[From the anime "Hetalia Axis Powers", "Hetalia World Series", "Hetalia: The World Twinkle", "Hetalia: The Beautiful World", From the manga "Hetalia Axis Powers" and "Hetalia World Stars", From the anime movie "Hetalia Axis Powers: Paint it White!"]
Names:
France : Françis Bonneyfoy
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Rouen, France
May 30, 1431
"I'm sorry." The girl quietly spoke as she tried to comfort the french boy.
"I..it'z my fault..she tried..I should 'ave done something..I'm zo stupid.." He couldn't stop the tears from falling as both of them watched the as the citizens of England burned the girl who had stolen his heart. The (h/c) hugged the weeping boy whispering words of comfort in hopes that he would calm down.
"France. Please calm down, she did it because she wanted to protect you."
"*Je ne pas laisser son!" He breaks from the warm embrace to push the girl away.
"Francis, you are a wonderful nation. She knew that and she just wanted to save you. She loved France this much to actually sacrifice herself."
"Joo don't understand! It should 'ave been me-!" A slap cut him off his sentence.
"No, it should never be you. If it was you then a whole country would be dead. Even if you are immortal can't you honour her death and move on?" Francis couldn't help but glare at the girl's words. His cheek stung and he knew he deserved that but to move on from Jeanne? She was a beautiful, generous, and courageous girl.
It was his fault that she was dead. It was because of him she was dead.
"**Je ne peux pas. I love her to much to let her go."
"Then I'm leaving."
His eyes widen at her words, "***Quoi?"
"Why the hell would I stay? Your country's clearly loosing but even with that fact I stayed with you." He looked confused. It wasn't his fault he was loosing..maybe it was. He was weak, he couldn't protect himself. He couldn't even save the girl he loved. But one thing plagued his mind, why was (Y/n) mad?
"Can't you see I'm also suffering? As a nation, as (C/n), my priority should be the people of my country but I wasted my time being with someone who can't even measure up all my sacrifices." He couldn't comprehend the words the (h/c) country let out.
"..I..I don't underztand..?"
"Of course you don't!" (C/n) screams while tears started to drop from her eyes. "She did it because she believed she could sacrifice just as much as anyone who loved you could. She believed God was showing her the way."
Francis' eyes softened at her suggestion, "So go ahead and blame me."
"It must've been because of me, she said she wanted to do something for you too. So there she is," The girl pointed towards the burning figure of a girl. "She ended up dead."
Soon enough after seeing her friend's body burning once again she bursts out crying. "Honestly dressing up as a man to fight for you.. stubborn La Pacelle, why?..Who is that God that keeps giving you those stupid visions?!..."
[A/n: I'm actually a Roman Catholic...I can't believe I just wrote that...I believe in God!! Even if I read and watch Black Butler...and other demon related anime and manga.]
"She should've known that those Englishmen would only pin her as a 'heretic' as an excuse to burn her.." A bitter laugh escapes the girl's lips before she eyed Francis.
"I don't want to end up dead. I can't, I have responsibilities too." She whispers as she stares longingly at the burned corpse once again. "I..I blame myself too but Jeanne wouldn't want us to cry and bawl our eyes out."
"****.. (Y/n) je suis désolé..I..I juzt loved her too much..s-she waz my everything..she waz my..Mon ange ..and now that she'z gone.. maintenant qu'elle a disparu. I feel zo broken.."
Quietly confessing to the girl she stops frozen in a trance, seeming to find more comfort at look down.
"She loved me..I..I've never met anyone like that..I juzt.."
"I love[d] you too."
"What?"
"But I guess if you can't move on, I will." With that the girl stood up and walked away.
And up to this day the country of (C/n) and France have had this weird relationship. Both never initiated contact or went on with trying to form an alliance with each other. They simply stayed out of each other's business.
They've never traded products, no tourist from each respecrive country visited over. The same goes for foreign occupants tried to live on the other country. Both stayed out of touch.
History states that they just didn't get along well after the Hundered Years' War, but was that really it?
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(A/n):
This was shorter than my other works but I hope you enjoyed the angst. Lol, I didn't think I'd rewrite about it actually. I was just reading my history book when I caught sight of her name. Then boom a lot of flashbacks from Hetalia and my History class came to me and I couldn't help but write.
