OLD GAY FUCKED UP PEOPLE

Rometalia is basically what I wished Hima did with the ancients except I got too brainrotted and now they take up all of my headspace. Here I’ll be posting content about them, fanart, headcanons, general info about the ocs, etc. This project mainly focuses on Rome and two oc siblings I gave him that also represent Rome. Will try to be active!!

May be historically inaccurate at times but I try my best to keep things accurate :’) though I hope people understand although my ocs are nations I want to give them human qualities

You guys can also send asks for the sillies!!! (even if this isn’t much an ask blog lol)

I am severely brainrotted

vvvvvvvvvvvv

Tags:

#rometalia -> as the tag implies, everything related to this lol

#oc rambles -> headcanons n such abt the ocs

#hetaroma oc info -> info (ofc) abt the ocs

#hetaroma fanart -> fanart abt the ocs that isn’t from me

#hetaroma art -> oc art by me (will not be used often lol)

ONCE MORE THANK YOU TO @/lamichicuenta FOR DRAWING MAI WIWIS THE ONE AND ONLY PHOENICIA SIBLINGS FOR OUR ART TRADE!!! Everyone go like and reblog her art NOW!!!!!!

From left to right: Tyre/Melqart, Byblos/Elibaal, and Sidon/Amoashtart!

Byblos my middle child that his siblings love bullying (even tho he was lowkey richer than them for a good while) </3 I hate them… ough… I’ll info dump on them when I remember this blog exists (aka in the next two years)

Bonus doodle by Michi below the cut of Tyre and her Iberia and Mastia oc

Art dump! Btw Tyre is my Phoencia oc, I just decided to make him represent only Tyre

1. Sidon (Amoashtart), Tyre (Melqart), and Byblos (Elibaal, his name is different in that pic because I changed it afterwards)

2. Tyre

3. Byblos

4. Sidon

5. Sidon, Tyre and Byblos

6. Byblos and Sidon

7. Tyre

8. Sidon, Tyre and Byblos with @/lamichicuenta’s Murcia oc as a baby, Mastia!

9. Ancient Assyria, aka Odisho

10. Carthage with his dad Tyre

Sidon, Byblos and Assyria are relatively new ocs of mine! I’ll talk about the Phoenicia siblings first

Needless to say, they honestly kind of hate each other, but they work together when it’s necessary. Sidon is cocky and brash, Byblos is introverted and a tsundere, and Tyre is definitely the level headed one of the group, yet they’re all pretty jealous and envious over both major and petty things. They’re always competing but they’re united over the fact all their lives they’ve been controlled by a major power. Egypt (and when I talk about her I’m referring to an oc named Amunet. Canon a. Egypt to me is Ptolemaic Egypt) was essentially their sugar mommy and Sidon and Byblos were always sucking up to her, so it was disappointing when the Bronze Age collapse happened, but at least they got to thrive (because their paid off the sea peoples)! Nowadays in the afterlife they inconveniently find themselves paired together—and that’s fine, really, since they’re the only ones allowed to make fun of each other. Anyone else will try and fail miserably. HASHTAG I LOVE DYSFUNCTIONAL SIBLINGS

As for Assyria (who I have less hcs about but have a general gist of) everyone hates him. He’s in love with his own reflection and his head is stuck far in his ass to the point of no return. He became the big bad bully of Mesopotamia because he got bullied himself by larger powers in his childhood and yk eventually got people to form an Assyria hate group #goals. At least his didn’t overreact, am I right!! Anyways, he over exaggerates everything and would’ve been a great soap opera actor, but in the afterlife he’s mostly just lounging about and pretending he still has some form of glory. There isn’t a single thought in his head… think of him as the country version of Seth Rollins (/aff)

I love em… again, sorry for dying, but I’ll try to come back later on with a relationship chart!

Before I go though, I have some new OCs and I’ll drop their names here if anyone is knowledgeable about the nations in particular and wants to help me brainstorm :3

Babylonia (f) - Abnātu

Kassite Dynasty (m) - Kurigalzu

Hittite Empire (m) - Muwatalli

My favourite codependent homosexuals

Don’t ask about the shading idk what I was doing either

Recent ish stuff

I think my art has improved? Lol idk I can’t do anatomy and basically half assed the clothes on the first so don’t expect full body drawings from me

