Definetly Not Yaox

Personally I would imagine he had more than enough servants during his best years, and he simply did all that to humble his new territories and show them who’s boss. Imagine not only getting your ass kicked but then you’re handed a broom and made to clean someone’s stables.

It also adds to this - since it’s a pretty popular headcanon that nations react with their physical bodies to political changes - that it would keep them obedient. I don’t imagine anyone willing to start and uprising when they have to do hard manual labour AND also have the flu (or the symptoms at least).

At the same time I think that it could be some sort of double sided arrangement, where the captured territories would also attend events or be presented for certain officials. Of course, in said situations they would be introduced as special guests but instead be treated more like a walking decoration, a taxidermy trophy that could walk and speak (when spoken to).

Anyways yes even though this headcanon isn’t really historically accurate I still stand by it because I think it’s 1. Funny 2. Just gives me ideas, like the whole turnaround of their lives when they got the info dropped on them AND ALSO on top of that now they gotta move into a new house and serve a new master basically… fun stuff

And yes they definitely changed a lot but the difficult thing is that their relationship looks way different depending on who you ask (Enis or Idriza) so I’ll try to write it from both sides

I think they were both aware of eachother wayyyyyyy before, they basically knew eachother since… I guess nations aren’t born so since they started existing, let’s say. But it wasn’t anything romantic, more like someone to just acknowledge. The neighbour’s kid, or a far cousin (don’t take this as me supporting incest I’m looking at you), someone to occasionally speak to, maybe argue with and then run off do your own thing. I’m not quite knowledgeable to tell you exactly what was happening before their engagement in more specific terms, so I’ll skip to the after.

For Idriza it was initially shocking to suddenly be thrown into an arranged marriage and she couldn’t quite accept it for a while, she wished that things could go back to where she was and for a bit after their wedding she kind of just continued to live her life, trying to brush it off. Eventually she found that Enis’ company could actually be tolerable… maybe even nice? And that the things she would do by herself, could be enjoyable with him as well. However in their relationship she was the one who chose the pace of things, always. If he moved too fast she would disengage, until she was comfortable in her feelings again. So I guess they did have kind of a honeymoon phase you could say, but that phase came several years after they got married and got used to eachother. I was also recently inspired to think that for Idriza a groundbreaking moment would be her getting jealous over Enis (which they both are of eachother) and I think at some point before Yugoslavia this became a major point that would come back to haunt them often, and cause them to fight endlessly. When it comes to the 90s and war…. Pretty recent topic for me to make stupid headcanons on… pass

For Enis I feel like his way to cope with things is just through apathy or blind acceptance. He either detaches himself from something or just says bismillah and moves on. This was definitely the second one, although I think he took the news way better than Idriza, which makes sense when you think about it. Idriza values her freedom more (not that Enis doesn’t, just in a different way), and therefore he didn’t mind the change if all it meant was having company (and who wouldn’t want a really hot crazy brunette for a wife??). I think he, in his aloof way tried to initiate something friendly between them and quickly got reduced to sleeping on the floor ((sidenote: I think someone once asked me about their wedding night and to this I still have no answer. I have no idea when their first fuck happened)). I do like to think that to some extend, Enis always liked Idriza. If not romantically, then at least he admired her either for bravery or something else altogether. And that carried on through the years, where despite the fact that he was always and will always be… not the sharpest tool, he also moulded himself to her so that his romantic approaches are suited to her. Similar to Idriza I believe that he has a deep, deep jealousy for anyone that could potentially take her place, perhaps if you guys want to get really meta about it you could even interpret this as him being protective of „his” (shared) territory, because in some way he sees her as land too (which they both are). And nowadays she beats him over the head with a slipper and he willingly accepts it because it’s his wife and he loves her dearly