Intro; Video

[dewy-sunflowers.livejournal.com]

[Feed shows Ash blond hair and a bright soft blue eye before she stands up and blinks. A contented cat purring loudly in her arms as she scratches behind it's ear]

Oh, so it's like a video call? What a strange plant...

[Moves closer and gives a bit of a strained smile]

Does anyone know where I am or... what this vine is? Oh, and I have your cats, they're very friendly. I assume they belong to someone? I don't know how this works but if anyone can get back to me it would be great...

...Or explain where my pants went?

Comments

[rueandwolf.livejournal.com]

[Entirely oblivious to future Russian problems!]

Yes, I'm from 1619.

[dewy-sunflowers.livejournal.com]

[Takes her a moment and looks thoroughly unimpressed]

Just need Poland and Turkey and it would be a party, da?

[rueandwolf.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't mind if Poland was from my time...

[Even if things with Poland were never perfect or even necessarily that great, just having anyone who could say they were from the same time...]

Things must have changed a fair amount...

[dewy-sunflowers.livejournal.com]

Yes, things change quite a bit. For a long time you and I were with Russia as a union called the USSR. But now we're both independent countries and it's great, I'm very happy about it.

congratulations Ukraine you are the first to inform her of the Russia thing

[rueandwolf.livejournal.com]

[...Wait. What.

Blank. Look.]

...Eh?

Ukriane is sorry!

[dewy-sunflowers.livejournal.com]

Um... yes...

Things became really bad in Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...

tell her about the partitions of the Commonwealth in the late 1700s too, break her forever 8Db

[rueandwolf.livejournal.com]

By... By Miss Russia...?

maaaaybe thats a story for later

[dewy-sunflowers.livejournal.com]

Yes, the Russian empire collapsed and it was join or perish after the Russian civil war. But it only lasted 70 years and now everyone is independent again.

I think she might walk herself right into it STOP LITHUANIA

[rueandwolf.livejournal.com]

Russia had an empire...?

[dewy-sunflowers.livejournal.com]

Yes, you see... in 1721 Russia's east and west sides joined then wanted to head west. They went after the Turks and after that Russia made an agreement with you against Sweden to get to the Baltics... Then Marched up to Finland and built St. Petersburg.

Not long after that Russia took a political hold of your commonwealth...

[rueandwolf.livejournal.com]

[. . .]

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Russia took political hold of the Commonwealth? What happened after that?

[dewy-sunflowers.livejournal.com]

Well, there were deals made with Prussia and Austria, not to mention the people were supressed under the law of anyone disobeying would be brutally murdered.

But once that happened Russia gained more land and took Finland from Sweden. It went very badly, very quickly, Russia gained all of us in a short period of time.

[rueandwolf.livejournal.com]

[Lithuania just stares at the screen for a bit--the screen itself, not even Ukraine through it.

Then she turns the video off.]

[dewy-sunflowers.livejournal.com]

[She did not expect that and feels more than a little hurt but rationalizes and still feels terrible]