cohi o nomimasu (afterward)

Aww, poor Japan-tan, ne? I… wasn’t planning on him being so paranoid in this ;A; It wasn’t my intention to torture you! ILU, but you know my love comes out in odd ways.

So, the ending – implies that Kiku is “playing” as well, but on a hella different level. It just happened – there’s no reason why either. Just that, Shibuya (especially the Scrabble and 109 [104]) is one of many icons of Japan’s industrialization. Presume that Kiku’s “death” occurred during the financial crisis of the 1990s (when Japanese asset price bubble collapsed) and the “Game” in question is to re-obtain good relations with his family “D (because Joshua is still mad that Japan never listened to him and, around that time, Japan started to earnestly renew ties with his neighbors).

The rest of the nations don’t seem to know about the Game, but I’m under the assumption that very few Composers are as… ambitious as Joshua is. They might have inklings of it, but the Higher Plane is higher than the Earth, which makes representatives of the Higher Plane on Earth on par to the actual Nations themselves… So, Joshua implies he’ll ascend it needed to protect Neku, I guess.

Pedophile is mentioned because, in the Chibitalia sequence, the Ottoman Empire (Sadiq) kept trying to kidnap Southern Italy (Romano) from Spain’s house.

People who are staying at Japan’s house was chosen via random world map and childhood games.

And, yes, Japan lives in an apartment. He’s got a room in the Imperial Palace, but he likes his cozy little 1k Apartment ’cause he can clean it and spazz out with fewer people worrying. Fitting that many people in such an area is hard, but not impossible.

My takes on nation-tan‘s? I think that not everyone can recognize them (a la, the Four Horsemen (er, Persons) of the Apocalypse from Prachett and Gaiman’s Good Omens) so Kiku can live there in relative peace (until the PM comes a-knockin’ at his door at 2 am yelling that North Korea is planning on testing his missiles and South Korea and India and even China are starting to worry) without his neighbors’ knowing.

Italic interruptions are supposed to be thoughts/memory fragments. The story’s third person limited, with an emphasis on Kiku-koi~. I just realized this was influenced by one of my friend’s brain vomit (which half of this is xD). Yeah… That’s my excuse this fic – it went from Kiku enjoying coffee with some interesting humans, to this… (After the ‘all smiles’ thought, I went off to beta her stupid ficlet, and now the most random things come from my fingertips)

Um, so…

It might not be obvious that Kiku was assaulted of some sort (ambiguous-ness intentional – if Kiku can’t admit to have [mostly] consensual sex with Hercules, then he certainly isn’t going to admit to whatever abuse Megumi put him through) in the past (probably near past too, last twenty, thirty years or so).

Reasoning for why Megs was picking on Kiku? Because Megumi was picked on as a child due to his name (which is why he’s such a douche) and he needed an outlet for this. Kiku, as the mortal-seeming representation of all of Japan, would be a perfect victim for his aggression he felt towards his tormentors (assuming, of course, he never got even before that point). He probably would have done something similar to a Shibuya-tan. His text was taken from the game, nyan~

Hetalia Characters-Country:

Kiku Honda – Japan

Alfred F. Jones – United States of America

Arthur Kirkland – The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Sadiq Adnan – Republic of Turkey (formerly the Ottoman Empire)

Felciano Vargas – Italy (Northern)

Ludwig – Germany [um, no last name, kthnxbai]

Hercales Karpusi – Greece (mentioned)

Translate:

Warui otouto – bad little brother (see below for reasons to use this)

Anything in hiragana/kanji/katakana – translations are (generally) after the phrase; they’re loose, sorry ’bout that. Names that are “officially” written in Kanji is used, even if the kanji doesn’t seem to be legitimately used for names… Any other times they speak, it’s in English. I’m translating these via what I learned from class, so sorry if I got it wrong =3=;
属 is read “zoku” in this context, as part of the verb “zokusuru” which means to belong to. So the last two lines are: “He belongs to me. You also belong to me.”

Bad Little Brother – According to something I read on the interwebz (I don’t think this is very historical, but it’s very interesting and cute to incorporate into Hetalia) – there’s a story about two brothers who lived in Central Asia. One went west to chase the setting moon, while the other turned east to greet the rising sun. After that, they were separated, and grew into modern day Turkey and Japan, alone from their brother (maybe twin – they’re both without official ages so… But Sadiq looks so much older ;A; Sorry Kiku, but you’re one of those ageless Asians). For some reason, these two countries have really good relations, and so this sort of grew in my head. I like it since it’s cute and gives a reason for Turkey to be so protective of Japan against Greece, lulz. So, the reason why Japan was lost near China’s house was because he was trying to get back to Turkey (well, Ottoman Empire… Er.. sort of… I guess he was originally some of the nomadic tribes in that area?).