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Peace, in two dimensions (1/5) anonymous September 12 2009, 13:23:38 UTC
Original request: http://hetalia-kink.livejournal.com/10530.html?thread=18061090#t18061090
Sequel to 'Maybe you're a Sinner' - Asian nations. This turned out more philosophical than I though it would. >.<
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A line.

Two.

Quick strokes, cross hatching, and then a pair of circles. A line that turns down at the edges.

A frown.

And Kiku Honda is born.

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This didn’t happen:Once upon a time a man named Kiku Honda, a little shy but well meaning, was shot in the hip. Twice. It hurt more than anything he’d ever felt in his life, shattering bone and ripping muscle and melting flesh into cold scar tissue. But human bodies are nothing if not resilient. In a few months he was on his feet and limping to work and back, blessedly alone ( ... )

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Peace, in two dimensions (2/5) anonymous September 12 2009, 13:28:03 UTC
But Yung Soo doesn’t-

(200,000 in detention and labour camps)

-think he can-

(Kidnaps Japanese and South Koreans)

-stop himself, and-

(Sends missiles sailing over Asia’s head)

-he’s so afraid-

(Rangoon bombings on the South Korean government)

-of what he’s going to do next.

He doesn’t know if he’ll survive like this for much longer.

Yung Soo wakes up grey scale, eventually, with blood on his sheets and his family knocking on his bedroom door. Then, he pushes himself up, faces south and collects the scattered CDs and DVDs on the floor.

Then, Yung Soo looks at himself in the mirror, swallows down his own guilt and fear, and plasters a grin back onto his face.

(North and South Korea never sign a peace treaty)

“Aniki’s breasts are mine!” he claims in a chipper tone after that. As if that’s all on his mind.

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South Korea objected the airing of Hetalia because of its portrayal of the country.

OhcomeonIt’sonlyabunchofpictures-

(If only it were that simple)

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This didn’t happen: In spaces between the ( ... )

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Peace, in two dimensions (3/5) anonymous September 12 2009, 13:32:22 UTC
But still, Yao loves his children and his brothers and sisters more than anything. The ground he stamps down into crimson mud is proof of how much he cares.

Because Yao is an idealist. Sharing is good, and if his children have to share their vital organs to make sure that everything is fair then so be it, whether they like it or not.

In bound book pages and on television, China has holiday houses all around the world and grins cheerfully.

(Again, if only reality could be as simple as a world in two dimensions.)

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This didn’t happen: Yao is tied to a tree with ropes that burn the tender flesh at his wrists. His hair has been hacked off, his clothes ripped and muddied with his soil. Kiku sits at the campfire metres away, staring at him. There is a light in his brother’s eyes that is like the fire, something red and proud and terrifyingly like madness ( ... )

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Peace, in two dimensions (4/5) anonymous September 12 2009, 13:37:23 UTC
Asia has gaps, due to selective memories and denial. Like Kiku forgetting about War Crimes, and Yao forgetting that there’s more to being a good parent than strict punishment. Like Yung Soo when he wakes up in the South, not the North, and asks himself why he’s so fucked up.

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“This didn’t happen,” Kiku Honda tells himself as he washes the blood from his forearms and collapses against the walls of his palace. A shaking fear of the past. “This…This never happened But as he watches the bricks across from him and almost finishes swallowing the remains of the past in censored textbooks, a door appears before him ( ... )

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Peace, in two dimensions (5/5) anonymous September 12 2009, 13:39:38 UTC
Today Yao’s house is filled with laughter and a strange kind of happiness that had been absent until now. Kiku sits next to his sister and Yung Soo and passes pickles down the table. Cambodian mixes with Vietnamese and Indonesian and Cantonese. Watching this from the doorway, red jacket stained with oil and tears and blood, Yao thinks that something small but very important may have changed.

His sister leaves on Kiku’s arm. Yao watches her go as he washes up in the kitchen and he waves a quiet farewell.

Later, he makes a phone call to Tibet and listens to the rings buzz in time with his racing heartbeat.

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Asia looks at itself in loose graphite drawings and in 5-minute sketches. And perhaps, just perhaps, in a myriad of translated, scanlated languages, perhaps someone is learning a lesson.

About peace, as it flows from popular culture out into the real world.

Maybe it’s not that impossible.

