I watched like 20 episodes, I snuck on the laptop to watch more. And hear the voices because I had no speakers. (I thought the subs were just to help. I had no idea it was in Japanese so when I found out it was I went searching for dubs) I searched dubs and the extra episode appeared. I thought it was the next one, but it wasn't. I was confused, but Denmark's hair really caught my eye. So I went off to find out who it was. No luck... Until I stalked a Hetalia thread and saw a Denmark adoptable from squiby in someone's siggy. It said Denmark so I instantly looked it up on the wiki and found him. I read his personality and was like "Omg so much like me!" And another thing, I remembered how Denmark used to be my favorite country on the globe as a kid. And how I always used to point it out. I thought it was so weird. I really liked Dan, but I decided to keep quiet about it because I thought he would be a character people would dislike and my favorite character would probably change after I watched all the episodes. After I finished, no other character stuck out, I still loved Denmark. After a few days, I wanted to try a Hetalia roleplay, but I was nervous about playing Denmark because I still thought people would hate him and I thought I would fail at Hetalia rping. But I still went along... After, I really liked roleplaying Denmark and followed Ice to one roleplay and met Nor and I got to be a better overtime because I wanted to impress people. I roleplayed Dan every time. I continued on and that is how I got to where I am today. c:
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