Submitted by kanjiragana:
I’m going to mess this up, I just know it…
here’s her bio:
Name- Elvira Blair
Elvira Blair?
As in, Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, and Blair, as in, the Blair Witch Project?
I…don’t like where this is going already.
Gender- Female
Country name- Antarctica
Birthday- December 1….Where the hell did December 1st come from?
Well, December seems to be when a lot of expeditions to Antarctica occurred. But that specific date in December has never been mentioned, from what I’ve seen. I’m assuming it’s just because most people think “December = cold.”
History- Antarctica lived by herself for many, many years. She grew up unknown to all. She never got lonely though, because like most kids her imagination was so vast she kept herself entertained.
I thought the reasoning for her being lonely would be more like, “Because she had no citizens and therefore wouldn’t be alive or personified.”
One day she made a snowball around a rock. She compacted it until it turned to ice, then threw it at a male elephant seal’s fat, blubbery stomach. The elephant seal even felt slight pain, much to Antarctica’s pleasure.
My God, Antarctica’s an animal abuser. Even though a lot of the researchers on Antarctica are biologists…
And, you know, hunting is illegal in Antarctica.
Totally logical!
Antarctica knew that she was going to have fun with her new friend, Snowy the Snowball.
WHAT. How could ANY animal lover after she hit it with a snowball with a rock in it?!
Because apparently, she’s a sadist? I wouldn’t be surprised, considering how grimdark her design is.
And let’s talk about that design for a second. Why exactly is she dressed like that? Yes, it’s heavier than most dresses that OC creators put their female (and some male) OCs in, but it’s still extremely appropriate for the climate that Antarctica has. She would freeze in her own environment.
And what he hell is going on with her hair, exactly?
One bay while resting on the cost, Antarctica spotted something odd, she’d only seen it a few times in her life, a ship. This ship had the Russian flag on the side.
Oh god, I have a bad feeling about this….
OC creator, the most famous people to have spotted Antarctica, at least, in the earlier years, were all British citizens.
Not Russian.
Just because Russia has Siberia in it, that does not mean he would meet Antarctica first. Research is important, and you should do some of it.
After the ship landed a man with oddly purple eyes and pale hair wearing winter clothes got off.
Well, I hope he’s wearing winter clothes. If not, he’d probably be dead within a few minutes.
He spotted Antarctica right away. He walked over to her smiling. He introduced himself as Russia.
I KNEW IT.
Antarctica was frightened because she had never met another person before, let alone another country.
How would she know he was another nation-tan? Would he just have some sort of aura to him? Do all nation-tans have that?
She threw Snowy at Russia as hard as she could.
Why is she that strong? I know that America’s strength represents his status as a world superpower, but Antarctica isn’t even a real nation, nonetheless a world power.
Snowy hit Russia square in the chest, but Russia didn’t seem to feel a thing, He actually laughed.
O_O Here we go again with the animal abusing… How can she even LIFT an elephant seal, those things get really big and heavy. And why would Russia LAUGH after being hit by a giant, heavy elephant seal?! It should have knocked him over, or been squished like a bug…
Well, I guess that, apparently, she’s so GRIMDAHRK and DESU that she breaks the laws of physics.
Antarctica was bewildered. Russia smiled at Antarctica and asked if she’d like to be his other little sister.
WHAT.
You know, I don’t think that Russia has made any land claims to any Antarctic land…so really, there is no reason at all for him to want to claim her as his older sister.
Before she had a chance to answer a girl got off Russia’s ship. The girl had an evil glimmer in her deep blue eyes.
Oh God, here we go.
Not only is this girl going to be grimdark and in love with Russia…but Belarus is going to be the EBIVL GURL CAHRUCTUR, too.
Joy.
She stared at Russia and addressed him as “brother Russia”. Russia seemed scared when he saw the girl.
The girl chased Russia around for a while. Russia kept calling her “Belarus”. Finally Russia ran back onto the ship and sailed away, Belarus swimming after him.
Oh, yes, that’s totally logical. Because she can totally swim the thousands of miles from Antarctica to Russia, and Russia, even though he is afraid of his sister, would abandon her in the freezing Antarctic waters. Even though she was in the ship the entire time with him from when they set off from wherever in the ocean they were setting off from.
Antarctica stood on the cost and waved bye. She had just made her first friend and lost him too.
