Lovino's POV for this chapter, people. I must warn all that this is strenuously out of character partially because THIS life's Lovino was raised as a prince, not like an average person. He may or may not come off as snobbish, but I'll make his next life more... Lovino-ish. Promise :)

I've never done this before, but apparently I'm supposed to put a disclaimer or some shit on here. Okay then... you probably know this, but I DON'T own hetalia. IF I happened to, you can be sure as hell that there would be more featuring of Nordics, the Asians, the South American countries and everything else Hidekaz Himaruya has forgotten or not featured in the manga and/or anime.

Oh and Spamano. More Romano is DEFINITELY needed in the show.


I hated this land very much.

I hated their food, which consisted mainly of meat and potato [revolting indeed].

I hated the rulers [well, not so much hate as strong dislike], with High King Aldrick's silences and King Gilbert's obnoxious attitude; Prince Ludwig was alright since he was only a child.

I hated the weather, which had bitter cold winters and mildly chilling summers [the sun must have hated the kingdom as much as I did].

I hated the clothing, I hated the entertainment, I hated SO many things about Angerym since there was so much to hate. But most of all, I hated the people.

EVERYONE had blond hair and blue eyes, along with pale skin that seemed like it had never experienced sunlight before. EVERYONE was tall, with muscular builds and stern expressions [even the woman and children!]. EVERYONE was well mannered and educated, which I found annoying to no end. And EVERYONE listened to their superiors without question or hesitance, even if the demands were unrealistic and medieval. Such were the laws of the Highest Order, and yet the Angerymenes blindly followed them like the trained dogs they were.

Luckily, the country people weren't foolish enough to act so idiotic, and they lived as they pleased without regarding the outrageous rules in those days. Immigrants were being treated unfairly in such a cruel and twisted way; it made my insides coil at the very thought of the pain and suffering they must have endured.

I, however, did not fall under the classification of a foreign citizen; I was a prince, after all. Merely a guest in an unknown land to me.

My kingdom, Liatia, was soaked in bloodshed and ravaged by war. Grandfather—King Rome Italia—only helped produce one child during his youthful years; a beautiful girl named Romana. My mother. She was a fierce, free-spirited and independent young woman with courage that could rival an army's, though my grandfather added that her sharp tongue made her somewhat un-attractive in certain ways. But he loved her nonetheless, and when she fell in love with a young Liatian painter twice her age—my father, Feliciano Veneziano— he accepted their relationship with boundless energy. The couple was very happy and married in secret almost immediately after receiving my grandfather's approval, but their joy was short lived.

The people were outraged and rebelled against my grandfather; they truly believed that he was going to put my mother into power! That was the ignorance my people possessed at that time, I suppose. A few months after my mother was impregnated with me, they broke into the nursery of our palace and attempted to kill her, taking my father's life instead. Mother grieved relentlessly and her health grew severe with each passing week, worrying my grandfather to no ends. Right after I was born, she passed away, leaving a parentless prince and a depressed king.

Since grandfather was still 'young' he continued to rule Liatia, unaware of the underground forces ready to overthrow him. Instead of being grateful that there was a male to be their ruler, they were angered that a 'spoilt brat' like me was to be given the throne [Spoilt brat? I grew up without a loving mother and father and the closest thing I had to a parental figure was a grandfather who was rarely home! I was far from spoilt!]. Several attempted assassinations were conducted by the time I reached eleven years of age, including food poisoning, long range arrows and stoning [it was quite a scarring and traumatic experience, but my character had become strongly built by then]. My grandfather didn't like it one bit. He called for a kingdom wide meeting at the royal theatre and announced to his subjects that I was the rightful and destined heir. Some were happy, some were not, though I doubt he cared.

But my life was constantly threatened and grandfather couldn't repair our broken kingdom while protecting me, so I was sent to live with his childhood friend, High King Aldrick German of Angerym. My education still continued in the form of tutors and library sessions, but other than that, I was strictly confined within the Grand Castle. They should've considered themselves lucky that I didn't complain; after all, I liked keeping to myself.

