Happy Independent Day Philippines! ;3

Recently gone back to my roots of animes that I enjoy watching, and that is Hetalia. Been a fan back then and I was just like any other fan does, being a cringe fan of making my OC Philippines too OOC for its taste. Not to mention when I saw the official design of Philippines, I was excited. But growing up and mature enough, the official design of Philippines is fair to me. I can see why Hima decides to make Philippines a male, since ironically, Philippines is named after King Philip II of Spain (true), selfie stick with his phone on is accurate, as well as having an endangered specie, the Tarsier. But tbh, I want to make my version of Philippines but as a woman. I mean… we have few countries represented as female, so why not have more of them?

Some notes I did regarding my design

- I made Philippines a mixture of Austronesian and Negritos (because etymology speaking, Negritos arrived first before the migration of Austronesian from Taiwan)

- She wears a very well-known Baro’t Saya as a national attire (although historically speaking it evolves, while Barong Tagalog remains the same), what she wears is the typical Baro (Camisa, with inner top), and Saya (skirt with Tapis on it)

- She added the necklace with the image of Dr. Jose Rizal (as he is the nat’l hero of the Philippines) and a cross (due to the majority being Roman Catholic, thnx to Spain)

- She got her tattoos from Apo Wang Od because she wanted to go back to her original roots.

- In the right is the evolution of the Philippines, from the unnamed and fragmented islands to a single archipelago/ nation (my pet peeves when it comes to the evolution of the nation is how they maintained the same hair, which isn’t accurate considering how the evolution of fashion has been prominent)

- I consider naming her Maria Clara, but decided not to cause she is meant to be an ideal Filipina, and there are Filipino heroines that were not tackled (ex. Melchora Aquino, Gabriela Silang, Gregoria de Jesus), though I added Ma. just in case.

- Ma-l is the name coming from the Chinese records, according to the Laguna Copperplate, which is believed to be around 900 AD, or older than that.

- Her old surname has an addition of 'Carriedo', due to the time she is under Spain's rule, but she dropped the name down at the end of the Philippine Revolution, and changed it to Dimasalang.

- She has lots of wounds coming from colonisation to WWII, and she somehow heals some parts with the help of an albularyo, although she retains a huge scar on her abdomen.

- Of course, she kept her hair short, although she loves adding extensions if she needs to.

Hetalia Doujin: Those Who Are Similar Yet Different [Colorized and Translated by Nano Banana Pro AI]

This is another variant of the same doujin by the same artist.

This is a test of the Machine Translation and Colorizing capabilities of Nano Banana Pro model. This is done zero-shot. Sometimes, the output image colorizes without translating or partially translating some panels.

Note: This model hallucinates, the hair colors and clothes are inconsistent. I also cannot understand Japanese to verify the correctness of this translation. This also removes watermarks.

Hetalia Philippines x Hetalia Vietnam

                           - Inspired from "Sa Panaginip Na Lang by ALAMAT

:･ﾟ★,｡･:*:･ﾟ☆.・。.・゜✭・.・✫・゜・。.  

     He just couldn't stop thinking of her.                                  

This is a POV of Piri about someone special.                                                  

*:･ﾟ★,｡･:*:･ﾟ☆.・。.・゜✭・.・✫・゜・。.  

Her smile was such a rare sight to see. It was fleeting but memorable no matter what I do, it will never leave this weary mind of mine for the next millennium. Like how she managed to etch her timelessness to me. A fantasy that can never end and will continue till eternity.

She has invaded my mind both at night and day. In my dreams and my daydreams, she does not stop. And I won't force her to stop.

Everything you want. Everything you ask for. I will give it all to you with no hesitation. I would give up anything just to see you smile. Every... Single... Day...

I know there were multiple periods in our history where we were on the opposing sides. And I was to fight against you for the benefit of my damned allies.

But please, please, please know - that if I was given a chance to choose. I will choose to be by your side no matter what.  

But what if?

What if I was not colonized by Spain and was not forced to cut ties with any of you?

What if I tried hard enough and united all my kingdoms into one and strong enough to repel any colonizers?

What if I was able to stay as how I was millenniums ago?

What if I fought and resisted hard enough?

What if I didn't allow those foreigners to control me?

What if? What if? What if...

...

What if you were mine?

...Mine to hold. Mine to cherish... To love?

What a pleasant reality might it be.

But an actuality that is too far to reach. Like how the moon will try to attain the sun. It runs after it for days, months, years, decades, centuries, and millenniums, a never-ending cycle.

But unfortunately, like me. The moon will only align with the sun as it will still not be good enough to reach her.

So I run back into my dreams. Where all my what if's have come true.

Where we are happy together. Where you accept me even though I'm not perfect. In a dream where all the stars are in our favor. And hope that I won't wake up from it.

I will do everything that makes you happy.

If you want to fly, I will give you wings.

And nothing will stop us because we are the law.

But despite what I do, I wake up.

Brought back into a reality where I can not have you. I can still hold you, laugh with you, even make you worry with my antics. But it was still not like how it was before.

Darling, you are my lucid dream that I hope I won't wake up from.

｡･:*:･ﾟ★,｡･:*:･ﾟ☆.・。.・゜✭・.・✫・゜・。.

And that special someone is... Vi-vi!

I had read their history for quite some time now and dang it. They have chemistry. And it is also canon that Piri thinks that Vi-vi is cute.