Date Written: October 8, 2011
Word Count: 443
Summary: A short fluffish drabble-type story that focuses on Thanksgiving and how America and Canada celebrate it together.
Warnings: None that I can see. Could include multiple pairings, so I'm not worried about any warnings for that.
Disclaimer: Hetalia does not belong to me.
I tried to be careful about the whole 'not everyone celebrates Thanksgiving the same way, or even at all' thing while I was writing this, so please do not be offended by anything in the story, I can assure you that I am not trying to be offensive or assuming or anything like that.
(Also, I can't figure out if it's supposed to be 'An Hetalia Thanksgiving' or 'A Hetalia Thanksgiving' because neither sound correct to me :/)
Thanksgiving is a time to spend with family and friends; a time of feasting and talking; a time of love and…well, giving thanks. This meaning of Thanksgiving is not lost on the nations. All of them have their own traditions and their own plans, but they all celebrate some variation of this holiday, whether with a companion who celebrates what we know to be Thanksgiving or their own unique view of Thanksgiving.
For a few nations, Thanksgiving can be a hectic time of year, especially so since not everyone celebrates Thanksgiving (or something similar) at the same time. For example, take America and Canada. Both celebrate the Thanksgiving that includes turkey and stuffing and pilgrims; however, Canada celebrates this family holiday one month earlier than America. This can create some difficulties when the two want to spend Thanksgiving together.
To remedy this, the two countries have decided on a set plan for each year. America and whomever he decides to bring with him (usually England) will spend Thanksgiving at Canada's house with whomever Canada decides to have as guests (usually Prussia, France, Russia, and Netherlands). The next month, it is the same thing, only in reverse. Canada and whomever he decides to bring with him (usually Prussia, sometimes France tags along just because he can) will spend Thanksgiving at America's house with whomever America decides to have as guests (usually Japan, England, Australia, and sometimes Belarus).
Both nations are sometimes invited to other countries' Thanksgiving celebrations, whether actually called and celebrated as Thanksgiving or something similar, such as various harvest festivals that other countries hold. The underlying themes of family and food always seem to come into play, however, no matter what kind of celebration or holiday.
As a result, many nations end up celebrating some variant of Thanksgiving more than once, their own traditions and then the traditions of their friends and family. No one minds though, because most of them like seeing how their companions celebrate around this time and seeing friends is always fun, no matter how many times.
Being countries, sometimes these celebrations are laced with tension and barely held back fights. But that is to be expected, no family can be completely happy all the time. All countries try not to fight to heavily with each other while celebrating at another's house, mostly that is. Fights to occasionally break out, they are nations after all. There will always be some sort of rift between them.
In the end, Thanksgiving is still about the people and the thanks, even if there are undertones of strife and capitalism. Everyone has something, or someone, to be thankful for, even the nations.