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As I told the Anons, there are some short stories I want to do. I have not decided whether or not I want to do the prequel I spoke of. I don’t know if I have the heart or the ability to write something so painful and against my personal code. That said, I want this to be a group of stories that expand upon the “Serenity-verse” and explain things not explicitly stated in the story, and a few things that come after. I will mention the parts they occur during and other relevant details.
I hope you’ll all continue to enjoy it. And thanks to everyone who left comments on the first story - you’re all awesome, strong people.
(Mods, if this is not acceptable, please remove it and I’ll just post the stories on my personal journal when I out myself.)
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Also, I thought I’d take this time to correct a continuity error that another anon pointed out to me. Matthew’s eyes were blue in the story, because I didn’t get a chance to see any official colored art of Canada by Himayura and thus thought his eyes were blue. In this story, they’ve been readjusted to their canon purple.
Finally, I ask you trust me, and that you enjoy this.
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Ivan is walking back to his room when he nearly bumps into a bolting Alfred.
He manages to step aside in time, but not before he sees the look in those blue eyes.
Terror. Entrapment. The need to get away.
Ivan feels his body jolt and jerk as he remembers a dirty lead pipe, green eyes and tangled brunette hair, and tears.
“I-Ivan, please…please don’t hit me I promise I didn’t mean it I’ll work harder!Ivan shivers and feels his spirit curl in on itself. He opens ( ... )
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For a moment, something different flickers in Arthur’s eyes - confusion, consideration, something a bit more whole than before - but it fades before Ivan can get a handle on it. “And who are you to speak to me?” he asks, narrowing his eyes. “Am I to forget your Iron Curtain, Ivan, your Baltics ( ... )
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Readers are welcome to pitch in with their own thoughts and opinions. I just want to make it clear that if Arthur is mentally unstable, and if he eventually recovers from said instability, that Arthur's condition will not serve as an excuse for what he did. Arthur will agree, I think, that he still must take responsibility for his own actions. Arthur's mental condition will serve as an explanation, nothing more.
Again, though, I really would value reader input on this. I'd like to challenge myself and write this as if Arthur's actions were from mental instability - but I don't want to cause undue pain or insult those who have been hurt. At any rate, I have a few other stories I'd like to get to before that.
Thank you for reading, everyone.
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I just wrote some stuff about the "less special" motivation Arthur tells himself to justify his actions, but I don't know how you feel about the place of real-world politics in Hetalia fandom. Suffice to say, I think that was some smart storytelling.
Back to more emotional responses: Ivan. Thank you for this Ivan. You've teased out such wonderful layers and dimensions to his character; the words breathe. I don't know what else to say, except I hope you write in this 'verse for a long, long time to come.
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...I will admit that I had the Nation's current economic states in mind when I thought of writing that. I remember reading in another fill that the UK will take the longest to recover from the economic crisis; I do not quite remember which one it was, though I could try to find it. It will take a lot of digging through the KM Archives, which I'm not quite up to doing at 3AM (my apologies ( ... )
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Thank you for your input, Anon! Glad you're enjoying this!
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I love your rendition of Russia. It's tragic, and so very like how I imagine him to really be; not just violence, as many make him, but hurting, and with an internal logic that makes his previous actions a discomfort. It's both lovely (in the way it is presented) and terribly sad to read about, how he just loses himself to old memories.
I'm interested in seeing the way his thoughts will continue to progress, and to also see more clarification as to just what happened between himself and Arthur. I never really thougth about it until Russia himself expressed the thought, but he and Arthur are in similiar postions in this verse. And "Serenity-verse" is such an accurate name, writernon
As always, I'm glad to see yet another piece to this lovely series <3
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