The Worldsmith [Chapter Four] [Axis Powers Hetalia, England, America, others]

[puella_nerdii]

So yeah. Delays again. *facepalm* I blame moving to a new city?

On the plus side, this chapter has Bess.

Also, this chapter made me cry. Stupid England.

Title: The Worldsmith [Chapter Four: Making New When Old Are Gone]
Author: puella_nerdii
Fandom: Axis Powers Hetalia
Characters: England, America; William Shakespeare, Elizabeth I, Robert Devereaux, and

Comments

[ellenel13]

Yay. This is a very nice surprise.

There was something bittersweet about this. I think that England fell in love with Queen Elizabeth almost against his will. He must have known that she was going to age and die and he wasn't going to change much. I wonder how what was going through the Queen's head when she realized that England hadn't physically changed in four hundred years. I probably would have asked about the future too I got to admit.

Also America was adorable. I can't help imagining the poor boy being propositioned by Elizabethan ear people people now.

[puella_nerdii]

Glad to surprise!

I want to write -- or I want Mith to write, or I want someone to write to my satisfaction -- about England and Bess's courtship and marriage, because England is gay gay gay gay usually not into mortals, especially after Arthur, and he didn't know how long this Tudor would stick around, but she did. And it was gorgeous. *sigh* But yeah, the aging thing was hard for both of them, especially since Elizabeth was notoriously sensitive to comments about her age (though I think she and England are tight enough that she'll be a lot more frank with him than she is with, uh, everyone else. She was a self-aware queen, and an image-conscious one).

England has changed physically in the intervening years, I do think, but it's not the kind of drastic change you'd look for so most people either don't notice it or rationalize it away. Except Bess.

Oh, he's getting propositioned all over the place. Too bad he doesn't understand most of the propositions.

[puella_nerdii]

I have this image of him standing with her outside Mary's bedchamber, when it's clear that Mary actually isn't pregnant, and her succession to the throne is fast becoming reality -- and oh my god, the two of them talking about the body natural and the body politic because she used that metaphor ALL THE TIME.

...there's a lot of material, is what I'm sayin'.

[mithrigil]

"But I have beheld our Nation," Elizabeth says, stern enough that England shivers against the door, "and he with more form than your child."

[mithrigil]

Because the trouble with Mary is that she does not believe in the reality of her Nation, or if she does it's as something to direct and uphold without nurture. Bess does see England, and as more than a macrocosm of his people, as a person himself with a history and an objective beyond that of his rulers, and that's what allows them to persist as husband and wife.

[puella_nerdii]

I just want to let you know that I pounced on my girlfriend and kissed her.

In real life.

[twistedsheets10]

*flails with glee*

[deixis_dyad]

YES.

more please please please.

[amethyst_amore]

Oh my-

I'll be shivering on the other side of this computer screen because, hot damn, that is the Elizabeth I read about and adore... The same one England fell in love with. *happy sigh*

[kisaragifan]

OK, watching the jubilation made me XD.

So cute.

[twistedsheets10]

I want Mith to write, or I want someone to write to my satisfaction -- about England and Bess's courtship and marriage

Seconding this.

Very much.

♥

[ellenel13]

I guess, in this verse, it would make a lot of sense for Elizabeth to be sensitive about her age. I think anyone would be if their significant other remained a twenty-something while they got old an wrinkly.

Did Elizabeth know that England was mostly gay? Because if she did, it would probably make the jealousy about Shakespeare worst.

And lol America. Let's hope you get some historical booty in this adventure. I keep thinking, America probably looks and smell gorgeous to Elizabethan people. Unless I'm reading canon wrong, America is supposed to be fairly attractive regardless, so he's probably stunning next to people who probably don't always have food or modern medicine.

[puella_nerdii]

I think they had that conversation. (At the very least, I want Mith to write that conversation.)

I'm actually not entirely sure he smells gorgeous, but he definitely smells different. Look, though -- yeah, he's attractive enough in canon, but dude, he has all his teeth, that automatically puts him in like the top 1% of Elizabethan men.

[ellenel13]

Kind of OT, but is America going to meet Elizabeth.

England: Yeah, this is America he's my . . . son? Brother? Disregard the painfully obvious UST.

She'd probably like America too. He's pretty infectious.