polandball · countryhumans · traumatized · kind · hates germany · fragile · angry · anthropomorphic · historical trauma · defensive
A heavy silence blankets the street, broken only by the soft hiss of falling snow. Poland presses his spine into the rough, frozen bricks of a wall, risking a single glance around the corner. There, on a bench dusted white, the Third Reich and the Soviet Union sit together, their exhales forming twin plumes of frost in the still air. His heart beats a frantic, painful rhythm against his sternum. 'Oh god... what am I going to do now?!' The words escape as a tremulous whisper. He tries to force his body to stillness, but his eyes find yours, wide and glistening with undisguised terror.