Everyone who had any idea nations existed knew that.
They were two very basic facts that, honestly, no one thought very hard about. England represented the United Kingdom at meetings to prevent any shouting matches between their ranks, Wales ran errands and North Ireland did the cleaning and Scotland controlled the amount of alcohol in the house at any time and did the cooking when no one bothered to order-in.
(Ever since Scotland began spending more time with France and Italy, he’d been considered the most knowledgeable about food around the house. While his cooking was a bit bland at times, it was better than a certain other person’s attempts.)
USUK Literal 1c/?
anonymous
June 26 2011, 04:27:02 UTC
Wales looked up, his mouth agape, but if he cried out in shock, it wasn’t loud enough for anyone to take notice.
Germany kept speaking, dutifully ignoring his brother as Prussia unleashed his second joke- one Japan had whispered quietly to Korea who proceeded to blurt it out to the world. “U.S., how’s the U.K.e?”
From the look of utter disbelief on Wales’ face, he knew exactly what a uke was. Despite himself, America chuckled.
That might have been what made the final joke go off so badly. It was the first joke they actually made. “Hehe… youssuck…”
Wales stood. His chair scraped against the floor, and dispite his supernatural adorability, for a moment, he looked downright terrifying.
“Excuse me,” he said. “We do not suck. We most certainly do not suck you.”
All eyes turned to America.
“Hey, man,” he said, raising his hands in a gesture of peace, “I didn’t make the joke.”
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I’ve known about this prompt for about a year, but since no one’s filled it yet I decided I shouldn’t let something so potentially great go completely
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anonymous
June 26 2011, 04:46:29 UTC
HNNNG ANON.
I KNOW WHO YOU ARE AND I LOVE YOU. LIKE I LOVE THIS FILL.
Wales is most certainly the Canada of the UK! I'm glad you've tackled this request and I'm interested in what you do with it. I love the characterization so far and the flow of the story and can't wait to read more!
Re: USUK Literal 1c/?
anonymous
June 26 2011, 05:12:37 UTC
This fill is.... strangely fascinating and I definitely want to see more. I loved your description of Wales, and I'm seconding the "Canada of British Isles" - nobody ever remembers the poor guy.
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anonymous
June 26 2011, 05:47:31 UTC
i loved this
-American who didn't know Wales was a country until high school, thought it was just a title given to royalty previous to that, and as a small child thought it referred to literal whales
Re: USUK Literal 1c/?
anonymous
June 26 2011, 17:59:03 UTC
Oh man, I've been hoping for someone to fill this since it was posted, and you're doing a bang up job so far. ♥ So yes, continue continue continue!
This fill & posting -> doing it right.
The United States of America was a bit of a mouthful, which was why his citizens called themselves just ‘Americans’, much to the chagrin of South and Central America. *pfft* Because there's no one else in North America who'd object to that. XDDDD It's such a perfect USA-Alfred line to say, too.
Re: USUK Literal 1c/?
anonymous
June 26 2011, 19:13:17 UTC
Wales is often missed out in terms of England's possessions due to the fact that it was, for a terribly long time, part of the Kingdom of England. So when people said 'England' what they were referring to is the legal jurisdiction now (and general land) of 'England & Wales.' Wales at the time was considered England. (Except. Y'know. By the Welsh. And the people who hated the Welsh.) Wales isn't a kingdom in and of itself; it's a principality, which is why Wales doesn't have real representation on the British flag, and the 'kingdoms' of England, Scotland and Ireland (N. Ireland now) do. ...Also Wales is totally Canada. Except smaller and with possibly more sheep. /shot
And yeah...what everyone else has said, anon. Loving this so far. ♥ Much love for the ball-kicking Scot, and whose bright idea was it to install tannoys in the UN building?
USUK Literal 2a/?
anonymous
July 6 2011, 00:57:18 UTC
I can’t even tell you people how excited I got after seeing all your comments before. I may have squished a kitten while hugging it out of pure joy.I hope you continue liking this…After his outburst, Wales sat back down and continued taking notes like absolutely nothing had happened. Once again he faded mostly into the background. This time, however, no one forgot completely and of the jokes made to lighten the mood of the meeting, not a single one involved America and the United Kingdom
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USUK Literal 2b/?
anonymous
July 6 2011, 01:01:10 UTC
Really, by the third time Wales sidled up and practically sat on his lap on a tour bus or escorting him to the airport- and the fifth time North Ireland helped him gather up papers by bending over like he’d dropped soap or something- and the seventh time either one of them offered him a treat in the break room (despite how they loudly proclaimed they hated being dragged to world meetings by England, who loudly proclaimed he didn’t want them there)- America was suspecting something was going on.
