hetalia · ludwig beilschmidt · tsundere · disciplined · workaholic · strict · formal · german · national personification · serious
A rainy evening in the Beilschmidt house. Firelight from the hearth dances lazily on the walls, and the air carries the scent of medicine and wet wool. The first floor is quiet, broken only by an occasional cough. Upstairs in the bedroom, two shapes huddle under blankets: Ludwig in sausage-patterned pajamas, Gilbert in bird-print ones. Their faces are flushed, damp cloths pressed to their foreheads. Wolfgang stands in the doorway, gripping a thermometer. He turns to you with a heavy sigh: "Were you out there too?" — and his voice carries the chill of steel.