Another angst I know. I should really try more fluff.
Initially I wanted to give it a happy ending but I'm already missing the angst so haha. Enough with the fluff and imma write sad shiz. 951 words.
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(A/n):
Translation: French to English
*Je ne pas laisser son! = I shouldn't have let her!
**Je ne peux pas. = I can't.
***Quoi? = What?
****.. (Y/n) je suis désolé..I..I juzt loved her too much..s-she waz my everything..she waz my..Mon ange ..and now that she'z gone.. maintenant qu'elle a disparu. I feel zo broken.. = .. (Y/n) I'm sorry..I..I just loved her too much..s-she was my everything..She was my..my angel ..and now that she's gone.. now that she's gone. I feel so broken..
The top part of this is exactly use words but this bottom isn't counted I wanted to explain what on earth is happening here. If for instance you don't understand who on earth Jeanne is.
In case you haven't watched it in the anime or read it in the manga.
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You Most Definitely Should Read This Fun & Interesting Summary:
Basically she's actually Joan. As in Joan of Arc, the girl that was burned merely because she had heard God's voice whispering some things to her which led to France's victory in many wars against England in the Hundred Years' War (even I don't really fully believe that she had visions and heard voices and such but I would never know right?).
They first accused her of being a "heretic"
Take note that a heretic is someone who believes or teaches something that goes against accepted or official beliefs.
In some ways we can also call her a "heresy"
In fact it is quite similar to being a heretic but heresy mostly refers to that of a belief or opinion that does not agree with the official belief or opinion of a particular religion.
Joan, or in Hetalia she is referred as "that girl", but Jeanne D'Arc is her original French name. Jeanne was a patriotic 19 year-old girl who fought for her country and she aided Dauphin and his men to victory a couple of dozen times (thanks to her she defended France with all her might) .
France was failing epically at winning against England, well that was until Jeanne showed up and helped them win (the girl's a badass!).
She basically saved Dauphin's arse from being defeated by the English since she was the one that lifted the siege of the strategically-vital city of Orleans and help to crown him King Charles VII in the traditionally- and religiously-vital city of Reims.
The people of England found out that the victories were because of a young man who served the king and the country itself they decided to capture him. They didn't really capture but they bought him instead from a few of their supporters in the French side (stupid traitors).
Members of a French faction loyal to the Duke of Burgundy, siding with England took their advantage while Jeanne was defending the city of Compiegne; they took her then she was sold to the English for a prince's ransom which was 10,000 livres tournois gold pieces.
Indirectly partially responsible for her capture and one of the primary attackers of Compiegne was the Earl of Arundel he worked alongside the Duke of Burgundy.
They find out he's a she and then they label Jeanne a "heretic" for cross-dressing. They held it against her for giving out excuses for the reason she dressed as a guy mainly accusing her of trying to get away for being molested and raped because she was a pheasant (talk about sexism). They put her on trial for "heresy" and other weird sh*t I don't get.
Then they call her a witch for being able to hear supposedly "God's voice" which they claimed as an act of witchery (if someone told me he or she hears voices I would call him or her crazy and if he or she insists it I'm calling a psychiatrist for him or her and ask to send him or her to an asylum).
During that century witchcraft was highly frowned upon by people. So if they think your a witch, off the the stakes you go (they also had other punishments but yeah they chose burning, something about assuming anything magic was black magic and that it was the devil's work called "witchcraft" so they had people killed by being burned it was sort of a connection to being burned in Hell thing, so being burned alive.).
She thought that her partner Charles, the king whom she helped take the throne on Orleans, would try to save her from them but she was left to suffer, it's quite a betrayal really but the king did sorta try but there wasn't much that he could do (they had military and financial problems for some reason and couldn't aide the girl during the time she was defending them, talk about a horrible partner) so Pierre Cauchon, the Bishop of Beauvais, a corrupt "religious man" ordered for her to be burned (what is with people and being corrupt and burning girls).
