An old idea I could possibly revive someday.
Working Title: My Cup of Tea
Fandom: Hetalia: Axis Powers
Genre Tags: Adventure/General
Length: Multichapter
Protagonist: England
Other Main Characters: The rest of the Allies, possibly Romano and Spain as well.
Antagonist: Usually America. Sometimes the others on the ship.
Plot: Drowning in dull, modern-day paperwork and politics, England wishes for his old pirate life a bit too fervently. The next time he wakes up, he and several others are aboard an old pirate ship with no land in sight and no way to contact anywhere else. The crew tries to survive storms, attacks, and each other as they search for land. Between dwindling rations and the nations slowly reverting to their 17th-century selves one by one, they'd better hurry.
Setting: A wooden pirate ship of some age but decent condition. Most of the story is in open ocean, although a few small islands and (if I'm nice to the crew) a final spot of land are also involved.
Point of View: Third person, omniscient or static.
Because I feel the need to demonstrate that England can, in fact, be awesome, despite the fact that I have a disturbing tendency to kill him off at every opportunity available.
That's not to say plenty of other people haven't written a pirate England fic, probably with a similar premise, but it could be one of those things that, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." And any story is going to be different under a different author, right?
Oooh, I really like the idea of them returning to their 17th-century selves. I don't know if you share this headcanon, but I always figured that, as time went on, the nations become more progressive as do their people, i.e. less racist and sexist, more democratic, less fond of war as a way to solve problems. So if they returned to how they were in the 1600s, they'd have different outlooks on life, some different grudges, etc. America would be just a little kid, and some of them - like Germany, if he's there - might not even be born yet. That'd all be really cool to see. And don't worry about not being the first to write a pirate England fic - you're quite right that "any story is going to be different under a different author." I doubt you were the first to write Hetalia/Hunger Games FanFiction either, and we all know how well that turned out.
ReplyDeleteThat was actually a last-minute addition, since I wanted to keep the setup but couldn't imagine England easily reverting back to his pirate self. And America reverting to colony mode would be an interesting plot point, or something.
DeleteYeah, sounds like a reasonable headcanon. I guess I'm sort of the same, although you're better at being specific in fleshing it out, aha.
I can't remember whether there were one or two of those crossovers when I got there. Haven't found any HG/Shakespeare ones yet, though~