Set in a universe where average citizens know about their nations' personifications. I want fic where some citizens of a certain country decide that they don't like their nation-tan's personality, and that the only way to get a new one is to kill them so that a replacement is born. The citizens in question attempt assassination, not understanding that nation-tans are immortal unless their nation itself falls.]
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Mirosław had always been proud to be Polish. He read in school about their history, all the wonderful things they created - religious tolerance, the Golden Liberty - how hard they fought the Nazis, how it was Poland's resistance that tipped over the failing Soviet Union. At any point until two months shy of his twentieth birthday, he would not have hesitated to say he loved his nation. His opinion only began to change three months before his twentieth birthday
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anonymous
October 22 2010, 08:39:54 UTC
Woooah, I like it. Love your Feliks and his paty-ness :D And the whole thing with Hungary - just epic. Oou, and I feel sorry for Mirosław - it's tiring to have neighbour who parties all the time. But then again - it's Poland. How can you not love him?
And to think that such a sweet boy will try to kill his country! :<
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anonymous
October 22 2010, 23:21:22 UTC
This looks really good. I like it that you took the time to lay down the foundations for the dislike, rather than putting a fanatic bigot or psycho at the top of the plot. Also, for some reason, I found Hungary's rudeness very fitting
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anonymous
October 22 2010, 23:48:42 UTC
Kudos, great fill so far!
Loads of extra points for the Poland/Hungary bits <3 Is Mirosław any historical figure in particular? When I first saw it, it looked oddly familiar, like a politician that I heard about but can't quite recall. But after I googled it in Hungarian spelling, it might just be because there is a classical novel in Hungarian which I had to read in high-school and one of the main characters is called Mirosław. (It's from the era when like every northern Hungarian mansion had their own polishman, since they keenly took in a lot of refugees after the several blotched attempts to overthrow the invaders who cut up Poland -- oh and I'm not exaggerating about "their own polishman" bit, there is even a well known novel with the title literally meaning "Our Pole" where pole stands for polish person.)
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anonymous
October 23 2010, 00:17:25 UTC
(that title is officially translated as "Our Man from Poland" but I think "Our own Pole" sounds much closer to the Hungarian meaning... or at least is a literal translation)
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anonymous
October 23 2010, 00:52:08 UTC
Heh. No, Mirosław isn't anyone in particular, and in fact this whole fic is set in the 2020s or 2030s sometime. However, there will be several Significant Names - not historical people but 'look up the meaning' type names. If my sources are correct, Mirosław is formed from elements meaning "peace" and "glory". So it's ironic.
Who's the author of that novel? Do you know if it's ever been translated to English? It sounds fascinating.
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anonymous
October 24 2010, 00:05:28 UTC
Novel is written by Mór Jókai (Jókai being the surname there). His wikipedia page is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B3r_J%C3%B3kai I don't think that particular novel got translated, but several other did get translated. But he has written an incredible amount of books.
"Mother Poland, So Freshly Entombed" [2/14?]
anonymous
November 8 2010, 09:18:16 UTC
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He started hanging out with some other students, actual Catholics all, to talk about philosophy and study together. They met in cafes, or at the townhouse Graźyna and Romana shared. Graźyna and Romana weren't sisters, although they looked it, both dark-haired and tall and elegant. Mirosław fell hard for Graźyna almost at once.
They held his twentieth birthday party at the townhouse. Romana was staying in Warsaw over the holidays, so she had put up an impressive Christmas tree; the lights were enough to obviate the need for a lamp in her living room. They put up candles anyway. Orek brought a cake he had made himself, and Tadeusz brought his violin and played it while the rest of them danced. It all went very well, until Orek made a comment about the chill.
Romana explained, in clipped tones, that she couldn't afford any more fuel that year, and that she did fancy a few more hot showers
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anonymous
November 8 2010, 12:21:51 UTC
This is wonderful, I can't wait to see what happens next...I like how you've made Mirosław very human. Narrow minded, but not evil or anything. In fact, I almost feel sorry for him, the poor misguided idiot. :'3 Lovely characterization on Poland too (I think I'd be annoyed about the noise too, if truth be told, ahahaha...I'3), how you've written him as exuberant in both good and bad.
