Tearjerker / Your Father and Mine

• Maryland suffering a Freak Out when she finds herself in the same room as England, begging for her daddy to protect her from the awful man who set her on fire. Cue England's horrified realization that when he was fighting America about the Thirteen Colonies' independence, he was hurting said colonies — who were toddlers at the time. And now, these children have grown, and they're still traumatized and they will likely never forgive him.
• Why isn't China surprised by the states existing? Because he used to have siblings, but when their country was unified under Qin Shi Huangdi, all of his other brothers and sisters decided to relinquish their nationhood and leave him alone. He waited for them to reincarnate, but they never did.
• On a second reading, France immediately glomping Louisiana when she's introduced becomes rather poignant. If the European Nation is that doting and adoring towards a girl he believes to be a mere French-influenced state, unaware that she's technically his granddaughter, just imagine how much he would have loved the first Louisiana if only he had found her — but he never did.
• Little Iceland saw Native North America nursing a pair of blond-haired twins, but didn't think to inform his father Scandia or his brothers since he believed they would be back soon. Only for the Vikings to be cast away from America, then Scandia dissolved, and it was centuries later than the Nordic Nations were introduced to their youngest brothers. For several chapters, Iceland carries a load of guilt for keeping his mouth shut — fortunately, the other Nordics aren't angry at him, but still...
  • A drunk Denmark pondering the possibility of Iceland actually telling the Nordics about their baby siblings in the New World, and picturing a timeline in which the Native American tribes and the Nordic countries entered a peaceful, strong alliance while America and Canada were happily raised by their brothers. But ultimately, that's not how it happened.
• A major part of the Native American tribes' hatred towards England and France is due to the colonial empires "abducting" their youngest siblings America and Canada, and teaching them to hate and disregard their older Native brothers and sisters.
• Florida spitting hatred to Spain for carelessly selling his lands, as from his viewpoint it was outright child abuse. When the state leaves the scene, an unusually despondent Spain quietly argues that he didn't want to let go of his colonies, implying the decision was taken out of his hands by his bosses and politics.
• Everything about America's wife. When the mere mention of her is enough for the endlessly cheerful Nation to stop smiling, you know it won't be a happy tale.
  • France's utter devastation when he learns the personification who would become the Confederacy used to be the Louisiana Territory, his former colony. Because the land was so big and he was busy at home, France never properly searched for the embodiment of the place and concluded there wasn't one — and now, America just confirmed how wrong he was, and abandoned the Nation equivalent of his daughter without ever suspecting anything.
    • Louise Annette's hostility towards France and Spain is painful to read when she claims they never cared about her, otherwise they wouldn't have let her grow alone and scared and unsure of her place. But it wasn't true at all — France would have given everything to be there for her and love her.
    • France's quiet conclusion that it might have been for the best considering his track record with colonies — Algeria keeps sending him death threats and Vietnam really enjoys wacking him with his paddle, so even if he had raised Louisiana, there's no guarantee of her not coming to hate him in the end.
  • Louise's unability to retain a stable territory, constantly having to redefine herself in order to evade death. America somberly suspects it was a huge factor in driving the Confederacy insane.
  • Several of America's children won't waste an opportunity to fling verbal abuse at his late wife. When you get to see how happy they were as a family, how much Louise loved them and was loved by them in turns, it underlines how much the Civil War impacted the United States.
• A few deputees insulting America's newborn daughter Georgia for being "a negress". Not the kind of thing a young papa wants to hear, and he later breaks down over her crib as he confesses to Benjamin Franklin he doesn't get why people would be so mean to a baby, and how it worries him for the future.
• The Nordic Nations deciding to find their mother Saami and having a family reunion, but when they're on her doorstep, they suddenly remember all the discrimination and racism the Saami people has suffered and is still suffering at the hands of their governments, making them hesitate to reconnect with her. Fortunately, she draws the line between her sons and the officials harming her people — but the narration mentions it took her some time for this.
• Japan reflecting on his loneliness among the Asian Nations. Yes, it's justified and quite deserved after the horrors he committed in the Second World War, but he's truly, genuinely alone, his prefectures more akin to subordinates than true family, and barely able to remember his mother after two thousands years.