Application - Holy Roman Empire from Axis Powers Hetalia

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((OOC: Approval granted from Austria and Sweden mun. I’ve waited about a week and haven’t heard anything back from France, N. Italy, or Russia mun, so I’m assuming the go-ahead from them as well.))A small boy who had not been there only moments before lay on the floor of the Sorting Room. His face and blond hair, swept back under the hat that had

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[nordic_stoic]

Sweden didn't say anything at first, just watching the little empire in the Sorting room. His herd of straw goats crowded at his feet, barring one that was perched on Sweden's shoulder.

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Holy Roman Empire got the strange feeling he was being watched. And thus he turned around to see--Sweden.

Sweden was in the middle of stirring up the religious rebellions in his empire, again. Sweden was prolonging yet another war that kept Holy Roman Empire from returning to his beloved Italy. Sweden was eying his northern territory. And Sweden was in the middle of thoroughly, devastatingly routing his men at Zusmarhausen.

Even if Holy Roman Empire had rationalized that this was all a dream, Sweden currently shared a high ranking with France on his list of most hated people.

But Holy Roman Empire was unarmed, and he honestly lacked the energy to attack Sweden anyway, and it would still hurt if Sweden defeated him again. So he settled for glaring. Very violently. And growling, "Bastard."

[nordic_stoic]

Sweden nodded, accepting the insult. He had been a bastard to the Holy Roman Empire, he would admit that.

"'nd'rst'nd that I had m'ord'rs."

The goat on his shoulder began pawing at Sweden's shoulder. He got on his knees to set the goat with his brothers. The biggest straw goat (which Sweden had named Ronnie) was the first to hesitantly step forward and approach the newcomer country.

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Unlike Sweden, Holy Roman Empire hadn't had time to distance himself from the Thirty Years' War; he was still caught in the midst of it and taking the fighting very personally. So even though invasions were commonplace interactions between nations, and even though Sweden had apologized gracefully, Holy Roman Empire couldn't accept it. He didn't necessarily want to attack this Sweden at the moment, but he couldn't accept his peace offering.

So he crossed his arms and turned his back on Sweden with a "Hmph!"

Holy Roman Empire had been too busy glaring at Sweden's face to notice the little straw goats, or he might have been curious about them despite himself.

[nordic_stoic]

Ronnie apparently decided that the Holy Roman Empire was another thing to dance around, and soon was joined by two of the other julbocken, Slim and Gunnar.

Sweden sighed. He had long forgotten how stubborn the Holy Roman Empire had been.

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Holy Roman Empire could only ignore the prancing and frolicking around his feet for so long, and he crouched down to look at them more closely.

This clearly could not be considered fraternizing with the enemy, because he wasn't aware the julbocken belonged to Sweden. For all he knew, Sweden had left and these were the next thing to visit him in this strange dream-room.

Holy Roman Empire had to admit that they were a little cute; he could easily imagine Italy liking them and finding them adorable. And so the straw goats had hit upon his greatest weakness. He held his hand out, wondering if he should try to pet one.

[nordic_stoic]

"They d'nt bite," Sweden said. "They're only s'mi-s'nti'nt."

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Holy Roman Empire looked back to glare at Sweden again and saw the rest of the julbocken crowded around the nation's feet. Did they belong to Sweden, then?

Holy Roman Empire blushed, embarrassed at being caught smiling fondly at straw goats that might be Sweden's. He straightened and crossed his arms over his chest again. "I wasn't going to do anything," he lied.

Stubborn? Just a bit.

[nordic_stoic]

"They're h'rml'ss. They're m'julbocken." There were twelve of them.

Ronnie, as mentioned, was the biggest one. The ones next to it were Slim and Gunnar. The one that had been on Sweden's shoulder was Joakim. The ones he unconsciously dubbed the twins (for they had the same peculiar curve in their horns) were Bertil and Raine. The three that had yet to notice the Holy Roman Empire were Stefan, Conny, and Torsten. And the last three, a paler shade of straw than the others, were Keke, Mika, and Kimi.

And by now all except the one's that didn't notice him were prancing in front of the little empire, trying to amuse him.

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The julbocken were tempting. Very tempting, especially when they seemed delighted to be around Holy Roman Empire, especially when they reminded him of happier times, and especially when they hadn't done anything wrong (other than happen to belong to Sweden).

But Holy Roman Empire was tired, he felt terrible, his people were suffering from the wars, he was far from the person he most wanted to see, his body was in pain, and all of this was Sweden's fault, damnit. Just because Sweden wasn't antagonizing him now didn't erase all of that.

He kept his back turned to Sweden and raised his chin so that he wouldn't see any of the goats prancing about, determined not to relent.

Vote: Hufflepuff

[nordic_stoic]

If straw goats could express emotion they'd look sad. As it was, they hung their heads and went back to Sweden.

As Sweden picked Keke back up to place on his shoulder, he murmured, "M'sorry," and got up to leave.