Hetalia kink meme part 24

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Any - shopping for a slave

[anonymous]

There have been some really good slave fills and prompts on the meme lately. I'd like to see one that focuses on someone going shopping for a slave, whether it's in an auction or whatever. I'd like there to be a focus on how the owner and potential buyer talk about and handle the slave like an item instead of a person. Any characters for any roles are okay.

Madre de Esclavo (3/4)

[anonymous]

But there’s work to do - so much of it, and much of it back-breaking - and he has little time to wrack his mind, and he’s almost never alone, so he can’t cry. He just. Settles into his new home, which is mostly the same as his old home in what it asks of him, and smiles when he can and remembers what he can. It could be worse. Carlino has no illusions about that: It could be worse. He isn’t beaten much, there’s enough food, he has friends among the other slaves, and he isn’t a girl so he won’t end up pregnant. It’s as good as he can expect.

So he gets on with his life, until one day when his master goes to town for business, and Carlino follows him past the creaking stage of heat-warped boards where the slaves are auctioned off every month. His master skirts the crowd, and the crowd jeers suddenly, and Carlino looks up and she’s standing on the stage, and he knows her, he remembers her face at once, she’s older and she’s wearing rags but she’s there, impossibly, she’s there.

“Mother!” he cries out, and he runs toward her, or tries

Madre de Esclavo (4/4)

[anonymous]

The last time Carlino sees his mother is three years after the auction.

He follows his master into town again. (His master trusts him. Carlino has always obeyed, except for the one time it really mattered.) It’s a rare rainy day, the light dulled and grey, and water trickling down the walls and the horses and the people. His master meets a man under an awning in a certain part of town, and while they talk Carlino drifts around behind the brothel. And there she is, lying on the trash heap.

There’s a red infertility stamp on her hip. He can see this because she’s naked. There are plague pustules on her tanned skin, open sores over her thighs and breasts. Her dark hair is streaked with grey and matted with dirt, tangled around her shoulders and stained with rotten fruit. Her face is lined and blank, lips slack and crusted with sores, and it doesn’t look like hers without the expressiveness she showed so freely. Her lively green eyes are clouded, gone misty with the sickness and empty of joy, of love, of life

OP

[anonymous]

And here I thought the previous story was heart-breaking. This was so incredibly sad that I just don't know what to say. I'm crying because you portrayed the situation so well and made the whole thing so real and painful. This was one of the most gorgeous and agonizing things I have ever read, anon. Fantastic work!

Re: OP

[anonymous]

Thank you! I pretty much had to write it, once it came into my head.

Re: Madre de Esclavo (4/4)

[anonymous]

The really chilling part of this whole piece (which is wonderfully written, btw) is the complete lack of empathy from anyone for Carlino's situation. Even farmers understand that animals have a maternal instinct to protect their young. Pet owners (usually) understand that if they've got multiple cats or dogs and one dies, the survivors will miss the dead one, even on a very basic level. It underscores that slaves aren't pets or working animals or livestock. They're nothing. Disposable. It gets sick or can't be bred any more and you send it to the knacker's and get a new one.

Re: Madre de Esclavo (4/4)

[anonymous]

I think Carlino's owner knows why he's doing it; he just doesn't care. As you say, there's a complete lack of empathy for slaves. Thanks for commenting!