Bitter 1/?
anonymous
November 21 2010, 19:47:59 UTC
Estonia feels as if he is both too young, and too old.
Every time that he has to go to a meeting-he can remember back long ago when there were never meetings-he sees nations that are younger than him in age, by far, looking older and older than him. America these days is taller than him, and even Liechtenstein is growing at a steady rate still.
It's been hundreds of years since he's looked a day older than seventeen. At least he's been allowed to get an identification from his home, he figures, that states him as eighteen. It lets him spend his time here, sitting in a bar, sulking and thinking where nobody will look at him twice.
He gets a new drink, more vodka-laced coffee, returning back to his seat.
It's then that he comes in, blonde and smiling to everyone, a shining gem in the murky pond of his life. Finland was breathtaking, but Tino, Tino as a person was amazing. The violet eyed man immediately spotted him, as well, even though he probably hadn't been searching. Tino just liked the cheap alcohol of Tallinn, not the
( ... )
Re: Bitter 2/?
anonymous
November 21 2010, 19:49:04 UTC
After putting him down, saying he didn't feel the same, Tino had continued on as usual. He'd just never discuss feelings after that, not until alcohol finally coursed through his system. And alcohol did often course through him, since he was a nation, he could drink himself into alcoholic toxicity and maybe only fall asleep, if that.
Eduard drank slower than the Finn, tried to lead him into questions, into answers. Estonia leaned toward him, smiling kindly, and asking him yet again.
“So how do you feel about all this... 'wife' business again? Surely, you're not going to just start speaking Swedish again all the time...”
“Nah... I could speak Finnish all I want, because what does he care? He doesn't even speak!”
“If he loves you, I'm sure that he cares.”
“Yeah, right.. Well, I don't even love him, so why do I care?”
Estonia almost choked on his drink. If Finland didn't even like him, what was he doing with him?
“But Tino...”
“I'm not in love with anyone right now, Eduard.” He stressed the anyone, just so the other Finno
( ... )
Bitter 3/3
anonymous
November 21 2010, 19:50:22 UTC
It was also the second time in his life, he figured, he wanted someone that he couldn't have. Telling Tino he loved him had been easy... But having fallen in love with Berwald was difficult, and he could never tell him.
He couldn't even confide in anyone about it, just letting the feelings build up inside of him for the better half of the last five hundred years. To know how much Tino didn't even want him hurt. The Estonian felt he could have given him so many things...
“Tino. Tino, really... You need to think this over more!”
“Why?”
It was the first time that Eduard looked at his friend, his oldest friend, realizing that Tino was just as hurt as he was. It made him shrink away, feel as if he had no right to suggest or tell Tino anything. Over the years, there had to have been someone Tino loved, someone Berwald had kept him from with his possessive gait
( ... )
Asdfvugb. OP anon is not faithful to one pairing in particular, and really enjoyed this! I feel so sorry for Eduard, with rejection from Tino then falling for Berwald... Thank you very much for filling! > < I think I mght ship this pairing now...
And agree on them being bitter, Finland has been through a lot as a country and it's hard to believe, like North Italy, that he's actually that happy all the time. I liked the hidden layers to their characters here~
Re: Bitter 3/3
anonymous
November 22 2010, 03:23:02 UTC
I'm sorry I'm being a nitpick but we don't actually use "kyllä" like that... xD; It just... sounds really, really weird. Something like "jooko?" or "käykö?"/"sopiiko?" would be better. (Or just "okei?" x) which obviously just means "okay?") "Joo" is a colloquial word for "yes" (pronounced kinda like "yo") and "ko" is a suffix that makes it a question.
Actually, it's not too different from Estonian (they have the German/Scandinavian loanword "jaa" for "yes"). The difference is that they allow the use of "jaa" in standard language, while standard Finnish doesn't allow "joo" (not yet at least, it might change sometime in the future).
"Kyllä" is a difficult word to explain... it's not quite the same as "yes" but Finnish doesn't actually have a proper word for "yes" other than the colloquial "joo"/"juu"/"jep". The standard language doesn't have a simple word for "yes" so people tend to tell foreigners that "kyllä" means "yes", even though "kyllä" is more like "truly" or "really" or "certainly". As in "Finnish really is a difficult
( ... )
Re: Bitter 3/3
anonymous
November 22 2010, 06:41:20 UTC
... OP here will keep that in mind for the future. xD;;; I naturally ran to google and google translator and such because I didn't want to bother my Finnish friend just to ask her what 'yes' is. But thank you.
