"the internet killed the video star "
[インターネットがビデオスターを殺した]
an aph facebook fanfiction
DISCLAIMER:
Don't own Hetalia. You should already be well aware of that.
I also don't own the title. I got that from the song "The Internet Killed the Video Star".
Not much else to say, except enjoy.
Well, okay. One more thing: since writing my reviews tends to take up a LOT of words and gives me four thousand-word chapters when the story itself is actually about two thousand, I've got an idea. Instead of posting my responses here, I'll PM them unless it's an anon review.
... Wait, not yet done.
Because I have the slight tendency to hint at or reveal things, what I'm going to do instead is post a little summary of what I said to them so that way the rest of you don't miss something important AND you don't have to read through EVERY review wondering what I said. It's easier that way.
lalliely's review was mostly about her request for AmeriPan: which is most definitely fulfilled in chapter 34, although she did wonder if Yong-Soo was going to be okay due to his run-in with General/Nachalo. Don't worry too much, kay? ;)
(See? I like this already...)
chapter thirty-three :: sing me to sleep [emily browning]
- monday, september 21st
(Mobile) Lovino Vargas: Arthur Kirkland. You better be at your damn house.
[Peter Kirkland likes this]
(Mobile) Arthur Kirkland: ... Why?
Lovino Vargas: ... W-Why? Did you fucking forget ALREADY?!
[Feliks Lukasiewicz likes this]
Arthur Kirkland: ... Forget what?
[Brynja Stilesson likes this]
Lovino Vargas: ARTHUR. WHAT THE HELL.
Arthur Kirkland: Ah... of course. We were going out tonight, NOW I remember.
[Feliciano Vargas likes this]
Lovino Vargas: ... I hate you, jackass. I'll be there in two minutes.
Arthur Kirkland: You shouldn't be Facebooking me and DRIVING, nitwit. Honestly. Have you got a scone in place of a brain?
[Lule Adnan likes this]
Lovino Vargas: Just shut up if you want to live. :\
Arthur Kirkland: Really... Are you hear to pick me up or to mow my lawn, Vargas?
[Adrian Kirkland likes this]
Lovino Vargas: Would you rather have me mow your lawn or mow you over? Pick one.
[Elizabeta Hedervary likes this]
Arthur Kirkland: Can I take a third option?
[Kiku Honda likes this]
Lovino Vargas: GET. IN. MY. CAR.
Arthur Kirkland: I'm fixing my hair, hold on a minute...
Lovino Vargas: That bleached loon's nest you call hair is BEYOND HELP. Now GET - THE HELL - IN.
Arthur Kirkland: Bleached loon's nest? I could come up with a better insult on my deathbed.
[Jeanette Bonnefoy likes this]
Lovino Vargas: That's it.
Arthur Kirkland: You SODDING WANKER. Come anywhere near me and I will SHOVE that scone you use for a brain UP. YOUR. ASS.
[Feliciano Vargas and 8 others like this]
Lovino Vargas: You are such a little bitch, just shut up and deal.
Lovino Vargas: AND YOUR HAIR'S FINE.
Arthur Kirkland: Alright, I'm coming, I'm coming...
[Feliciano Vargas likes this]
Feliciano Vargas: :3 I bet you A~R~E~
[Adrian Kirkland and 8 others like this]
Lovino Vargas: GET OFF MY DAMN WALL. DX
Arthur Kirkland: IDIOT. YOU'RE DRIVING. =_=
Berwald Oxenstierna || Ludwig Beilschmidt: ... Is Tino with Feliciano today?
Ludwig Beilschmidt: Ja, he is... misplaced him or something?
Berwald Oxenstierna: I was talking to him over Skype and he suddenly vanished, and I started to worry...
Ludwig Beilschmidt: You have nothing to worry about. He's in good hands.
Berwald Oxenstierna: ... Although I wonder if they're actually studying...
Ludwig Beilschmidt: Sigh. I doubt it.
Berwald Oxenstierna: Well, I suppose I'll finish this later, it's giving me a headache...
Ludwig Beilschmidt: ?
Berwald Oxenstierna: The study guide for this chapter's exam. I haven't found half of these answers yet.
