The Worldsmith [Chapter Four] [Axis Powers Hetalia, England, America, others]

[puella_nerdii]

So yeah. Delays again. *facepalm* I blame moving to a new city?

On the plus side, this chapter has Bess.

Also, this chapter made me cry. Stupid England.

Title: The Worldsmith [Chapter Four: Making New When Old Are Gone]
Author: puella_nerdii
Fandom: Axis Powers Hetalia
Characters: England, America; William Shakespeare, Elizabeth I, Robert Devereaux, and

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[twistedsheets10]

She lowers them, finally, and smiles at him. “My Nation,” she says, and her voice, at least, holds steady.

His doesn’t. “My wife.”

...and this is when I lost it.

Oh shit. Just. Oh. Shit.

I'll give more coherent thought later but America you adorable dork. ♥

[puella_nerdii]

Yeah uh to be fair that's where I lost it when I was writing this, so. Uh. I feel your pain?

oh god ENGLAND

America is such a doof. Fortunately, it works for the role!

[twistedsheets10]

Yeah. I mean. Four hundred years man. Four hundred years. And that they call each other husband and wife is just. ;___;

(and Essex is a bastard. I like his mom though, oddly enough. Ohoho. I see a mention of his future stepfather, too.)

God, I loved that bit with the lady sighing and America being mobbed. Haha. XD And how the people are like "Oh, it's OK if this is strange, he's a foreigner after all."

[puella_nerdii]

Well, he never did marry anyone else. And she's the only mortal woman he's ever loved, and -- basically England and Bess break my heart and then stomp on all the bitty pieces. gaaaaaaaaaaaah.

(You do indeed! *grins* I love little references, what can I say.)

Precisely! America is ~exotic~ and all that. Plus, he's tall and blond and athletic and dashing and actually washes, I'm sure he gets his fair share of admirers.

[megkips]

Caught a tiny typo reading through (Somme...I don't think that's what you wanted?)

And in other news *VERBALLY KEYSMASHES FOR SEVERAL MINUTES* this is pretty much one of my favourite things ever, thank you for another excellent chapter.

[puella_nerdii]

It is, actually. (England got that scar in WWI.)

*bluuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuush* I am so glad you're enjoying this -- it's a treat to work on, delays aside, and I think this chapter might've reduced me to a gibbering wreck a few times.

[megkips]

Deeeeeeeeeeerp. Sorry for the word fail.

Uh. I may have made several undignified noises at my screen, so clearly this is infectious. (And this is the only fandom I do this for, I swear to God.)

[puella_nerdii]

Is okay! I added a footnote for clarification purposes.

This fandom makes me make undignified noises at the screen all the time, I swear. I mean, I actually do do that for other fandoms, but countries, why you gotta break me.

[puella_nerdii]

It's okay I KNOW HOW YOU FEEL I had to pause so many times when I was writing their section because my heart couldn't take it.

He loves her so much. And like -- four hundred years, man. And oh god.

[puella_nerdii]

LIKE I WILL EVER OBJECT TO YOU DRAWING FANART EVER oh god I ship them so much, too. I mean. Historycanon. They use the phrase "married to her country" and oh god even the way he talks about her now. Yeah. God I cannot be coherent about them because I basically turn into a giant ball of wibble.

Those were the lines I tested on Mith and Linden to see if I could get them to cry/wibble/flail. I succeeded. And then I cried.

[ellenel13]

Yay. This is a very nice surprise.

There was something bittersweet about this. I think that England fell in love with Queen Elizabeth almost against his will. He must have known that she was going to age and die and he wasn't going to change much. I wonder how what was going through the Queen's head when she realized that England hadn't physically changed in four hundred years. I probably would have asked about the future too I got to admit.

Also America was adorable. I can't help imagining the poor boy being propositioned by Elizabethan ear people people now.

[puella_nerdii]

Glad to surprise!

I want to write -- or I want Mith to write, or I want someone to write to my satisfaction -- about England and Bess's courtship and marriage, because England is gay gay gay gay usually not into mortals, especially after Arthur, and he didn't know how long this Tudor would stick around, but she did. And it was gorgeous. *sigh* But yeah, the aging thing was hard for both of them, especially since Elizabeth was notoriously sensitive to comments about her age (though I think she and England are tight enough that she'll be a lot more frank with him than she is with, uh, everyone else. She was a self-aware queen, and an image-conscious one).

England has changed physically in the intervening years, I do think, but it's not the kind of drastic change you'd look for so most people either don't notice it or rationalize it away. Except Bess.

Oh, he's getting propositioned all over the place. Too bad he doesn't understand most of the propositions.

[puella_nerdii]

I have this image of him standing with her outside Mary's bedchamber, when it's clear that Mary actually isn't pregnant, and her succession to the throne is fast becoming reality -- and oh my god, the two of them talking about the body natural and the body politic because she used that metaphor ALL THE TIME.

...there's a lot of material, is what I'm sayin'.

[lovelylurker]

Puddle of goo over here for England and Bess and America's performance.

It's hard to type coherently in goo form, you know. >:I

[puella_nerdii]

I can only imagine! But you have done admirably, for goo. :D Thanks so much for reading and commenting!