Set in a universe where average citizens know about their nations' personifications. 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.
I've been thinking, Janusz texted him, that we really ought to worry about more than tuition hikes. They're just a symptom.Which was true, of course, but what could they do
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"Mother Poland, So Freshly Entombed" [9/15?]
anonymous
January 9 2011, 04:33:28 UTC
He went over alone one evening, while Graźyna was home with a cold, to find Poland's door ajar and a strident voice, speaking what sounded like Russian, drifting out of the kitchen. The voice turned out to be Poland, dressed in a well-cut red raincoat, phone in one hand and gesturing angrily with the other. When he saw Mirosław he pointed at the coffee machine without pausing in his rant
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anonymous
January 9 2011, 14:36:47 UTC
SHIIIT - I mean, that looks pretty bad *cough* Belarus you bitch *cough cough*
This fic has it all. Interesting character interaction? Check. Cool world building? Check. Cutest mental images about the Italies vacationing in Croatia and Poland being overall just Poland? Check. Dead Lukashenko? Check.
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anonymous
January 10 2011, 01:37:49 UTC
I''m new to this fill, but it's seriously amazing. I love the way you develop it- just the right amount of detail without it being off the point or cryptic but still leaving the feeling you must know what happens.
In fact, this is so wonderful I think I can only express my joy through heart-spam :D ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
"Mother Poland, So Freshly Entombed" [10/15?]
anonymous
January 28 2011, 13:44:05 UTC
Nobody panicked right away. They had ninety days reserve, after all; they were required to. There were other suppliers. Gazprom had always been difficult, and they always backed down in the end. Half the EU got their gas from the Northern Lights pipeline, and nobody in the EU wanted their neighbors to freeze
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"Mother Poland, So Freshly Entombed" [11/15?]
anonymous
January 28 2011, 13:56:02 UTC
But Mirosław doubted anyone in the throng could have explained it. He remembered flashes. The noise of breaking windows. A red scarf trampled in the slush. The crackle of a police radio. He remembered someone wrenching a stick out of someone's hands. He remembered Janusz laughing madly. But he did not remember events in sequence again, until a point somewhere after dark, staring at a fog-shrouded streetlamp, he and Janusz huddled close together and Janusz's arm hanging limply. They were alone, then. He opened his phone to work out where they were, but its screen was cleanly cracked in half
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anonymous
January 28 2011, 18:52:13 UTC
This reads like a good twenty-minutes-into-the-future book, not kidding. I loved the atmosphere, the whole "things going worse and worse and everybody subtly realizing they aren't going to get better", the riot felt like a riot (you were implying the police shoot on the people, or is it just me?) and the thing with Romana was a revelation and at the same time gives me some hope for Miroslaw.
Also the part with Poland and the kids... they just don't get it, don't they? And they're going to regret it.
"Mother Poland, So Freshly Entombed" [12/15?]
anonymous
January 31 2011, 00:29:15 UTC
March weather was little improvement on February's. They sat cross-legged on Graźyna's bed, just the three of them: Mirosław, Graźyna, Romana. The wind rattled the window and lumps of snow clung to its edge. Romana wore two coats; Mirosław and Graźyna huddled together under a blanket. From time to time, when the wind died down, they could hear Orek downstairs snoring
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anonymous
January 31 2011, 01:30:27 UTC
Yay, an update! This is one of the best stories I've read. I usually don't comment on stories, but I've been following this one from the start and it always brightens my day (or night in this case) to see an update.
My favorite parts are where Poland interacts with the other countries and when the humans are discussing the nature of personifications. I also love the storyline, it just leaves me craving more. I can't wait to see Poland's reaction to his own people plotting against him.
yay, fast update!
anonymous
January 31 2011, 15:03:50 UTC
I knew something was up with Romana, but I wasn't expecting the violent soul from Grazyna - then again, her name hinted at a warrior's soul IIRC. And there's probably some hints at who Miroslaw is thinking of as a replacement but I'm not sure...
Ah, and in your universe can nations be killed? Because I was sure they could not, but now...oh well, all will be revealed in due time...
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anonymous
February 5 2011, 20:26:04 UTC
Oh, poor kids... they just don't understand. Not like I could expect them to, but I doubt much would happen if Poland got shot. I'm sure it's happened before, and worse. I'm still thinking about that scar on Poland's hand from a few chapters back.
I'm betting that the other United Kingdom guy is actually Scotland, or Wales, or actually mislabeled. Anyhow, nations can't really be killed - they just fade away. It's nothing humans can do about it at all. Even other nations can only speed up the process.
Aww, Poland~~ He needs to be visited by Hungary and Lithuania.
"Mother Poland, So Freshly Entombed" [13/who am I kidding, I have no clue]
anonymous
February 9 2011, 03:46:13 UTC
The protestors showed up every Friday, bedraggled and damp. It did no good. Their ninety days reserve had been rationed out much longer than ninety days, as soon as it became obvious that Gazprom was going to make this difficult, but it finally ran out, and they were stuck with domestic sources and whatever could be sent over from Scandanavia
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"Mother Poland, So Freshly Entombed" [14/this plus two more "sections", 5 or 6 comments]
anonymous
February 9 2011, 03:52:20 UTC
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The door to Poland's apartment was ajar, which wasn't odd. Mirosław knocked anyway, for form's sake, before they crept in.
Poland was sprawled on the couch, flipping through a newspaper. (Yesterday's Naša Niva, Mirosław noted, and wondered why.) When he saw them he looked up and grinned. It was all so perfectly, painfully familiar. "Hey! Put the kettle on, would you
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Re: "Mother Poland, So Freshly Entombed" [14/this plus two more "sections", 5 or 6 comments]
anonymous
February 9 2011, 22:15:58 UTC
Now that I think about it - Naša Niva. It's Belarus, isn't it? They were supposed to meet. I've been wondering what her role was in this mess all along...
Set in a universe where average citizens know about their nations' personifications. 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.
Parts 1-7: http://hetalia-kink.livejournal.com/17465.html?thread=56504889#t56504889]
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This fic has it all. Interesting character interaction? Check. Cool world building? Check. Cutest mental images about the Italies vacationing in Croatia and Poland being overall just Poland? Check. Dead Lukashenko? Check.
I seriously love this.
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I love the way you develop it- just the right amount of detail without it being off the point or cryptic but still leaving the feeling you must know what happens.
In fact, this is so wonderful I think I can only express my joy through heart-spam :D
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Also the part with Poland and the kids... they just don't get it, don't they? And they're going to regret it.
I'm liking this buildup so much.
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My favorite parts are where Poland interacts with the other countries and when the humans are discussing the nature of personifications. I also love the storyline, it just leaves me craving more. I can't wait to see Poland's reaction to his own people plotting against him.
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Ah, and in your universe can nations be killed? Because I was sure they could not, but now...oh well, all will be revealed in due time...
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I'm betting that the other United Kingdom guy is actually Scotland, or Wales, or actually mislabeled. Anyhow, nations can't really be killed - they just fade away. It's nothing humans can do about it at all. Even other nations can only speed up the process.
Aww, Poland~~ He needs to be visited by Hungary and Lithuania.
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The door to Poland's apartment was ajar, which wasn't odd. Mirosław knocked anyway, for form's sake, before they crept in.
Poland was sprawled on the couch, flipping through a newspaper. (Yesterday's Naša Niva, Mirosław noted, and wondered why.) When he saw them he looked up and grinned. It was all so perfectly, painfully familiar. "Hey! Put the kettle on, would you ( ... )
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I have no idea where this is going now
I love it. Oh, so fucked up, Mirek...
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