NB 8( Nordic+ Baltic 8). When Baltic nations regained independance in 1990s, Nordics helped the Baltic states a lot so we could join EU and NATO. I really can’t wait to see Denmark and Lithuania’s interaction since Lithuania’s and Denmark’s relations are very great and there is tons of history behind DenLiet, plus this won’t be a crack ship anymore. Here is a link to Denmark-Lithuania relations(use google translate since this is in Lithuanian, but it has lot’s of information behind it. I will create a post about it with academic info about it). Baltics and Sweden as well since Sweden is like one of main trading partners. Glad to see Finland interacting with Estonia, wish he could interact with other Baltics as well. Iceland interacting with Baltics would be great since Iceland is MVP for being 1st country to recognize independance of the Baltics. As for Himaruya, remember to drop Estonia’s “I want to become Nordic” and “cross flag” stereotypes since this isn’t funny and is very offensive to Estonians, who know history between other Baltics very well. Nordic and Cross flag stereotypes/jokes to Estonians are like what Wilno Nashe is to Lithuanians, very offensive.
Belarus being mad at Lithuania. Concidering what is happening IRL with these countries, I think Belarus would be toxic af towards Lith and blaming him over the stuff he didn’t do. Regarding this, you can read articles on news since it’s wide topic in Europe and Luka being crazy on national TV all the time. Maybe Belarus would be living in Russia’s house since she “wants to marry” him desperately and she did by becoming sattelite IRL.
Visegrad group. It would be nice to see Poland, Hungary, Czech republic, Slovakia interacting with each other and solving issues.
The EU meeting. The moment when members of the EU come together to discuss EU issues.
America visiting the Baltic houses. This might do a lot of fan service to AmeLiet/AmeLat/AmeEst ships, but it would be nice to see how the Baltics are doing in America’s eyes concidering Lithuania working in America’s house during “Lithuania’s Outsourcing” strip and “Storage cleaning” anime episode. It would be a nice homage to this as well. Maybe America’s reaction to Russia’s “unfriendly countries” list would be great to see as well. Since I am sure NATO Baltic Air Policing mission exists and America is one of countries who helps the other Baltics to patrol their Air space.
Ukraine and Georgia(Sakartvelo character introduction) and how they are doing.
Taiwan interacting with America, Germany, Japan and Lithuania. Concidering what is happening with Taiwan, I think Taiwan would be interacting a lot with these countries. I am honestly smiling that my country Lithuania decided to open representitive office with name “Taiwan” instead Taipei and seeing how Taiwanese people are thanking Lithuania for donating vacinnes, my heart just melted.
A daily dose of Hetalian facts: LatLiet or LietLat
Latvian architect Kārlis Reisons have done many famous buildings in Lithuania like Christ’s Ressurection Church, Vytautas the Great war museum, M.K.Čiurlionis art museum. Christ’s Ressurection Church project would’ve cost Lithuania 900k Litas which was very expensive back then. What a pity, Himaruya has decided to make Lithuania distant from Latvia and glad Hetalians in fanfics made Lithuania closer to Latvia.
This is a low-key rant, but I hate how Himaruya made Lithuania distant from another Baltics while he is basically simp for his ex-wife/ husband Poland. Meanwhile while shit hits the fan, Lithuania would be running to Latvia for comfort instead to Poland. During research about Latvian minority in Lithuania, Latvian Student delecation have given a bronze plate to professor A.Butkus (He was a professor in Vytautas Magnus University, back then it was called Lithuanian University) back in 1930s and it was written in Latvian: “ Same blood and same spirit are uniting us. Latvian students 1932.” If this is not brotherhood, then I don’t know what it is.
Thank you for reading my mini rant and have a great friday.
It’s my birthday today, so I only had time to quickly color a very scrawly traditional sketch I did earlier in the week.
It was fun drawing (and coloring) some canon outfits that I barely draw these three in. (Except I messed Ed’s up, oops. I realized after I inked that his outfit in the Nyotalia episode was a blazer, not a sweater, X’D)
…Also, sorry, Raivis, I messed up his hair as well 0__0. And Liet’s hair is a little too short, oops.
Despite all of this, I do somewhat like how it looks as a colored sketch?
Under the cut are the usual extras (the trio’s original anime eye colors, as well as Raivis w/ purple eyes):
I always draw these three looking sad, so I decided to try drawing them with happier expressions. (Because they deserve everything good ksdhfjsdf)
I know when I traditionally draw lineart, it’s not as clean and polished as my digital lineart, but I feel like I can draw expressions better. (Same with hair; I for some reason, the hair always turns out better when I draw it traditionally.)
And since I already had the lineart sketched out, once I scanned it, I had more energy to focus on coloring. (Digital coloring is so much fun!)
I had a lot of fun with their outfits! Each one was loosely (some more than others) based off of one of their alternate canon outfits (which I will add under the cut).
Other stuff under the cut will be the usual alternate versions (Liet with fluffier hair, these three’s Seasons 1-4 anime eye colors, and Raivis w/ purple eyes, like he was shown with in older artwork).
