hahahah je te manque terriblement actually means ''you miss me terribly''
I think what you're trying to say was ''tu me manques terriblement''

Yep, it’s RusCan, my hopes have been dashed since the beginning. It’s actually good, not plain lovey dovey and stuff, the characters weren’t just simple personalities, they had depth to them, like a real person.

It's... a RusCan? Will it stay platonic? I hope so, 'cause I ship PruCan. Well, time to find out.

Hahaha, can't wait till Mattie does snap and is in need of finding places to bury bodies.

I want more of RusCan, especially the nature/outdoor activities they had planed originally.

I am completely new to the Hetalia fandom, so I'm making these comments as a noob. This was the fourth Hetalia fic I read. As per my usual habit when entering a new fandom, I searched for 100,000 word-long fics that were complete and browsed the summaries looking for stories that seemed interesting. This story was one of my first choices, as it looked like a canon-based story. A lot of stories I saw seem to be either AU or excessively romantic, which wasn't what I was looking for, especially for an introduction to the fandom. Now, I did see that this was in the Romance category, but the summary didn't make it sound like a just-smut story, so I thought I'd give it a chance. I was also impressed by the huge word count and number of reviews.

As a Canadian, I was particularly intrigued by the thought of what Canada and Russia could have in common, as this question had occurred to me while watching Hetalia. The two largest countries, similar climates, presumably similar geographies, and yet very different in terms of history and culture. It just sounded like an interesting story idea and it snagged me right in the summary.

The first chapter quickly and easily drew me in. The sharp contrast between meek and mild Canada and sick, cranky Russia was a great opener. I had a hard time putting the story down and spent several evenings staying up an hour or two later than normal, insisting on 'just one more chapter'. You ended chapters skilfully so that each one felt like a mini cliffhanger.

Although I understand now that the Hetalia characters all have alternate, 'human' names, this was the first time I'd encountered this. Luckily, you wrote without taking this for granted and I had no problem following this fan-based naming convention.

A big comment is that, although I could easily visualize all of the other characters you portrayed in their normal Hetalia comic form, including Canada, I could not do this for Russia. His personality was just too different from what he's depicted like in canon. Now, your Russia is much more like how I expected Russia to be portrayed before I ever saw Hetalia - irritable, dark, standoffish, cruel, private, tough. Don't get me wrong - I liked your Russia and he felt real and well-developed. He just wasn't the same as Hetalia's Russia. I've seen some fanart of Russia that's darker and less cartoon-like and this is closer to what I visualized as I read your story.

I enjoyed the characterization of Canada, especially in reference to his usually ignored strengths. (I hope I didn't just like them because I'm from Canada!) Canada doesn't come across as a strong country, but I liked his stubborn insistence on helping Russia in the first chapter. Canadians generally take pride in their global reputation for compassion and philanthropic work, to the point where I could see Canada being pushy about offering help. He was stubborn while presenting reasonable arguments, a nice contrast with America, acting as if mediation is the best way to solve disagreements rather than force. Canadians generally don't like to fight and they prefer to avoid confrontations, so this seemed the most natural way Canada would get Russia to permit his presence. But Canada didn't shy away from being sarcastic and insulting Russia at times. I've heard that Canadians are known for insults that are gentle and subtle, not in-your-face aggressive, which I feel like you demonstrated with Canada several times. I also like that Canada wasn't a weak noodle - he had plenty of times where he showed backbone. Not the same backbone as a powerful nation like America or Russia, but backbone nonetheless.

I was slightly taken aback by Canada's fears of being forgotten and the continual forgetfulness of him by his family, but it didn't take me long to accept this idea. Just as Russia had issues and fears to be dealt with, Canada needed the same or the story would have felt too one-sided. It wouldn't have been as good a story for Canada to only be helping Russia and for Russia to not have any positive impact on Canada in return. And Canada being forgotten fits into Hetalia's canon. I feel like Canada objectively is a more active global presence nowadays, but we still have a tendency to follow the lead of the other countries, which I expect is what gave Canada his forgettableness in the Hetalia-verse.

