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I think you'll find that on DW at this point there are only a few groups of players that play from Hetalia and they tend to overlap. At this point some groups are comfortable enough with each other to have some assumed headcanon that they don't need to discuss among one another that you'll see come out in various games, but I think the general rule has always been that the first character there gets to set the basic Hetalia headcanon, but that person should also try to be vague about certain very personal things/things that often vary if at all possible. Keeping headcanon personal works: any time you can be vague and imply that while it may be this way for your nation it might not be that way for another one is a good way to work with things before you know who you'll be playing with. That's also the easiest way to deal with the human name/nation name thing--just say that how each nation introduces themselves to people is an individual choice.

With the DW groups I think there's a fair bit of emphasis on working history in with the comics; while going to the point that the character isn't Himaruya's characterization would obviously not be a good idea, fleshing out what's provided with a more nuanced interpretation is. Having Lithuania and Poland actually not be friends wouldn't be IC for Hetalia, but you can work in more shades and include arguments and various periods of butting heads and degrees of closeness over time, for example. The one big thing I think that would be totally not cool is to assume someone else's headcanon for them without already knowing what it is; try to avoid saying things that aren't proven by canon about other characters if you don't have that character in the game whose player you can ask.

Of course, the best way is to just talk to castmates if/when you have them. I can't imagine any of us being unhappy to have someone new to play with!

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