Sometimes I visited the nursery to take care of Ludwig, who was around six years old, with his innocence still intact. I prayed that he didn't end up brainwashed with the immigrant nonsense people in the capitol believed. Ludwig was one of my few friends, and we often sat near the fireplace during cold winters [what seasons weren't always cold in that damned Angerym though?], bundled up together under a soft quilt.

The prince's elder brother, King Gilbert, was always absent, desperately trying to spread peace and hope for the people that lived outside the capitol. Even with his loud and self-glorifying character, Gilbert was just as kind as High King Aldrick, though I regretfully admitted this. His and Ludwig's mother—Aldrick's daughter Maria—died protecting them during a raid of the grand castle.

I had heard a bit about the woman, and from what was described to me, she seemed strong, hard-headed and caring, despite her proclaimed 'awesomeness'. Strangely enough, Gilbert somehow managed to inherit her albino genes, and though it was too early to tell for Ludwig, he had a striking resemblance to his grandfather. Their father was never mentioned, so I assumed that he was a sort of taboo in the Grand Castle, but once I overhead the servants whispering about the mysterious man.

Apparently, he was the ruler of a kingdom I had never heard of, and during the time when Maria was around fifteen years of age, he disguised himself as a knight and infiltrated the Angerymene army. However, the young girl managed to look past his guise but chose to observe him closely, finding his battle strategy and cunning amusing. After awhile, Fritz [his nickname, though his true title was Frederick] took notice of her spying and challenged the teenager to a sword match, thinking that she was a man since she wore a suit of armor like all the other knights. The daring princess accepted, and when the match ended in a draw she revealed to the shocked man that she was a female. Feeling shamed, Frederick agreed to leave the army and head back to his throne [for he left saying that he'd be on temporary leave], only to find that the girl wouldn't let him leave.

So after a lot of boring nonsense that tempted me to end my eavesdropping, the maids finally spoke of how the two fell in love and had a child in secret; Gilbert. Then the monarch had to return to his throne, and so he said his goodbyes and left. True, High King Aldrick was displeased when his daughter came home with a silver haired baby, but nonetheless he welcomed them with as open arms as he could manage. After a long span of eighteen years of separation, Fritz returned to his cheerful lover and energetic son, happy as he ever was. Soon another child was born, of which the two had named Ludwig while he was still in the womb, but Frederick was murdered by a close colleague of his long before the second child was born. Soon after his death, the land he had once ruled slipped into chaos and the people fled to other countries, erasing the existence of the kingdom forever.

Princess Maria was distraught yet she never failed to continue smiling for her children, even during her last moments of life. I couldn't help but to admire her selflessness and just, and wondered if my mother was anything like that. I heard she was hot-tempered and also quite young when she met my father, but grandfather often said that she had a soft spot for the ones she loved. He also added that my father was the complete opposite of my mother; creative, cheerful, talkative and openly affectionate [not to mention a bit of a flirt, but the man was Liatian so that's expected]. It's surprising how loves works, I often told myself, especially for those two.

But enough of the depressing drabbles and such; I sound like a whining bitch. Or something.

It had been two years since I first started living in the Grand castle, and on that second year I met the most important person in my entire life.

The person that would fulfill my entire existence.

The person that would make my world spin round.

My special person.

All I did was wander deep into the gardens on a cold new moth's day, but what I found changed my life from then on.


Lovino likes Ludwig? He admits to not FULLY hating Gilbert and Aldrick? What kind of sorcery is this? Lol OOCness is a funny thing...

YEah, okay that kind of weirded me out too, but I can't have him hate the Germans in THIS life. Probably the next one though. And High King Aldrick is Germania, while Lovino's mother Romana is Fem!Romano. And Maria is Fem!Prussia. That's not too strange, is it? [and Gilbert & Ludwig's father is Frederick the Great, for those that noticed]

What's even weirder is that I made Lovino's father Feliciano... although he and Romana aren't related, so that's fine. But if you think about it, in the next life Feliciano and Lovino will most likely be brothers, which means that they are reincarnated from a time when Feliciano was Lovino's father... okay it is a little mixed up. But oh well.

I apologize for the long back stories of the deceased parents everyone seems have in this fic, it's just that Lovino had nothing else to narrate about. Antonio, on the other hand, will be talking lots. Because, you know, that's just his personality type. Which is adorable xD