Chaos!Italy's thread

Nations only please. States, provinces, regions, prefectures, micronations, or others not full fledged Nations need not apply.
I am conducting a survey of various Nations in order to gather data on health issues commonly faced by these unique beings. While they may appear physically similar to humans, Nations have a vastly different biology that causes them to respond to various natural, political, and economic stimuli. The purpose of this survey is to determine what, if any, pattern there might be between certain nation ailments and the symptomatology that manifests as a result. Please fill out the following questions with as much detail as possible.
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Survey Questions

1) What is your name? What nation do you personify?

My name is Feliciano, and I personify Italy. Used to be just Northern Italy, though.



2) Do you suffer from any natural events on a regular or semi-regular basis? (ex. frequent earthquakes, hurricanes/typhoons/cyclones, dust storms, flooding, heatwaves, extreme seasonal weather, etc.) Please list all that apply.


Earthquakes are pretty common in the southern half of Italy, and now that I personify all of the nation, I do suffer from said earthquakes. There have been some others that I can recall suffering from, and I’ll list them below:

• Tornadoes
• Heat Waves
• Flooding (mainly in Venice)

Not all of these are on a regular or even semi-regular basis

3) What physical symptoms do you have when such natural events occur? Please describe the symptoms for every different event you listed on Question 2.


For the earthquakes, I tend to start shaking, and eventually pass out. Tornadoes make me sneeze a lot. Heat waves cause me to get feverish, really thirsty too. Flooding makes me have to use the bathroom a lot...sometimes I don’t make it and wet myself.


4) Do you ever suffer any symptoms as a result of bad politics in your country? What are they?


Yes I do. I suffer some pretty bad indigestion, again, using the bathroom, if it’s bad enough I’ll start throwing up.


5) Do you ever suffer any symptoms due to your economy going through a rough patch? What are they?


Yes, I do. Economy tends to give me a cold/cough, and if it gets really bad, some sort of infection.


6) Do you ever suffer any symptoms due to something that effects your population of citizens? If so, please describe what happens.


Yes, if there’s an epidemic of a disease or condition, I show the symptoms. That explains my...


7) Are you a large nation or a small one? Something in between? (Based on landmass)


I would say about medium-large.


8) If something happens in your land, like an earthquake, are you able to tell the exact location that was affected? Do you just know that something has happened and only know the general region until someone tells you a more specific location? Or can you not discern anything about the location at all?



I can, to an extent. I can tell if it’s in the purple, red, red/green, or green areas, but that’s about it.


9) Are you ever able to feel if a certain event is about to strike your country before it happens? (ex. feeling something in the weeks/days/hours before a volcano erupts)


No, unless I’m within the general area-and that only started shortly after I got my ears and tail.


10) If you said yes to Question 9, which events are you able to anticipate? How can you tell it is coming?

Generally just natural disasters, and something inside me just tells me to run for shelter.



OPTIONAL: Only a few Nations would even be able to answer this, and you probably know who you are. Any insight you could provide may be useful to others if they should have the misfortune to experience something similar to what you have gone through. However if you would rather not discuss the issue you are more than welcome to leave this question unanswered.
To those Nations who have had an unfortunate incident involving nuclear radiation in the past, can you describe the experience and anything you found helpful for dealing with the symptoms from the event?

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Thank you for taking the time to fill out this survey for the betterment of Nation healthcare. Please send your answers via note to on DA. If you do not wish to have your name used in any published research, you just need to inform me of your preferences.


_{Less a preference, and more a small note. I do suffer from a nameless condition that affects my appetite at the time of writing. It is unrelated to my nation’s ties.}

THEORY ON THE BIRTH AND DEATH OF HETALIA NATIONS (By Amenrenet)


This is just a general rambling of thoughts and headcanons put together by myself and my friends regarding how the personifications of nations are born. First I'll start with a list of known canon facts that provide some sort of foundation to work from. Then will come the theories, including summaries of how it works or why (in my head at least). A * by a word/the end of a sentence indicates I have an additional note of info or explanation added at the very bottom.



Known (canon) Facts:

Nations are somehow connected to the land they represent, as well as the human population that lives there. If something harms the land or makes the people suffer, the personification is affected as well. Examples include Japan getting sick when Russia "cursed" him with an earthquake, China feeling the starvation of his people when America asks about his poverty.

Nations can, and do, die. Examples include Grandpa Rome, Germania, and HRE.