What is this, a crappy fanfiction? Wait, it already is.
Shortly after that lots of other Countries started coming and trying to claim her. She wouldn’t have it.
Uh, no. First of all, Russia wasn’t the first one to land on Antarctica. It was America. (Or so he claimed. The information’s a little vague.)
Second of all, nations didn’t try to claim her. They were only exploring Antarctica and not even thinking about claiming land before the Antarctica Treaty.
So she made a scythe out of black ice and ever time a country then tried claim her they were met by her scythe.
A scythe. Yeah, that’s totally not a Sue weapon. And how the hell do you make black ice scythe? First of all, black ice doesn’t exist in Antarctica. Second of all, how the hell do you make a scythe like that? (I bet it’s because of *drumroll*…MAGIK!!!*dun-dun-duuuuuun!*
I don’t think he OC creator understands the concept of black ice.
Or, you know, logical OCs.
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base (c) *name withheld*
Scythe (c) some base somewhere
Antarctica (c) me/*Artist name withheld*
Hetalia (c) Hidekazu Himaruya (I think)I happened across this monstrosity when I was browsing DeviantArt for Antarctica OCs to help me with my own Antarctica OC (To learn from other’s (dumb) mistakes.)
bitetheawesome asked: Curious on the process of reviewing OCs and how long it generally takes.
Well, actually writing the review takes anywhere from ten minutes to an hour, depending on how long the material in question is. But researching at least doubles the time it takes, especially if we are unfamiliar with the area. So I’d say anywhere from 15 minutes to two hours.
And really, the process isn’t all that interesting. I usually just have one tab open with Tumblr and what we are reviewing, and another few tabs open with things like Google, Google Scholar, JSTOR, Wikipedia…that sort of thing. Just for researching and fact-checkng. I don’t know exactly how Zhenya reviews, but I imagine it’s similar.
Submitted by thederpyfangirl:
I found this on Photobucket while I was looking for Romania pictures. This is supposed to be ROMANIA according to the photo. All I see is a recolored Ivan. I really hope they aren’t serious about this but since I didn’t see any information about it, and the submitter of the photo to Photobucket may not even own him, I can’t be sure.
Outside of the fact that there is a canon Romania design, why is Romania even like this? Romania is NOT that similar to Russia, despite the fact that Romania was occupied by the Soviet Union and was under communist control. Romania’s ethnic groups are vastly different from those in Russia, too!
I’m just…why would you recolour Russia to make Romania. That’s just…not something you should do, especially for a Hetalia OC.

Base by : [base creator]
My hetalia OCs, Oklahoma and Alaska!
Oklahoma is wearing an FFA shirt because It’s awesome, and the bandaid is because of the tornadoes that blow through during the spring and summer.
Alaska is Alfred and Ivans kid, but they broke up when she was 2. She doesn’t really mind, becuase she has a big family and that’s all she needs. She’s also very possessive of her siblings (mostly Hawaii, Texas, and Oklahoma). Currently, she’s just messing with Texas.
Hetalia (c) Hidekaz Himaruya
OCs (c) me
Found the one with Oklahoma here. (Sorry for the spam… I’ll shut up now)
Oklahoma is wearing an FFA shirt because It’s awesome,
and the bandaid is because of the tornadoes that blow through during the spring and summer.
NO STOPAlaska is Alfred and Ivans kid,

but they broke up when she was 2. She doesn’t really mind, becuase she has a big family and that’s all she needs. She’s also very possessive of her siblings (mostly Hawaii, Texas, and Oklahoma).
Currently, she’s just messing with Texas.
umekopyon asked: On the subject of theories, I've been thinking lately on why so many OCs are in love with Russia. I've developed the theories that it's either because the creators desire to "cure" him with the power of love, and/or it's to make their OCs seem so admirable for having the heart to love such a beast... both of which are pretty terrible reasons. Thoughts?
My theory was always closer to, “Russia is insane, so my OC will look cool and badass by dating him, lololololol!!11!1!11j11” but those might also be accurate theories. Or they may all occur.
It’s probably all of them, honestly.
Shitty Hetalia OC Fanfiction: Gakuen Hetalia Sudden Change! Chapter 3

Okay, I know I’ve been bad about this, and I said I’d review the whole thing, but here is chapter three of Gakuen Hetalia Sudden Change!, the multi-chapter fanfiction that I, being up for a challenge, decided to review (with some coercion from you wonderful people.)
