[Fanfiction] Still Waters

[wayward_and_me]

Title: Still Waters [Part One]

Characters: Juan Luna, Jose Rizal, F!Philippines, and F!Spain.

Warnings: Unbeta’d, as always. Technically Nyotalia, except for Salazar. My F!Philippine’s first appearance.

Summary: Juan Luna has painted Juliana dela Cruz three times - once, on penitent morning, and twice, as the sun pressed against the white of her

Comments

[trishpawachunyu]

Oh, so this was the one you were talking about researching on tumblr, isn't it, PaCho? ^^

I'm in the middle of...something, so I haven't read it in full detail, but I scanned over it and dear, it was lovely. Your Juliana is a very lovely lady, and I wish to see more of her in the future! Also, your historical real people seem very IC to me as well...^^

...I will concoct a more coherent comment when I'm done with this thing I'm doing, dear, so I'll be back again. >_>

[wayward_and_me]

Hullo, Trish!

Yes, this is indeed what all that Juan Luna research was for. I'm afraid I won't be able to use it all, though.

Juliana is difficult for me to write for: to the point that it's not even funny. It took me ages to come up with some headcanon for her, and the fact that... uh. I'm not sure if I should mention it just yet. I fail. OTL

Oh goodness, I was really wondering about how I was going to pull off our historical figures, but I suppose that's where the gaping holes in our history come in handy: it's easier to improvise, oh mai~

Take your time, Trish. No hurry :)

[trishpawachunyu]

Okay, then, here I am again. This may or may not be long

See: PaCho, returning champion of Longest Message/Comment

[wayward_and_me]

I got the idea of Muses from the very fact that Luna is an Ilustrado and spent what was basically his life in Europe, along with Rizal, who was basically obsessed with mythologies of all sorts, so I supposed that it rubbed off on my perspective. I was like, "well hey, he's a painter: why not

First attempt at comment failed epically OTL

[northwhitespecs]

For lack of words that will suffice and justify this fic

COMRADE.

[wayward_and_me]

MY DEAR COMRADE.

[northwhitespecs]

YES. YES IT IS PACHO. PACHO. PACHOOOOOOOOOOO

djksalgjkdsla not as much as I've missed you if I knew where you lived I would run through this rain and throw myself at you no joke fkdlafkld; onionsandgarlicwithpestosauceanditaly'spastaawesomeness

I would love to say that I know of connotations, but sadly I only know Noli, not El Fili yet OTL For our school, we're taking that up in Senior year (lolol they knew that Rizal's superpowered bad-assness could not be handled by the students in one year, so they decided to let the two books be taken up on separate years) but hohoho spoilers spoilers I do love them

I think it was 60 years, but either way it holds true. Being suppressed for that long will make any person crave for the wild side /shot. It makes me wonder though why no one's saying anything about Japan. His stay was short-lived, but they surely made great impact on the country as well. coughcoughasiansforasiansmyasstheyjustwantedtopimptheiranimecoughcoughIt's all gooood. The wait is always worth it since the quality delivered is

COMRADE. COMRADE.

[wayward_and_me]

We gotta get together soon. Have you already been to Mind Museum? I hear it's kick-ass.

I liked El Fili more than Noli, to be honest, but I think it's because of the parallels between the two books being reflected in the story.

Our independence right now is up for debate, so... it's an entire can of worms that I don't want to bring up. And Japan, I'm sure, had a lot of influences that no one really wants to mention OTL