Ruri ! 🎐

➹➷ Ruri, 7teen, she/they and 🇱🇹, not diagnosed with neurodivergence but I highly suspect if for myself. Please be patient and kind with me, I am extremely sensitive :<<

➹➷ I love love love hetalia, my favourites from it are Lithuania (duh), Prussia, Ukraine and Prussia!! As for ships, I’m a PrusLiet truther hehe, I also got a Hetalia oc based on the Samogitia region, she’s like a sona? Sorta… I’m also into linguistics, my username (Ruri) means rain in the conlang I made in my free time hehe

♡ jirai, hetalia, revolutionary girl Utena, danganronpa, art, industrial music, Idenitity v, zomst (sorta alnst? Idk…), European/mesoamerican/middle eastern history, anything pudding related!!

Samogitia to me is Lithuania’s (half?) sister, but a complete 180 in terms of personality compared to him… She’s very very brash and quite rude, if she wants to get her way then she will 😬 Besides all of that, I think a running gag would be that she’s very creepy for the sole fact that she lives in a crude house she built herself in a forest and does who knows what in it… I really like girl characters who are considered “off putting” by others, so that’s who Samogitia is to me 😭

In terms of design, I’m really stuck on her clothing, all I know is that she gotta have a headscarf and red colours (both are very very essential parts of the Samogitian folk costume!) and lots of fur/fluff on her clothing. I’m still trying things out, but I do know that the braids are staying… I have thought of including yellow water lilies (it’s a very important plant in Samogitian folklore) buuuut I’m not sure yet. Also, she has a brown bear :>> bears are essentially THE symbol of Samogitia since forever, I also gave her tiny teddy bear earrings, they’re just not visible at all behind her hair

Other useless stuff I’ll mention is that she’s a lesbian (historically the duchy of Samogitia never used marriage for political reasons… and there’s too many monasteries to count here so take that information as you will), her human name is Miklausė Plikaitė (Miklausė was the sister of Vytautas the Great, while Plikaitė is the unmarried rendition of Plikienė, who was the first Lithuanian woman mentioned by name in history :33) but she has a different surnames than Lithuania because I see them more as half siblings? Aaaaand she definitely calls Prussia a horse eater…. Because old Prussians did infact consume horse meat and mares milk… that’s about it

Also some very very old art of her!

I’ve seen that a lot of people don’t like the idea of Prussia being both the German state and a representation of the Baltic people (old Prussians), but I genuinely do seem him like that… mainly because 1- he practically “inherited” the name Prussia from Prūsa, the land was originally inhabited by old Prussians — and 2- it genuinely adds to PruLiet, mainly because Lithuania aided old Prussians in their attempts to resist the teutonic knights, so it would cause a lot of inner turmoil in Lithuania whenever he’d think of his relationship with Prussia……

I could go on forever about them ughhhh