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A character from my Hetalia states fic, "Your Father and Mine." I've had this drawing in my files for a while, but I finally got around to uploading it.

Human name: Louise Dubois

The personification of the Southern United States, though she was originally the Louisiana Territory. She ended up married to APH America after he purchased her from France. She is a person who is desperate to prolong her existence as a nation by any means necessary, even if it meant she had to become the Confederate States of America in an act of rebellion against the United States. She has learned to bury her true feelings and continues to smile, even when she's treated as less than a person due to looking Creole. She is very sensitive to criticism, especially when it is about slavery and why she won't do more to fight against it. While she knows slavery is wrong, she has internalized excuses for it and chooses to turn a blind eye to it, even if she, herself, is the victim of discrimination and racial prejudice.

She is a ruthless fighter, keenly intelligent, and comes across as very charming and likeable. She is also extremely ambitious and cunning, capable of using her looks and charm to get what she wants from people. She holds long grudges, particularly against those she sees as responsible for the wrongs she's suffered. However, at the end of the day, she is a very sad and broken person, who ultimately destroys herself by not standing up for what is right in the face of societal pressures.

Artist Note: Yes, the irony of the Confederacy being a mixed-race woman was a very deliberate choice on my part when writing the story. I figured it adds a level of depth to the discussion of racial issues in the South. After all, a huge part of the South's population was comprised of slaves and "Freed People of Color." In some parts of the South, the whites were actually a minority (granted, a privileged minority, but still). She suffers from a terrible internal divide between the different groups she considers her people, emblematic of the struggles many Creole people faced when forced to choose between sympathizing with enslaved blacks or attaining social respectability among the whites. She's not evil; she is just a person who wants to live, but who also makes bad choices.

Description
A character from my Hetalia states fic, "Your Father and Mine." I've had this drawing in my files for a while, but I finally got around to uploading it.

Human name: Louise Dubois

The personification of the Southern United States, though she was originally the Louisiana Territory. She ended up married to APH America after he purchased her from France. She is a person who is desperate to prolong her existence as a nation by any means necessary, even if it meant she had to become the Confederate States of America in an act of rebellion against the United States. She has learned to bury her true feelings and continues to smile, even when she's treated as less than a person due to looking Creole. She is very sensitive to criticism, especially when it is about slavery and why she won't do more to fight against it. While she knows slavery is wrong, she has internalized excuses for it and chooses to turn a blind eye to it, even if she, herself, is the victim of discrimination and racial prejudice.

She is a ruthless fighter, keenly intelligent, and comes across as very charming and likeable. She is also extremely ambitious and cunning, capable of using her looks and charm to get what she wants from people. She holds long grudges, particularly against those she sees as responsible for the wrongs she's suffered. However, at the end of the day, she is a very sad and broken person, who ultimately destroys herself by not standing up for what is right in the face of societal pressures.

Artist Note: Yes, the irony of the Confederacy being a mixed-race woman was a very deliberate choice on my part when writing the story. I figured it adds a level of depth to the discussion of racial issues in the South. After all, a huge part of the South's population was comprised of slaves and "Freed People of Color." In some parts of the South, the whites were actually a minority (granted, a privileged minority, but still). She suffers from a terrible internal divide between the different groups she considers her people, emblematic of the struggles many Creole people faced when forced to choose between sympathizing with enslaved blacks or attaining social respectability among the whites. She's not evil; she is just a person who wants to live, but who also makes bad choices.