[Fic] Copenhagen (Extended)

[surelyyoujest]

Title: Copenhagen (The Extended Dance Remix)
Rating: PG-13 for language
Summary: 1941. Germany and some of his friends turn up on Denmark's lawn one day and Denmark is Not Amused.
Characters: Germany, Denmark, and some brief mentions of their family
Warnings: The Dane's filthy mouth, Vikingfoolery, quantum physics, Wagner abuse, and....er, WWII?

Comments

[tokene]

... That was an extremely awesome analogy. With the electrons and the neutrons and stability and all.

I don't really know much about the history of that time, so I can't say that I was able to fully enjoy the piece (your footnotes helped a hell of a lot though, kudos for that), but I really enjoyed your characterization of Denmark.

Some of that viking badass must still be left in him.

[surelyyoujest]

Thanks, and thanks for reading! The whole analogy was largely inspired by the play Copenhagen, actually! The two works don't really have much in common, but the idea of working the angle of science and politics carried over. Scientific research was such a...such a charged (no pun intended) field to be in, and it made such a great framework for a totally sweet prompt. Glad the footnotes helped-- it's really dense, and I'm relieved that it wasn't completely off-putting!

Deep down, underneath the quantum mechanics and stuff, he is still totally a hardcore viking to this very day. That is my story, and I'm sticking to it. :D

[tokene]

Ah, I see. I'll have to go read it then. I think my drama teacher mentioned the play in passing, but I don't have the foggiest clue of its content, till now. Sounds great.

/snigger.
Puns make the world go round.

>D I'll bet Finland is one too.

[surelyyoujest]

Oh, definitely worth it. Normally, long, conversational dramas aren't my thing, but the way they've superimposed quantum mechanics onto it just makes it so cool.

I know, right? Kid's friggin' GAR.

[taiyou_to_tsuki]

Okay so I have to leave for school in three minutes so I'm having a hard time to press in everything I want to say about this fic here, but because it is a bit too brilliantly narrated and with such a clever theme, not to mention a delicious amount of historical, scientifical and cultural references, the only word sufficient might be:

Ajlsfljgdljcvsuew. <3

Thank you.

Just a note though: I'm quite sure Denmark was in fact the FIRST of the former viking nations to convert to Christianity. Closer to the continent and with stronger ties to the rest of Europe, for one. The last one was Sweden during the first part of the 1100s.

[surelyyoujest]

'Morning!

Well, thank you for reading-- I'm glad you enjoyed it! I'm a little worried it might be a bit dense and name-dropp-y in that regard, but it's supposed to have a very stream-of-consciousness feel to it, and decided to leave it as it was. Hope it wasn't too much too fast!

Wait, seriously? I'll go check my facts on that. I could have sworn the one in modern-day Norway were the first to convert, but I could be wrong. The geographical....thingy...thing. Distribution. Makes more sense. (Oh, god, sorry, it's like 3 AM here, and I'm having the worst kind of language fail; basically, you can has logic!)

[taiyou_to_tsuki]

I think it was fine~~ And for everything you don't get, well, there are footnotes. xD I did enjoy the feeling of the fic, it hit me as very personal and I don't think it was bothering at all. For those who did there's always reading it again. X3

Ngk, I don't have any resource material present, but I'm sure that Sweden (or part of the area that would become Sweden - this is why I have a hard time labelling places and people that would BECOME nations as nations when they WEREN'T) was the last one to convert at least. I think my book on the creation and early hisory of the nationstate of Sweden mention that Denmark had to adapt to Christianity earlier than the rest of the North because of Charlemagne's expansion of the Frankish Empire in the 800s, which reached all the way up to the Danes' lands...

[surelyyoujest]

Yeah! Yeah! This is very, very true, and now I'm not so bothered by it. Thanks!

ffffff. Why can't history be like other subjects and just have a nice, sound base of information? Okie dokies! Extensive research, ie, Google tells me....nothing entirely helpful, actually. The name Olaf Tryggvasson (a missionaryish figure) keeps coming up with reference to conversions in Norway, and the impression I'm getting is that any region close to Christianity hotspots got hit first. Makes sense, and then, yeah, Sweden would be the last! And, with the protonations issue....jdhfa;ugfcuhfinorite.

