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Hetalia kink meme part 27

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It didn't take America long to understand why Prussia didn't like dealing with Austria. Where Prussia was all military efficiency when he wasn't trying to distract or confuse people, Austria was every inch the aristocrat. America had thought England was bad when it came to rank and title and every little gesture meaning something – Austria made the old man look positively egalitarian.

Several of his tribes would have claimed Coyote had made the two nations so different for the fun he could have watching them clash. That wouldn't have been so bad except it left America in the position of smoothing ruffled feathers, something he did very badly – especially if you asked Canada – and distracting both nations before they could splinter the Central Powers.

America played dumb – he'd started out with the yokel act so he might as well keep it going – and clueless. Really, really clueless. That mostly kept Austria from sniping at Prussia since with America taking his sarcastic observations as literal, the explaining that followed got more than a little painful.

By the time he convinced Austria to look at the map with the proposed changes, America's face hurt from keeping the big bright smile pasted on.

Austria's frown didn't help. "You expect me to relinquish my perfectly valid claim for justice from the Serbians?"

America notched his smile up a little brighter. "It's a starting point, y'know?" He spread his hands. "See, you'd get a fair amount in return – undisputed control in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as Russian Poland. That gives you a good sized coastline and good farmland. What's not to like?"

Austria's lips tightened. "That lout Serbia killed my Crown Prince."

America grinned. "Ya think he's going to like going back to Ottoman?" he asked. "See, he gets caught between you, Russia, and Ottoman. Of the three of y'all, Ottoman's least unhappy with him. He's gonna need someone to keep the big players off him, or he gets split between all y'all."

The other nation frowned as he thought, one gloved finger tracing the borders drawn on the map. "How will Russia take this?"

Well, Russia was a threat to anyone who shared a border with him. You had to be careful of an empire that big. "He gets Romania, undisputed claim over the Finns, and help putting down all the revolts he's got in his land." America chose not to mention the other big advantage Russia would get: access to the best medical facilities for his sick prince. "Plus, the reforms all y'all are gonna be making are gonna help keep things stable."

"Reforms." Austria's tone should have frozen something.

America kept the big smile on. "Well, yeah. Y'all are falling apart so bad even we've noticed back home. If there ain't no change to how things are done, everything's gonna fall apart, and you'll wind up with no empire, or part of someone else's."

Austria's eyes narrowed and his lips pressed together in a thin line.

America pretended not to have seen that and kept on talking. "If y'all make some simple reforms, agreeing to let your client states manage their own internal business and be themselves and all, you'll buy yourself time to stabilize stuff, save yourself a whole lot of boring paperwork, and get a whole lot of goodwill out of the deal. And y'all get more time for your piano – what's not to like?"

Prussia – who stood to the side where Austria had to turn to see his face – was trying really hard not to laugh.

Austria's frown turned thoughtful. "Your proposal requires these 'reforms' I presume." He wasn't asking.

"Well, duh." America spread his hands. "It's way more efficient, ya know? Towns look after their stuff, and the stuff that's bigger than the town gets handled by districts or states. States do their stuff, and so on. And people figure they're part of it all if you let them choose who represents them at all the different levels. It's working real well everywhere that's done it." He didn't mention that he'd been the first to really set up that kind of representative democracy. The line between obnoxious and useful, and obnoxious and getting kicked out of Austria's study was kind of fine right now.

The way Austria glared said that he might have overstepped anyhow. "You think you can just impose your ridiculous egalitarianism on my people?"

"No way, man!" America let a bit of a whine into his voice. "You get to decide the best way to make this work with your people, and how quick or slow you introduce it. See, no matter how you set it up, your client states are still gonna see it as an improvement on you ruling them, but you're still the one who's doing all the international stuff and guiding your Empire's direction."

"I presume I will not be the only one bound to this... requirement?" The silky tone warned America this was a dangerous topic and he'd better not say Austria would be the only empire who had to reform.

Just as well America had figured all of them needed to do this if they wanted to keep their territories. "Nah, of course not." He spread his hands in a gesture that was more expansive than conciliatory. "Ottoman and Russia and Germany will all be doing the same thing. England's already doing it, so there's no need to change anything there, and France doesn't really have much any more, but he's going to have to make some changes with his possessions too."

Austria's shoulders relaxed a little. "So all the empires will be required to reform to some extent."

"Yeah." America ratcheted the bright smile a little further, even though it hurt. "It's the only way you can keep a really diverse empire – or nation – together short of stomping so hard you'll lose it the moment you let up the pressure."

"And this is your idea?" Austria asked. "I'll have no part of anything proposed by that -" He indicated Prussia with a flicking gesture. "- sorry excuse for a nation."

For a moment so brief America wouldn't have noticed if he hadn't been looking that way, Prussia looked hurt, even sickened, then Prussia's usual mask was back. Not that the white-haired nation said anything: he was clearly letting America play this round his way.

America just raised an eyebrow. "Prussia is the best strategist in the world," he pointed out. "Naturally I consulted him on this, with Germany's permission, of course."

That got him a confused look, reminding him he'd let the happy idiot mask slip.

He put it back, fast, and went on, "Germany's the one whose idea it is, because he's smart enough to see how bad this is hurting everyone." Which was both rather less than entirely true and something of a slap to Austria. "He asked me to help, and we worked on the plan together."

I really like this. The starting paragraph especially, as well as all the political talk. I love that, and all the thought you put into it. :D

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Hetalia kink meme part 27

Re: Germany and America - WWI AU - The War to End All Wars 6 of ?

Re: Germany and America - WWI AU - The War to End All Wars 6 of ?