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🐣 please <3

🐣 my favorite parent/child dynamic

It's Austria/Italy!! ;w; I just love how it started from pretty much rock bottom, with Austria being just an immature teen who pretty much took advantage of the power imbalance to use Chibitalia as a stress relief and bully him, but somehow as the decades went by and he became more mature, the relationship between them changed more and more until it became a proper parent/child dynamic. Besides, while early strips use Austria's bullying towards baby Feli as comic relief, it is also shown from the start that their relationship wasn't all bad and they also spent some quality time together (for instance Roderich allowed baby Feli to take beaks from chores to listen to his music when he caught him spying, because Roderich himself was pretty much broken inside and craving positive attention and praise). There's also the Sleeping with Sheep Drama CD where Hungary, Chibitalia and HRE are sleeping in the same bed and Erzsi convinces Roderich to stay there with them for some time too and makes him count sheep for her and the kids. How freaking wholesome is that?? ;_;

And like, the way Feli doesn't hold grudges and he's always happy to see Austria!! And how Austria allows Feli to hug him despite him generally not enjoying public displays of affection <33 He must care about him a lot if he allows it. I headcanon that both Feli and Roderich have in common a deep craving for human-like interactions between Personifications, and for this reason they tend to value relationships like that a lot, because that's one of the closest things they'll ever get to the condition of humans.

In the end, Roderich pretty much filled the spot left by Grandpa Rome's disappearance in Feli's life, and even if their relationship didn't start in the best way, Feli probably grew very attached to Austria (and Hungary) on a personal level because unlike Rome and HRE, he never left. That must be extremely comforting for someone with abandonment issues like him, and God knows how awful he must've felt, as Feliciano, to force himself to fight Roderich and Erzsebét for Italy's independence from Austria.

I hc that Feli never misses a year to spend Father's Day with Roderich (and Mother's Day with Erzsi) and calls him quite often to tell him stuff and ask him advice. Sometimes, it even feels too much for Roderich, but on the other hand it does fill his heart with joy that Feli is the kind of person he is. He definitely takes some pride in the way Feli turned out, too.

... I also headcanon that at some point, as a teen and before independence, Feli had developed a bit of an innocent crush on Austria, but that's beyond the point lol