France isn't Americas mother. She's his oldest and best friend. She was the woman who came and helped America stand up for himself when Papa England was being rude and completely ignoring America to instead watch birds. She helped him fight back, and even threw a few punches at England herself (she wanted to anyway, but America wanting to be his own man was a good excuse)
Oh yeah, they are almost constantly at each others throats, love to insult and make fun of each other, but when shit happens to France, America WILL come running to help, and beat the living shit out of whoever is picking on her. And even if he doesn't do it immediately, he will work in the shadows to make sure she always comes out on top.
Hell, Americas most valued and famous landmark is literally a statue given to America by France, and Americans love most everything French.
I'm also pretty certain there have been times when they almost started dating, but ended up not because of silly shit.
@Lichruler :
"when shit happens to France, America WILL come running to help"
Yeah, we all know how much americans did for France after occupation of 1940... oh wait it's was ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. You came only 4 year later, when germans became enough weak to fall withow you. On WW2 all you society react like: "It's their shit, let them deal with this on their own", and also pretty much respect Hitler, due how fast he reborn his country.
"She's his oldest and best friend. She was the woman who came and helped America stand up for himself"
Everyone helped to you this time. Helped, just because brittish complitely fucked up everyone. Nobody cares about your freedom.
@Uroboros
I wouldn't presume to speak on behalf of all Americans, but pretty much everyone here I've ever spoken with on the matter considers our utter lack of reaction to the Nazi problem a grievous mistake. Our failure to sufficiently react to the fall of France especially stands out as one of our (several) great shames.
There are Americans who like to call the French a lot of cheese eating surrender monkeys, but even these misguided assholes when pressed typically acknowledge France as a revered ally who just got unlucky with the Nazis. To this day anytime something happens to France I hear folks around here quietly praying for the French to ask for our help so we can repay what a number of Americans see as our honor-debt to France.
So even though basically everyone helped us get free of Britain, Americans in my circles at least tend to lionize the French a bit. And let's face it... we really want to get into that lovely tricolore and give her Bastille a right good storming; we'd love for her to make us see Stars and Stripes Forever.
I would expect not only France, but also Netherlands, Germany, Spain... et cetera.
One could say that, if 'parents' are to be pointed out, United States of America is the result of an orgy of European colonial powers. But let's not make a comic out of that.
@CorruptUser You make it sound like a single German government sent troops over of their own accord and st their own expense to fight against the colonists. Germany at the time was a collection of states, and some of those individual states, most prominently Hesse, *hired* *out* troops to the British. Hessian mercenary units weren't fighting for Britain, they were fighting for money. Other Germans fought on the colonists' side. At least ten percent of the colonists in the British part of North America were German-speaking, the largest group other than British subjects.
It's not as if the colonists were even united in the cause. About one third were Loyalists, loyal to their sovereign crown; about one third were rebels seeking independence; and about one third were neutral on the issue.
After the war, a great many Hessians stayed in America, obtaining land and citizenship from the new American government, who strongly encouraged them to stay. Clearly there were no hard feelings!
@WhiskeyWonka
Except for Sister Alaska, who was raised by Brother Russia and a grizzly bear? (... and may or may not have applied to be Madeover Amrica's assistant, but was fired.)
You legitimately gave me a panic attack. XD I thought I had forgotten it was Mother's Day. But there's two more months until Mother's Day here in the U.S. Phew! I had totally forgotten about that comic from 2015. Happy Mother's Day to all the British mamas out there!
Thanks to the below comments I'm now picturing every female country in a maternity ward giving birth to baby parts that is then frakensteinned together.
American: "My family is part German, Italian, Irish, African, Chinese, Jewish, Native, Spanish, Dutch, Persian, and Indian."
Brit: "How sporting of your mother!"
I think there are a lot of euromoms America would need to write cards for if we went by heritage, but for countries who helped create modern America, France does make sense being that it was the French navy who held off most of the British forces when America likes to claim themselves for "winning" the revolutionary war. then again, to take this to it's full personification... if you look at it as an abusive parent problem, England does sound like the one who would force child custody and then raise the kid to believe their foster parent is their real parent.
@ion00 Considering all the immigration from Europe I think there should be a lot of euromoms. I can imagine a rather awesome group shot of baby America in the crib surrounded by all his more or less proud euromoms. If the Norse god Heimdall can have nine mothers America can have even more.
Let's face it, America had all the moms! There's Mother Turtle Island (though he treated her horribly and they still don't often get along), there's Maman France, Mama Spain and Mother England, Mother Denmark and Wales and China and Ireland, honestly, he's gonna get writer's cramp.
Wait, yeah...
If the female England is SISTER England, and that's their mother, and BROTHER England is their father...
Does that mean England is married to his sister?!?!? :O
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Oh yeah, they are almost constantly at each others throats, love to insult and make fun of each other, but when shit happens to France, America WILL come running to help, and beat the living shit out of whoever is picking on her. And even if he doesn't do it immediately, he will work in the shadows to make sure she always comes out on top.
Hell, Americas most valued and famous landmark is literally a statue given to America by France, and Americans love most everything French.
I'm also pretty certain there have been times when they almost started dating, but ended up not because of silly shit.