I also love how he's 'bullied' by his 'sons'. Oh England, you old softie, you. You suck at being a curmudgeon.
(I kinda understand why England is like that with America. Because, yeah, revolution. It's still a bit hard to let go and be on easy terms with someone that you feel threw your love back to your face)
Ahahaha. I giggled a bit at that scene with Canada calling England about America and France being there (hah, those two are so divorced/married), and you could just feel the 'I told you so' in the air.
I had my heart in my throat in that scene where he simply just stops fighting all his instincts and drops all his pretenses looks for America, lets his concern for him take over. I found oddly fitting he's find him in the attic, with those toy soldiers. Oh America.
And finally we have America. I have told you how I love your America, and I will say it again. I love him. I love the way you write him. I love him here being the son, the big brother, the friend, the child, the soldier, the man, the nation.
His scenes with his brothers are my favorite. I love him being the big brother, the camaraderie he has with his siblings. It's an aspect of him we rarely see.
I love dealing with his guilt -- guilt over not being there earlier, of not knowing, of bombing Japan. He's so hard on himself (and he gets that from you know who); its sometime easy to forget that America is like this a lot, that beneath all that optimism and cheer and silliness is someone who takes thing to heart so much and is serious and sincere. There are so many moments I just simply want to hug him (and yell at England to stop being a repressed JERK). He breaks my heart in this so so much.
I understand why he feels so bad with England talking to him at times about Japan or the war; I'm sure England didn't mean it, but it makes him feel more guilty. And how so like him to try to deal with all of it alone (oh, I can't help but think how like England he was in that moment. Figures it takes one of similar temperament to snap him out of the damn thing). I really wept at that, America being alone. Because that's the one thing he hates the most, I think, being alone. Canada has France and England, Australia and Zea has England, but he's all alone.
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Re: extensive comment part 3 (i'm so so sooorrrrryyyy)
Date: 2009-07-11 05:01 am (UTC)(I kinda understand why England is like that with America. Because, yeah, revolution. It's still a bit hard to let go and be on easy terms with someone that you feel threw your love back to your face)
Ahahaha. I giggled a bit at that scene with Canada calling England about America and France being there (hah, those two are so divorced/married), and you could just feel the 'I told you so' in the air.
I had my heart in my throat in that scene where he simply just stops fighting all his instincts and drops all his pretenses looks for America, lets his concern for him take over. I found oddly fitting he's find him in the attic, with those toy soldiers. Oh America.
And finally we have America. I have told you how I love your America, and I will say it again. I love him. I love the way you write him. I love him here being the son, the big brother, the friend, the child, the soldier, the man, the nation.
His scenes with his brothers are my favorite. I love him being the big brother, the camaraderie he has with his siblings. It's an aspect of him we rarely see.
I love dealing with his guilt -- guilt over not being there earlier, of not knowing, of bombing Japan. He's so hard on himself (and he gets that from you know who); its sometime easy to forget that America is like this a lot, that beneath all that optimism and cheer and silliness is someone who takes thing to heart so much and is serious and sincere. There are so many moments I just simply want to hug him (and yell at England to stop being a repressed JERK). He breaks my heart in this so so much.
I understand why he feels so bad with England talking to him at times about Japan or the war; I'm sure England didn't mean it, but it makes him feel more guilty. And how so like him to try to deal with all of it alone (oh, I can't help but think how like England he was in that moment. Figures it takes one of similar temperament to snap him out of the damn thing). I really wept at that, America being alone. Because that's the one thing he hates the most, I think, being alone. Canada has France and England, Australia and Zea has England, but he's all alone.