Re: Bitter 3/3
anonymous
November 24 2010, 01:03:27 UTC
Heh. xD; It's alright... Foreign languages are tricky like that, you never know what sort of specialties they have. Btw, if you ask your Finnish friend, tell her the whole sentence first so she'll know what is the best word for that specific situation.
Every time that he has to go to a meeting-he can remember back long ago when there were never meetings-he sees nations that are younger than him in age, by far, looking older and older than him. America these days is taller than him, and even Liechtenstein is growing at a steady rate still.
It's been hundreds of years since he's looked a day older than seventeen. At least he's been allowed to get an identification from his home, he figures, that states him as eighteen. It lets him spend his time here, sitting in a bar, sulking and thinking where nobody will look at him twice.
He gets a new drink, more vodka-laced coffee, returning back to his seat.
It's then that he comes in, blonde and smiling to everyone, a shining gem in the murky pond of his life. Finland was breathtaking, but Tino, Tino as a person was amazing. The violet eyed man immediately spotted him, as well, even though he probably hadn't been searching. Tino just liked the cheap alcohol of Tallinn, not the ( ... )
Reply
After putting him down, saying he didn't feel the same, Tino had continued on as usual. He'd just never discuss feelings after that, not until alcohol finally coursed through his system. And alcohol did often course through him, since he was a nation, he could drink himself into alcoholic toxicity and maybe only fall asleep, if that.
Eduard drank slower than the Finn, tried to lead him into questions, into answers. Estonia leaned toward him, smiling kindly, and asking him yet again.
“So how do you feel about all this... 'wife' business again? Surely, you're not going to just start speaking Swedish again all the time...”
“Nah... I could speak Finnish all I want, because what does he care? He doesn't even speak!”
“If he loves you, I'm sure that he cares.”
“Yeah, right.. Well, I don't even love him, so why do I care?”
Estonia almost choked on his drink. If Finland didn't even like him, what was he doing with him?
“But Tino...”
“I'm not in love with anyone right now, Eduard.” He stressed the anyone, just so the other Finno ( ... )
Reply
It was also the second time in his life, he figured, he wanted someone that he couldn't have. Telling Tino he loved him had been easy... But having fallen in love with Berwald was difficult, and he could never tell him.
He couldn't even confide in anyone about it, just letting the feelings build up inside of him for the better half of the last five hundred years. To know how much Tino didn't even want him hurt. The Estonian felt he could have given him so many things...
“Tino. Tino, really... You need to think this over more!”
“Why?”
It was the first time that Eduard looked at his friend, his oldest friend, realizing that Tino was just as hurt as he was. It made him shrink away, feel as if he had no right to suggest or tell Tino anything. Over the years, there had to have been someone Tino loved, someone Berwald had kept him from with his possessive gait ( ... )
Reply
Thank you very much for filling! > < I think I mght ship this pairing now...
And agree on them being bitter, Finland has been through a lot as a country and it's hard to believe, like North Italy, that he's actually that happy all the time. I liked the hidden layers to their characters here~
Reply
Actually, it's not too different from Estonian (they have the German/Scandinavian loanword "jaa" for "yes"). The difference is that they allow the use of "jaa" in standard language, while standard Finnish doesn't allow "joo" (not yet at least, it might change sometime in the future).
"Kyllä" is a difficult word to explain... it's not quite the same as "yes" but Finnish doesn't actually have a proper word for "yes" other than the colloquial "joo"/"juu"/"jep". The standard language doesn't have a simple word for "yes" so people tend to tell foreigners that "kyllä" means "yes", even though "kyllä" is more like "truly" or "really" or "certainly". As in "Finnish really is a difficult ( ... )
Reply
OP here will keep that in mind for the future. xD;;;
I naturally ran to google and google translator and such because I didn't want to bother my Finnish friend just to ask her what 'yes' is. But thank you.
Reply
Reply
Reply
Leave a comment