Quick Pre-Notes
anonymous
April 25 2011, 23:55:10 UTC
Quick Notes:
This is a Human AU so the aging scale has been adjusted to work with the story. If I get anything incorrect about Sweden or anything, do feel free to correct me! I am basing parts of the school experience on my own experience. I hope that is alright.
Parings included in the story: SuFin Den/Swe Ned/Den Russia/Fin FrUK
I hope I'm not messing up the posting format or something
Band-Aids 1a/?
anonymous
April 25 2011, 23:57:59 UTC
Tino Väinämöinen looked over his desk, out to his students and frowned. Class was ending in ten minutes and the kids were milling around, chatting and giggling amongst themselves as they grabbed backpacks and coats. There was one thing that had been bothering Tino ever since he noticed it. Looking around, he quickly located Peter Kirkland, and yes - he had another band-aid on him! That brought the total up to three, and that was only this week. The week before it had been five band-aids and the week before that it had been two. He suspected that Peter had been wearing band-aids as far as a month back but he had only noticed after they kept appearing over and over again
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Band-Aids 1b/?
anonymous
April 26 2011, 00:00:15 UTC
Friday quickly arrived and Tino started the genetics unit and talked all about Gregory Mendel and his sweet pea plants. After explaining the differences between phenotypes, and genotypes and how to draw Punnet squares and family tree, he told all the students to choose one trait like hair color or eye color and draw punnet squares using their family photo to see if traits were recessive or dominant. Afterward, they were to move onto family trees and graph how the traits were expressed
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Re: Band-Aids 1c/?
anonymous
April 26 2011, 01:01:39 UTC
I find this fill simply adorable so far. Tino's earnestness shows well and I like how you have handled the progression from simple curiosity to something more serious. It was a clever way to include genetics and punnet squares, too! Nice start, I can't wait for the next part.
Oh, I'm soooooooooo glad that someone else is picking this up! I was so sad when the other anon stopped updating and thought that the prompt had been forgotten, so thank you. You seem to be off to a good start so far. Everyone looks to be in character, and I'm so grateful for that because characterization either makes or breaks a fic for me. I also like the creative approach you took to exposing Finland to Sweden
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Re: Band-Aids 1c/?
anonymous
April 26 2011, 08:29:28 UTC
The fill is great! Love it!
Terribly sorry for this nitpicking (ignore it if you want, it's just minor details about Sweden): In Sweden, we don't call our teachers by their last names (unless the school is an international one with English as the only language used). We call them by their first names. Same with the teachers, they call their students by their first names. There would be no use of last names between Tino and Berwald as well (as a general rule - using last names are viewed as old-fashioned and strange). Calling someone Fru (Mrs) Andersson or Herr (Mr) Jansson is really strange to Swedes. Also, no school bell = up to teacher when students can leave (if the class is running out of time, the teacher might hold students for a couple of minutes and if the class-material has been covered quicker than anticipated, the teacher let's the students leave early). Once again, terribly sorry for nitpicking and it's just minor details that really doesn't matter in the end. =(
Random anon passing by
anonymous
April 26 2011, 19:16:50 UTC
I read your notes with the name thing... it's the same where I came from, but that's because we have super informal mentality... I didn't know it's also in Sweden. I wonder why? Well, good to know, anyway!
Oh, and the story seems great so far. Keep it up, a!a!
Re: Random anon passing by
anonymous
April 26 2011, 19:29:20 UTC
It really is quite strange that Swedes are so informal when it comes to names - seeing as how we value distance from each other. We seem to have the same mentality as the Japanese when it comes to other people - don't talk to strangers, don't disturb others, keep quiet and be orderly. You should see our bus-stops or subway trains. No one speaks to strangers. We're standing around talking to our friends (quietly), talking on the phone (quietly) or if we're alone - just standing there daydreaming. I've heard that it's quite different in other countries where people are always ready to have a chat with the stranger sitting next to you. We're very reserved for some reason and tourists always freak out. :D
Re: Random anon passing by
anonymous
April 28 2011, 20:51:07 UTC
Oh, I'm from Israel. Pretty much everything is extremely informal here, and it is reflected in many ways. I heard the Swedes are a bit repressed, so it surprised me that the teachers are called by their first name. :D Here, yes, we definitly start chats with the strangers next to us. People feel quite comfortable talking to each other and even ask personal questions and express their opinions on your choices in life even though you never saw them before in your life - and bluntly so, too. It has pros and cons, you know, but that's how it is. XD
Over the weekend Tino researched adoption in Sweden and was interested by what he found. Apparently there weren’t too many adoption in Sweden yearly, only about a thousand or so. A citizen had to be at least twenty five years old to adopt and of course, they were investigated by the local social welfare committee before being allowed to adopt. So that meant that no matter how Peter’s dad looked, he had been approved for the adoption
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Turning away from his computer, Tino leaned back in his chair. Could he be worrying over nothing? It was possible but why would any child be wearing band-aids week after week? And how did he keep getting so many of them? Either Peter had a hidden stash or someone was buying them for him. Why would any parent go around buying boxes and boxes of band-aids unless they were needed
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This is a Human AU so the aging scale has been adjusted to work with the story. If I get anything incorrect about Sweden or anything, do feel free to correct me! I am basing parts of the school experience on my own experience. I hope that is alright.
Parings included in the story:
SuFin
Den/Swe
Ned/Den
Russia/Fin
FrUK
I hope I'm not messing up the posting format or something
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I would really like to use
Norway - Lukas or Niels
Iceland - Eirikur
Denmark - Matthias
Netherlands - Maarten or Jan
but if you really don't like them, I can use others. I'll leave a proper response at the end of the next chapter. I'm trying to save space.
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Terribly sorry for this nitpicking (ignore it if you want, it's just minor details about Sweden): In Sweden, we don't call our teachers by their last names (unless the school is an international one with English as the only language used). We call them by their first names. Same with the teachers, they call their students by their first names. There would be no use of last names between Tino and Berwald as well (as a general rule - using last names are viewed as old-fashioned and strange). Calling someone Fru (Mrs) Andersson or Herr (Mr) Jansson is really strange to Swedes. Also, no school bell = up to teacher when students can leave (if the class is running out of time, the teacher might hold students for a couple of minutes and if the class-material has been covered quicker than anticipated, the teacher let's the students leave early). Once again, terribly sorry for nitpicking and it's just minor details that really doesn't matter in the end. =(
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Oh, and the story seems great so far. Keep it up, a!a!
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May I inquire as to where you're from?
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