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o boy, old art! some ancient, v steampunk kind of beauty and the beast au i have no idea what was going through my head

ivan was once cruel and cursed to become a wolf-like beast since he was always kinder to those wolves than humans, and now he’s just really scared of rejection and lives in a mansion in the mountains with a handful of servants!

if he finds true love (yeah yeah quiet you) the curse’ll be reversed but when he turns 20 it’ll become permanent! so when alfred, an adventurous young fellow from a small village, finds his way up the mountain it’s only a few weeks before it’s too late!

and he keeps trying to get ivan to talk to him but ivan covers his face with his scarf (he’s afraid of scaring alfred) and hides around his mansion while alfred tries to tell him it’s okay!

and arthur is a grumpy british man who obsesses over every second towards the curses’s irreversibility and francis is a flamboyant romantic of questionable gender (who literally, for some reason, glows) and the two of them do their best to coax ivan into meeting this new young man and keeping the new young man from giving up and leaving >v<

italy is chip and hungary's mrs potts but i haven't drawn those two yet =v=

i was reminded of my old dream au, the UNNA one, and that i never got around to posting designs for most of the countries! i actually did like the au and wanna keep it going, so a quick n dirty of unna!russia!

he's the strongest nation thanks to his technology boom (hence the glasses, whatta nerd =v=) and he's super friendly and very kind and real charismatic!

since global warming moved along during the time between now and 2113, it's gotten a lot warmer in his homeland, making him dress more lightly than he used to! no overcoat, a new military outfit, he uses his scarf as a belt now (with as much love and care as around his neck uvu), and he's gotten all freckly, like mattie!

he's a real swell guy and everyone loves him! 

well

scratch that

most of the ex-nations are suspicious of him, for no exact reason eue

[y'all can delete the comment in your reblogs if you want! it's long and i get if you don't want it, but i would appreciate it if you read it! and of course, sorry for the inaccuracies and do send messages if i need to edit anything!]

so back in the day, the soviet union made an anti-aggression treaty w/ nazi germany complete with a secret protocol covering which european countries were in the two's sphere's of interest and poland fell in germany's and finland (who was a former part of the ussr) fell in the ussr's and when the ussr kept trying to get finland to move their borders to the ussr's advantage finland was just "what no," and then russia blamed an assassination of one of their people on finland (although historians think that russia actually killed him themselves so they could have a reason to get mad at finland hi and welcome to history =v=) and finland of course was just "what no where are you even getting this shit from," again but out of the blue the ussr attacked which violated not one, not two, but three non-aggression treaties between itself and finland which not only got it kicked out of the league of nations but also started the war they were waiting for and okay 

the soviet union outnumbered finland like three to one bUT stalin decided to go batshit crazy as usual and kill a bunch of 'suspect' citizens in the great purge (the government sort of required that the people were in fear in order for it to function so they made up some reason to kill more than a million people to keep their people in order mein gott it's just like the book 1984) which left their army with less experienced and less competent (but more loyal!) officers and decreased the russian armie's morale even before the fighting began and of course boosted finland's morale and the conquest that the ussr thought would take two weeks tops took three months because finland wouldn't go down as easy as they thought and eventually it was settled with a peace treaty where finland moved it's borders but significantly less so that was first desired and that is the rough summary of the Winter War between Finland and the USSR from 1939-1940!

america and prussia tried it first

prussia passed out twice and alfred perfected the art of projectile cinnamon

they thought it'd be funny to trick russia into suffering with them

(more littleaphheadcanons >v<)

//wheezes thank you so much!! dfjkh and of course, i've wanted to draw this guy for a while now too ;v;