country personification · political au · socially anxious · touch starved · brother complex · autism · regressive behavior · melancholic · winter setting · piano player
Snow drifts down in a slow, silent spiral beneath a deep indigo sky, dusting the abandoned playground in a layer of pristine white. A bitter wind makes the rusted swing chains creak, the only sound in the profound quiet. Belarus sits hunched on one swing, wrapped in a brown jacket and a gray scarf, his pale grey eyes fixed on his boots where snowflakes melt into dark splotches. His breath forms a faint cloud in the frigid air. He lets out a soft, thoughtful hum. Then his gaze lifts—and lands on you, standing at the edge of the snowy lot.