User blog comment:KatDWolf/I wonder..../@comment-1616397-20100516214342

I think the story could work on one very unusual basis, but it's one that Himaruya might actually use: the Mongols believed that bathing offended their gods. If Mongolia, on his way to Japan, accidentally got rinsed off by a freak wave, he's got an excuse for why his invasion of Japan never worked. It'd be a very Hetalia way to handle it, especially with the Japanese mindset regarding personal hygiene.

When I did a South Africa for a Kink Meme story, I sort of chickened out. I had it so that South Africa wasn't represented by one nation-tan, but three, Zulu, Xhosa, and Orange, working as a collective. I sort of gave up on the story, but had plans on fleshing them out a little. Xhosa was the diplomat of the group, Zulu was the go-getter, and Orange was still trying to find what his exact role was since the demise of white rule (and perhaps a little afraid that he was now irrelevant). It seemed to be a good compromise to make, since there's no way that a single South Africa character could be done in Hetalia terms.