Subject: I always saw them as sort of... tragic characters, myself.
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Posted on: 2012-07-25 18:00:00 UTC

I mean, This Is Hetalia Everything Is Made of Pink Sugar. But with that in mind...

Russia doesn't really know how to love. He's never had a proper family... Well, as in a mother or a father. He's always had to take care of his sisters, who are completely insane and both chasing him (Ukraine more subtly than Belarus). He's in a constant war with General Winter, and he's... just kind of alone.
Then he meets the rest of the world and has no idea of how to react. His first impulse is to make sure he doesn't get hurt. Meaning he, yes, hurts other people, especially if it looks like he or his sisters will get hurt if he doesn't. His second impulse is to try to make friends. Unfortunately... for Russia, friendship is kind of... elusive, because he tends to hurt people if he thinks they'll hurt him. And love hurts sometimes.

tl;dr: Russia is the product of his environment. It's not his fault, and if he spends more time with normal people, he might get a little better.

Meanwhile, France loves, and loves all too well. *His* problem is that, well... Everyone he loves tends to leave. Jeanne died, as did Madame de Pompadour. (After seeing that episode with the Doctor, I can't help but see France in love with her, in the same kind of way.) England left, and never came back. Because of this... he kind of tries to pretend that it really isn't a big deal. He acts like romance is a game. "Let me love none, no, but the sport." ...Really, it's the same sort of reaction England has to the same problem, except that England just tries to escape into fantasy worlds and avoid the L word altogether, while France tries to romance the whole world, so as to forget the dull little ache that's settled inside him.

tl:dr; France is an incurable romantic, stuck in a world that hasn't been kind to him.

Both kind of tragic characters, really. All they want is love. *sniffles*

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