For those of you new to GHSC!, you should read the first two reviews first. Not at once, though. Even I couldn’t do that. Here’s where we’ve been so far:
Chapter One: Linkin Park Has Nothing on This
Chapter Two: Description Should be Integrated into the Story, Author
Chapter Three: WHO THE FUCK IS DOITSU?
Let’s see what wacky kawaii desu adventures Emelie/Saphira and her Mary Sue friends get into after the jump.
[text added, in case you can’t read it]
[OC creator:] I’m not being nit picky. I mean, Prussia was a real country and I doubt anyone there had pale skin and red eyes and silver hair. I’m sorry if I offended anyone, I was just thinking it could be a weird quirk she has, everyone has them.
[Commentor:] Here let me try to explain, the things that you are pointing out eyebrows, eye color, and hair color are generic features and are pretty randomized through out most of /europe/. However, the characters representing China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, and Thailand all have black/ dark brown hair which is common for asian people. Along with Seychelles and India having dark skin. Prussia however has a genetic mutation that causes him to be albino. I hope that helps
[OC creator:] Thank you, that actually does, but I don’t understand why my character couldn’t have some skin problems or just an odd quirk. Still, I changed it so please, please, please, ignore the past.
Submitted by pinkandwhitesprinkles:
Skin color should never be a ‘qurik’ unless they have a skin disease like Prussia. Calling someones dark or light skin a qurik is downright insulting. Skin color doesn’t add to your characters personality nor does it take away :|
After doing some research, I learned that these were comments came in response to this whitewashed Bahamas OC [sorry, I put Jamaica originally! Got my shitty whitewashed OCs confused. Sorry again!]
Without getting too much into Prussia, I do agree with the commenter here. And even if her Jamaica DID have some sort of condition in which she had no pigment in her skin, hair, or eyes, she would still have the features of a woman from Jamaica.
But, to the OC creator’s credit, she DID change her OC (albeit, very late and because people were getting on her about her Jamaica OC’s skin colour) so, that shows improvement.
Sure, she is still very light-skinned for an average person living in Jamaica, but at least she’s not blatantly white anymore.
badhetaliaocsaplenty asked: what do you guys think of people who make canon characters vampires? midguided twilight-tardlets or something else?
My personal view is, if it’s an AU, and you retain the personality of the characters, then it’s not as bad, but usually, people just randomly turn Hetalia characters into badass, OOC magical creatures, and it’s almost as bad as making an OC, at that point.
We actually have an entire tag dedicated to interpretations of canon characters that are almost like making OCs, because that’s how common it is.
mgawalangmagawa asked: I have many theories on some recurrences in this blog: 1. Most of them think that by overloading on sad backstories, they can win sympathy. 2. Most creators half-ass an OC to channel their fantasies. 3. To add being special, most use illogical traits like albinism and rainbow hair. I can't think of any more theories, but I may think of many more. Sorry for being sorta one-sided.
No, it’s fine. And really, I think your theories are spot-on. Maybe I could do a scientific study on these, or something. Somehow.
Self-Insert ALL THE WAY ACROSS THE HETALIA FANDOM
Submitted by synkronize:
From the female who brought you that stolen Antarctica OC. Luckily, she’s given up on making OCs. Maybe she’ll finally qui-…
Name: Erika Lilly Bowter
If I recall correctly, this is her real life name, so…definitely a self-insert, or whatever.
Er…anyways.
Wait, what? She’s using her real full name for a Hetalia OC?
That’s really not safe, nor is it logical. Why would you make a character for Hetalia with your exact name? Why would you even use your name for a character in Hetalia?
Age: 17
Personality: heart of gold and friendly and funny and brave and wants her friends safe
In my opinion, that is a very bland personality. And, the heart of gold thing is sort of stupid, again, in my own opinion.
It really is. I mean, if you’re going to be a nation-tan, you’d probably be brave and want your allies safe, so pointing that out for one particular character is stupid.
And the other traits…they sound like a general character. But of course, this OC IS a human OC, so I shouldn’t be surprised.
