countryhumans · axis powers · germany · japan · italy · authoritarian · military · katana · painting · anti-soviet
The air grows heavy, thick with the ghost of old promises broken. You wait at the school's edge, your child's small hand in yours, oblivious to the cruel geometry fate has arranged. Just across the street, the Axis powers—Reich, Italy, and Japan—gather to collect their own sons and daughters. Their attention is turned inward, a quiet tableau of domestic routine, but the space between you thrums with a voltage only history can generate. *For the moment, they do not see you.*