[narcomanic]

Oh my. *.*

I remember reading this over at the kink meme and probably fangirled quite a bit over this back then. I really liked the extensions and edits you'd added, they bring much more to the story and add to Denmark and Germany's interaction.

And yeah. This is so loaded with all kinds of references that make my not-so-inner nerd grin like a doofus. Gotta hand it to you, that's one heap of research you've done for the fic.

One of my favourite bits was probably: "So when Ludwig goes back to his men and things get too excited and too unstable, he sends a few of his particularly unstable electrons over to Berwald’s place. It’s okay. Berwald’s still neutral. He can handle a harmless bit of charge." Because equivocal words like "neutral" really spice up the text. :)

[surelyyoujest]

Oh, sweet! Nice to see you on the less anonymous side of things-- glad you enjoyed it, both in its earlier incarnation and this one. ♥ (Had to cut Germany a little more slack in this one, you know? It seemed a little relentless to me, poor guy. ;_;)

Hahah, oh, geez, I hope it wasn't seriously overwhelming! They were intended just to be incorporated in a natural sort of way-- you know, the kind of things a guy who is the nation of Denmark might have on his mind in the middle of an occupation. But it's a lot in a very little piece, so I'm glad it wasn't a messy read! And I lucked out, too. Some of those facts I had kicking around from other fics and from classes. Phew. Otherwise...I mean, can you imagine? GAH.

[pip_kin]

Oh My God

Sh*t this really brings up the national pride in me >D
I LOVED your writing style, so many chaotic thoughts where thrown right in my face to comprehend and I just felt the frustration right through the screen!

Ya know, we still have Asatrú/Forn Sidr (our old religion) people here, though they're very minor since the religion only recently got confirmed as one again. And he was wearing Mjølner? xD nice one~ I laughed so hard when you described Christianity VS Asatrú gods that "careless" wayof writing it just fit perfectly! And I can really relate to it, since I'm not more of a Asatrú myself. Anyways, we do have more religious symbols than Mjølner, but of course that's the most popular among even ourselves.

OMG this little fic made my day! Fuck yeah, don't mess with an angry Dane, Germany, or you'll seriously be sorry XDD

[surelyyoujest]

Perfect. It's all about the VIKING RAGETM. Homies don't mess. Forgive me, my brains are totally fried right now. I can has not the judgment!

Mm, I'd heard that there's been some revival, but I didn't know there was a name for it-- interesting! Or its status, in general. He could have been wearing any other icon, but I figured that Mjølner would be best, both for the parallel to Thor and to the cross. (Some archaeologists note a striking similarity between early crosses and some of the later hammer pendants, possibly due to acculturation on both sides. XD) Glad I could be of service, tho'-- and thanks for taking the time to read!

[pip_kin]

*laughs* I guess you're right about that xD

Well there's around 1000 registered members of that faith here, and I believe that the number in norway and Sweden is slightly higher.
And when you look at the early crosses you can still see them ingraved with patterns similar to the ones of the Asatrú. But it's probably because it's been a slow transition.
Oh it was a nice read! Thanks for taking the time to write it!

[sadlygrove]

That was an awesome read; you wrote Denmark incredibly well. I know he's only been in, shit, one comic and none of the episodes, but this just feels right. And even though I'm not on the chemistry side of things, the science major part of my brain is oozing with delight at all this.

[surelyyoujest]

YEAH. THAT ONE-COMIC-ONLY BUSINESS. Ahahaha, there's totally something that's just not kosher about writing for characters who've only put in an appearance or two, but I think Himaruya's made it pretty clear what he's like, and, indeed, nobody seems to mind too terribly how I've chosen to portray him, so! And thanks for reading!

Chemistry is a terrible subject and should be ashamed of itself for the way it treats students. :/ (Which is to say, cool! What science?)

[sadlygrove]

Earth and space science; the red-headed step child of the sciences :D