Er…
Anyways, her history doesn’t involve anything Hetalia related. No country interactions, except for the fact that she RANDOMLY STUMBLED UPON THE CHARACTERS IN HER OWN WORLD. You know, instead of like, poofing into the Hetalia world, or whatever. I don’t know which is worse, the characters coming to the “real world” ( Which would be pretty spic, if you ask me. But, not if they were greeted with this person. ) or when a person is thrown into the Hetalia world. Either way, it’s not a good plan.
I don’t like the idea of either, really, and if anything, I would think that the nation-tans exist in the “real” world, but most humans just don’t know of their existences. But of course, that’s just my headcanon.
But the fact that this girl just randomly met nation-tans out of the blue? That’s idiotic and proof of a poor writer/OC creator.
History: Her parent died in a car crash when she was 7 she lived in a orphanage for 2 years then got adopted they tock care of her then she got a job from the mayor of the town to fix it
How cliche. The parent(s?) die while the girl is at a young age. And, what the hell? Why does she only have one parent? Well, it could make sense, but she doesn’t mention anything about the mother/father leaving, so that leads me to assume that the mother either got a baby zapped into her womb or her dad got pregnant, somehow.
I’m assuming that the writer meant “parents,” since that makes the most sense. I’m more confused as to who the “they” is in this situation. Who adopted her, exactly? And what is she trying to fix with her job from the mayor, exactly? The fact that she has no parents? That’s going to be extremely difficult…
And, the orphanage, I don’t know much about orphanages, which is fine, I guess. I know I lived in an orphanage once. But that’s besides the point. Anyways, shouldn’t Erika be…traumatized or something? After all, her parent(s) died. I dunno, she makes it seem like she brushes the whole thing off, or even, “I’M A FREE BITCH, BABY.”
Two years, orphanage…blah, blah. ADOPTED. \o/ ( Those poor fuckers that decided to adopt her… )
So, there is no information about what her adopted family was like. Did she have siblings? Did she have abusive siblings? Did she have any incestuous relationships with any of her family members? I’m surprised she didn’t. OR MAYBE SHE DID. And I’m just not reading between the lines. And, when she grew up she got a job from the mayor. Doing what? Fixing what? What town? What happened to her family? Where does she live? Does she live on the streets? I hope she lives on the streets.
Moving on… >.>
Crush: maybe France not so sure
If you put aside the fact that Erika has nothing to do with Hetalia, I don’t see anything wrong with it. :U
Well, I don’t know, the fact that she’s a Hetalia OC who has nothing to do with the nation-tans, but has a crush on Francois makes me want to throw a desk at someone.
Anyways, we RP’d with this girl for a bit, and uh…she got a magic tattoo. Of a wolf. Derp.
Erika: (yea I got a Magic Tattoo)
Wait, what? Not only a tattoo, but a MAGIC tattoo?
Why?
Derpfriend: [we are SAFE no matter what anyone does]
Erika: (you can’t kill me)
That right there just says “Mary-Sue.” Yes, yes? Yes. Anyways, the tattoo like, glows whenever there’s danger or something.
HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE.
I guess it deflects every firearm/weapon ever imaginable, too. But she doesn’t mention that. Augh, there was something else too. OH YEAH. I guess Magic Tattoo is a proper noun now.
Erika: Erika wolf tattoo is glowing counseling her to go from good to bad
The tattoo controls her brain now, too. Yup. That’s logical. WHERE IS THE TATTOO EVEN LOCATED?
I BET IT’S A TRAMP STAMP
Dislikes: Mean people, Rapist, getting scared, and getting mad
Well, those are just logical dislikes for any human being, ever. I mean, with a few exceptions, of course, but most people don’t (and shouldn’t) like those things.
Likes: being with Friends, Talking, dancing, reading, books, Drawing, America
Wait, I thought her crush was France? Why does she like America now?
As for the rest of the likes, they’re pretty bland, as well.
Looks: Dirty blondse hair, Hazel Eyes, like to where Sweatpants, band shirts,
The random capitalization thing bothers me. I don’t want to start commenting on her likes and dislikes because I’m too lazy to rant about each one.
I’ve never met anyone with “blondse” hair. I hope I do, one day…
Really, this OC is…very, very bland. It’s just boring to read through. And she really has no indication of being a Hetalia OC, either. Other than maybe the fact that she has some nation-tans mentioned in her profile.
So, really…she could be an OC for anything, an in Hetalia, you’re supposed to have blatantly nation-tan characters.

