hii, first off, I love your art! I like how you color and shade, and I like the way canada and ame look so similar yet different in your art. Though..I wanted to ask what is the relationship between england and canada in your works? ^_^ā i adore the way you draw them btw⦠they look so complex!
hi hi thank you thank you ^.^ !!! the trick is colourpicking the same hair colour LMFAO
and yea itās hard to put into words, which is why I draw them LOL (I drafted a response 2 times and deleted coz I was unsatisfied with the wording) but. I think thereās like two things there.
One the existence of America. yea thatās a big one. Amechanās influence on Eng is something Eng begrudges out of some semblance of face but ultimately embraces. Canaās Americanisation is a lot more sublimated and unconscious. Cana pretends he is knows exactly how the ACE situation and to an extent, yea, he Does know a lot more about Ame than nearly anyone else, and yes he Does think theyāre way more than just brothers. But also as a result, he is characteristically, the least self aware of his own identity in ACE because of how long he spends his time looking in on the outside, so to speak. As a result, his grievances with Amechan is typically petty and egodriven, although justified here and there, the core of it comes down to a wounded ego.
Okay but how does this relate to eng yea coz Itās actually all about eng. ame might be like some kind of parasite infecting everyone, but eng was kinda like. Patient 0 about it. In the sense a lot of Canaās neurosis comes from Engās neurosis about Ame, because Canaās identity is so tied up with Eng like that.
I think from here on out is the Freudian bit because (well you read the manga itās basically that) but also his perception of himself being forever Englandās Biggest Most Faithful Little Boy since Ame walked out, makes him blind to his own capacity for utmost cruelty, and weirdly, wilfully dismissive of his own capability for shrewdness and power-play. He isnāt a commonwealth backwater, and as Eng grows older without Ame, and as much as Eng would like to delude himself about the āspecial relationshipā Cana feels Artie leaning on him more.
And I guess Mattie plays into whatever cognitive dissonance he feels about his own power over Eng, because if he puts up with the face of Being A Good Imperial Boy just Like Ame for Eng, although internally heās just sooo totally Unlike Ame, even though the truth is somewhere in the middle. But to be honest with himself, and/or to be honest with eng, would mean choosing to give up the warmth of his old manās body, either through brief, thoughtless grazes of hands or through whatever leftover scraps of affection that senile old man intended for Ame.
tldr Mattieās gonna snap someday ^q^. rip artie xx