I enjoy examining the inter workings of characters and "figuring out how they tick", as it were, so I will likely do that here with various characters, but since England is my favourite, I have thought about him in more depth than other nations and are thereby incline to write much more.
Typically, I choose a character's past to begin deciphering their personality if it is available. This is because one's past is usually the reason for why one does what one does. Therefore, if we examine history to see where England had difficulties or showed a certain "personality" with the nation's choices, then its easy to see just why he is a tsundere.
Before "England" was even called that, Britain,
supported many different tribes who sometimes competed for land and resources, and thus young "England", likely called Albion at the time, would have had a lot of difficulty growing up. According to various headcanons in the fandom, it is generally accepted that he would have been a smaller developing nation who would have had to defend himself from his brothers and other British developing nations, as well as defending from invaders.
This would have forced him to "grow up" in maturity rather quickly and develop a slightly harsh personality that shows in the episodes with him and young France. Young Albion is somewhat harsh, and in reality should be more harsh, towards young Gaul "France", but seems to be nice to him on occasion, albeit quite childishly. This makes sense because, naturally, he wouldn't want to be harsh, it would just be a defense mechanism that developed because of the conditions he grew up in.
Some of the fandom also calls the young him "chibirisu", combining "chibi" with his Japanese name, "Igirisu".
[Continued in No.2]
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