Hi guys sorry I died so Remus’s lover is basically my friend @/fertaine’s oc of the Huns. Yeah they did bad shit to the Romans but the thing is it started as a crack ship 💔 they’re really freaky and weird and toxic yaoi and cannot exist without each other. They give each other the validation that they lacked in childhood 😇 and uh extra note Hun used to represent Northern Xiongnu and his older sister was Xiongnu who highkey fucked him up so bad. I’m still researching more so the historical side of him is very iffy, please bare with me 🙏

I’ll make a longer post soon talking about their dynamic! I js wanted to post this lol. I haven’t been burnt out anymore, just lazy, so I really apologise. Hope the few followers won’t kill me with rocks 💔

I’ve been thinking about making a new blog for my human versions of my OCs! They’re actually my main focus at the moment with Remus (or his human name Antony) at the forefront and it’d be nice to talk about them. The story is basically my human version of Rome, Remus, and Agrippina in a mid 1900s New York setting after they emigrated from Naples during WW2 (Italian immigration to the u.s has been my fixation for some time 😭)

some art by my friend @vampires-at-your-door <333 been thinking abt them fr they’re so silly and fucked up sigh

and hello again everyone,, I’m somewhat back as winter break for me is starting really soon.

I’ve been reading up a little on indo-Roman trade relationships (and IndRome in general) and tbh it’s funny to me. Like in hetalia terms Rome really wasted all of his money on silk, ivory, textiles, spices etc… much to the complaint of some (including Remus who was the most bitchy about it) but Rome didn’t care sigh he wanted him so bad (and his goods ofc) 💔

Rome is someone to me that is incapable of maintaining a romantic relationship because at the end of the day it all comes down to how it benefits him. I think he more or less had an infatuation with India because of what he represented (wealth and power among other things) and his riches. Rome is someone who chases glory, so of course he was going to chase after India next. I could say so much more but I’m tired so maybe later FSHDHDHD

Poor Remus that his older brother cares more about a man he hasn’t seen for the longest time than him LOL. Bro had every reason to become a villain /hj

HI so. I kind of died for a bit so I will make up for that by yapping about my favourite brothers + their mentally ill sister ever 🙏🙏

Tw mentions of abuse

Tbh part of the reason I think Agrippina was so unnecessarily hard on Remus (and that’s just putting it lightly) was because she felt betrayed in a way. I think she’s always admired Romulus, she’s always stuck by his side longer than Remus, and she wanted to be just like him. Remus on the other hand had come to view Romulus more negatively because of everything that’s happened, and he now blames Rome for letting Agrippina abuse him (because of how barely present he was in his childhood lmao). But Romulus still made him his heir. Remus never really wanted the job but he felt like he had to put on a front (back then he was more of a people pleaser. Despite not liking Rome, he was kind of just a Rome 2.0) and didn’t want to disappoint to Roman people. This angered Agrippina severely /ref (if ykyk).

I focus a bit more on Rome and Remus’s relationship in the Roman siblings 😭 idk.. they’re really interesting to me, I CAN’T PROPERLY DESCRIBE IT but like the pipeline from sweet child that loved his brother and sister to depressed, angry, bitter old man that hates everybody is CRAZY and Rome had so much to do with this transformation as well as Agrippina. If he had been present in his childhood instead of in his teens and while Agrippina was slowly ruining his life Remus would’ve turned out sane. A little fucked in the head just like everybody else, but sane. Instead we have whatever the hell he has going on.

They make me so ill sorry 😭

Credits

Agrippina, Tai on discord

Remus and Rome, @.corpusmoth

Agrippina, Cho on discord

Phoenicia and Minoan (Fertaine’s oc) and Remus, @.forkbirtuna

THERE’S MORE. I’m just…..saving them for later…. 🤫

Tbh he’s a bit complicated to explain for me 🤔 but to start, he’s the son of Phoenicia/Melqart! He and his father weren’t always super close but Carthage respects Phoenicia. Phoenicia taught him everything he knows about business, trading and his knowledge on the seas in general lol. To be honest, I didn’t want to take the military route I see most people go for with their APH Carthage ocs which isn’t bad at all! I just thought it’d be interesting if he was more based on Carthaginian politicians.

He’s very prideful, a bit stuck up but presents himself as superior (like literally everyone in the ancient world). He’s a bit narcissistic too but it’s more or less just having an inflated ego. He likes to show off his navy and how good at trading he is and a lot of the times, his wealth.

Before I go any further I AM A TOXIC DOOMED UNHEALTHY CARTHROME TRUTHER. THEY ARE AT EACH OTHER’S NECKS AND REGRET THEY EVER TRIED TO MAKE A RELATIONSHIP WORK THEY ARE SO TOXIC YAOI.