Ludwig Beilschmidt: You're looking in the book, aren't you. The book doesn't help, the answers are mostly in his lectures.
Berwald Oxenstierna: So the entire class is destined to fail, because I doubt anyone actually listens to him.
Ludwig Beilschmidt: Exactly. If I visit you, I could help you locate the answers. Is that alright with you?
Berwald Oxenstierna: Sure. ... See you in twenty.
(Mobile) Gilbert Beilschmidt: HOME ALONE~ - With Hendrik van der Meer and Adrian Kirkland.
Jeanette Bonnefoy: That is NOT alone Gilbert. That is most certainly not alone.
Gilbert Beilschmidt: Well, Hendrik isn't here YET. He should be here in like, five minutes tops. Adrian is though!
(Mobile) Ludwig Beilschmidt: Don't make me regret leaving you two alone. -_-
Jeanette Bonnefoy: I see nothing regrettable about leaving Adrian alone with Gilbert, Ludwig...
Adrian Kirkland: Of course you don't, lass. Of course you don't. xD
(Mobile) Hendrink van der Meer: That awkward moment when you go over your friend's house and they're in the middle of a condom-throwing war.
[Gilbert Beilschmidt and 12 others like this]
Adrian Kirkland: He started it!
Jeanette Bonnefoy: That's right, Gil, take initiative~
[Antonio Carriedo and 1 other like this]
(Mobile) Arthur Kirkland: The second like says it all.
Matilda Williams: ... What are you talking about now, Arthur?
Adrian Kirkland: I see it! XD
Matilda Williams: I just liked a comment. -_-
[Hendrik van der Meer and 3 others like this]
Gilbert Beilschmidt: You should have moved! I was throwing them at Ludwig!
Feliciano Vargas: ... Why~?
Gilbert Beilschmidt: Because he said he was going to Berwald's house so I chucked a few at him. He always tells ME I need to stay safe, and so does he! :D
[Jeanette Bonnefoy and 2 others like this]
Feliciano Vargas: Silly Gilly, that's not what he means!
Adrian Kirkland: NICKNAME. ACQUIRED.
Gilbert Beilschmidt: Gottverdammit, WHY?!
Feliciano Vargas: :D
Matilda Williams || (Mobile) Arthur Kirkland: Arthur, really? That's not necessary!
Arthur Kirkland: It is. Honestly, I don't see what's taking you so long to admit it.
Matilda Williams: It's not exactly easy to bring up in conversation...
Arthur Kirkland: Well, you had no problem telling me.
Matilda Williams: You said it first! That, and... he's kind of intimidating.
Arthur Kirkland: And I'm not?
Matilda Williams: Not anymore, now that I actually know you... but you were.
Arthur Kirkland: Matilda, you dated Hendrik didn't you? For a short while? If that isn't be able to handle intimidation, I'm not entirely sure what else is.
Matilda Williams: Still easier said than done! And besides, why are you giving me advice when you can't listen to it yourself?
Arthur Kirkland: What do you mean?
Matilda Williams: How are you solving your dilemma? You're out at a theme park with Lovino Vargas. That's not handling it, that's running, Arthur. I thought that was something you would never do.
Arthur Kirkland: It's an extremely complex, situation, Matilda... it needs to be handled delicately and I'm terrified I'll louse it all up in some way.
Matilda Williams: But you're not handling it at all. You've just left it there to roll off and shatter on its own. You're really smart, Arthur and you're a great strategist. You can make it work out for the best, I know it.
Arthur Kirkland: ...
Arthur Kirkland: Alright, now I have to see you. Busy tomorrow?
Matilda Williams: I shouldn't be. Where do you want to meet?
Arthur Kirkland: Your house?
Matilda Williams: Sure. :)
Feliciano Vargas || Brynja Stilesson: Report?
Brynja Stilesson: Remember that movie date Andersen and I had planned? Maiken IS going after all.
Feliciano Vargas: Really?
Brynja Stilesson: Yeah. Concidentally, that will also be the day I'll have a wardrobe crisis and have to be very fashionably late...
Feliciano Vargas: Ooh, you're good~
Brynja Stilesson: So. Anything else for today?