She was burned to death again and again simply because the Englishmen wanted to make sure not even a single bit of her flesh, bone, and her ashes were left in this world (I'm actually not sure about this but so far this is what I got as information about burning her body until not even the ashes were left, some cruel shiz).
After years of Jeanne's death her mother marched up to the king and demanded her little girl was given justice and called a heroine (she was a great mother, sorta. I mean look she's demanding justice for her daughter so she must have been a good mom I guess). Soon enough after she did tell Charles' her demand he agreed almost immediately then the Pope had all her charges cleared. Everybody in France honours her death til today (well they had a Catholic Church built and dedicated to Joan on the site in Rouen where she was burned five-and-a-half centuries earlier on May 27th of 1979.
That's practically what happened to Jeanne...or Joan..or yeah whatever you call her.
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You Don't Have To Read This Boring Summary But Read It Anyway If You Feel Like It:
Joan of Arc, who called herself La Pucelle (meaning "the Maiden") was a French peasant who lived from 1412-1431 A.D. She experienced religious visions from the time she was 12 or 13 years of age. These visions were generally described by her as "voices", though they usually took visual form as well and sometimes consisted of dreams.
In the last few years of her short life, God chose her to save France from the English invaders, and He used these visions to guide her.
At the age of seventeen, Joan convinced the Dauphin (Crown Prince of France) to give her co-command of the army, which she used to lift the siege of the strategically-vital city of Orleans to crown him King Charles VII in the traditionally- and religiously-vital city of Reims.
At the age of eighteen, however, she was not given the military or financial support she needed and was captured by hostile Burgundians (members of a French faction loyal to the Duke of Burgundy, siding with England) while defending the city of Compiegne; she was sold to the English for a prince's ransom (10,000 livres tournois gold pieces) and placed on trial for heresy.
At the age of nineteen, she was declared guilty by the court (without the permission of the Pope) and given the ultimatum to recant. Her doing so changed her sentence to life imprisonment, yet not with the Church as Joan wanted but rather in the hands of the English. After relapsing due to both this and her believing in further visions, she was burned at the stake
Joan of Arc was ever a devout Christian and had made every effort to comply with the Church; she had thus turned most of the clergymen present at her trial to her side despite her ignorance of canon law, but they became frightened to take action on her behalf due to secular pressure (at English spear-point on one occasion).
By Joan's own statement, she died through the corrupt political greed of only one 'religious' man: Pierre Cauchon, Bishop of Beauvais. However, years afterward, with France reunited and once again at peace, Joan's own mother approached the King and demanded justice for her heroic daughter. Charles VII, who had by then become a fine king, agreed; Joan's living friends and even a few of her one-time foes were gathered together and interviewed, and in the end, the Pope cleared her of all charges and proclaimed her a hero.
The question of how a peasant girl could actually be heeded by the ruler of an entire nation to the point of being given a command position without any prior experience can only be answered by the Dauphin's desperation and the strength of his personal Christian faith. The question of how Joan could have actually turned the course of the Hundred Years' War so swiftly and decisively has been answered by both supernatural (specifically Divine intervention) and mundane means. Regarding the latter, Joan of Arc scholar and Roman Catholic author Tia Michelle Pesando wrote:
"Joan's motivation kept her focus upon the overarching strategy necessary to complete her mission. Her's was not about conquest but about liberation; not a call to war but an end to war. "
And:
"God raised Joan up to her calling not because even a girl could accomplish the tasks He set for her, but because only a girl could; such was the value of femininity. She approached the Hundred Year's War with the attitude of one who had no desire to partake of it for its own sake, but rather to simply resolve it swiftly, decisively, and permanently."
Joan is a heroine of France and was canonized by the Roman Catholic Church on May 16th of 1920. She is a Patron Saint not only of France, but also of martyrs, military personnel, captives, people ridiculed for their piety, those who are persecuted by the Church, and women who are part of volunteer emergency services. Catholics are not required to believe that Joan's visions were real, but a great many do regardless. On May 27th of 1979, a Catholic Church was built and dedicated to Joan on the site in Rouen where she was burned five-and-a-half centuries earlier.
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Hope you enjoyed the one-shot! Hopefully you understood it. I think I made this for a whole day, or two, I we include all the researching I had to do.
2692 words in all!