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anonymous
November 8 2010, 17:56:28 UTC
Poland would be an awesome roommate to me, but I'm not little Miroslav - then again, like other anon said, he's human enough that I can't really hate him<3 (that scene with the girl was so cute!)
"Mother Poland, So Freshly Entombed" [3/14?]
anonymous
November 16 2010, 14:27:21 UTC
The trouble was, Mirosław had always thought of his nation as a Christian nation. So much history was tied up in that. Right back to the Baptism of Poland - he'd wondered if that was a literal term, considering - and for the thousand years and more after that, the story was one of civilization against barbarism, and the church against the heathens, and those things were more or less the same
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anonymous
November 18 2010, 06:44:16 UTC
Turkish coffee, ohhh-
right.
I'm loving this so much, anon! I like what you're doing with Mirosław, and yeah, it is true that Poland (the character, of course) could probably be percieved like this, huh? 'Has a drinking problem, never goes to church', eheh.
"Mother Poland, So Freshly Entombed" [4/14?]
anonymous
November 28 2010, 01:25:05 UTC
His neighbor vanished completely, to Mirosław's mingled relief and nervousness, for a few days in early March. "Saint Casimir's Day," he breezily explained, on his return. He was laden with parcels, and had drafted Mirosław to help carry them. "There's this awesome street fair in Vilnius
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Set in a universe where average citizens know about their nations' personifications. I want fic where some citizens of a certain country decide that they don't like their nation-tan's personality, and that the only way to get a new one is to kill them so that a replacement is born. The citizens in question attempt assassination, not understanding that nation-tans are immortal unless their nation itself falls.]
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Mirosław had always been proud to be Polish. He read in school about their history, all the wonderful things they created - religious tolerance, the Golden Liberty - how hard they fought the Nazis, how it was Poland's resistance that tipped over the failing Soviet Union. At any point until two months shy of his twentieth birthday, he would not have hesitated to say he loved his nation. His opinion only began to change three months before his twentieth birthday ( ... )
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And to think that such a sweet boy will try to kill his country! :<
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Also, for some reason, I found Hungary's rudeness very fitting
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Loads of extra points for the Poland/Hungary bits <3
Is Mirosław any historical figure in particular? When I first saw it, it looked oddly familiar, like a politician that I heard about but can't quite recall. But after I googled it in Hungarian spelling, it might just be because there is a classical novel in Hungarian which I had to read in high-school and one of the main characters is called Mirosław. (It's from the era when like every northern Hungarian mansion had their own polishman, since they keenly took in a lot of refugees after the several blotched attempts to overthrow the invaders who cut up Poland -- oh and I'm not exaggerating about "their own polishman" bit, there is even a well known novel with the title literally meaning "Our Pole" where pole stands for polish person.)
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Who's the author of that novel? Do you know if it's ever been translated to English? It sounds fascinating.
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His wikipedia page is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B3r_J%C3%B3kai
I don't think that particular novel got translated, but several other did get translated. But he has written an incredible amount of books.
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He started hanging out with some other students, actual Catholics all, to talk about philosophy and study together. They met in cafes, or at the townhouse Graźyna and Romana shared. Graźyna and Romana weren't sisters, although they looked it, both dark-haired and tall and elegant. Mirosław fell hard for Graźyna almost at once.
They held his twentieth birthday party at the townhouse. Romana was staying in Warsaw over the holidays, so she had put up an impressive Christmas tree; the lights were enough to obviate the need for a lamp in her living room. They put up candles anyway. Orek brought a cake he had made himself, and Tadeusz brought his violin and played it while the rest of them danced. It all went very well, until Orek made a comment about the chill.
Romana explained, in clipped tones, that she couldn't afford any more fuel that year, and that she did fancy a few more hot showers ( ... )
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right.
I'm loving this so much, anon! I like what you're doing with Mirosław, and yeah, it is true that Poland (the character, of course) could probably be percieved like this, huh? 'Has a drinking problem, never goes to church', eheh.
Keep up the good work!
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