If I ever needed an excuse to leave this fandom, it would be this statement right here. The term "You can't spell Uke without UK" angers me to the bone & I will tell you in fine detail on why it does. I have two major points on why it does: 1- You are degrading a well loved character within the Hetalia franchise to fuel your silly fetish. 2- It can come off as rather rude to people within the UK when you misrepresent the name & establish the meaning behind the word "Uke". So lets go into detail with the first point since I assume most of you are more focused on the character itself rather than the Union & let me point this out before continuing: The United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland is a set of three countries & a province so by using the term "You can't spell Uke without UK" has been made invalid, you are defining the whole of the UK as a bunch of pathetic beings, seriously do you think more towards the Uke meaning rather than fueling your fetish? Uke's are nothing but a shame to a once strong character & if it isn't clear to you yet I find it disgusting. You are not only degrading the whole of the UK but England also, Do you have any idea what the British Empire did to the world? I highly doubt it since to the people who use this saying are a bunch of idiots who can not be arsed to read up on history, there were blood thirsty battles, hell was created.. yet you follow the ways of Hima's writing, you assume Arthur is a low life who cries at every opportunity, do you have any idea what England did to the US before the war on independence? If Hima did his research properly he would write Arthur during that time to be a complete utter arsehole, plus it wasn't just France on the US side there were many more allies to England including Portugal, PORTUGAL! One of the closest allies the Kingdom has in Europe. Think of it this way, lets call Portugal "Alfonso" for now, Alfonso is like an older brother to Arthur & wants him to make the right choices in life but after he began to tax & milk the money out of Alfred he agreed that something should be stopped, why is it depicted that Arthur is the victim here? He was the one that was causing the trouble..Oh but no.. you get your history from Hima don't you?
So allow me to elaborate more & I plead no offence to the original artists these images are merely helping me to define my point. All due respects to you both.
To define my vision on Uke Arthur we have a well loved character from the Hetalia franchise degraded into something petty, something weak, something useless an embarrassment to the name of "The Kingdom Of England" But you claim that this is a preference for you, how on earth did you manage to come up with this idea? How did you manage to formulate a logical idea that Arthur is designed to be rather wimpy? How did he become submissive? I have seen countless arts from USUK & FrUK showing how weak he has become, I have even heard claims that he has become this due to his height, this is just pathetic, it really is. It has come to a point where this isn't Arthur anymore but merely a face claim to your idiotic fetish. For gods sake every time I see rubbish like this I just want to completely delete my existence from the internet sphere. Its one point on why I refuse to make my RP Arthur Hetalia based, Its just sickening.
Now to the right of the page we see an image on how Arthur should really be depicted, of course this said image only defines one area of his nature & personality to which that is his strengths & his stealth when it comes to his spy based careers. I may be repeating myself here but I have to within this fandom but do you even acknowledge history at all? Do you know the history of England is at all? Or are you still basing your facts on Hetalia again? Let me elaborate one again, The British Empire, what about the 800 years of war between England & France? Or is that sexual tension in your petty little minds? Have some respect for history for crying out loud. Another thing, what about the wars with Spain? what about claiming Islands from other nations? Despise that I have slandered Arthur far too much already but you need to remember, Uke makes no sense for a man like Arthur, here are some definitions to help establish my point in greater detail. "partner on bottom, submissive one in relationship , usually younger and less experienced than the seme" The first part of the quote is debateable since its perfectly fine to take turns in a sexual endeavors you can't do the work all the time but what does get me is "Usually younger and less experienced than the seme" Can you see the dramatic fault here? Younger, The Kingdom of England was first united in 927 under the rule of Alfred The Great of Wessex, so this has completely destroyed the USUK ship but what about..lets say FrUK for example? Of course I do not condemn any ships, no ship in Hetalia that is regarding Arthur makes any sense to me but if we do look at FrUK for a moment Arthur & Francis should be equally matched hence this will play on their rivalry part of their relationship, they fight because they want to become better than the other. "ukes are usually cute, has less experience with sex, kind, those kinds of things." This Uke Arthur bollocks honestly makes me laugh besides pissing me off, Arthur, less experienced with Sex, Arthur, colonised most of the world. Minus the area that the Scots have colonised *Cough cough, Canada, Arthur's brother Alasdair is Matthew's father, cough cough* Arthur has shagged & planted his seed throughout the world & come on, he was once a blood thirsty pirate, do you know what a blood thirsty pirate is or what it does? "The dominant partner in a gay male on male romantic relationship in Japanese yaoi anime and manga, doujinshi and fanfiction. The seme is said to 'top' his uke. The seme is often (but not always) the older of the two/ more serious/ dark/ mysterious and more 'handsome' than 'cute'." I really do not need to explain myself even further, what has been said has been said but.. before I end my post here today there is one thing that all of us could agree on. something that isn't a Uke & something that isn't a Seme.
