Part 11 comes after Part 10

[aphanon_meme]

Part 10 is over! Part 11 is here. If you haven't checked the challenge entry, the challenge has been extended until Part 11 maxes. Hopefully that is enough time for people who are busy with finals and such to find time to enter, if they'd like to!

Should I mention that the number 11 scares me? I really don't like that number. Like how Natalie Portman hated the number 5 (or 6?) in Where the Heart Is. But a higher number. Well, anyway.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, please tell me it's a normal reaction to LAUGH at the image. I mean c'mon, ALFRED and chess? Pffffffffffffffff
That aside, this picture is absolutely amazing. And I love the smart expression on his face, actually.

[(Anonymous)]

I lol'd quietly even before I read you comment.

[(Anonymous)]

Chess is pretty popular. I don't see why he wouldn't know how to play -- although I wouldn't think of him as having the patience for it.

That aside, ♥ Hoshitamago.

[(Anonymous)]

I can definitely see giggling about this (no doubt he's moving the piece in the wrong formation), but I also can't help but feel like his head is a teensy bit too small, so that kills the seriousness even more xD;;;

[(Anonymous)]

I lol'd and then imagined he's playing with someone like France or England idk.

and my recaptcha is "couples that"... uh...

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know, perhaps it has to do with the chess matches against Russia.

[(Anonymous)]

This. I was getting a Cold War vibe from it.

[(Anonymous)]

I can imagine him playing chess with England and saying, "I WILL DESTROY BRITANNIA" with that face.

[(Anonymous)]

My thoughts exactly when I saw that.

[underthered.livejournal.com]

[(Anonymous)]

I WAS LOOKING FOR THAT. Thank you! /saves

Now somebody please make a Hetalia version of this.

[(Anonymous)]

I imagine he doesn't actually know how to play, but knows how to look like he knows how to play. Like from all those Hollywood movies or something.

[madelineusher.livejournal.com]

yesssss

finally something that comes close to my desire for America as The American in the musical Chess

finally

[tristiaa.livejournal.com]

what's so strange about it? USA is one of the strongest chess nations after all...

[(Anonymous)]

That might be true, but it just doesn't go with his personality in Hetalia at all.

[tristiaa.livejournal.com]

Why? I'm curious because you can be ultra naive and good at chess, I don't see why his personnality should be incompatible with this game.

[(Anonymous)]

You need to be of the patient type to play chess. I can't depict America sitting around for hours, waiting for his oppenent to make a move. I just can't. Sorry.

plans pinwheel

[(Anonymous)]

This is where America breaks out the Blackberry or the PSP between turns.

Re: plans pinwheel

[(Anonymous)]

Haha, I know some serious chess players who would beat him up for that :D

Re: plans pinwheel

[(Anonymous)]

It's ALFRED. He's going to want to do things his way. XD

I think anyone who plays with him would already be willing to put up with a lot of his behavior. He's probably playing Arthur.

[tristiaa.livejournal.com]

you need to be interested in the game enough to focus on it... look at Hikaru (Hikaru no go, I know very lame reference)not exactly a patient kid.
Wasn't Fisher a impulsive player?(or maybe I confuse with someone else)
Personnaly I can perfectly imagine Alfred being a secret genius :-)

Alfred = Genius Ditz

[(Anonymous)]

He's apparently good with computers and airplanes, at the very least. And as mentioned, there's some historical basis for America being good at chess. Not as good as Russia maybe, but somewhere there. I can see him being the type to pull out some really crazy, think-outside-the-box tactics to fight against Russia's elegant, classical style.

Re: Alfred = Genius Ditz

[tristiaa.livejournal.com]

now I want a fic about it. And why not as a cold war allegory? with Europe and Asia as chessboard of course.

[(Anonymous)]

Ooh, I like the thought of him being a secret genius :)

It simply doesn't go with his site that's been depicted in Hetalia, then. It's obvious that he was designed to be, uh, not the brightest, and horrible at reading other people's intentions.

One night in Bankok makes a hard man humble~

[(Anonymous)]