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HetaChallenge -- October Drabbles

Oct 09, 2011 04:05

Posted again here for archiving purposes, and because I like all my "signed" LJ fics to be on my journal. :P First posted at hetachallenge.

Title: 1776, 1917, 1945
Characters: America, France, England
Challenge: 2. Haunted
Bonus Words: darkness, ghost, fear, orange; none; darkness, ghost, fear.
Rating: G
Summary: The last day of October is a day America cannot ( Read more... )

event, hetalia, fanfiction, it was scary

Comments 9

xolavander October 10 2011, 21:02:12 UTC

Oh, boy, America! I can imagine everything when he went to London and sleep at England's. When he knocked on the door and England scared him, my favourite part. This is really great, and I got a bit sad for America at the first drabble. I enjoyed reading this!

iclexica October 10 2011, 23:23:06 UTC

I'm glad you liked it! ^^; I love it when those two are messing around pretending they're not best friends (or anything else ;D) and the part in canon where America and England have an annual Halloween scare-off is hilarious and adorable! xD

Thank you very much for commenting, you are the best. *bow*

sephydark October 11 2011, 04:56:50 UTC

America is so cute when he's scared. Although I feel a bit bad for thinking that (but it's true, though!).

I particularly like the last one, where America challenges England to scare him (although I'm not sure that was on purpose). I guess all the horrifying things England thought up desensitized him a little?

iclexica October 16 2011, 06:33:47 UTC

Scared America is my favourite America! x3;; He's just so cute when he's filled with irrational fear! [/meaniehead]

Yup! Well, the idea is that when America's just thinking about how to scare England and how not to be scared by England, he doesn't have time left over to be scared of the ghosts! xD;; Anyway, they could just be England, and England's not scary, right?

kasumicc October 11 2011, 20:26:23 UTC

This strongly reminds me of that Halloween strip where both America and England try to scare the shit out of the other, but I don't recall ever seeing it being actually used on fiction :D
I really liked this, good job!

iclexica October 16 2011, 06:35:24 UTC

Waaaaaiiii, I'm so excited that you noticed~ xD The third was actually written almost completely about that strip. I like seeing what random moments of canon might imply about characters' relationships, you know?

Thank you, I'm so glad you liked it! ^^

skelitten October 11 2011, 21:10:53 UTC

I dove into your challenge set thinking it would be completely serious, and was totally caught off-guard that I had a giggle fit midway in the first drabble. Not entirely sure if you intended it to be humorous, but I absolutely loved how America was frightened by harmless little kids stalking around for treats-that is, you'd think he'd expect it with the lovely occasion of Halloween, but no. AND THE GUN, DEAR LORD. AND THE CHILDREN-WHY DIDN'T THEY RUN AT FIRST SIGHT FROM IT. AND HAVING A STRANGE MAN SHOVE THEM INTO A HOUSE. Golly, it's ironic when people constantly say "Don't accept candy from strangers!" or "Don't get into a car with a stranger!", and then seeing this drabble defy all that-why, kudos to you, all the much love. The fact that it's America committing such deeds is so endearing because you know he genuinely just wants to dispel the feeling of loneliness to the extent of accepting anyone ( ... )

skelitten October 11 2011, 21:12:20 UTC

As for the second of the drabble set, and since it's seen from France's view, America is presented as such an awkward boy-as if his reactions towards the current events are all backwards (and again, it's endearing in the quirky "that's-what-America-would-do" way); it's as if he's more afraid of what he can't see than what he could, and not to mention, he's awfully far from the comfort of home. I wonder whether his proactive attitude was one of his methods to swat away any probable thoughts of his beloved land (-that is, energetically spending time doing physical labor to stop himself from becoming homesick. Er, I don't know, having France mention that specifically made it seem as if it was an unusual thing to do-but then again, there's plenty of factors as to why that tidbit was chosen [one of it being that France had been in a wearier condition, and America was still very much fresh] or I'm just reading too much into it ( ... )

iclexica October 16 2011, 06:38:24 UTC

HOLY MOLY *faints*

I think my heart stopped when I saw those big fat comments you left me. I-I don't know what to say! You're so smart and awesome and aaaaaaah and I never even thought to put everything you said into words though you are absolutely correct in like everything and how did I deserve a reader like you??

u-u-ummmm ummm I can't I can't umm I mean thank you!! my goodness @_@;;; *faint again*