okay for context! i was suuuuper into hetalia when i was 9-12. it was one of my 2 first fandom interests along with eddsworld (they occured nearly at the exact same time and i have 0 way of knowing which one was truly first) so it holds a special place in my heart, as flawed as it is. In 2024, I decided to rewatch it, and for some reason Lithuania just.. was soooo perfect to me. I actively thought he was lame the first time around. I DESPISED he and Poland, having my display name on like Amino (lol) be #1 Poland Hater and stuff like that. I thought he was such a boring little white boy with long hair. I don't know what changed.
I really like Lithuania because I think he's quite similar to me. He has a sort of mild-mannered personality where he seems to get along with and suck up to anyone, just like me fr. I find the way he interacts with others quite comedic... The way he says what he thinks they want to hear, but ends up being terribly wrong and misreading their signals..... Love and joy I love a guy who is a little bit awkward, but very charming. I love when a guy is sooo soggy.
I also really like his relationship with Poland. My main shipping type since I was born was best friends who fall in and out and in an out and in and out, so. Having 2 beings that have existed for like 1000 years? Sign me upppp. My vision for them is kind of different to everyone else who seems to like them, caus I headcanon poland as being a trans girl which like? I swear to god that used to be common enough, but I don't see it EVER in modern hetalia fans!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Liet is a chaser (half joke) who loves his beautiful tgirl wife....
admittedly i also enjoy my fav characters getting Tortured and Spat Right Back Out so all his relationships are amusing to me...... Poland is kind of a frustrating nuisance, but the most tolerable in his life, so. I wasn't too keen on his relationship to Belarus at first, probably because its so shallow and undeveloped in canon, but one of my friends has made me quite a fan of how bad they can be for eachother <3 Same with Russia, although that ones a lot more obvious (and explored in canon). And on a lighter note I find his relations with Latvia and Estonia very sweet :) They are a group of very different people with not many similarites besides geography, who ended up quite close due to the circumstances given to them from surrounding countries.