Rome and Carthage’s relationship to me is veeeery interesting. Like… Carthage knew he was great. The people around him knew he was a great. He was a big, maritime trading empire. But he needed more. It was never enough for him—I’m not sure if he feels guilty about this want for more and more but I’m leaning towards yes.

Rome was the same. He was just a regional power at the time, away from his siblings trying to conquer the Italian peninsula. But he oh so desperately needed to be recognised as more. He wanted to know he could rest comfortably knowing there was nobody that was going to try and invade him at any given time. Most of all, he wanted superiority (young Rome was EXTREMELY narcissistic lmao.. glad he’s toned it down overtime).

Their relationship just started out as acknowledging they needed something from each other and they were the ones that were going to give it to each other. But they got attached, “somewhat”. I think Carthage especially knew it was wrong and he shouldn’t try to pursue something more with Rome because he just has this gut feeling it’s not going to end well for him—Rome is growing, he!s becoming stronger, and sooner or later he wasn’t going to need Carthage anymore. But he did it anyway.

When Rome did eventually end up leaving him Carthage was PISSED (and maybe a lil heartbroken but shhh Carthage voice im a manly man that doesn’t need romance), but he could stomach it for now until that shit with the Mamertines happened—honestly thats another conversation in itself but basically, I have two Mamertines ocs, a set of siblings and being the land pirates they were they reunited Carthage and Rome except it’s not a happy reunion and Carthage wants to see Rome burn at a stake and vice versa.

The Punic Wars:

Carthage voice I’ll make you pay Rome….. I’M NOT DONE YET….. evilly laughs

Rome voice I’ll make you pay Carthage….. I’M NOT DONE YET….. evilly laughs

Rome voice heh. I told you.

When Carthage found himself at Rome’s mercy it was like his pride had disappeared. After the first Punic War, he was discouraged but he still believed he was going to win. At the end he had to face the fact he wasn’t invincible—and so did Rome. (After the second Punic war in particular I’m pretty sure he’s thoroughly a bit afraid of Carthage and the seas from the first coughs HANNIBAL IS AT THE GATES!!!1!1!1!)

In the afterlife, Carthage is more of a bitter old man. Distant, doesn’t really say much and just kind of lives alone lol. “Requiem for O.M.M.2” is him/CarthRome coded

Anyways fanart time! (Check alt texts for second and third)

(Credits: @gracheeee for the first, @fertaine for the second and third, and @pin4tre for the last)

Tw mention of abuse and being hanged

(Banner by @matthewmat1cs !!!!!)

SO. The guy in the back is my Rome oc and so is the girl! Their names are Remus and Agrippina Vargas respectively and the guy in the front is obv Rome/Romulus. He’s the oldest, Agrippina is the middle child and Remus is the youngest. Honestly I cannot explain their dynamic in a few sentences but Remus and Agrippina are the most fucked up people ever and Rome is trying to get them to not kill each other

To summarise their backstory a bit and to explain why they’re fighting, when they were younger (Remus 16-19 yrs old, Agrippina 22-25, I want to say? Rome 26-29) Agrippina was envious/jealous af abt how Romulus guaranteed Remus he’d be the next consul of Rome (and later heir to the throne) and was also mostly in charge of what was going on inside the empire while Rome was away because she thought he was immature and incompetent (for now, think of him as a modern Rome 2.0) and she knew she’d never be able to get into that position of power he was in so she thought it would be a great idea to abuse the ever living shit out of him and basically suck his life force out since she needs to take her anger out on the source of her problems!!! Yay such a great sister!!

By the way, Romulus was their caretaker (he lowkey did not trust them with servants). He killed their father Roman Kingdom at 19 I want to say (Remus was 9 Agrippina was 14) and was left to raise them but the issue was he had no clue how to raise children. He wasn’t a father, more of a quarrelsome teenager, so he sort of just put that in the back of his head. He does care about them, he really does, but being 18 and wanting glory desperately kinda prevents the few braincells he has from connecting the dots on how to care for children.

Agrippina was the one primarily taking care of Remus after Romulus got a lil power hungry and decided to expand his borders so he was never really around much—it’s how she was able to get away with her torment 💔 she did get karma though lol

There’s so much more to be honest 💀 but I’ll get into the side plots later. BTW, Carthage/Hannibal is involved in their backstory in more than just the Punic wars lol. Hope this was a decent enough backstory intro 🥹