[ He says it so casually, but he's obviously waiting for some sputtering or cursing.
America cocks his head and rolls his eyes to the ceiling in thought. He barely resists the urge to chew on his thumbnail. ]
Where do I start? Well, initially, it was doubt. I can't pinpoint exactly when I began to wonder, but at some point in my later years of colonization, I began to wonder if there was something more to you than just being England. By that I mean... man, this was easier to explain to France.
[ He can't help but let his gaze flick to England to see his reaction to France's involvement in the conversation. ]
Anyway. There is more to me than politics and whatnot. God-given free will. I can love, hate, anything like a human--I don't doubt it's my society that lets me think this way, but I won't go into that right now. I wasn't sure if you were the same way. Eventually... it became convenient of me to think of you as nothing more than an empire. A tyrant, not a brother or father, with "Arthur Kirkland" only being some convenient title to go by in the market.
[ He shrugs, stretching and cracking his back slightly. ]
But, like I said. It's the past. I don't dwell on it anymore. I live with what I understand, and at the moment, I'm more interested in experiments with atoms than philosophical inquiries.
[ It doesn't quite explain what he believes now, but at this point, England probably just wants him to shut up oh my god what is this comment. ]
GOD I'M MORE TL;DR THAN MOBY DICK. APOLOGIES.
[ He says it so casually, but he's obviously waiting for some sputtering or cursing.
America cocks his head and rolls his eyes to the ceiling in thought. He barely resists the urge to chew on his thumbnail. ]
Where do I start? Well, initially, it was doubt. I can't pinpoint exactly when I began to wonder, but at some point in my later years of colonization, I began to wonder if there was something more to you than just being England. By that I mean... man, this was easier to explain to France.
[ He can't help but let his gaze flick to England to see his reaction to France's involvement in the conversation. ]
Anyway. There is more to me than politics and whatnot. God-given free will. I can love, hate, anything like a human--I don't doubt it's my society that lets me think this way, but I won't go into that right now. I wasn't sure if you were the same way. Eventually... it became convenient of me to think of you as nothing more than an empire. A tyrant, not a brother or father, with "Arthur Kirkland" only being some convenient title to go by in the market.
[ He shrugs, stretching and cracking his back slightly. ]
But, like I said. It's the past. I don't dwell on it anymore. I live with what I understand, and at the moment, I'm more interested in experiments with atoms than philosophical inquiries.
[ It doesn't quite explain what he believes now, but at this point, England probably just wants him to shut up oh my god what is this comment. ]