Eight Men [fanfic]

[morriganfearn]

Title: Eight Men
Author: MorriganFearn
Rating: R
Characters: Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Prussia, Poland, America, Russia
Genre: Dark, History, Friendship, Drama
Pairings: SuFin, DenNor, GerIta, LietPol and hinted others
Warnings: Violence, extreme sexual situations, dark themes
Summary: August 1945. While the humans debate the proper

Comments

[xglass]

YAY! Okay, I am feeling very much relieved. This story is not making me feel nearly as dumb as I thought it might. XD

I definitely appreciate all the historic notes. As in, I need them. Like burning whoa.

[morriganfearn]

You think I knew any more than you did when I started? All the history stuff is for sharing. I hope to explain things clearly for everyone. I'm trying to cover nearly 5 centuries worth of history here ^^. If I don't do a good job of explaining then I should be writing.

[xglass]

All this research just for a story! Damn! *admiring admirer*

[morriganfearn]

When you read history texts with your Hetalian goggles on, it is wonderfully funny. Plus, you learn some really cool stuff hidden behind everything. For example: in the 1500s Holland legalized protection rackets run by the police. Romano's mafia haven't got ANYTHING on that.

[ljusastjarnan]

ARGH. AXEL OXENSTEIRNA, GUSTAV! <333 Researching this atm and it feels like this jumped straight from a dissertation. xD

"Personally, I am more worried about my capital becoming Warsaw." <- liked this a lot. Figures that Sve wouldn't care about the enmity between Catholicism and Protestantism as much as how fragile Sweden's existence still was.

Especially with Denmark still lurking in the corners. Heh.

( I actually googled oxenstierna/gustav in hope of some historical slash, but nope. found this instead, and this is brilliant. <3 )

[morriganfearn]

Thank you very much (I feel certain that I've seen your screenname before, but I can't place it. Sorry ^^;)

Given Gustav's well documented proclivities (such a womanizer) I think you might be better off looking for Old Fritz x Voltaire. The Interwubs is just littered with it XD. Admittedly, I'm more of a FritzxHans kind of person, but that's because I tend to enjoy doomed romance. I don't think I've seen a Gustav x Oxensteirna slash. I am pretty certain that I'm the only one who writes one-sided confused crush!Sweden x Gustav, and I haven't done much more than subtext it.

Denmark made himself the richest nation in Europe because of that little war. ;) He knows how to make Sweden tremble. But Sve is strong, and will weather this, too.

[ljusastjarnan]

Ljusastjarnan means morning light, ala Lucifer, pfft.

Womanizing hasn't ever stopped the fangirls from slashing, but I'm going to guess the obscurity of the subject matter has dimmed interest somewhat. Pffft, Sve/Gustav would feel like Den/Sve. The duality of fire and ice (heat and cold, Oxenstierna's own words. xD) fit's with both duo's so. well.

Yeah I actually have a friend who ships that. xD I've never actually felt inclined to ship anything historical tbh, (except maybe Schuschnigg/Dollfuss or maybe even Schiller/Goethe - actually, definitely the former, unfunfunffnkajdfn) BUT I DIGRESS.

Sweden sure did! He kicked off as a major Empire after the war after all. C:

[morriganfearn]

Well yes, but I mean I know your username because I think I've read something of yours before, saw someone rec something you had done, or something like that. This is going to be bugging me. And after stalking your lj I wish that I was writing something about the Anschluss just so I would have the excuse to quote your post in my footnotes. Ah well.

True, but Gustav was the subject of Swedish fanfiction in his own time about how romantical he was with his mistress, and how crazy his wife was. It's crazy. I actually just can't imagine the historical possibility that Oxenstierna and him were negotiating strange things behind strange doors, though Eric Flint has an undertone of homoeroticism to his Gustav in 1632. If you squint at it the right way. Yay literary fanboying