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On today's menu: 29 - Happiness and 86 - Through the Flames
... these are not happy ficlets, guys. I'm warning you now.
DISCLAIMER: Be GLAD I don't own Hetalia.
I also don't own The Beatles, though I do recommend listening to their song Happiness is a Warm Gun, as done by Joe Anderson in Across the Universe.
XXIX: Happiness
Characters/Pairings: America
Genre: Angst. Horror?
Rating: T+
Warnings: Mentions of Drug abuse, language, and The Vietnam War - this implies nasty things. Dead things. Disturbing things.
I need a fix, 'cause I'm goin' down…
He's watched his boys burn the forests down, watched them mow down rows of people. Seen the effects of Agent Orange on both the jungle and the human populace. Felt the terror of a surprise attack, the aching loss of a team; the horror of seeing his boys get blown up so bad the only way anybody could identify them was their tags – and sometimes not even that.
Lying wide awake while his hands are busy working overtime…
He fears he'll go back the same way they did – FUBAR. Scarred both internally and externally.
The only thing keeping him somewhat sane was knowing that those damn commies couldn't get him if he got them first. Because happiness is a warm gun.
Bang bang, shoot shoot
LXXXIX: Through the Fire
Characters/Pairings: Japan, America, mentions of OC!Hawaii
Genre: Angst
Rating: T (just to be safe)
Warnings: End of WWII - yes, that means the A-Bombs. Potentially inaccurate history.
August, 1945
Kiku is burning.
It is his punishment, he supposes, for trespassing in Kami-sama's realm. For playing god with sweet little Hawaii-chan, for hurting one of America-san's little girls.
Through the flames, Kiku sees America-san's face – apologetic, because he didn't know exactly how much damage his "Little Boy" and "Fat Man" would do to Kiku, but at the same time not in the least bit sorry.
You deserved it, his eyes seem to say.
Kiku can't help but agree with him.
A/N:
29: FUBAR - Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition. I believe this originated during the Vietnam War, though I can't be certain.
Agent Orange - An Herbicide widely used during the Vietnam War. It effectively burned entire jungles down, and has had some very, very nasty effects on people - cancer, deformities in children of Vietnamese people and veterans, etc.
If you want more information about said war, please look it up. I... I can't do it justice here. At all. Nor am I going to try.
The lyrics, as I mentioned before, are taken from the Beatles song, Happiness is a Warm Gun, about this very same subject. If you didn't initially listen to the version I suggested, I recommend that highly. Or just watch the whole movie, it's up to you.
86:
August, 1945 - "Little Boy" was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945; "Fat Boy" was dropped on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. The Japanese surrendered completely on August 15, 1945.
... Japan wouldn't be doing too well after all this, and I imagine that he, as a person, would feel terrible after what he did. He might not have felt terrible initially doing it, but afterward...
Playing God... with Hawaii: Referencing the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Now, before you freak out on me about Hawaii, let me explain.
It's my personal belief that the states were found, not born through... various means, or whatever. Some of them were "bought" from other people - France, Spain, and Russia come to mind - while others he won from wars (see: Texas, New Mexico), and... yeah.
Alfred has kind-of (unofficially) adopted all of the states/territories/whatever-else-their-is, but he lets them do their own thing, for the most part. If somebody messes with one of his "little girls"... it doesn't end well. For anyone. He is the Overprotective Daddy to the extreme.
... why are my notes longer than the acutal drabbles. WHY.
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