Feliciano Vargas: Got a hot date for tonight, Brynja...?
Brynja Stilesson: ... Why?
Feliciano Vargas: Ve. No reason...~ XD
Brynja Stilesson: O_o
(Mobile) Brynja Stilesson || Amelia F. Jones: A-Amelia...?
Amelia F. Jones: Hey Bryn! What's up?
Brynja Stilesson: I... Ineedyoutogoonadatewithme.
Amelia F. Jones: ... Whu-huh?
Amelia F. Jones: Wait, wait, wait... Brynja. Brynja Valdis Stilesson. Are you asking me out?
Brynja Stilesson: I'll explain when I get there. Just... can you?
Amelia F. Jones: Um... yeah, sure... why, did Maiken say no?
Brynja Stilesson: I - I didn't ask.
Amelia F. Jones: Did Xiang say no?
Brynja Stilesson: ... You're the first person I asked, Amelia...
Amelia F. Jones: O_O
Amelia F. Jones: Um, okay... I'll see you in a little bit, then?
Brynja Stilesson: Y-Yeah. Sure.
(Mobile/Mobile) Amelia F. Jones || Brynja Stilesson: Seriously? THAT'S why you asked me out?
Brynja Stilesson: You don't mind, do you?
Amelia F. Jones: Nope! I love the boardwalk... although why we have to spy on Arthur with his boy toy is beyond me.
Brynja Stilesson: ... You don't like it, do you?
Amelia F. Jones: Not really... I mean, Arthur can do what he wants but I seriously don't enjoy the fact that they're... whatever they are.
Amelia F. Jones: It's so weird... I feel all incest-y because I've known the guy for FOREVER, he grew up with me, and I've always said he's like my brother, and... I don't know, it's just weird, Bryn.
Amelia F. Jones: ... You're there, right? 'Cause I hate rambling to myself.
Brynja Stilesson: I think this is your neighborhood, isn't it?
Amelia F. Jones: Hang on, I see a person by a spotlight. Looks like you. I'mma check through my binoculars~
Brynja Stilesson: I see you in the window.
Amelia F. Jones: ... Yeah ... I see you too. Nice, um. Nice dress.
Brynja Stilesson: Maiken forced me into it. I feel like a present... look at this bow. It's huge and stupid and on my head. -_-
Amelia F. Jones: I think it's adorable. Honest.
Brynja Stilesson: Glad you do. I certainly don't.
Amelia F. Jones: Alright, well, I'm ready when you are...
(Mobile) Amelia F. Jones || Elizabeta Hedervary: I need your help. Big time.
Elizabeta Hedervary: Sure, what's up?
Amelia F. Jones: Okay. Brynja and I are going to the boardwalk right? And um... she's freaking adorable.
Elizabeta Hedervary: I'm not understanding you...
Amelia F. Jones: Guys, Eliza. I. LIKE. GUYS. But... she's... majorly distracting...
Elizabeta Hedervary: Hang on, just a second Lia... I'll be right back. :)
Elizabeta Hedervary || Feliciano Vargas: FELICIANO! Your recon mission turned into a side project! :D
Feliciano Vargas: O_O How?
Elizabeta Hedervary: Amelia's totally having a schoolgirl crush moment on Brynja. RIGHT. NOW.
Feliciano Vargas: See~? I told Brynja she was sexy in that dress!
Elizabeta Hedervary: Send reinforcements?
Feliciano Vargas: On it!
Feliciano Vargas || Kiku Honda: Honda~ Grab your camera. :D
Kiku Honda: Your wish is my command, Feli-kun. ^^
(Mobile) Arthur Kirkland: What the hell is Honda doing here?
(Mobile) Kiku Honda: It is simply good fortune that brings us to the same place, Aiku.
[Lule Adnan and 8 otherslike this]
Arthur Kirkland: Well, it's nice to have someone sane around...
(Mobile) Lovino Vargas: ... Jerkass. For that, you owe me a ride on The Blue Falcon.
Arthur Kirkland: How many times did I say no?
Lovino Vargas: Sorry. No's not in my vocabulary.
