Axis Powers Hetalia/Characters/Benelux: Difference between revisions

* [[Flower Motifs]]: Himaruya and the fandom tend to use tulips and poppies for Netherlands and Belgium. Their tag on Pixiv is even called "Tulip Siblings."

* [[Savvy Guy Energetic Girl]]: Netherlands and Belgium also seem to fit these roles.

{{quote| "Both seem to have had completely different personalities but their roots suggested they had dexterous hands skillful in diplomacy."}}

* [[Team Mom]]: Belgium sometimes plays this in fanworks and seems to have shades of this in the Drama CD.

* [[Adaptation Dye Job]]: Inverted, early illustrations portrayed her with blond hair, but since her appearance in the anime with very yellow blond hair, she has been portrayed as a brunette. [[Hair Color Dissonance|Or a dirty blond.]]

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Her profile in the third volume describes her as being scary when she's mad.

* [[Bifauxnen]]: Arguably in her [[Good Looking Privates|military garb]].

* [[Boobs of Steel]]: Often gets this treatment in fandom, but during the Christmas 2010 Bloodbath [http://www.horror-vacui.net/hetarchive/scanlation/shorts/hetastreeeem/tyoutenkai8.jpg she's shown to have a rather average chest.]

* [[Hair Decorations]]: Sports a headband.

** In a flashback to when she and Netherlands were children, she wore a large bow on the back of her head instead.

{{quote| '''Belgium:''' When I look back, I feel bad that I didn't try a little harder.<br />

'''Ukraine:''' Belgium did try hard! }}

{{quote| '''Belgium''': [http://community.livejournal.com/hetalia/9922213.html It's not going any further than this!]}}

** This is played sort of straight in the actual strip, however, in that she's the only girl we see in her bra.

* [[Picky Eater]]: She is not a fan of foreign waffles.

* [[Plucky Girl]]

* [[The Ojou]]: Zig-zagged. The [[media:000696z7.jpg|original anime sketches]] and both [http://i44.tinypic.com/66x5sk.jpg the first panel] of "Meeting of the World" and the first episode of the anime series (based on said strip) show her wearing a light blue dress, a pink bolero, jewelry and a pink headband. Even when [[media:beru.jpg|her first portrait]] [http://himaruya.blog61.fc2.com/blog-entry-526.html and this post] had her looking more like a [[Bokukko]]. ''Then'' the translations of the profiles provided in [http://community.livejournal.com/hetalia/8929397.html the third volume], explaining she dresses simply and inconspicuously.

* [[One of the Boys]]: Often gets this treatment in fanworks, both from her [[Bokukko]] appearance and because she's [[The Chick|the only girl]] in the [[Fan Nickname|"Tomato Gang"]] of the former Spanish territories.

** [[Raised By Dudes]]: She hints at this in the fourth volume by mentioning that she's surrounded by men. [[I Have Brothers|The fact that she has two brothers doesn't hurt.]]

** [[Expository Hairstyle Change]]: The [[Hetalia Bloodbath 2011]] shows him with his hair down as a pre-teen nation.

* [[Neat Freak]]: His profile describes him as one, and it's confirmed in the fourth manga volume where Poland and Lithuania comment on how tidy his house is and Netherlands responds that he tidies it every day and then forbids Poland from using his kitchen because he fears that he will make it dirty.

* [[OC Stand In]]: For a period of time, fans had his FIFA sketch to base his appearance on but very little to base his actual personality on, and he was most commonly depicted in fanworks as a boisterous, easygoing, not-too-bright, pot-smoking guy - in other words, a pot-smoking version of Denmark. Even after he was shown in canon to be more of a blunt, no-nonsense, somewhat stoic and unsmiling guy, the Denmark-like fanon portrayal for him lingered on for some time in fanfic.

* [[Perpetual Frowner]]: He always seems to have a scowl or disinterested expression on his face, especially when contrasted with his sister Belgium who's always smiling and cheerful.

* [[Scarf of Asskicking]]: The Netherlands have a nice [http://himaruya.blog61.fc2.com/blog-entry-758.html black, blue and white] one.

* [[Scars Are Forever]]: Has one on his forehead, inflicted on him by Spain during one of their wars.

* [[Showthe Forehead]]: He slicks his hair up. To be fair, he does seem like a no-nonsense kind of guy.

* [[Smoking Is Cool]]: The Netherlands ''loves'' smoking, and does it in a stylish pipe.

* [[The Cameo]]: In ''[[Hetaween 2011 (Manga)|Hetaween 2011]]'', since his boss didn't let him go until he completed all his work.

* [[The Faceless]]: During ''[[Hetaween 2011 (Manga)|Hetaween 2011]]''. An old sketch of him in the authors blog actually ''lack'' the face making [[The Blank|a more literal interpretation]] of this trope.

* [[Ojou|Ouji]]: In the 2007 Christmas Rampage, Finland describes him as being elegant.

* [[What Could Have Been]]: There's a discarded [http://himaruya.blog61.fc2.com/blog-entry-1307.html sketch] of him showing his face that also appear [http://www.hetarchive.net/scanlations/xmas2011/nanikonohito.jpg in Belgium's nightmares] (while the real Luxembourg is hiding behind the door):

{{quote| '''Belgium:''' Ugh~ [[Lampshade Hanging|Who's this guy]]... this isn't the Luxem I know. }}