Here we go, another filler episode. Cause Social Links are the only way we can run this game~!
/= [DAY 16] =/
Charice stretched herself as she stood up from her seat and walked out of the Asia class. She was supposed to work on her Science project that was due two weeks from now, but after a while…she gave up and deciding to think about something else. How about Persona?
She shrugged. The incident that she had with Arthur yesterday was annoying her to say the least. What would he mean that he has a good mental barrier or that he had no secrets to hide? Charice sat down in the garden underneath the tree and stared out into the sky. Sure, if she thought about it, Ludwig had his share of problems didn't he? Two World Wars that apparently almost killed him, separated from his brother for twenty eight years, the cutest Italian in the world stalking him, hell what WOULDN'T be wrong with him?
But the only difference was that everyone knew his issues. Last time she checked, a nation's problems dealt with issues with another guy in secrecy. Unless Ludwig was secretly planning to chop Alfred's head off with a bone saw for revenge on the World Wars, what else could possibly be his problem?
Maybe he just doesn't want to admit that he's secretly and totally gay for Feli-chan.
OK, that's getting somewhere.
"Charice?"
She stood up and what did you know, it's Ludwig in all his Germanness. She shivered at that (phobia with Germans sucks) before deciding that she didn't want to think about it. Charice nodded and stood up, straightening out her uniform to look a little bit presentable.
"What are you doing here?" He asked. "I thought you'd be indoors."
…why? "I decided to go for a walk." She answered. "I like the outdoors. You?"
"I'm studying." That somehow made no sense for her. "I have a test in two days."
"…interesting." Charice blinked. "Then again, what's so bad about studying?"
"Kiku told me that the Asia class had a test in two days as well. Shouldn't you be studying?"
"…I'm fine with it." It's math and simple Algebra. What's so bad about that? "I can ace it."
"Overconfidence is going to be your downfall, Charice."
Someone tell you that during the Second World War? "I study at night, Doitsu-ki."
"…fine. I'm not in charge of you."
"But you're in charge of Feli-chan."
"That's because he can't handle anything by himself." Ludwig leaned against the tree. "It's stressful most of the time."
"Then why do you keep doing it?" She leaned against the tree next to him. "You should tell Feli-chan to at least attempt to handle himself. I mean, he's part of the G8."
"You don't think I've tried?"
"…would I be asking you that if I knew that answer?"
"…I've tried. He still can't do anything, and as a result he's been clinging onto me ever since."
"And looking cuter by the minute."
"Did you say something?"
"No, nothing." She grinned. "But by the look of it, you're not annoyed by it huh?"
"After a few years, you get used to it." He sighed. "Think about it, he's happy as he is now. So why bother going into it?"
Charice folded her arms and nodded as she absorbed the information into her brain. Ludwig had a strange tone of voice when he was talking about Feliciano. Would that mean that he could be jealous of the Italian because of his oblivious personality and the fact that no one can hate him even though he was on his side during the Second World War? Hm…that sounds like a deep secret that reeks of Persona. But no, that can't be it…
"Charice, can I ask you a question?"
"Hm? What is it?"
"Where did you get that sun pin in your hair?"
"Oh, this? I got it when I was a child." She grinned. "I can't remember who gave it to me, though…I have a feeling it was a human, so I'm trying to remember them…"
"A memento of the past…"
It was then that she noticed that he was mumbling something to himself in German (so much for finding out what he was saying). Charice, being the otaku-turned fanwriter that she is, leaned in closer to him in order to hear what he was saying.
"You OK?"
"Yeah…yeah, I'm fine." He rubbed his forehead. "Just something that I was thinking about."
Oh no, really? "Another test?"
"No, it's something else…something small."
"Something…small?" She blinked. "And this is coming from me mentioning a sun pin?"
"…you mentioned how it came from the past, and I just remembered being raised by Gilbert."
Gilbert…Gilbert…Gilbert…who was that guy again?
…
HOLY CRAP!
"Oh, do you know who I'm talking about?"
"Yeah…" Unfortunately.
"He's annoying, but he was the only family I had." He shook his head. "An older brother figure, in a way."
"Wait…I thought you had a bigger family or something. Because you're in Europe, you'd have relatives or something."
"Wish I knew."
Wait a minute.
What did he just say?
"…what?"
"The only relative I know is Gilbert." He answered. "I think I was 12 or 13 at that time."
"And what about the time between age 0 – 12?"
"…I don't know." Ludwig shrugged. "But I was created when my nation was already financially stable, which I guess explains why I don't have a childhood."
Charice stood there for a few minutes, sinking everything in her head. So Ludwig doesn't remember his childhood at all. Arthur's words suddenly appeared in her head: "This man either has a good mental barrier to hold back his problems…or he has none."