So allow me to elaborate more & I plead no offence to the original artists these images are merely helping me to define my point. All due respects to you both.
Now to the right of the page we see an image on how Arthur should really be depicted, of course this said image only defines one area of his nature & personality to which that is his strengths & his stealth when it comes to his spy based careers. I may be repeating myself here but I have to within this fandom but do you even acknowledge history at all? Do you know the history of England is at all? Or are you still basing your facts on Hetalia again? Let me elaborate one again, The British Empire, what about the 800 years of war between England & France? Or is that sexual tension in your petty little minds? Have some respect for history for crying out loud. Another thing, what about the wars with Spain? what about claiming Islands from other nations? Despise that I have slandered Arthur far too much already but you need to remember, Uke makes no sense for a man like Arthur, here are some definitions to help establish my point in greater detail. "partner on bottom, submissive one in relationship , usually younger and less experienced than the seme" The first part of the quote is debateable since its perfectly fine to take turns in a sexual endeavors you can't do the work all the time but what does get me is "Usually younger and less experienced than the seme" Can you see the dramatic fault here? Younger, The Kingdom of England was first united in 927 under the rule of Alfred The Great of Wessex, so this has completely destroyed the USUK ship but what about..lets say FrUK for example? Of course I do not condemn any ships, no ship in Hetalia that is regarding Arthur makes any sense to me but if we do look at FrUK for a moment Arthur & Francis should be equally matched hence this will play on their rivalry part of their relationship, they fight because they want to become better than the other. "ukes are usually cute, has less experience with sex, kind, those kinds of things." This Uke Arthur bollocks honestly makes me laugh besides pissing me off, Arthur, less experienced with Sex, Arthur, colonised most of the world. Minus the area that the Scots have colonised *Cough cough, Canada, Arthur's brother Alasdair is Matthew's father, cough cough* Arthur has shagged & planted his seed throughout the world & come on, he was once a blood thirsty pirate, do you know what a blood thirsty pirate is or what it does? "The dominant partner in a gay male on male romantic relationship in Japanese yaoi anime and manga, doujinshi and fanfiction. The seme is said to 'top' his uke. The seme is often (but not always) the older of the two/ more serious/ dark/ mysterious and more 'handsome' than 'cute'." I really do not need to explain myself even further, what has been said has been said but.. before I end my post here today there is one thing that all of us could agree on. something that isn't a Uke & something that isn't a Seme.
Seke
"A slang word usually used in yaoi (male/male intimate relationships) culture, made by combining the Japanese terms "seme" (the dominant one) and "uke" (the submissive one). It describes a person that enjoys both positions in a relationship and moves between the two based on his mood, the mood of his partner, and the situation itself." Arthur can be quite the emotional manipulator, he is aware of his sweet nature & uses it to his advantage. By default he would have a strong nature about him, a nature that projects to others that he is a force not to be reckoned with, his pirate side has never died only contained within the depths of his mind & with one false move or something he finds displeasing he would strike. Regarding his sweet side he would use it when the inevitable is approaching, most notably the referendum on Scottish Independence, the Union means the world to Arthur plus himself & Alasdair are as stubborn as each other arguing would only make matters worse so in regards to this comic strip that I will post below, Arthur uses his sweet nature towards his brother to make him think otherwise.
Credits
Image 1: Pixiv Id 75556
Image 2: Posted By Erika F. Jones on Pinterest
Image 3: Opormore
Image 4: margo_sama
