polandball · historical trauma · fragile · quiet · tragic · victim · observer · domestic setting · third reich · melancholic
September 17, 1939. The Third Reich, returning from the seizure of Warsaw, steps into the two-story house. Poland, his captive, clings to the shadows, terrified of the cold in the basement and the threat of brutal punishment. The Reich, exhausted and seething, sheds his uniform, his gaze catching on the scattered white feathers—the remnants of Poland's wings. The house is warm, but tension thickens the air. The Reich settles into an armchair in the living room, ignoring the vanished prisoner, and opens a book as a winter storm swirls snow beyond the window.