❝but i don't like this new i want the old❞

[moirae]

Title: Paneuropäisches Picknick
Series: Axis Powers Hetalia
Words: 750~
Characters: Hungary ; Prussia ; Germany ; Austria (Austria/Hungary & Prussia/Germany)
Rating: PG
Warnings: n/a
Summary: Written for hetalia_contest's week 018 prompt, "picnics." The story of the Pan-European Picnic, during which communist Hungary and Prussia are reunited with capitalist

Comments

[tanya_tsuki]

Wow. So, um, I didn't know anything about this event. I loved the beginning of your fic, and was smiling about how natural they all seemed and how they obviously missed each other.
Then I read:

The two brothers tried to shake hands, but were blocked by the strong iron of the fences that marked the Austro-Hungarian border. It had seemed easy enough to breach with potato-salad catapaults, but when two brothers wished for physical contact, it thwarted them.

And I could feel my heart break. I hate how you're able to intertwine so many emotions into such few words. Not really. I love it. I'm just in denial.

Thanks for teaching me (again) and making my emotions just go all over the place (again).

Off topic but I thought you might like to know that I actually wrote an Austria/Hungary drabble about a half hour ago. I never thought I'd ever write Austria/Hungary. It's your fault, you know.

[moirae]

Want to know something random? I had 800 words of a different fic for this prompt written--it was about the Chibilatia family: Austria, Hungary, HRE, and Italy--and based off of the saying "eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die." And then I couldn't think of how to end it and was looking through my Atlas of World History and found this event. And it was just too perfect to pass up.

Oh, and know that all of the fluffy stuff in this fic was for you, since I'm trying to balance my angst-angst-angst with happier stuff. &hearts

...[seven hours later] thank you for the comments, dear. You always make me so happy. :D

Success! I win~~~! I need to read this now.

[tanya_tsuki]

Well, I do hope you find a way to end it because I would love to read it =D ♥
But that is perfect how you came across this event in your book. Coincidences like that are amazing :D

I'm posting them tomorrow later today. I stole that song meme from you (though I've actually been eyeing it for a few months, now) and did five of them since I was itching to write but nothing was coming. It's bedtime, though, so the other five will have to wait.

[tokene]

Woo, another history lesson. I didn't know about this picnic either, till I read this.

It amuses me that Gilbert and Roderich can still attempt to have a fight over the Iron Curtain.

Roderich glanced at Elizaveta and gave her a short nod. She grinned, and they both approached the wall from their respective sides, gripped the iron and pulling it apart inch by inch. Eventually, the breach grew big enough that when Ludwig extended his hand, Gilbert was able to grip it firmly; the two brothers shook.

I really liked the way you wrote this, especially the historical implications of how Roderich and Elizaveta helped them with the wall.

[animaven]

Another chapter of European history learned. The relationship among them is so tender and yet a barrier is there at the same time. Close but separated, not only by an iron fence.

[chromatic_coma]

I also had never heard of this event before, but now I'm glad I did (and very educated about it, thank you very much).

Also, this was such a good job. At the beginning I just wanted Gilbert to hug his brother, I almost yelled at the computer, but you're much better at keeping them all in character than that (but that kiss at the end, so cute!!)

♥

[meicdon13]

Everything seems so happy. Until you realize that there's a fence between them ;A;

Wonderful fic.