Stick Theater Presents: The Third Crusade!

[pyrrhiccomedy]

The Crusades! Adventure! Romance! Plate armor in climatically inappropriate regions! Sacking, attempted sacking, conspiracy to sack, and jaywalking! It's like we were the Vikings, only afterwards we were too embarrassed to look anybody in the eye.

Comments

[seraphoftales]

The one thing I got from the whole Richard x Philip deal was:

REJECTED Poor England

I was seriously having a crappy day. Thank you for brightening it up!

I second all your calls for fics... If somebody writes them, I would be so happy...

This is all so educational.

[pyrrhiccomedy]

Oh, I hope your day gets better! ♥

[mcmitters]

THIS.

ILU. Seriously, this is so epic ;__; I just got finished playing the first Assassin's Creed game so the fact that you did your stick figure thing on the Third Crusade makes me laugh even more...

Pfffff. I'm glad you mentioned the Richard/Philip thing. We actually watched a movie about that when I took world history. XD

England loves to just claim random land he comes across doesn't he?

[pyrrhiccomedy]

Hahaha, I was talking to a non-Hetalia friend while I was posting this, and she was all "I'VE HEARD OF SALADIN! ...From Assassin's Creed, but still!"

Also, they made a movie about the Richard/Philip thing? Fuck me, I need to find that on YouTube like pronto.

[mcmitters]

Hey, parts of Assassin's Creed are historically accurate!

Okay, so it wasn't just about them, but it did have a Philip rejecting Richard scene.
It was the 1968 movie The Lion in Winter with Henry II brooding about who he wants to take over the throne when he dies. He wants his son John to take it, but the Queen wants Richard, and you know the rest... A bunch of silly royalty drama... :l

[pyrrhiccomedy]

That's actually one of my favorite movies--does that make me a big pretentious edu-film nerd? D=

[jamminbison]

I love all of your stick figure depictions of history like burning

SALADIIIIINNN AHOYYYYYYY.

[pyrrhiccomedy]

Yay, thank you so much! =D They're so much fun to do, but a part of me is always waiting for people to tell me to get my terrible art off their comm. SO FAR THAT DAY HAS NOT YET COME.

[dragonis_chan]

Gah, I would love to write a fanfic on that idea, only I've never really written one before... >.>;;;

The Third Crusade, one of the fun things we actually did learn about for a bit in my history class. I didn't know about the whole things with England and Cyprus though. xD

Giant!Saladin is just made of win throughout this.

Um... some ideas for the next stick theater I think might be interesting to see... I think:

-The Decline of the Roman Empire
-The French Revolution

I-I got nothing else at the moment... lol

[pyrrhiccomedy]

Ah, I'd never written fanfic before Hetalia, either! It's a lot of fun, and the community is really supportive. You should give it a try if you ever feel motivated! =D

Thank you for your ideas, and for reading the comic! ♥

[dragonis_chan]

Thank you. I think I'll write one as soon as I come up with a good idea, whenever that happens. x3

You're welcome~! You make learning history very fun with these little comics. <3

Oh, England.

[lovelylurker]

*FLAILS LIKE A MAD WOMAN*

YOU.

YOU MADE MORE.

I-I-I... *READS*

And they pretty much all slunk home, trying not to make eye contact with each other.

Why so fail, HRE? That's... wow. Haha.

Oh England. You never cease to amuse me. Of course you'd just randomly seize an island you happen to be blown off course to since you just happened to have an army with you. *facepalms* I don't know if that's the stupidest thing I've ever seen or the most brilliant.

And then he just pisses everyone off. Wonderful England, just wonderful.

Yes: the buzz was that King Richard had sexually propositioned King Philip--and that King Philip had rejected him. And that the ensuing row was so dramatic that Philip ended up packing up his whole army and shipping off for home.WHAT. WHAAAAAAT. Holy shit. I just. Wooooooooooow. *facepalms even harder* Well at least he like, negotiated and crap

Re: Oh, England.

[pyrrhiccomedy]

Of course you'd just randomly seize an island you happen to be blown off course to since you just happened to have an army with you.

Hey now, in England's defense, the ruler of Cyprus was totally rude to him.

Wonderful England, just wonderful.

He's such a gem, isn't he? He is our very special boy.

Austria was probably like "Yeah... no. No. I really don't want him."

This is actually pretty much exactly how it went down! First, Austria got excommunicated (it being against papal law to kidnap a crusader). So he handed Richard off to the Holy Roman Emperor. And then the HRE got excommunicated. And Richard was a big pain in the ass. They were like "Oh ffs, just give us our money."