Nico: Hello there! ... Well I'm already out of things to say...
Please enjoy another chapter of Diplomacy!
I DO NOT OWN HETALIA: AXIS POWERS!
Russia
"Nikolai, welcome home," Toris welcomed Nikolai home.
"Thank you, Toris," Nikolai said. She had started going on a first name basis with all the Baltic nations, it made them closer. Although Belarus seemed to sneer every time she heard them saying their human names(1).
"Mr. Russia is waiting for you upstairs," Eduard said.
Nikolai thanked the Baltic nations as she made her way upstairs to the large doors. She heard Raivis wish her luck from down the stairs. At the door she breathed in and prepared to knock the door, when a voice came.
"The door is open Nikol," Nikolai stopped before she hit the wooden door. She had recognized her new pet name, "Nikol".
Nikolai opened the door to find Ivan in his desk, working as usual. Although this time, on his desk was a map or Europe and his folder of objectives, with three objective country sheets spread on the far end of the desk. The lamp was turned on and illuminated the desk with a bright white light. Scattered around the desk were bottles upon bottles of vodka, most of which were empty.
"Hello, Nikol, glad you could make it in time, I was just about to plan out my troops' movements," Russia smiled his usual smile.
"I see," Nikolai said walking up to the desk. "Estonia said you were waiting for me?"
"Of course," Ivan smiled. "I couldn't plan out my movement plans without you." Nikolai learned since she was young that a smile usually signified that someone was happy. However happiness was the last thing she saw from Ivan's expression. It seemed empty, almost as if... he was closing his eyes to prevent people from looking into them and discovering more of him. The eyes are the doorway to the soul, no?
"So what do you think about our movements?"
"Hm... well, I know you've promised to help Serbia, but I think it's safe to assume Austria will send his troops to Serbia first to claim it, this war was originally between them. One of our objectives is Serbia as well, however Poland at the moment seems to be the objective of the most importance. Knowing Austria-Hungary... they probably put up a large number of troops to Serbia so that we'd have a hard time invading. So I'd say our best bet is to send 4,000 of our 8,000 troops to Poland, and 2,000 to Balkans for now. The Tsar(2) said he will be expecting 10,000 more troops for the next year, so we can take advantage of that and add more troops to Balkans the next year, and the year after that, send the troops in Balkans to Serbia."
"Thus achieving our objectives," Ivan concluded. "Then what about, Germany? I still have to keep my promise with France, now that we're allied."
"For now we should refrain from attacking Germany, since they have a large number of troops in their land at the moment, plus they have Austria-Hungary to back them up. Since we're in the corner of Europe, we're an easy target as Germany is to us and France. It's probably best not to aggravate them and complete our objectives first."
Ivan smiled. "I like how you think, Nikol(3)."
"Why do you call me that?" Nikolai asked.
"Kol kol, why do I call you what? Kol kol kol kol~" Russia chuckled ominously.
Nikolai sighed. "Is there anything else you need? Any more alliances?"
"No I believe with France we can claim this war as ours," Russia smiled. How could he be so sure? Nikolai wondered. "You can go tell the troops now."
"Alright," Nikolai said and left the study. When she met up with the troops she met up with Toris.
"Nikolai, hello, did you get the movement plans from Russia?"
"Yes, are you going with the troops?"
"Yes but please don't worry about me," Toris smiled. "So where to?"
"Two thousand troops to Balkans, two thousand troops stay here, and four thousand troops to Poland."
Nikolai noticed a faint twitch in Toris' eye when she said Poland. Like something in him snapped.
Nico: And that's it for today's chapter!
For first time Hetalia readers:
-Lithuania and Poland are really good friends (Nikolai does not know this though), and that is why he reacts slightly when he is told to invade Poland
Notes:
1. About human names and country names:
-countries usually call each other by their country names (unless there are in a very emotional situation, where they might say their human names)
-the diplomats (at least they all will eventually) call their countries by their human names
2. Yes, Russia's boss at the time was Tsar Nicholas II. I remember in the Bloody Sunday chapter, they used the term Czar. I'm not sure if they're the same thing, just written in English differently, or if they're different like Germany's Kaiser and Führer. If someone can tell me the difference, I'd appreciate it.
3. Nikolai is a boy name. Yes. I originally had two ideas of Russia's diplomat, a boy named Nikolai and a girl named Anya. However, I then realized that Russia's nyotalia (Fem!Russia) name was Anya, and I realized that would be awkward. However, I liked the idea of Russia's diplomat being a girl. So Nikolai is now the female diplomat, with a bit of a boyish attitude. Nikol was my way of making Nikolai punny and a bit more feminine.
-P.S. the male diplomat isn't gone though, he's still in the story. He'll be mentioned... sometime later in this arc (kolkolkol...)
...no translations...
I found something to talk about. Anyone notice Himaruya's blog with all the new (although not official) country names? I was screaming in my head "FINALLY!" I like Belgium and Netherlands' names (although for Netherlands, I pick Abel and Mogens over Tim). And now Hong Kong has a Chinese name (apparently he was called Kaoru before, which was a bit awkward since Kaoru is a Japanese name...) I also noticed there was Switzerland's Nyotalia name... "Adelheid"... Oh dear...
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P.S. due to the new names (no I will not be changing Adelheid's name), I've edited Before the War: Russia, and changed Ukraine's name from Katyusha Braginskaya (I actually really liked that name...) to Irunya Chernenko.
