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“Well, that’s done. I can take this off now”

Lu is like when you have a D&D character that maxes out on Charisma. He will abuse that power. To me he embodies what we call malandragem and I'd say he's very much a chaotic good kind of person. His heart is in the right place, but he will do whatever he wants.

We have a cultural practice here in Brazil that we call the "jeitinho", which is our ordinary way of handling things in which we try to come out on top every single time. Like we want something done, but there's a ton of bureaucracy in the way? We'll try to either invent a workaround solution or, as a last resort, bride officials to get it done if necessary (this level of ordinary street corruption was way more widespread before the 2000s, I want to be believe we're better than that now lol). But Luciano isn't above throwing some weight around to get things his way, you know what I mean?

At the same time he's very resilient. He endures a lot of shit without complaint, he swallows a lot of his tears and still tries to power through the worst times with a smile. He's very connected to his faith, not bound by church dogma but more to regional and custom practice. He loves his cars, motorcycles, planes (WE invented the airplane, thank you very much, I will not accept arguments to the contrary on this blog). Football is an obsession, you've seen me during the world cup, so you know what that is like and I'm only a mild-interest fan by Brazilian standards.

His relationship with Portugal has it's ups and downs. Politically, we're very close and we haven't had issues with Portugal since our independence. Culturally is another question, sometimes we get annoyed by something someone says, sometimes they get annoyed with us, so is life. We have been making jokes lately that we're reverse colonizing them, which makes some people mad and that only fuels the jokes. I think Gabriel is an old and tired fart and he thinks the jokes are funny, also he's not on tiktok so he only learns about them five months later and by then it's only a passing comment.

I think that's another thing, Lu would be a heavy social media user. He is completely up to date on all the things and has seen all the memes so anyone trying to show him something funny gets hit with the "oh, yeah, I've seen that one".

For appearance, fan artists have done him a lot more justice, you can search for lh brazil or lh: brazil for examples. It still follows hina's blueprint of slightly short, dark-skinned, brown eyes, thick eyebrows (following England's influence over him, as she put it). I like his hair to be a little more on the curly side. And I REJECT canon Brazil's piranha teeth and straight hair, that is an abomination and I want no part in that. Hima can suck my imaginary balls.

He is extremely polite to acquaintances, he's polite and funny with his friends, he's less polite and a lot funnier with his close friends, and he's very impolite, very short-fused and very funny with his family. Also he shouts a lot with the fam, everyone shouts, nobody can hear anything and the television is at the maximum volume. It is a noisy household but full of love.

He gossips a lot, it's a problem sometimes. People know that he is the one to talk to for the tea. He's also been known to break a few hearts, but he's pretty monogamous when he's serious with someone. He's very judgy of people sleeping around, he can be quite conservative about that kind of thing. Sex is fun, kissing is fun, we're all adults having fun, but if someone's getting their heart broken for real then it stops being fun, you know?

i. As the Caballo de Bastos / Knight of Clubs, Iker the representative of Basque country or Euskadi has two pseudo clubs: on his back the basque Makhila, a walking stick with a metal spike base that can be used as a weapon and the txistu, a traditional flute with three holes. The bastos suit is recognized also for having three cuts in the frame.

ii. As the Caballo de Copas / Knight of Chalice, Mireia or Catalunya wears a rich dress and present the Holy Grail that is believed in Spain to be in the Cathedral of Valencia. The most waited card in many old ganes the inscription "Ahi va" (Here she goes) shows her importance and riches. The Catalonian suits had kings and knight in long robes and vivid colors.

iii. As the Page de Oros / Page of Coin, Uxía is wearing a rural Galician attire and gives her back to a Galician coined in the Kingdom of Suebi a Germanic post Roman kingdowm On the coin we can read "Gallica".

iv. Antonio is in full Cid cosplay as the Caballo de Espada / Knight of the Sword holding La Tizona. The legendary sword of El Cid, a mercenary knight turned knightly legend, the sword was not his but the history is good.