59 - The Other Half
Title: "The Other Half"
Characters: France and England. FrUK, if you squint.
Rating: PG
Summary: 1966 - France withdraws from NATO; England is thrilled. He is decidedly less thrilled when France decides to pay him a visit before he goes, and the conversation turns to America.
TCE is co-written by wizzard890 and pyrrhiccomedy.
( The only forewarning England had was the rattle of the doorknob-- )
Characters: France and England. FrUK, if you squint.
Rating: PG
Summary: 1966 - France withdraws from NATO; England is thrilled. He is decidedly less thrilled when France decides to pay him a visit before he goes, and the conversation turns to America.
TCE is co-written by wizzard890 and pyrrhiccomedy.
( The only forewarning England had was the rattle of the doorknob-- )
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Their dynamic is a hard thing to nail down! Pyrrhic only recently talked me around into this pairing, but we already liked both characters so much that writing their banter and interactions seemed really natural!
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Same for England being all "what do you see in that frozen wasteland?" which I admit made me feel bad for Russia. I doubt that Russia would even care to be called that, but still why such a dick comment Iggy?
As for America and England not loving each other, well maybe not romantically, but it's hard for me to imagine them not loving one another.
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England does not have a high opinion of Russia. He didn't have a high opinion of Russia before Russia started his relationship with America. He thinks he's backwards, dangerous, not especially intelligent, and basically playing at civilization. So. You can understand why he's not especially thrilled to see both America and France involved with him.
As for America and England not loving each other, well maybe not romantically, but it's hard for me to imagine them not loving one another.
Oh, of course. I mean, they're best friends. They have been for some time. England's "I'm not fooling myself when it comes to our feelings" was meant in a purely romantic sense.
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Oh yeah, they also said that Russians were good at Math and always drunk. I never gave it much thought, but there's a lot of hate and prejudice going in Russia's direction.
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There really is. ._. And it's a prejudice that goes unexamined most of the time. Just look at how easily the English fandom casts Russia as a psychotic and violent rapist. In the West, we're trained to see Russia as an institution--a dangerous and threatening institution--and not a, you know, nation full of people who are perfectly comprehensible within the frame of their history, who worry about their bills, and were afraid of nuclear war same as we were, and generally have tried to do their best with their circumstances just like anyone else.
England, historically, has had some of the worst relations with Russia in the West. They haven't gotten along since the 1500s.
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We see France as an extremely complicated guy. He delights in playing with different facets of his character, and presenting himself to people in certain ways. There's a lot more going on there than just, you know. Perving.
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Oh, man, America's post-Cold War foreign policy identity crisis. I'm really looking forward to getting into that when we reach the 90s and 2000s.
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Yay, I'm happy XD
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This is brilliant FrUK right here.
wait, that sounded wrong
I love how their relationship is put in contrast with Russia and America's relationship--how they're different yet eerily similar.
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Heh. It's funny because it sounds like-- *cough* Never mind. XD
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