Kugelmugel

**Kugelmugel** is a micronation in the manga series, *Hetalia*, and the *Tea Leaves* series. He is a minor character in both series.

## Appearance and Personality

### Appearance

Kugelmugel appears as a young man with violet eyes and white hair kept in two long braids. He has a mole similar to Austria's, but it's under his left eye instead of his right. He wears a red beret, from under which springs an ahoge. Kugelmugel wears a white vest with a blue-striped dress shirt underneath. He also sports baggy purple shorts, tan leggings, boots, and a small bow. On both his vest and beret is an insignia resembling a coat of arms. He and Ladonia are equal in height to one another, and shorter than Peter. Elise appears to have mistaken him for a young girl, though the other countries have not made this mistake.

### Personality

Kugelmugel was a former Austrian micronation that was created by an artist. As such, Kugelmugel is a very artistic nation, being seen in his debut hugging his knees and pondering whether revolution, Baumkuchen and declaring independence are art. He's also difficult to communicate with as he's often pondering in his own world of thoughts and not taking sense of what's going on.

Even so, he could actually get along well with the other micronations, despite acting like an eccentric, he is welcomed to be a part of the micronations' group that is lead by Peter.

## Back Story

Kugelmugel's debut in the anime is on Episode 129, **It's A Pandora Of Countries ~Part 1** where Peter, Wy and Seborga are approaching other micronations to offer them to join their group to the UN.

Kugelmugel is the first micronation they come across. He is sitting in a thinking position on a bench just down an Austrian road. He is pondering about whether declaring independence, Baumkuchen and revolution are art and later when the micronations try to communicate with him, he begins to conclude that everything is art in a whimsical way, clearly indicating that he isn't aware of the micronations' presences.

They part ways quickly and left him to his own thoughts. However, they still let him to join them alongside the other micronations they sought for.

## Storyline History

### Tea Leaves and Black Lipstick

Kugelmugel finds wriggling pile of white fleshy mass and wonders if it can be turned into art. He tries with no success however.

## Relationships

### Roderich Edelstein

*Main Article: Roderich Edelstein*

Roderich is shown to be the caretaker for Kugelmugel, and also the country the former micronation was formed in. He appears to hold responsible for Kugelmugel and is aware of his eccentric attitude. As such, he is worried about him and warns the micronations who want to approach Kugelmugel about this, saying that they need to take good care of him.

### Elise Vogel

Elise and Vash are both taking a stroll together when they hear someone muttering "It's art..". Curious, Elise walks to the front to see Kugelmugel admiring a sphere. She politely greets Kugelmugel and says that he's absolutely adorable. The micronation wants Elise to make the sphere bigger, quoting that small things aren't art, living small things are.

## Trivia

* Despite Kugelmugel being a male, in Volume 6 of the Hetalia manga he is refered to as "her" by Roderich.
* Kugelmugel is a former micro-nation, which means he is probably supported by Roderich to stay alive.

## Source

* https://hetalia.fandom.com/wiki/Kugelmugel