Nations can live for a VERY long time, under the right circumstances (though it's not completely clear what those circumstances are). Examples include China (about 4-5000 years old), Japan (about 2600 years old), and both Italy brothers (shown to at least be children before Rome died).



THEORIES*:

The land of a Personified Nation contains a 'natural energy'. This energy flows through the land similar to water, and forms pools in certain locations. These locations (assuming they are in or close to their natural state) tend to be exceptionally beautiful and/or display nature's might. An immediate example that comes to my mind would be Yellowstone national park. There can be many of these energy pools in the land. It all depends on the flow and currents. Personifications are connected to this energy, and subtle fluctuations in the current combined with 'contaminants' (bad juju generated by things that hurt the land or people) are what influences a nation's health. TV tropers may recognize this as a form of Synchronization. My roleplay friends and I refer to the link between personification and land/people as "ties." Based on this idea, I have come up with two ways for nations to be born.


Pool Birth: Primary form of birth for the personification of nations. When the people unite to form a new nation, they become a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. That spark of unity from the hearts of the people mixes with the energy of the land, and from one of the land's natural pools emerges the new infant personification. At first the personification is vulnerable and helpless, like any newborn. The pool offers some protection from the elements, as well as sustenance through their ties, until the development of the nation causes the personification to grow old enough to crawl or walk and find some sort of civilization (in my mind, this is why ChibiAmerica was first spotted near settlements). However, it is not impossible for someone to discover the infant personification before or just after it leaves the pool on its own and take it in (China could have found ChibiJapan shortly after Japan had gotten big enough to leave the shelter of his pool). The energy and sparks of unity that formed the infant are what create the tie to the land and people. Personifications also don't really know how they're born, but then again let's face it: Can ANYONE really remember their own birth? XD


"Normal" Birth: Some nations** are stated to be directly descended of others (Grandpa Rome, Greece and Egypt's ancient mothers). These personifications are thus born the way normal humans would be. However, some instinct drives the young personification to find the nearest natural pool of energy as soon as possible. If their parent is a nation, and not yet dead at the time of the new one's birth, they may be driven to take the child to a pool as well*I*. Once there, the new personification is filled with the same energy and sparks of unity that he or she would have naturally acquired via Pool Birth, and from there he or she is no different than a Pool-Born nation. However, if a still-living parent (or grandparent) Nation shares the new one's lands (ex. Grandpa Rome and the Italy brothers) and population, then the older one's ties suppress those of the young personification. As a result, any health ailments stemming from the land or people do not impact the young personification very much (if at all) until the older one has passed on.



All personifications can potentially live forever. China's and Japan's ages hint that they have VERY VERY long lifespans, at the very least. But I say it is a possibility for them to last into eternity. In this strip, France compares a nation's personification to a ship, stating that government, people, etc. would be like different parts. After a bit of distracted rambling, he ends by saying "As long someone repairs the ship from damage, it can sail forever" or something to that effect. My interpretation of that is, as long as the people take care of their nation and the land remains well, then a personification can endure forever. It may even be possible that he or she could subsist on the energy of the land and the spirits of the people alone, though I doubt that wouldn't exactly be...the most pleasant way for them to live.

While personifications have the potential to live forever, they can also die. Their bodies are "immortal" in the sense that they don't succumb to old age or death of natural causes as long as their nation endures. But just as there are multiple ways of birth for personifications, I have also come up with several different kinds of death that fall under two main categories: Incomplete Death and Permanent Death.


Incomplete Death: There are several ways a nation can die, and indeed personifications have said things along the lines of "I don't want to die" (such as Italy's pleading when he's found in the box of tomatoes by Germany). However that presents a paradox. If one were to kill the personification Antonio, for example, the land of Spain doesn't suddenly turn into a barren wasteland with all the people dropping like flies. The Synchronization between personification and the nation they embody is only one way. America banging his elbow on a door doesn't cause an earthquake in California, but he feels it if a hurricane hits Florida. Thus the simplest solution for this paradox is that while personifications can die, they don't always STAY dead. The Incomplete Death can come in many forms. A personification that sustains some sort of trauma to
their body (stabbed, shot, fall/jump off a bridge, poisoned, etc.) can
and will succumb to the damage if it is serious enough. However, if
their nation is still in tact, the personification will emerge re-born
from one of the land's natural energy pools. Unless something interferes
 with the process, they will usually emerge as they were just prior to
the fatal trauma. However, even if the personification knows he or she
will come back...that doesn't mean the experience has to be pleasant.
They're DYING after all!



