More comics~
Phew...this took way longer than what I expected, but it's finally done.
OCs (Brazil, Portugal and India) included are mostly from my previous post, you don't really need to read it to understand anything.
Again, tried to make it as short as I could xD Enjoy!
II World War
*Joining the war*
Back there Brazil-kun was under his first dictatorship and his boss wasn't even trying to hide from anyone that he was sympathetic towards the nazi-fascism. While being constantly nagged to take a side, he would say that Brazil would only join the war if "snakes start smoking" (yup, those where his exact words, which later on would become our soldiers' motto xD)
But later on some of our ships were sunk by the "germans" (as the US claimed), killing a bunch of people and creating a real popular commotion. With the people demands and the generous amount of money that the US had offered, Brazil's boss agreed to let him fight.
Hahaha. Brazil-kun was so poor back then. The money really helped us a lot.
*To the battle field*
Eh...turns out that our soldiers weren't used to US's severe training. Also we didn't use to invest in
our military, so their uniforms weren't made for european winter and their boots were glued, instead of sewed, causing their soles to constantly come off. Gangrene was really common between them....
Still...somehow..
...we managed to win a few battles against Italy and Germany. Yeah...we also wonder how. xD
Ah, on a side note, our air force really stood during the war. Curious enough they had this weird symbol with an ostrich on it. I found out that the ostrich stands for the speed and handling of the pilots and also for their stomachs which would bear any kind of american food. xDD
By the way, even after the war the US kept pestering Brazil to join his own wars. Brazil refused all of them. It's cold War time~
The Rio Treaty or Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance probably the most failed treaty in America...
Cold War
After WW2 each of Brazil's bosses would have a different way to deal with the changes. Most of them would kiss US's feet and leave Brazil under his influence.
Later on, when the US started to deny Brazil money, his current boss got mad and decided to create the OPA, that was basically a way to force the US to...give a damn about latin america countries.
Even with the IMF rejection, years later it turned out to be one of the reasons of why the US decided to create the Alliance for Progress, which was... basically the same plan.
During the first years of our republic many things were copied from the US. Brazil's constitution was an exact copy, the flag looked like this for four days and Brazil were called the "United States of Brazil"....
After the OPA Brazil's bosses started to be more self-concious about the country's position and decided to show the world that Brazil wasn't US's lacky. Our boss at the time even dared to reestablish diplomatic relationship with Russia, China and Cuba.
Also our next boss would be a communism sympathizer, which didn't happen because right after this the military took over and started a dictatorship. I've read that during the coup d'état there were american ships in the coast ready to attack in case the military failed...how scary is that?
[On a small note, it's way better than being with Russia, but living under America's influence during cold war wasn't exactly heaven as it is portrayed by Himaruya and many fanfics out there. US's paranoia led him to invest in dictatorships all around latin America, and I won't even mention the pain that was for us to invest in nuclear energy]
World Crises
*1929*
Coffee used to represent 71% of our exportations. It was so ridiculously mass produced that Brazil could barely sell all of them. Everything went downhill with the great depression. With US ,his main trading partner, unable to buy the reminiscence coffee, Brazil had to burn it to avoid being completely broke.
*Nowadays crisis*
With a much more mature government and a stable economy the crisis here isn't as bad when you compare to other countries. Some Brazilians even think that it didn't affect us at all, and there lies the danger...
BRIC
The BRIC is just too fun. It's good to see that they're actually making this work.
Once while taking a cab in London, the driver spent the whole ride telling my friends and I how Brazilians are late for everything and even though I wanted to throw him out of the car...I guess he's right. If you set a meeting with a brazilian it's most likely for him/her to show up after the time that you set. ^^u
Colonial Time
*The Iberian Union*
With the death of his king and his cardinal, Portugal found himself in a dynastic crisis. Philip II of Spain claimed to be related to Don Manuel and soon took over the throne. Worried, Portugal forced Philip to promise the cortes (parliament) that he wouldn't consider Portugal as Spain's wife colony.
Living with Spain was a real pain. Thanks to him Holland invaded Brazil-kun's regions and controlled him for years (although living with Holland wasn't that bad....at the beginning...)
*Independence*
As I said in my previous post: Brazil-kun actually had to pay for his independence!! But he was so poor back there that he had to borrow money from England...
...but Portugal was in such a great debt with England that the money never left the brit's pocket xD
And he's the one who got his fingers burnt...
Again, thank you for reading!
*There's also a "Diferences btw Euro portuguese and brazilian portuguese" comic that you can read at my journal, though it's portuguese only, sorry!