[fic] Defiance

[tiger_azul]

Title: Defiance
Author: tiger_azul
Fandom: Axis Powers Hetalia
Characters/Pairing: Canada, England, America
Rating: K
Genre: General / Humour
Word Count: 1584
Notes: for hetalia_contest, Prompt 022: Novelty (oneshot)
Disclaimer: Surprisingly, I don’t own Hetalia and I am certainly making no profit from this
Summary: Canada has had enough. He wants a symbol of identity and

Comments

[tokene]

I enjoyed this so much XD Oh Canada.

“Oh,” England interjected, returning to his newspaper. “That’s all right, then. I just had this awful sense of déjà vu.”

Poor England must have been terribly paranoid about the rest of his colonies wanting their freedom after Alfred left him. He probably never expected little Matthew to ever use a word like "demand" with him, heh heh.

And that little old lady at the end being a wet blanket to Canada's newfound self-patriotism was an awesome touch :D

(A-Also, would you mind if I friended you? :3 You've commented on my writing every once in a while, and vice versa, and I'd maybe like to get to know you better? :D)

[tiger_azul]

Hey, thanks for commenting! I’m very pleased you liked it ^_^

Haha, yeah, I think it all started to go a bit wrong for England after he lost America, and he probably realised that if the other colonies wanted to be independent, there wasn’t a lot he could actually do about it, so he wasn’t too heavy-handed with them.

I just found out the other day that Canada didn’t have it’s own flag until the mid-1960s, which really surprised me. Then I started imagining how Matthew would have told Arthur that he didn’t want the Union Jack anymore and it kind of spiralled from there!

(Ooh, I like friends! And I love your writing, so of course you can friend me *is friending you right now* ^_^)

[jadzie]

Oh Canada... so silly, so backwards, so damn polite.

this made me swell with Canadian pride.

Then shame for feeling that pride.

What I'm trying to say is that I love it.

Yeah. <3

[tiger_azul]

Ah, thank you! ♥
Haha, no you should embrace that national pride - Canadians are ace! ^_^

[jadzie]

Hahaha, Thank you!

We're weird in the fact that we don't really outwardly show our national pride unless it's Canada Day.

It's a tick we have, kind of like most of use needlessly apologize.

It's our thing.

Our crazy thing.

[tiger_azul]

Maybe that needlessly apologising thing is a side-effect of British rule, cos Brits do it all the time, too. My Polish boyfriend constantly makes fun of me for it ^_^

[ilumena]

Canada, you are adorkable~! >w< He's such the little rebel. Walking into England's office without even knocking and even going so far as to use assertive words like "demand." I love the way you wrote all three of them here, I can so see it happening exactly like this in canon.

That little old lady at the end is Bad. Ass. XD

[tiger_azul]

Canada’s innate politeness makes him the most rubbish rebel ever, but when you’re that goshdarn cute, who cares?
Thank you for the compliments! And yes, grumpy old ladies rock (I fully intend to be a badass grandma myself one day ^_^)

[silvey]

That was very, very adorable :)

[tiger_azul]

Thank you ^_^
I just love Canada to bits, he’s just too cute!

[fullbindedfox]

GOD YOU'RE CUTE, MATT. XD The more things like this I read, the more funny love grows in me for my country. The "Your brother, you dumbass," bit cracked me up, because it's really true that Canadians are that slight bit less polite to our American bros. X3

Brilliant read. <3

Interesting thing I learned the other day; there were underground caves that UK and Canadian forces staked out in during WWI that had chalk-like walls (can't remember for the life of me where, but there was a documentary on it), and a lot of Canadians carved maple leaves into them despite our flag still being Britian's at the time.

[tiger_azul]

Thanks! I’m very pleased that Canadians are enjoying this. And I’m really happy that you felt the Canada/America interaction worked ^_^
Are you thinking of the Battle of Vimy Ridge? I think I read somewhere that Canadian soldiers carved maple leaves in the caves, though it doesn’t mention that in the Wikipedia article...

[fullbindedfox]

Mmm, you wrote it brilliantly. ^^
Might be. Curses on my awful memory. I just remember the narrator going on about how all kinds of soldiers from the UK and Canada were all living in these caves for weeks, waiting to be fed out to the front lines. It was a facinating documentary, though; it was playing on Remembrance Day on the History Channel.