Talk:Rumors and Misconceptions

Well, this page is finally here. Others can feel free to add information on fan-theories and rumors/misconceptions as they please, though I'm thinking of possibly breaking these up into sections (one for the series in-general, one for the anime, etc.). Ceras SanMarina 00:10, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

Was wondering if someone could add in 'Arthur Kirkland, England or The UK?'. I always thought he was both, but yesterday someone said Himaruya stated Arthur is England and only The UK at meetings because 'his brothers embarrass him'. I'd said that Arthur was both England AND The UK (like he was the leader of sorts)... but isn't it effectively the same thing? I dunno, just a suggestion since it's confusing me a whole lot. --Elegentmess 06:00, January 5, 2010 (UTC)

Done! Added a sort of short-ish blurb for now, anyone else can feel free to expand upon it. Himaruya said that he's simply England around his brothers, UK to everyone else. It's in an old '08 Bamboo Thicket post (that I mistakenly thought was a lost one since I found it on the UK fanwiki, as the fanwikis tend to contain copy-pasted information from Himaruya's old logs and blog). Apparently Himaruya wants to explore more of Arthur before he introduces the other siblings, too. Scotland, Wales, and NI are confirmed boys, while Ireland's gender is up in the air for now (But it in '07 he was thinking it'd be a female one). Ceras SanMarina 21:09, January 5, 2010 (UTC)

Umm, hello. I was wondering if we could add something about whether Italy's name is Veneziano or Feliciano and if S. Italy is Romano or Lovino. I wasn't quite sure. Maybe they can go by both? 67.220.6.244 03:59, January 11, 2010 (UTC) the-dancing-onigiri

I'll see what can be done about that! To clarify though: "Veneziano" and "Romano" are the names used in-comic by Himaruya to distinguish them from each other, besides just using "North" and "South". Veneziano's for "Venice", Romano's for "Rome", and it seems like there's a bit of punniness in there too (Romano and Veneziano sound like the phrases "Roma no" and "Venezia no", which would be something like "The Roman" and "The Venetian" or "of Rome/Venice"). Their human names only got listed in the name-list Himaruya gave in his old diary, but it seems fans tend to forget about "Lovino" more often and just call him "Romano" then too. Ceras SanMarina 04:11, January 11, 2010 (UTC)

It looks like this page hasn't had any new sections added in a while, and I was wondering what everyone thinks would merit inclusion on this page? Just off the top of my head I came up with:

• Portugal, Luxembourg, Indonesia, and Malaysia's "character designs"
• New Zealand's Gender
• Macau/Mongolia's appearance in the Christmas strips/Mongolia & Golden Horde in general
• The "Possible Names"

Thoughts? -FH14 19:32, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

Yes, yes, yes, and yes. You get a thumbs up from me! Icelilly 21:18, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

Excuse me, I have a few ideas about restructuring this page and new rumors to add to it....

1) Perhaps we could make separate sections for different 'types' of rumors?
 Sample:
   Old rumors/misconceptions: rumors that have been explicitly disproven (The one about the Nordics' voice actors would go here.)
   Rumors/Misconceptions about specific characters: self-explanatory (I think a lot of the current page will end up here.)
   Rumors/Misconceptions about the series itself: (The one about Hetalia starting in 2003 would go here. Or would this go in the 'explicitly disproven' category? Hmm....)
   Rumors/Misconceptions about Himaruya: self-explanatory

2) We could add new rumors/misconceptions to the top of their respective categories instead of the bottom, in hopes that people will read them first. 3) Rumors we could add:

• Portugal, Luxembourg, Indonesia, and Malaysia's "character designs"
• New Zealand's Gender
• Macau/Mongolia's appearance in the Christmas strips/Mongolia & Golden Horde in general
• The "Possible Names"
• USUK becoming canon in season 5/Himaruya blog entry that says England is gay and has a crush on America
• People mistaken for Himaruya (that composer guy, friend he based Thailand on, etc.)

4) Some of the entries are a little wordy and could stand some editing for conciseness. I don't mean to step on any toes, I would just like to know if these are acceptable changes and if I may implement them!