Arthur Kirkland: Oh really...
Arthur Kirkland: Want to have sex with me?
[Feliciano Vargas and 18 others like this]
Mei Wang: That's an offer you can't refuse!
Feliciano Vargas: Literally~!
[Mei Wang and 13 others like this]
Lovino Vargas: ...
Elizabeta Hedervary: Say it...
(Mobile) Feliks Lukasiewicz: Like, come on already Lovi!
Antonio Carriedo: NO.
[Elizabeta Hedervary and 10 others like this]
Ivan Braginski: ^ Cock-blocked. :D
[Amelia F. Jones and 7 others like this]
Lovino Vargas: O-Of course I was going to say no! W-What the hell else were you freaks THINKING? S-S-Stupid fuckers...
Kiku Honda: ... That you would say yes?
[Feliciano Vargas and 18 others like this]
(Mobile) Brynja Stilesson: Is on The Blue Falcon with Arthur, Amelia, Kiku and Lovino.
[Maiken Bondevik and 14 others like this]
(Mobile) Arthur Kirkland: I hate you, Lovino.
(Mobile) Lovino Vargas: Don't say shit you don't mean then!
Arthur Kirkland: Now who said I didn't mean that?
[Feliciano Vargas and 7 others like this]
Feliciano Vargas: This is so amazing right now I could squeal...!
Tino Vainamoinen: You are squealing. ^_^
(Mobile) Lovino Vargas: Didn't know people could turn that shade of green...
[Adrian Kirkland and 6 others like this]
Lovino Vargas: Ow! Bastard! He kicked me! He'd talk if he wasn't hurling everything he's eaten today.
Lovino Vargas: ... I'mma check on him... just in case. So he doesn't choke... and die, or some stupid shit like that...
[Brynja Stilesson and 8 others like this]
(Mobile) Brynja Stilesson || Feliciano Vargas: He just bolted off to go check on Arthur.
Feliciano Vargas: Excellent~
Brynja Stilesson: Kiku's recording it on his camera so he can show the rest of CA later too.
Feliciano Vargas: Ve... Sorry! I got so happy I fell out of the chair~ That's amazing!
(Mobile/Mobile) Amelia F. Jones || Lovino Vargas: The hell is taking you two so long?
Lovino Vargas: Nothing, Arthur's just got to get his bearings back together...
Amelia F. Jones: ... Mm-hm.
(Mobile) Kiku Honda: ... They really went in there...
(Mobile) Feliks Lukasiewicz: Um, went in where, Kiku?
Kiku Honda: Ame-chan figured that the two of them were taking way too long in the men's bathroom... so she grabbed Brynja and dragged her in there with her to see what they were actually doing.
Adrian Kirkland: Find anything? XD
Kiku Honda: Sadly, no... except Lovino's unwavering concern, which is rather touching.
[Feliciano Vargas and 8 others like this]
Feliciano Vargas: Okay, I'mma roll around on the floor in happiness now, ve~
Feliciano Vargas is now friends with Romano Lotario.
(Mobile) Lovino Vargas: Feli, who is that?
Feliciano Vargas: He's my special FB friend~!
Feliciano Vargas || Romano Lotario: It's September 21st, and I made you today, Romano~! You're like my Internet diary since I'm on Facebook a lot anyway and hiding an actual diary in this house is just asking for it, ve.
Feliciano Vargas: You're my Secret Keeper, okay~? So if I have something to say, you can't tell everyone. It's just between us. All you have to do is listen and not tell, that's not hard is it, Roma? I named you after my grandfather and I named you after him, because they can't talk to me any longer and you still can. You'll be them for me.
Feliciano Vargas: I think this is the start of a beautiful friendship Roma-Lota...!
(Mobile) Amelia F. Jones: GODDAMNIT!
[Lovino Vargas and 11 others like this]
(Mobile) Lovino Vargas: You're not hurt or anything are you?!
Amelia F. Jones: o_o You're paranoid, bro. Arthur got you all nervous or something?
Lovino Vargas: N-No!
Elizabeta Hedervary: Liar! We can tell from here!
[Peter Kirkland and 15 others like this]
Amelia F. Jones: And no, I'm not...
