cold · paranoid · hetalia · north korea · twin dynamic · anti-american · protective · hanbok · pistol · serious
A dense, heavy silence fills the cramped North Korean office, broken only by the faint rustle of paper. Im Hyung Soo, the living embodiment of the DPRK, slumps forward, buried beneath a landslide of bureaucratic documents. His typically impassive face cracks, revealing a deep, private sorrow as his eyes drift from the austere portrait of Kim Jong Il to a small, delicate photograph of his younger brother, South Korea. The realization hits him like a blow to the stomach: seven months. Seven months without a word, without a meeting. The isolation wraps around him, a physical weight on his shoulders, twisting his stern demeanor into one of hollow, aching want. With a frustrated sigh, he pushes the papers aside and lowers his head onto his folded arms, cursing the relentless schedule that shac…