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This is happening: Kiku shuts the door gently and sits. He’s thinking about history, and Korea and China, and the rest of the ( ... )

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Re: Peace, in two dimensions (5/5) anonymous September 12 2009, 14:05:35 UTC
Taiwanese!anon here loves you for the more correct representation of her country, on top of a lot of love for this well thought out fill.

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Re: Peace, in two dimensions (5/5) anonymous September 12 2009, 21:38:52 UTC
Ha. More correct indeed, 小姐。

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author's note anonymous September 12 2009, 14:09:25 UTC
What began as a sequel to 'Maybe you're a sinner' bloated into it's own, philosophical, indulgent self. You'll have to forgive me, but hey! I don't understand all of it either ( ... )

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Re: author's note anonymous September 12 2009, 17:12:55 UTC
When I was initially reading this, I thought that it was one of the most cynical interpretations and representations of Hetalia as a series that I've ever read in my life. Not the mindless ranting of someone who's heard of the idea and takes offense, but from someone who bothered to read the series, research the background of the countries represented, and quite coolly analyze and eventually deconstruct the representation (or lack thereof) of all the Asian nations in the series ( ... )

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Re: author's note anonymous September 12 2009, 17:17:47 UTC
Thank you, all of those are so true. In the East Asia, there are hardly any lands that does not know the horror of war.
Vietnamese anon love you especially for remember Agent Orange. It was what happened when a country was nothing but a pawn in the game between much much more powerful nations: people killing their own people, and the hatred, the urge to revenge becomes has run so deep for many to forget or forgive. Out of all the countries that had been divided in the cold war, it seems only Germany had a (sort of) happy ending.
Yeah, our people love to laugh at our country, it really helps a lot :)! Many truths have been (and will be) denied, but there's still some hope as long as people don't forget.

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Re: author's note anonymous September 13 2009, 03:23:41 UTC
This is so beautifully written. Like, seriously. Wow.

Although. When Indonesia took and raped East Timor for the first time, the memories of throwing bodies - friends (if there is such a thing)- into crocodile pits, eliminating all the names on the list America gave him and (...). Would they still be fresh in his mind? Or would he have buried 1965 already?

On the May of 1998, would East Timor be looking on as Indonesia started bleeding, deliriously stabbing himself with the hatred for the government that took control after he had carried out genocide all those years ago? He was applauded as a hero, mind you.

All this after only 64 years (or 60, it depends) of independence. There was war back then, too.

In 1965, Indonesia carried out a mass killing of suspected 'communists', even if they were only Chinese. The New Order began on this bloody note, and ended on the same in 1998. 1998 saw riots against the Chinese (because they were seen as having all the economic power while the country suffered under the 1997 East Asian Financial ( ... )

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tl;dr reply 2/2 anonymous September 13 2009, 03:29:02 UTC
Even though all these horrible things have happened, Indonesia is still growing. I agree with author!anon. There is horror in what has happened but we should pursue the beauty that is in hope, and not abandon a nation just because of the past. There is still a future, after all.

/is a sap.

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3/3 anonymous September 13 2009, 03:36:12 UTC
*Crocodile pits should be Lubang Buaya... As in the site where the generals were killed 'supposedly' by the communists. And not literal crocodile pits. My bad.

O-okay, going to stop ruining the beauty now.

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Re: author's note anonymous September 15 2009, 06:31:03 UTC
th-this annon is crying. this was so beautiful and so true.
I agree with the top anon who says that we cry out for the true history now, I agree that Hetalia opened doors for me that weren`t just all about anthropomorphic representations of nations but a curiosity and hunger for everything about them.

Although Hetalia is criticized as shallow, stereotyping and two dimensional, some of the ideas touched in the material have, at the very least, made so many people aware of the joy of peace, and of the horror of war.

It has also allowed us to learn how to laugh at our own countries' short-comings.
amazing. You`re awesome anon!

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Re: author's note anonymous October 7 2009, 20:31:10 UTC
I was just scrolling through for fills about my own country, bored and casual, and I come across this.

There are tears in my eyes; if I were alone there would be more.

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Re: Peace, in two dimensions (5/5) anonymous September 13 2009, 05:56:19 UTC
This anon loves you for this. Just... cannot even type a proper response, sorry. I just thought this was stunning and heart-wrenching and so... true. To Hetalia. This is the fandom where you love and hurt and hurt to love the characters and just...

Sorry. Is incoherent. -wipes tears away in embarrassment- Thank you so much for writing this!

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