Family Ties Question and Answer Round 1!

[hellzabeth]

Family Ties has officially hit 40 chapters! *streamers and party poppers*

In celebration of this momentous occasion (read as: the proof that I truly have no life and don't particularly care) and also because this whole story is far too big for me, the author, to handle, I am standing myself voluntarily in front of the firing squad. By which I mean, you are all allowed to let rip and ask any questions you want!

To make this more fun, you can even ask questions of certain characters, such as "Hey Wales, what was the poker incident of 1972?" or "Hey North Korea, why are you such a crazy psycho and who's bright idea was it to give you nukes?" or "Russia, when the hell are you actually going to tell us what you're planning?"

Or you have the regular flavor of "Hey Pidge, were you aware of [insert treaty name here which invalidates a point in the story] or are you just purposefully ignoring it?" or "Oi you, the world-destroying psycho, what the fuck compelled you to do that to Scotland?" or "What are you smoking and where can I get some?"

Fire away, and most importantly, have fun!

Comments

[poisonedhotcake.livejournal.com]

I got all excited when I read this!!... but then I realized I don't actually have any good questions right now >.>

So I'll go with the obvious and ask Russia: Is there a method to your madness?!?

[hellzabeth.livejournal.com]

Russia: [Nods cheerfully, smiling.] There is, but if I told you I would have to kill you, da? And that would be such a shame~!

[nenamoo.livejournal.com]

I think you saw this coming

China. WHY?!

[hellzabeth.livejournal.com]

China: Why what, aru?

[nenamoo.livejournal.com]

Siding with Russia in the first place and beating up your siblings. >(

[hellzabeth.livejournal.com]

China: I sided with Russia because it was beneficial to me at the time aru. I had no intention of hurting my siblings aru. It was they who joined the other side and fought against me aru.

Besides which it was the choice of my Boss, not me. I don't think I can summon the energy to care aru. (Though it is rather typical of Japan to chose the opposite side to the one I am on aru.)

[fallenxembers17.livejournal.com]

China and Russia, why such asshats?

OH AND SINCE YOU BROUGHT IT UP... Hey Wales, what was the poker incident of 1972?

[hellzabeth.livejournal.com]

China: How rude aru.
Russia: is our nature, da?
China: don't just admit to it aru!!

Wales: [Flushes a dark red.] I, uh, well, there was a lot of alcohol involved and... uh, it's best left buried deep, deep in my memories where it will not be found ever again next question please.

[fallenxembers17.livejournal.com]

Embittered by time, eh? How sad. =|


Oh, but Wales, would you prefer I, oh, asked your sister or something? Surely someone else could make it much more embarrassing than it really is. C'mon, tell me!

[hellzabeth.livejournal.com]

Russia: oya? I am not sad, I am happy, da? Or did you not hear me laughing?
China: I think the whole world heard you aru.
Russia: Then I am confused. Why is person saying I am embittered? Ah! They must mean you~!
China: ... yes, of course. [Facepalm.]

Wales: [aksskdjs] Don't do that, oh god, don't do that! She'd kill you and then me because we all promised never to speak of it again for as long as we all live. [Checks behind him.] Though, uh, it involved a lot of bare skin and a bet nobody should have made when we were that drunk.

[lovelylurker.livejournal.com]

It's really hard to think of questions when you ask for people to think of questions.

So.

What are you secretly hoping that people ask about?

Otherwise I just demand to know what kind of underwear all of the male nations wear.

[hellzabeth.livejournal.com]

Huh, what am I hoping? Idk, I never thought of that. You guys can see holes in the story that I can't.

Underwear wise, everyone wears what's expected of them in their country? There are like 100 male Nations or more dude, too many just to list. >> Scotland goes "traditional" under his kilt though. England and Wales are boxer boys, same with Northern Ireland. Ireland is prepared to smack me for asking. >>

I need sleep

[millesettecento.livejournal.com]

I want to ask something!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
But someone already asked...

So let's settle for something else entirely random.... Just how old Northern Ireland should look like?

And am.. Does any of the guys can cook properly? If not, how did they survived this long?

/goes to sleep

*pets and snuggles*

[hellzabeth.livejournal.com]

Northern Ireland looks to be in his late teens, where as England looks 25, as does Wales, and Scotland looks 27. Ireland thinks it's very rude to ask a woman's age like that but she looks 28-ish *is hit over the head* ow!

Eh, they all like to think they can cook and can stomach each other's food. Though Scotland is banned from doing anything with sheep guts while Wales is eating with them, he's usually pretty okay, as long as you don't mind dying from heart attack because he deep-fries EVERYTHING. Ireland's actually pretty decent at cooking especially with potatoes and North's inherited that from her.

Still no sleeping

[millesettecento.livejournal.com]

No everything makes sense!
Sheep guts are fucking tasty

Can't sleep

[millesettecento.livejournal.com]

Hey Ireland, marry me?

Aww D8

[hellzabeth.livejournal.com]

Ireland: [Checks you over. Nods, satisfied.] Alright! Who's paying for the wedding?

