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[dude_meister]

[You somehow see Germany and Italy taking a stroll, after a surprisingly successful dinner (i.e. nothing exploded, nobody got arrested, their food didn't attack them, etc

Comments

[cyprian_swan]

Italy? What is going on?

[dude_meister]

...I think he's been knocked sillier than usually, actually.

[cyprian_swan]

Really. And why was it necessary?

[dude_meister]

[completely red]

Conditioned reflex.

[cyprian_swan]

He is my grandson, by the way. Do treat him with the dignity he deserves.

And why would you need to have a reflex to flatten anyone who throws things at you?

[dude_meister]

...You don't know him very well, do you?

Survival is important, when you're surrounded by enemies all the time.

[cyprian_swan]

If he is given more dignity, perhaps he would act accordingly?

Such a sad life you live my dear.

[dude_meister]

Nein. He'd still surrender to everything and anything.

There has been good times.

[cyprian_swan]

I blame his upbringing. And the silly copies of the gods they borrowed.

Ah? Like when?

[dude_meister]

...

If you're talking about the Roman gods, Rome himself later converted to Christianity. Besides, Italy's Catholic.

I believe beating up France counts.

[cyprian_swan]

Thus explaining why he's silly, love. Those Roman gods were merely pale copies of myself and my cousins. And I won't speak of that benighted religion, either. Too worried about the afterlife to care about the here and now.

Oh? And what did France do?

[OOC: Timeline wise she's fluid, no later than 1820s, so she knows history up until then. And she's a pagan goddess. She's not fond of the replacement]

[dude_meister]

If anything, being brought up by the Roman Empire should not have resulted in a state that cannot defend himself for centuries.

War reparations. [twitch]

[cyprian_swan]

The Roman Empire became lazy and weak, my dear. Certainly nothing like Aeneas and his descendants.

Explain.

[dude_meister]

That's oversimplifying things. There are many, many reasons and historians today cannot agree on a specific set of causes. Not even Rome himself could explain it.

I lost a war, was blamed for everything, and thus had to pay for it all. There's not much to explain.

[cyprian_swan]

Perhaps. I was otherwise occupied at the time. Arguing with the Roman copy of myself, I suppose.

Interesting concept. And why did you begin the war in the first place?

[dude_meister]

I did not. I merely came to the aid of my ally.