balts | LITHUANIA HISTORY REFERENCE

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One of the biggest complaints anyone can have about Hetalia's canon is how inconsistent it is and how much it jumps around. A lot of historical gaps are there compared to canon, though some of the most important ones were touched upon. The following is basically what canon gives you and it's pretty confusing and touch-and-go at times, not to mention not actually in sync with what happened in real life, but it matters a lot more on a roleplaying basis.

Going off of historical chronology, the first time Lithuania was ever introduced was around the time of his creation. In 1236, Mindaugus formed the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Due to religious differences, it was a prime target to the Teutonic Knights, or Prussia in the Hetalia series. Around this time it was also shown that Lithuania met Russia for the first time, though it was very fleeting.

After that, he's shown as aged up a little more, in what is arguably his most historically important moment in the series so far. As a young man, Lithuania's boss (Jogalia at the time) decided that because of the daunting pressures of outside countries and sects, an alliance by marriage was the best solution to ensure the strength and stability of the growing nation. The arrangement was made with Jadwiga, the female king of the neighbouring country of Poland. Lithuania was ambivalent about the idea, more so alright with anything that meant his people and his self would be safe, though Poland was a little more nervous about the union, dubbed the Union of Krewo, taking place in 1569. This specific union would last until 1572, though the Commonwealth would last for quite some time until 1759.

The union with Poland was hard on Lithuania, mostly because Poland was a very difficult person to live with. He didn't take care of his share of the work, he treated Lithuania like an underling more than an equal, and was very trying on his nerves. The only time that he ever was so angry he snapped and stormed out was when it was directing as Poland. Poland, being a flippant person, brushed it off, leaving Lithuania even more confused. Over the course of the union, though, they did warm up to each other, growing as close as one would expect partners and brothers in arms would get. They fought numerous wars together; two shown were against the Teutonic Knights and another against Sweden, as well as an implied war with Germany. Even after the Union, the two retained a close relationship, except for the un-canonized instance of their war over Vilnius.

Though it was never really historically explored in canon, in Lithuania's youth, he had interacted with at least one of Russia's sisters, Belarus. He developed a quick crush on her, lasting until the present day. While he moons and pines over her, she feels exactly the opposite, breaking his limbs while he has no idea she feels so negatively about him.

It's shown on occasion as well that his Baltic "brothers", Estonia and Latvia, were included in the union, as they're shown playing in the fields with the other two. At an older age, however, Poland claimed Estonia and Latvia as his own land, something Estonia didn't seem too thrilled over. His good friend Finland convinced his partner Sweden to take Estonia and Latvia back, angering Poland, though he backed down quite quickly, giving the duo partial custody in the end. As far as canon knows, Lithuania was the only one involved in the union other than that, though it's historically inaccurate for the most part. Eventually, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth fell apart and was split amongst a few other countries, namely Russia, Austria, and Prussia, though it's said that Austria's boss wasn't exactly happy with doing that.

A couple of wars went on, or were at least shown, in canon pertaining to the time period. One was fought with Prussia, the Battle of Grunwald (shown being fought by Prussia on one side and Poland and Lithuania on another, an inconsistency considering they hadn't supposedly met until the 1500s), in which a victory was won on the side of Poland and Lithuania. Another war sort-of-kind-of-not-really happened in canon which was a battle during a time of the Polish-Swedish wars, though a specific name was not mentioned and Finland happened to be there as well. Sweden and Finland retreated and were never shown fighting them again, so who really knows what happened with that whole debacle. Chalk it up to countries being countries.

Lithuania was taken by Russia, forcefully, as well as the other Baltic States. This would happen multiple times over the course of history; the Baltic nations spent a lot of time in his house, working for him. Lithuania was always said to be Russia's favourite, and their relationship is very speculated to fandom. Russia has called him an ex, dressed him up as a maid, his very presence still terrifies him, and it's implied that he was at the very least physically abusive. In the end, Russia still enjoys him at least on some level but Lithuania would really rather he shove off, except he wouldn't ever saw it to him. Occasionally, Lithuania will get over-comfortable around Russia and forget himself, but Russia's harsh presence brings him crashing down to reality after a while.

In the 1920's, before America's Great Depression, Lithuania went to work for him as a kind of manservant/house-worker. America greatly trusted and enjoyed him, inviting him back even after Russia carted him off again as the Great Depression took over (Russia, being a socialist country, was unaffected by the financial discourse everyone else was suffering). The canon and history vary here, almost drastically. While in actual history, it shown Lithuania as being decently independent for a while, Hetalia throws him immediately into something resembling the USSR, in which Lithuania was part of the Soviet Union with Estonia, Latvia, Ukraine, Belarus, and of course Russia (note that many more countries were actually involved in the USSR). This time period lasted from 1922-1991, while Lithuania (historically) took part in this from about 1940-1990, and was the first nation to succeed from it.

Hetalia wise, while the Soviet Union was going on (or at least something Himaruya treated suspiciously like the Soviet Union), World War II was about to commence. Lithuania, the whole time, was trying to help out his ex-partner, Poland, by feeding him secret information, though Poland didn't take it all too seriously, much to Lithuania's despair. During this time, he also was in contact with Germany, whom didn't remember him from a previous war in which Lithuania and Poland won.

Present day, Lithuania is supposedly an independent country, though the canon states still that he's recovering and growing stronger while living with Poland, while not in a union or alliance. Other people it's shown he's had relations with include Japan (who helped him in a time of financial turmoil), Hungary (they share a common annoyance with Prussia and were growing up around the same time), the Netherlands and Belgium (they were partners in the fish business back in the day), England apparently finds him an okay guy. He's pretty popular, but he's pretty plain looking and a usual suspect so he's also easy to forget about.

Moreover, it's really important to know that history and Hetalia are things you have to piece together, and really don't remain consistent and the lines blur between what historically happened and what actually went down in canon a lot. Lithuania is a character that has a lot of history shown, though recently most of his strips have been in the gag or fan-service realm of the comic, and offer a lot of inconsistencies when it comes to his age. He's flat out 1003 and physically 19, but from the time of his creation to the Commonwealth was a huge jump in physical age over a short period of time and from then to the present has been a much more gradual slope. He's also been shown as a kid when he should have been a teen and vice versa. At the end of the day the only thing you can really say is "Hetalia is crazy and you have to make it work somehow".