Re: Aww D8

[millesettecento.livejournal.com]

Can't we trick England into paying it?

[tejab.livejournal.com]

Do you know that the Luso-British alliance and about half the treaties that Portugal made with England are at least partially responsible for Portugal's past and present economic situation( nearly bankrupt)?
When are you going to tell us what happened to NZ?
And finally, Poland, I like your pink tanks, where did you get them painted?

[hellzabeth.livejournal.com]

No, I did not know that, thanks for saying! ^^ *will take advantage of that*

I'll tell you when the dramatic tension is ripe~!

Poland: Like, I totally got my friend Czeslaw to do them for me, he's such a sweetie~! You should look him up though he's like, kind of shady and runs away if you've got red hair.

[alianorethecat.livejournal.com]

OMG Poland are you alright?! Same goes for Latvia, Lithuania, England, and Wales. Are they okay?!

Wales, why did you forget to blow fire? That was FrUKing awesome!

So what happened to New Zealand? And how long will Australia keep looking for her?

Curse notifs failing. >>

[hellzabeth.livejournal.com]

Poland: I'm so totally fine girl, Russia doesn't scare me~!
Latvia: *shaking in terror*
Lithuania: *probably going to be ill soon* Poland, you don't look fine!
England: ... Miss Author, are you meant to be revealing this?
Wales: It kind of defeats the point right?
Me: I guess. I won't tell her what's happened to you two then~!
England: You sadistic little cow.

Wales: *facepalm* A lot of people forget their ancient magicks, alright? Even France was once a right little heathen. It just happens...
England: *smug*
Wales: Alright, except for you.

Australia: As long as I bloody have to, damn it!
New Zealand: Goddamn you idiot, don't get in trouble over me! ... wait, I forgot who I'm talking to.

[tuulensisko.livejournal.com]

Oh hey, I thought of a question that doesn't require spoilers for answers! I think! And is pretty important: What KIND of nuclear weapons did America use? Like... what scale? Because I just read this article (and I'm pretty much pissing myself because that shit is SCARY) and... apparently now they have an "H-Bomb" which is 1000 times more powerful than the original "A-Bomb" and they have BIGGER H-Bombs and idk, I have no idea about the physics or anything but it's scaring the hell out of me AND an "N-Bomb" which apparently isn't as powerful as the H-Bomb except that it is because the radiation it creates kills all living beings in a much larger radius whether they are in a shelter or NOT. (An A-bomb doesn't do that, actually if I've got it right, the A-bomb actually releases relatively little radiation, much much less than Chernobyl, and if you make it to shelter, are not too close to the ground zero and survive the fallout afterwards, you actually have a fair change to make it. You might get a cancer but with treatment you can survive cancer too. With the N-bomb, you'd just be dead. It's like. It's built to just kill people, not weapons or military bases or material, people. Seriously, why does this thing exist? What if a sociopath got a hold of those things? I don't even.... WHY?)

... I'm not sure if I recommend researching nuclear weapons. orz It's terribly interesting and mind-blowing but it's also very, very, VERY scary. Except for the depleted uranium weapons; at least for me I was too busy being horrified out of my wits to be actually scared, not because of their destructiveness since they aren't even close to the others, but because they are being used. Today. Legally. And nobody is doing anything about it. *doesn't even know what to do with this information, is just totally blown*

[hellzabeth.livejournal.com]

Uh.

Wow, holy crap.

Um. Excuse me for a moment while I go and try to find my lost faith in humanity.

[Later...]

I kind of knew about the H-Bomb already but only in that it's different from the A-Bomb by way of sheer scale of shit blowing up.

Since nobody really uses the A-Bomb any more (And that fact alone is horrifying enough) I'm going to go with the H-Bomb. Hence why Nations so far away could feel it; it's that huge. The N-Bomb scares me and I'm going to go back to pretending it doesn't exist or that it was outlawed or something.

[tuulensisko.livejournal.com]

Good luck with that, I haven't managed to regain mine yet.

*nod* Oh right, that makes sense... a Nagasaki-scale bomb wouldn't be even nearly strong enough to be felt so far. I think. Uh, I really have no idea about these things, I just read articles and gape at them in horror. Just kind of might have hoped America would have retained at least enough sense not to use anything even BIGGER than the A-bomb but then again, it's AMERICA. If we gotta use it, let's at least make it a big bang and scare them up good... sounds about his thought process.

I think their use is illegal. I'm pretty sure. Because I think I've seen at least two different sources say that the use of nuclear weapons in general is illegal and considered a crime against humanity or something like that (except, apparently, for depleted uranium weapons because they, apparently, weren't "meant" to be nuclear weapons, they just happen to me made of dangerous material that's impossible to purify or clean away, and because apparently it's impossible to prove that a sudden rise of cancer, infertility and birth defect rates in the Middle East could have anything to do with loads of unprotected nuclear waste being transported there as weapons and being blown up in the air as explosives or left lying around)... But then again if they are already using the H-bomb... okay never mind, having N-Bombs outlawed sounds good and I'm not going to argue lest you actually make them use them.