Glory to the fatherland that knew how to follow the blue of the sea to walk to the sun

[reino_de_espana]

Spain doesn't hang around HQ lately. It's a lot of work being a soverign nation still there's a place he likes to go to remind him that it's all worth while. It's a room he found quite a while back in the middle of a hallway. Inside it's ordinary looking, like a common sitting room. There's a rug and a coffee table with a number of nice looking

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....gdi I am dying of curiousity.

[gewehrundblut]

He peers into the room, curiously. The scent of tea had been wafting out into the hallway, and he couldn't help but wonder if perhaps there were an England he could pester waiting behind the door. There are few people he enjoys bothering more at his point in time than England. Austria is one, so even an Austria would be pretty awesome.

Except, it's Spain. Ah, well, he does like Spain. Doesn't really get to deal with him much, being on the opposite side of the continent, but he does like Spain. "Didn't take you for the tea drinking sort, Spanien."

[gewehrundblut]

He presses his forehead hard agaist Spain's shoulder, whinging softly, the frantic movements finally, slowly tapering into stillness. Though his ability to speak in just one language has yet to return to him, if the fact that one of those pained nos was definitely in French is any indication.

Though even that comes to an end, and for a long moment he's silent.

[reino_de_espana]

"It is easier once you have delt with the history. You can hear your children's voices, how they love you. That's why I drink it, to remember why I work so hard." He tells him, "They are proud of you, Prussia. In the end, in their own way, they love you very much. In that time you became the eastern half of Germany, the way the two Italians are both Italy."

[gewehrundblut]

"...but I like being Prussia......" He's figured out the whole one language commonly understood thing, now, to just string some more coherent and less childish thoughts together. A deep breath, which makes him shudder, and then he speaks once more.

"..h-hey Spain..."

[reino_de_espana]

"Hmmm?" Spains replies to show that he is listening.

...that icon is so cute omg...

[gewehrundblut]

He lifts his head from Spain's shoulder to eye him blearily. "If I ever get such a fucking stupid idea again and you help me with it I WILL PERSONALLY BEAT YOU WITH YOUR OWN SPINE IF I CAN FIND IT." Why yes, he did just call Spain spineless for giving in to his stupid idea so readily, and no, he's still not feeling all right. He imagines it will be a while to really accept all that information and deal with it.

Still, proof positive that he's still out of sorts is how, if Spain hasn't pulled away, he's dropping his head back down and mumbling now. "Sorry for yelling in your ear..." He is; no one should have him yell in their ear except maybe on a battlefield when there is a cavalry charge coming right at them and the other person won't move their arse, but otherwise, no. No one should have him yell so nearby.

[reino_de_espana]

Spain flinches but doesn't move away.

"Sorry for being spineless." He murmurs. Spain should've known better being more well aquainted with the tea's properties.

[gewehrundblut]

"It's okay... I'd've tried drinking some anyways..." Awkward patting on back goes here? He sits up shakily, though now he eyes the cup of tea as though it were poison. "Just where the Hell d'you find that shit anyways?"

[reino_de_espana]

"It's something that's always been in my world and specifically aligned to my time." He tells him before shrugging, "Yet a lot of things are different in my world like...like some countries I've met actually have human names!"

[gewehrundblut]

He kind of perks up at that, curiousity piqued. It's something to distract him from the thoughts circling around his head, at any rate, and he kind of welcomes any variety of distraction. "How is that weird? I have a human name..." Blinks curiously. Unless by that this Spain means they don't have a nation name? But that makes no sense to him...

[reino_de_espana]

"But why? I mean, I've never been called Antonio before I came to this place. I've always been called Espana or Hispania or some version of that. That's my only name so why would someone give me another?"

It honestly confuses him but then again a lot honestly confuses him.

[gewehrundblut]

Oh, see, this is how his brain is still broken, because he didn't realise it was abnormal for this Spain to hear human names. "Uh... I... that's an excellent question?" Well, he wanted a distraction, and now he has one, because he's going to be pondering this one. "Um... It's not something I've ever thought about. 'Cause I've always had one and everyone I really talk to has them..." He rubs the back of his neck as he thinks.

Then he snorts. "My knights were the ones who gave me my first name. I don't blame them. At that point in time my name was otherwise bigger than I was. I mean, which is gonna come off your tongue easier: Orden der Brüder vom Deutschen Haus St. Mariens in Jerusalem or Gilbert?"

[reino_de_espana]

"Orden der Bruder vom D-...vom Deutscho...vom D-" He gives up after a while. That is a little tough on the tongue.

"Hmmm, I can see how that can be a problem...the longest title I ever had was La República Española. How far back can you remember?"

[gewehrundblut]

He might have a bit of an easier time with the Latin since that's closer to Spanish, but it's quite possibly longer. It looks longer, at any rate. "Yeah, the name change to Ordensstaat was a relief in so many ways"

That question makes him blink, sorting fuzzily through all the new memories along with the old. "To the 1190s, why?" Not that he remembers back then particularly well, unless he has his diaries to jog his memory, but he does remember some of those days. "Not like I'd know anything before then; I hadn't been born yet."

[reino_de_espana]

"Because I can't remember a lot before Rome found me. Sometimes I wonder if I was someone else once, the way it is with your brother." He tells him.

"You never did tell me how you found Alemania."

[gewehrundblut]

"Oh... I didn't..." It actually never occurred to him that a lot of his fellow nations don't really have any way of knowing when they were formed or if that's all they've ever been. "I had no idea..."

"...And that's none of your business."