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Babies with their ✨protective bracelets✨

What I find really sweet is that all three have their own bracelets that are worn to protect against the evil eye. It's called 'ojo' or 'mal del ojo' in Spanish and 'usog' or 'buyag' in the Philippines. They're mostly worn by children but I've seen adults occasionally wear them.

Some info on the bracelets, and a disclaimer: these are only one of the varieties as I'm sure that there are other variations, traditions or beliefs associated with these types of protective amulets. Though I'm focusing on these varieties for now.

For MX's his bracelet has a central charm consisting of Ojo de venado, which translates as "Deer's eye" and refers to the seed of mucuna mutisiana. The bracelet can be made of cord or beads but they say that once the seed cracks then that means it has successfully absorbed a curse meant for the wearer.

For CB's the central charm Azabache (Jet) is used instead for protection. It's a gemstone mineraloid that's created from wood under extreme pressure and is the lowest rank of coal. The bracelet itself can be made of gold, beads or cord!

For PH's I had the help of @sweaty-clouds who was incredibly kind to share with me some of the bracelets, and meaning behind them ;v;. PH's bracelet is made of coral beads (though recently plastic as well) with red being the most popular color. They also usually come with a lubigan/habak pouch filled with paper inscribed with tiny prayers inside that's pinned to the shirt, but sadly that's not visible in this doodle.

That being said I hope we can get some official ages for other characters too I’d love to know why cuba looks like a middle aged man who hasn’t known peace and why spain looks like a 25- year old who missed out on leg day like my hypothesis is that all the European colonizers look so young because they basically were vampires like mother gothel staying young staying Vibes like Did the colonization ?? Age him ?? was it the advancements in the sugar industry ??? Whatever it is like tell me why this mf looks like he could be a father- and why Spain like - looks like that like- like spain is canonically 25 - and France is like 26- and England is 23

like we know nations sort of age for like different reasons like we have seen characters like Italy and America like rapidly go through puberty- like just different developments but like MAN WHA

Though in all honesty I don’t see it much It’s really in uniform and maybe the fact that he’s got a beard only , because like .. well fidel Castro is a a pale white Cuban man and Cubas design is seen wearing dreadlocks and usually dark skinned or at the very least tanned in some depictions .. they are pretty different and I think that’s a good thing like nations are best portrayed as like nations in their own right and not their controversial leaders in my opinion, like I wouldn’t want Russias design to be based on Putin for example

Like for his age it’s definitely a odd choice which is why I find it so interesting I think it gives way for many cool headcanons but I definitely think to portray him as a adult was wise I mean, neighboring countries that are younger in age according to history like America are being shown as adults so honestly I think it was a good choice .

Especially because historically a lot of propaganda regarding the islands in the Caribbean , specifically cuba and its ability to run itself, depicts cuba in a very childlike fashion. And it’s not a good thing , it’s meant to be derogatory These are American depictions , but this was also seen with Spain and any other colonizers of impending forces cuba has had to deal with in terms of history but you get the idea

I think depicting cuba as a child , or really many nations like that (least in the modern day , with like maybe the exception of the micro nations where it might make more sense ) is the just not the best best of choices bc It kinda seems a little problematic (unless you know they are being depicted in the past as we’ve seen America , Russia , Japan , etc etc go from being child to adult ..) like ,additionally himas reasoning in general when it comes to ages for the nations are really just everywhere really , it’s just confusing and messy , and just constantly changing

🐻 my favorite nation from the americas

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