"Bystrouška" -- 1947

[byzantienne]

This post contains explicit sexual content. (Read it anyway!)

Bystrouška

30 July, A.D. 1947. Stuttgart.Germany's study is old and well-lit with sconces, dark wood bookshelves and wide, leaded-glass bay windows surrounding the heavy rectangle of a table in the center, with its single vase of bright flowers for a centerpiece. Germany's at the head

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[twistedsheets10]

It's 1 am in the morning over where I am supposed to be sleepy and then I read this and JESUS CHRIST.

HUNGARY. I think I simultaneously cheered and cringed reading her here. Dark chic indeed. Her and Liech, their scenes...gah. It's hot and ohmygodwhatamIreadingwhatareyoudoing at the same time. I will never look at Liech the same way again ever.

*is very much awake now*

(and crazy England is still crazy.)

[byzantienne]

Thank you so, so, so much for this comment! Isn't Liechtenstein just the most subtly badass thing? I didn't expect that, and it was really fun to discover while I wrote this.

(Crazy England is crazy forever.)

[shirasakura]

Someday I'll be able to make a coherent comment on this. Until then, please accept these hearts.

&hearts&hearts&hearts&hearts&hearts&hearts&hearts&hearts&hearts&hearts

[byzantienne]

Eeee, hearts~

[kaiju_z]

That was quite the story o - o

First APH fic I read where Yuri happens and where Bulgaria gets to talk for more than a few moments o - o

That was great!

[byzantienne]

Thank you so much!

(There isn't enough yuri in this fandom.)

[kaiju_z]

True, true o 3 o;;;

[vulchu]

Eeeee you finished it! :DD

It's a bit too early in the morning for coherent comments but I love love loved Hungary in this. Both her moments of badass with calling Japan on being passive aggressive and the end scene with Prussia (which is just teasing I'll have you know) and the parts with Bulgaria and Liechtenstein where you kind of stepped on my heart a little.

Also this part? Is brilliant:

"When we do this," she says, at length, and Hungary is following every word, feeling each one propelled by breath into her hair and onto her forehead, "what does it do to us?"

There are a lot of answers to that question. Hungary picks the easiest of them all.

"Don't your people understand my people a little better now?"

Liechtenstein taps her fingertips on Hungary's shoulderblade. "As an example, maybe," she says.

Such an awesome way of bridging their actions as "people" to their actions as countries and just. Yes. ♥

[byzantienne]

*grins* I am so glad that last section worked -- I wanted to talk about the nature of nation vs. Nation, because that's so important to narratives of resistance, which is what this is -- or isn't --

And I am ALSO glad that you like Hungary in this, because damn is she difficult to get right.

[vulchu]

Haha, absolutely ♥ I really love it when works touch on that divide and bridge it and touch on the nature of this thing that is a nation in the shape of a person and you've done it in a new and brilliant way. So. Hee ♥

And the resistance narrative is really a joy. Especially with how wonderfully you play with Hungary here, because she knows what outright resistance gets her from Austria but it's because of Austria that she knows she can't just lie back and let them [coughPrussiacough] have what they want so it's just. asldfkj yes. AMAZINGLY DONE. ♥♥

[byzantienne]

That moment was actually not in the first conception of this fic. I ended up realizing I needed to have it, though, when the question of 'why is sex the weapon being used here' came up. So I'm extremely happy people are pinging on it.

This is not what a resistance movement looks like. But what is it, if not some kind of resistance?

[skelody]

...

Gonna have to reread this when my brain's more present. (This always happens.)

[byzantienne]

I hope you enjoy it on the reread, then~!

[skelody]

Oh, 'twas enjoyable; I just don't think I'm capable of appreciating anything more than that ATM.