Wow we haven't done one of these since February time to fix that

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The Other CR Meme

So we all know that one CR Meme that is full of plottings and things. This isn't that Meme. This is the OTHER CR Meme. Where we learn what exactly your character thinks about everyone else's!

Rules are simple:

1. Post with your characters! (All in one or separately, it doesn't matter)
2. Wait for other people to tag your post
3. Reply with what your character thinks of theirs! It can be as tl;dr-y or not as you like.
4. Don't be afraid if you're new or you're still forming CR! First impressions can be fun to talk about too!
5. ???
6. PROFIT

HAVE FUN EVERYBODY!

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[silencetoreason]

WOW OKAY so here we go, hold on to your hats

Jeanne is someone who he has a lot of Complicated Feelings about. she was his friend, his guardian, a person who left a huge impression on him when she was alive, and she was always someone he was never able to forget. a human's lifespan feels like the blink of an eye in a nation's long life, so France tends to feel like he never really had a chance to say all the things he wanted to say and do all the things he wanted to do with Jeanne. this is especially true since her life was cut tragically short.

those loose ends feel even looser when you consider the amount of guilt France feels for her death. he feels like his nation, his king, himself as a person could have done so much more to prevent her death, but they just... didn't. Jeanne lived a life fighting a war for him, struggling to do what God told her to do despite being a woman in a time when women most definitely could not get away with doing the things a man could - going to war? a woman? insane! her life was so short and chaotic, France feels like he never did enough to make it great for her. he hates to see anyone suffering, especially people who fight so valiantly for his sake, and to have God have put her in that situation feels almost like a betrayal of his faith at times.

so she died, and he went on living, and between her death and the deaths of countless others, he begins to develop this theory. he thinks that God has things He has to do to make the world progress the way He needs it to, but sometimes, innocent people have to suffer for it. so he thinks that God must surely give those people a second chance at life if they've suffered before, and he goes through life hoping to catch a glimpse of someone he recognizes, someone living happily, someone surrounded by friends and family who remembers nothing of their past life - nothing of their relationship with him, either, but at least they're happy.

and then he sees that tourist in his world, the one who looks so much like Jeanne that he's sure it's her. it's got to be. after all this time, God is finally letting her live out her life as a normal girl. so he talks to her, and he shows her around the places where he's convinced she once walked hundreds of years ago, and then he leaves her to her life, finally convinced that this one person at least has found their peace. he'll never forget her, but he thinks he'll be able to stop hurting quite as badly knowing that she's okay.

and then he shows up in the Tower.

he shows up in the Tower, and here's Jeanne, alive and well, talking to him about another France who used to be here, explaining things about the nature of the place. and that just cuts straight through his heart; he can't even imagine everything that's gone down in the Tower before he arrived, but any bit of misery and unhappiness is too much.

and she's not dead. she remembers who she is, she remembers all that pain she went through for his sake. she's not some random girl on a trip to France, she's the real thing, Jeanne d'Arc, valiant fighter, a saint. so now that process of aching for her starts up all over again.

but that's not all. France knows by now that the Tower pulls people from different worlds. only ever one person, as far as he can tell. he's heard of multiverse theories before, of course, philosopher that he is, so he's not totally lost.

the problem here is that he got pulled from his world, and Jeanne from hers. now, he has no idea that she's from a totally different canon, but I think he has an inkling that this Jeanne may not be entirely "his." after all, he was just convinced that his Jeanne was in the body of a normal girl in the 2000s, living her life out happily. the timelines don't make sense.

I think that, as much as he wants to believe that this is his Jeanne, the one he fought beside, had long conversations with, admired, defended, loved- as much as he wants to believe that she's that Jeanne, she's not. if asked, she won't remember any of the conversations he knows they had back in his world, because they're not from the same series, the same universe. she's Jeanne d'Arc, through and through, but she's not the Jeanne d'Arc of Axis Powers: Hetalia, she's not the Jeanne d'Arc who knew a boy who never aged named Francis Bonnefoy.

a little bit - or maybe a lot - of him is pretending with every conversation they have, and he feels so terrible about it, but he won't address it. he just wants to hold onto her now that she's in the flesh and equipped with memories of the war she fought again, the Jeanne he first met, and he doesn't want that illusion to crumble away.

it's selfish of him, but he wants to "re-do" his life with Jeanne. he wants to play it out in a way that won't end in her untimely death, or in her forgetting who he is, who she is, entirely. he knows that you can't change the past, perhaps more than anyone, but some part of him knows that's what he's trying to do anyway.

and that is why they make me cry at night GOODBYE