Ties-Death: The ties between a personification and
its land/people are vital, more-so as the personification ages. Their
bodies are mortal and like all living things become more vulnerable with
 age. The ties help protect and preserve a personification against these
occurrences. Thus, if something should interfere with a personification's ties it can cause a very serious illness. In the worst case scenario, a personification's ties can even be completely cut. The pain and shock of this event, along with the sudden deprivation of life-sustaining natural energy, can easily lead to a personification's death. The older a nation is, the more vulnerable they would be to having their ties severed. And naturally, without a connection to their nation, there's no way for the personification to be reborn in one of the pools, making this one of three kinds of Permanent Death. One of my friends theorizes the demon in Hetaoni possesses the ability to sever a personification's ties.


Age Death: This may seem counter intuitive to what I
said above about personifications being immune to age, but let me
explain before you go to the comments and go off about how confused you
are. This type of death is one of two kinds of Permanent
Death. If the nation represented by a personification ceases
to exist and they survive having their ties severed, then they will
simply age and pass from natural causes like any normal human as there
is no longer anything protecting them from that fate. This would be Gilbert's eventual fate, if he didn't manage to end up with new ties to a different land and people (if he has indeed become East Germany, post WWII, then his ties are now to that land and people).


Murder or Ritual Death: Overlaps somewhat with Ties-Death. Magic is shown to exist in the Hetalia-universe (England being the prominent example...even if he's not very good at it) so it stands to reason that there are a few very nasty, dark spells floating around. A death that would normally be Incomplete can be turned into a Permanent death if the personification is killed by an object that has been enchanted with a sinister incantation. This spell severs a personification's ties at the moment of death, ensuring that he or she won't be reborn into a natural pool. I theorize that when Germania dealt Rome's death-blow, he used a weapon that had been imbued with this Nation-killing spell. The same could be true for when France ended HRE's life.







<sub>*Note that these theories are my own or ones that I have come up with after discussing things with friends. They are not canon, and you do not have to agree with what I have written here. If something I said clashes with your own personal headcanon, feel free to disregard it and go about your merry life.

**Italy, Romano, Greece, Egypt, and all of Germania's offspring would be Normal-Born nations given their canon status of having a parent/grandparent nation. I also consider all Micronations to be Normal-Born and tied to land via one of the energy pools from whatever Nation they are most closely associated with/has the most influence on them at their time of birth if they are not big enough to have their own natural pools.

***Personifications are unaware of the natural energy and its pools. But if they ever need to seek one for any reason, even if they don't know they need it, they are drawn to the place where they need to be (possibly without even realizing it). I guess you could say kind of like how sea turtles always manage to find their way back to the same beach where they were born. Although personifications don't HAVE to go back to their specific birth-pool (unless they are a small nation and their land probably only has room for one pool anyway, such as Liechtenstein).</sub>

Q: What is the Chaos!AU?

A: The IDHQ is located on a large chunk of land that sits between the fabric of spacetime, and saturated with magikal energies. Because of its unique location, mysterious wormholes to and from other worlds will sometimes open up. These "feral" portals are unstable, and will frequently catch denizens of other dimensions off-guard. Many have suddenly found themselves displaced from their home, but all are welcome to seek shelter at the large building known as the IDHQ. Many nations have come to reside at the IDHQ, and now live alongside humans from a world where personifications don't exist, and intelligent anthropomorphic animals from a world known as 'Mobius.' The Chaos!AU is the official name of the AU that these roleplays are from. -cited from the official Chaos!AU FAQ.


Essentially, it's Hetalia with a small splash of other fandoms-Several nations fell into a heavy-fanon version of the Sonic universe. Some nations changed physically, and a few minor ones got magic of their own (or had existing magic enhanced). Unlike most AUs, it's a 'closed' AU-more akin to a "read-only" CD-ROM as opposed to a "writable" flash drive, to use a basic analogy. It is sadly this way due to fangirls attempting to break up pairings with young children. In addition it has some overarching plots. The main plot, however, is the nations adapting to their new circumstances, (re)kindling friendships, and starting families. Some rarepairs are featured here. Italy's plot involves him coming to terms with his past and pushing on into his stormy future-it also overlaps with Romano's plot, which focuses on his family relations. Nations in this world do not have "2Ps" but they do have "other halves", an inactive soul within each nation that becomes active and can possibly split from them, sharing their ties, sometimes even splitting fully and being given their own, via a magical plant called a "nightbloom". Anyone wishing to read can PM me, as there are some triggering/TOS breaking things within the roleplay excerpts.