(Mobile) Arthur Kirkland: Then what is it?
Amelia F. Jones: Just, home... I want to go home, Arthur Kirkland, take me home. Now. Please.
Lovino Vargas: Well, excuse me Princess. You want us to drop what we're doing and escort you around like we're your fucking drivers?
Amelia F. Jones: ... You know what Lovino, fuck you. I'll walk home.
Arthur Kirkland: Are you serious right now, Lovino? She's obviously upset and you don't have to be such a little bitch to everyone.
Lovino Vargas: I'm NOT a little bitch, jackass! I was going to say that it was FINE - she FUCKING overreacted!
Arthur Kirkland: Keep telling yourself that. Amelia, wait a second, I'll drive you back.
Lovino Vargas: ... Wait, where did Brynja go?
Amelia F. Jones: She left, okay? She. FUCKING. Left. And fine. I'm heading towards the pier anyway.
Arthur Kirkland: Alright... you can stay if you want, Lovino.
Lovino Vargas: Shut up. I'm coming too, wanker.
Andersen Densen: What's wrong with my baby? :(
[Adrian Kirkland likes this]
Tino Vainamoinen: ?
Feliciano Vargas: Ve, what's going on? I haven't heard from Brynja in a while...
Andersen Densen: Dunno... she won't talk to Maiken and the girl's been trying for hours. And NO one's heard from Amelia, Arthur and Lovino. Whatever went down at that boardwalk went DOWN.
Feliciano Vargas: And Kiku's completely confused. He leaves the group for five minutes to go see a performer, he comes back and he's already missed it. But I haven't heard from him since then.
(Mobile) Hendrik van der Meer: And Gilbert and I were talking to Matilda just a few moments before Amelia came home, and we haven't heard a thing from her since then. She's still online, she just never came back and we've been staring at the screen waiting for her too. Gilbert's starting to freak.
Feliciano Vargas: And I thought I was going to be able to get a normal amount of sleep tonight...
This chapter contains so much foreshadowing in it, it's ridiculous. I almost can't explain why it's foreshadowing because I'll spoil the story, but I'll tell you what is foreshadowing. (There is ONE thing I can't mention however...)
First, Roma-Lota. Romano Lotario is Feliciano's Facebook diary, which he'll use from time-to-time and because EXTREMELY important in his arc, All I Ever Wanted. Roma-Lota is a diary, and yet he's probably the third most important character in that entire arc. Honestly. And I know that a lot of people use Romulus as a name from Grandpa Rome, however, I always had this little head canon about Feliciano giving him an Italian version of the name to call him by, just like how Amelia gave Matilda her name, which is Romano. The reason Lovino/South Italy takes the name Italy Romano is in respect for his grandfather. Once I get to the Italies on my head canon section on my profile, I'll have it spelled out in detail.
Second, Berwald suddenly being friendly with Ludwig. Not only was this requested of me (several times, I think), but Berwald and Ludwig both have someone they deeply care about heading into a dangerous situation in two seperate arcs, so their bonding now will just be strengthened later.
Third, the reason why Arthur and Lovino seem so constantly ticked off with the other one in this one... well, if you had to deal with someone as equally stubborn as you are, you'd grow quite annoyed. Both of them have a temper? Even more of an issue. While I do love the relationship between the two, it can turn VERY quickly into a Masochism Tango a la Greece and Turkey and those types of relationships aren't exactly healthy... and this is showing that.
Fourth, Brynja and Amelia. This has been requested of me numerous times, but realizing that I've already set up Amelia has being straight, this added a possibility I couldn't ignore. And won't, as you'll see next chapter. The beginning may be serious, but the ending will be much more light-hearted, as will the chapters after it... right up until the mini-party arc, which is going to be listed the second I post this.
Fifth, Brynja herself. The dress in itself is foreshadowing, and I'll leave it at that - it gives away too much. But holy cow: This chapter is FILLED with it.
See you next chapter then~
Arthur Kirkland: If Dalca hasn't scared you off with the massive wall of text of course...
... Don't you have an Italian to woo? -_-
... Exactly, Arthur. Exactly. XD