No problems…like problems he didn't know he had? Like…amnesia?
…
Does that count as a loophole or was she over thinking this?
Curse her imagination.
"You don't make any sense, Ludwig. A nation can't be created when a country is financially stable." She blinked.
"I guess I'm just a special case."
A special case. When she talked to Antonio back during her colonization days, he had used those words when he was talking about Rizal. Was it just her, or did Ludwig and her brother share some really strange similarities? Or was she reaching her inner psychologist again? Oh well.
"Well…I don't get what you're saying, so I guess I can keep this a secret." Charice shrugged.
"It's fine. It doesn't bother me that much anymore." Ludwig stated.
It was then that the bell started ringing. She jumped at the shock of the bell before she and the German started dashing toward their classes.
/= [DAY 18] =/
During her walk down the hallway, she found herself listening to her new groovy song that she downloaded from the internet (God bless YouTube to MP3 websites). She started shimmying down the hall, making her suddenly in the mood to go back to that Music Club she bumped into god knows how long ago.
"In fact…let's go there now!"
She dashed down toward the Music Club and heard familiar instruments ringing in the air. She didn't bother to knock on the door as she threw the door open and waved to all of them with a grin on her face. Irunya waved back, but Roderich didn't look that happy. It was then that she realized that Lovino was there as well. He turned around and sighed.
"Oh god, you're part of this too?"
"No, of course not! I wanted to drop by, Lovi-kun!"
"It's Lovino."
"Sure, whatever. Anyway, how are you guys?"
"We're doing great, Charice. Thanks for asking." Eduard smiled, fixing around the instruments. "In fact, we have been asked to be in the band for our school musical."
"School…musical?" They actually do something like that to get ordinary people to watch this? "Who's running it?"
"Francis~! He's the one who chose it!" Irunya smiled. "He asked me to be the drum section!"
I bet he did. "What's the show?"
"Les Miserables, if I remember him telling me correctly." Roderich sighed at the piano. "Unfortunately, he's also asked that I audition for the show."
"…you can act, bastard?"
"That's what they assume. And please don't call me that, Lovino." Roderich stated simply, looking away from him.
"Cool…a musical…hey, maybe I should audition for that show…" Charice grinned.
"You might have too. The whole school is going to run it." Roderich said to her. "Everyone's going to have a hand in the show."
"Oh, that's cool! I always wanted to work in a play!" She swooned. "Especially an opera like this."
"But Charice…" Irunya blinked. "It's a musical-"
"No one talks, they all sing, it's an opera." Charice pointed.
"Can you sing?" Roderich asked.
Charice grinned at him before belting out the first few verses of "I Dreamed a Dream" as clearly as she could. Nonetheless, when she stopped, the others were staring at her as if she just pulled magic out of thin air. She sank in her awesomeness for a few minutes.
"That's the Asian blood in me." She answered.
"…that wasn't bad." Lovino sighed. "But you're not getting lead."
"Of course I won't! Does it look like I have the boobs to do so?" Charice asked, grabbed her chest and shocking the men in the room.
"C-Charice!" Roderich blinked. "Don't you have a sense of decency?"
"Of course I do! Otherwise I would've flashed you." She sighed. "I mean, seriously…the uniform is the only indication that I'm a female right now."
"…anyway…" Eduard sighed. "The auditions for the show are supposed to be tomorrow, so from what I heard you should go to the auditorium in the South Wing if you want to get in."
"Thank you, Eduard~!" She winked at Lovino. "You're going to be there, right?"
"W-w-wha-?" He blinked. "What makes you think that I'm going to be there at that stupid audition?"
"Cause you're Italian~! And all Italians have drop dead sexy singing voices!"
"Why don't YOU drop dead, witch?"
"Audition at the show and I might just!"
"DAMMIT WOMAN I OUGHTA-!"
"That's strange…I thought Lovino had respect around women. Maybe Charice is a man."
"Don't think too deep into this, Irunya."
/=+=/
For those of you who hone into characters with good singing voices and suddenly associate them with Mary Sues (I've seen those people before), let me state to you that Charice's good singing voice is a homage to the singer whose name she has taken and also…well, all the main characters in Hetalia can sing anyway. This is basically canon!
Well, the next chapter is going to be auditions, so I won't give you an option on what to choose on the fateful day today. I will, however, tell you to ask me which characters that she should meet in the auditions. If a character gets a Social Link slot (as preordained in the Persona game canon), you're guaranteed a slot in this story as well as the chance to get main character status :D
Oh yeah, you're also free to mention any OC pairings that you think Charice might be good with.