#romechu

[ellmovy]

Romechu for the ship polaroid section of @hws-anthology !!!

[ask-aph-axis]

slay

[salchichas-art]

thats a sensitive topic

[frukmerunning]

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@heta-on-the-books

[aph-binch]

china, internally: how has he not noticed that i’m mad at him? we haven’t spoken in 40 minutes

rome, internally: yea i could probably take a bear in a fight

[meitoscringe]

[umru10]

young grandpas

[stirringwinds]

returning to romechu, inasmuch as it really puts the long in long-distance r/ships, i feel like a big part of yao is glad for that. because there's no getting around how he and rome may be on the opposite ends of the known world, but at that point in time, han dynasty china was no less an empire than rome. yao knows they both will put ambition and power over anything like sentiment for another nation—even with iran/persia and india, whom yao generally gets on well with—there've been conflicts. so i think for yao, fact that the edges of his and rome's empires don't meet gives him the luxury to enjoy the company (even if in epistolary terms rather than always face-to-face) of another nation he sees as a peer in power and position. pre-modern yao is someone whose relationships with those closest in proximity to him, especially yong-soo, kiku and lien (vietnam) are always this janus-face of deep cultural linkages and asymmetrical power dynamics, after all, where their knowledge of how sharp yao's blade can be is ever-present. it's the price he knowingly paid for power, but it's something yao doesn't have to think about when it comes to rome because there, the thread of the silk road is long.

[blankitty]

Can’t do line arts *dies* will color,maybe

Can’t draw hanfu either so Yao’s in a suit sry *dies again*

[jikimo-world]

Rome in a letter: "I'm sending you this statue of me so you can remember me when I'm far away XOXO"

China, dragging a marble block wrapped in a sheet in his room: What is this? The first and weirdest nude of the history?

[mcnjushcge]

how can I make this about romechu

[39kqm]

[m4ruk4ts]

this is what i meant with "angst purposes" :')

[bitchapalooza]

Rome: Wow, it’s amazing I’m finally meeting you, China. I could never have imagined. You’re just as beautiful and handsome as described.

China: And I— wait a minute. You look nothing like the marble statue you sent me!

Rome: Well— I— That was done when I was younger! It took three years to do that sculpture because someone kept assassinating me!

China: You were catfishing me!

Rome: I don’t even know what that means???

China: That is the last time I make saucey penpals with another empire through the Silk Road. Hmph!

Rome: What??? What did I do???

[frukmerunning]

ok if I made my own Veraverse here’s what I’d write:

The White Cliffs of Dover - FrUK

Arthur swears that Francis escaped German occupation in a small fishing boat only to sit on his sofa and edit his (perfectly fine, thank you) poetry. 

Wishing (Will Make It So) - ItaPan

Feliciano Vargas dodges the draft in a small Japanese port town. He befriends his landlord’s nephew, a clerk for the Imperial Navy.  

I’ll Never Smile Again - GerMano

All of the Germans will end up in hell, that’s what Lovino thinks. Until a member of the German air force literally crashes into his life. 

White Christmas - RusAme

Alfred F. Jones gets shot down over the Pacific. He’s probably going to die, he can’t stand his only surviving crewmate, and he’s pretty sure Ivan is only pretending to not speak English. 

I’ll See You Again - PruAus 

As the Anschluss approaches and antisemetic sentiment grows, Roderich ignores Gilbert and Eliza’s pleas for him to get out of Austria. 

The Mem’ry of a Rose (WW1) - RomeChu 

Romulus reminisces on the Chinese-American ambulance driver who saved his life in 1917.