Unfortunately, the rest of the world thought he was going through a conspiracy theorist phase again.
“My brothers have an unusual sense of humor,” England sipped his tea irritably one day in Mumbai after being turned down by India yet again. America snorted softly, wondering if England’s sense of humor was unusual to his brother’s as well. “They’ll stop eventually if you ignore it. Do you need a distraction?”
(America didn’t really think it was a good idea after all this, but accepted the distraction anyway. It was pretty sweet. He didn’t
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USUK Literal 2c/?
anonymous
July 6 2011, 01:14:35 UTC
The bell of the diner chimed as he strolled in, as he did each Sunday morning he was in an area that offered a good-old-fashioned late Sunday brunch. He would have invited England along but the old man was busy in a meeting with his PM this morning and had left the previous afternoon. Instead of a nice Sunday morning with slow sex and a sleepy day, sizzling bacon, hot pancakes, syrup, butter, salted sunny-side-up eggs, a two-galleon jug of milk, coffee and a $30 tip for the lovely waitress were on his mind as he took his seat at the corner booth under the racecar poster and between the high school football jerseys with a bold 23 on one and 12 on the other
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First fill. I hope I’m doing this right, eheh…
America and England were fucking.
Even their governments knew that.
The United Kingdom was made up of four brothers.
Everyone who had any idea nations existed knew that.
They were two very basic facts that, honestly, no one thought very hard about. England represented the United Kingdom at meetings to prevent any shouting matches between their ranks, Wales ran errands and North Ireland did the cleaning and Scotland controlled the amount of alcohol in the house at any time and did the cooking when no one bothered to order-in.
(Ever since Scotland began spending more time with France and Italy, he’d been considered the most knowledgeable about food around the house. While his cooking was a bit bland at times, it was better than a certain other person’s attempts.)
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Germany kept speaking, dutifully ignoring his brother as Prussia unleashed his second joke- one Japan had whispered quietly to Korea who proceeded to blurt it out to the world. “U.S., how’s the U.K.e?”
From the look of utter disbelief on Wales’ face, he knew exactly what a uke was. Despite himself, America chuckled.
That might have been what made the final joke go off so badly. It was the first joke they actually made. “Hehe… youssuck…”
Wales stood. His chair scraped against the floor, and dispite his supernatural adorability, for a moment, he looked downright terrifying.
“Excuse me,” he said. “We do not suck. We most certainly do not suck you.”
All eyes turned to America.
“Hey, man,” he said, raising his hands in a gesture of peace, “I didn’t make the joke.”
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I’ve known about this prompt for about a year, but since no one’s filled it yet I decided I shouldn’t let something so potentially great go completely ( ... )
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I KNOW WHO YOU ARE AND I LOVE YOU. LIKE I LOVE THIS FILL.
Wales is most certainly the Canada of the UK! I'm glad you've tackled this request and I'm interested in what you do with it. I love the characterization so far and the flow of the story and can't wait to read more!
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-American who didn't know Wales was a country until high school, thought it was just a title given to royalty previous to that, and as a small child thought it referred to literal whales
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I really can't wait for more.
Wait, what's that about a flaming terrorist and Scotland?
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Though the article doesn't mention it, he kicked the guy in the balls so hard he tore a tendon. YEAH.
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This fill & posting -> doing it right.
The United States of America was a bit of a mouthful, which was why his citizens called themselves just ‘Americans’, much to the chagrin of South and Central America.
*pfft* Because there's no one else in North America who'd object to that. XDDDD It's such a perfect USA-Alfred line to say, too.
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Can't wait to see how this will turn out. Thank you so much!
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...Also Wales is totally Canada. Except smaller and with possibly more sheep. /shot
And yeah...what everyone else has said, anon. Loving this so far. ♥ Much love for the ball-kicking Scot, and whose bright idea was it to install tannoys in the UN building?
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Really, by the third time Wales sidled up and practically sat on his lap on a tour bus or escorting him to the airport- and the fifth time North Ireland helped him gather up papers by bending over like he’d dropped soap or something- and the seventh time either one of them offered him a treat in the break room (despite how they loudly proclaimed they hated being dragged to world meetings by England, who loudly proclaimed he didn’t want them there)- America was suspecting something was going on.
Unfortunately, the rest of the world thought he was going through a conspiracy theorist phase again.
“My brothers have an unusual sense of humor,” England sipped his tea irritably one day in Mumbai after being turned down by India yet again. America snorted softly, wondering if England’s sense of humor was unusual to his brother’s as well. “They’ll stop eventually if you ignore it. Do you need a distraction?”
(America didn’t really think it was a good idea after all this, but accepted the distraction anyway. It was pretty sweet. He didn’t ( ... )
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