| “ | Kesesesesesese~ | „ |
| ~ Prussia's common laugh. |
Prussia is a secondary character in the Hetalia series. His human name is Gilbert Beilschmidt and he is Germany's older brother. In modern times he represents East-Germany, as referenced when he refers to his brother as 'West'.
He is voiced by Atsushi Kousaka in the Japanese version and Jonathan Brooks in the English version.
Description
Prussia has platinum short hair and pink with dark red hue eyes. He commonly wears a prussian-blue military uniform with an iron cross. When he was still a Teutonic knight he wore the Teutonic knight uniform or Teutonic priest robe.
Prussia was born to fight the same type of battles as Austria was, but he was much more religious than said nation. He was formerly a great nation in the middle-ages and is willing to do anything to get something he wants, to become his own nation, or become a strong. He has an arrogant attitude and a "world-sized ego" . Despite this roughness in his personality, he is said to be "unexpectedly fairytale-like," too. He is very loyal to his leaders, and had a strong attachment to Frederich II, known to him as "Old Fritz." He continues to hope that Old Fritz will watch over him and that he'll be proud. Despite this, he was rather startled when he said that he hated women. When Germany was born from his brother's unification with a collection of other small nations, Prussia was the who acted most like his brother and took much pride in him. He taught him how to become strong like him, but sometimes Germany ignored it and he said that he will become strong by himself. In the modern era, he calls Germany "West".
It has been revealed that he has kept diaries since he was formed, which led to him having an entire library of journals. Almost all of them start with passages that read "I'm so cool/I was so cool today." He also seems to be fond of cute things, such as small birds and stuffed pandas, and soft things, like a bird's feathers or Latvia's hair. As a child he was rather religious, having personified the Teutonic Knights (which were a medieval military order). This is shown after he groped Hungary when they were young and, feeling her breasts having begun to grow and realizing she was a girl after intially believing she was male, he prayed to God for forgiveness. God, however, asked him to tell him something new as he was allowed to do was he pleased provided that he prayed for forgiveness afterwards. This rule is similar to that of the real-life Templars and Teutonic Knights. This also shows that he had often sinned and then had prayed for forgiveness.
Personality
During his childhood and his golden day, Prussia know is very confident with himself, proud and arrogant. He like to bully the other nations and arguing with young Hungary. At the some point, Prussia is very honorable, quiet religious, quickly know about his mistake and loyal. For instance, after he know that Hungary is a girl, he feel bad after he remember he ever touch her chest when they still a child, and offer her his robe to cover her chest, feeling extremely ashamed (even he still like to tease her in the current day). And also, he show his extremely loyal to his former boss named Frederich II who he refers him as "Old Fritz".
After the birth of Germany thanks to a unity of the rest of his "brothers", he is one of the most Germany sibling who deeply care and take a big pride at him. He wanted to make Germany to be a great nation just like himself, even Germany wanted to be a great with his own will. At World-War era, Prussia sometime seen teasing, accompany or training together with Germany, though he not much to help him and the Axis Power. According Hidekaz Himaruya, since Prussia no longer to be nation, he will always live with Germany and not doing much for a while. Even he will disappear , he will happy knowing that Germany finally inherit all his knowledge and awesomeness
Acts of Villainy
The Hetalia creator, Hidekaz Himaruya, has stated that Prussia was originally a villain-like character but over time became more hetare, despite it not showing in his outward appearance.
In his childhood Prussia enjoyed bullying many young nations, especially Austria , Lithuania, and Russia. However, he was finally defeated by Russia when he foolishly ("accidentally") fell into the frozen lake of Peipus when he ignored Russia's warning to be careful about being on the ice. Russia saved him, then choked him while telling him to be more careful. Prussia quickly apologized for his mistake and Russia let him go.
At one point during the Polish-Swedish war, when Lithuania's army appeared to retreat, he also made to cut Poland's head off. He was stopped just in time by Lithuania.