Very belated, but here goes my Christmas-themed pic this year.

Francis, Gilbert, Ludwig and Arthur as French, German and British soldiers on the Christmas Truce of 1914, an event that really occured during World War I.

I think this topic has been done a couple of times already in Hetalia fandom, but after it also came up in this year's Christmas sermon in my church, I somehow ended up drawing this, anyway.

It's also inspired by the movie Joyeux Noël (I highly recommend watching it). The poems used here - authentic ones, it seems - are taken from the beginning of the movie, where they are recited by three young children. That scene never fails to send cold shivers down my spine. ;__;

Thanks to ~kuroyonakidori for transcribing the French one for me when my suck-tastic French skills failed me.


Edit: Translations taken from the movie subtitles:

German:
We have one and only enemy,
who digs the grave of Germany,
Its heart replete with hatred, gall and envy,
we have one and only enemy.
The villain raises his murderous hand
his name, you know it, is England.

French:
Child, upon these maps do heed
This black stain to be effaced
Omitting it, you would proceed
Yet better it in red to trace
Later, whatever may come to pass
Promise there to go you must
to fetch the children of Alsace
Reaching out their arms to us
May in our fondest France
Hope's green saplings branch
And in you, dear child, flower
Grow, grow, France awaits its hour.

Edit #2:
DEAR GOD WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME AND MY NATIVE LANGUAGE.
Entschuldigung an alle Deutschsprachigen, es heißt natürlich "Ein Feind ist unser". Nicht unserer... erererer?
Das Blag im Film hat genuschelt. Ehrlich.

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characters (c) Himaruya Hidekaz