I don't know if adding Kumajirou as a prominent and important character is something that most Canada-oriented stories do, but I enjoyed your use of him and the mild metaphysical connections you gave between him and Canada. The fact that he didn't always have a positive impact on the plot was also good, as it was realistic for an animal to not be able to reason out the actions of people in the world around him as a human would. He was trying his best, but fumbled as an animal would.

The story is so long that it's a bit hard to remember everything that happened and what order things happened in, but I know that I was engrossed as I read, and everything felt realistic. Maybe the story was a bit slow to more impatient readers, but I appreciated the slower pace that let Canada and Russia slowly warm to each other. The kidnapping, practically half-way through the story, was a major shift and I wasn't expecting it at all. It certainly changed the tone and tenor of the plot, but added an urgency that picked up the pace in a good way. It was very easy to sympathize with Canada's frustration at being captured in the first place, his desire for Russia to not help him if it meant Russia had to be hurt, Russia's fury over the kidnapping and the attempts of a human to manipulate him, and his frustration at having no choice but to follow the kidnapper's demands. I think you had a good balance of the other Nations involved in the various rescue attempts, not too many or too few, and you remembered to give attention to each individual Nation's personalities. Part of my favourite part of Hetalia is the large contrasts between characters, and in a few of the other stories I've read, the authors have not given this necessary attention to side characters.

The plot idea that the Nations are a secret and want/need to keep their existence secret is, I suspect, a common Hetalia fandom idea, but I found it intriguing and am definitely planning to look for other stories that pursue this in more detail. As Hetalia progressed, there was some canon portrayal of the Nations with regular humans, but nothing definitive and I can see the 'superheroes in hiding' motif being taken in several different directions.

Perhaps I just missed it, but I felt unclear on all of Dimitri's motives. You may have wanted to be ambiguous so that readers could come to their own conclusions. It felt like a stretch for a diary to have been kept in his family for so long and so far back. It also was unclear to me whether Dimitri was angry at Russia for allowing the bad things to have happened in his history, or because he should have taken charge of his country and been more ruthless in exerting strength over the rest of the world. Was he angry over the past, or trying to change the future? Was he mostly wanting to punish Russia from a sense of justice? There were also hints of jealousy over the Nation's immortality and a romantic jealousy for Russia himself.

One smaller thing I was unclear about was whether Russia actually did have sex with Canada's family. Russia claims this during their poker game, but there was a strong possibility in my mind that Russia was simply saying this to upset Canada, knowing that Canada reacts most strongly to threats or insults to his family. Was he lying and just fishing for a reaction? He could have been telling the truth, but there were multiple opportunities for you to make this definite later in the story and I don't think you ever did. America acts surprised by the suggestion when Belarus goes to see him, though of course this could have been a natural lying denial.

Overall, your writing was quite strong and well-done. Two small comments that stood out to me in terms of your writing: You consistently didn't use question marks where statements were questions. Upon occasion, a statement can technically be a question but be phrased so that it's more appropriate to end it with a period, but this is an exception to the rule. You definitely often didn't use question marks when you should have. You also often switched tenses in a way that was unusual, notably from the typical past tense to an active present tense. This was usually only done for a sentence or paragraph at most before you switched back again. Maybe this was accidental, although sometimes I felt that you did it on purpose to try to make the action more immediate for the reader. When I encountered this, I fixed the tense in my head automatically. Grammatically, it's incorrect and I would recommend fixing this if you wanted to do a large edit.

I could see some interesting sequels being developed - I don't know if you're planning any. If a sequel was done, I would definitely want to see Russia visit Canada's home, maybe go on a camping trip to explore the more wild and isolated parts of Canada. I also wish, though it didn't fit into the plot, that Canada could have demonstrated some of the physical training Russia gave him.

This was a great, well-written story, gripping, interesting, and often touching. You should be proud of your work. Thanks for writing it!

So, as I'm reading this, my dad starts playing "I Get Mad" by Violent J and... that kind of fits Russia? At least the first verse.

I really don't want it to be over! Please tell me there is a sequel or a bunch of adorable oneshots

This dang chapter...

Kumajirou...that omake... XD

This is the best thing yet!

You gave him VODKA!

I absolutely loved it

I'm American and I don't have a gun the most intake of sense's of a gun is in my periodical view

Where is the flipping ruscan smut?

THANK U ALEC