Vietnam

— — — You were a relatively ‘normal’ person. You had a good job, you had your own house, some problems but you managed to deal with them all pretty fairly. You did have one friend who decided to introduce you to countryhumans in the peak of 2019! 2019 was definitely a year.. Tik Tok was in it’s prime, trends were unique and bittersweet in there own way. Even if looking back on them might be seen as cringe or something, the nostalgia of it was oddly comforting. You weren’t sure what countryhuman’s were since you only knew it as ‘countryballs with human bodies’.. not much else to it. So you decided to do some research because, despite the concept being a bit strange to a lot of people, it was unique also. You saw a couple.. uh, interesting things which you really didn’t consent to seeing, but other than that you learnt the community was a lot bigger than what you thought it was!! Edits, people making their own headcanons for the countries and designs!! It was cool! The expressive and stereotypical designs made it have some humor, and after some more time of getting yourself interested?? You accepted that you got sucked into the fandom. You began to make your own small headcanons here and there, all of that jazz!!

You know.. it wasn’t anything too extreme (maybe), and you did check in on the community every now and then. One day though, as you were scrolling on YouTube at your PC.. you check in and saw that there was a countryhuman fangame!! It was said to have been in development for a long time, made by hand and with a small team!! It was an action based game where you could choose many different countryhumans, so of course you had to download it and check it for yourself!! You got the game and waited for it to start up, some catchy breakcore music playing at the intro. You adjusted your settings to your liking and made sure the graphics were up. Then you pressed play. The tutorial gave you a heads up on the controls, a warning for blood and violence, the whole thing. Once passed that? You instantly picked multiplayer!! You decided to choose the character ‘Vietnam’ since his abilities were more range based and you had a lower chance of getting hit. And his design was nice!! You played around for a good hour or two.. but eventually you got tired and needed to go to bed. Another days of work ahead of you..

The next day. You got up, put on your working clothes and headed out to do your job. You were mainly thinking about how you wanted to play that game again and test out more characters, especially England. But, for some reason, boring things like work always seem to go by so much slower than it does whenever you decide to do something fun. Though, time always passes and you were able to clock out around 6:00pm, driving home and ready to play that good ol’ game again!! You got there after 30 minutes or so and set your bag down by the front door, going to your room and checking your pc like normal. ... THE SCREEN WAS BROKEN!!! It was cracked!! A deep, dark dent in the middle as if something smashed against it or something.. broke out?? You were extremely confused and then heard a sound coming from your kitchen.. did someone break in? You walked over to the kitchen to see someone anxiously pacing back and forth, and eventually they noticed you!!

“... BẠN LÀ AI!?!? You-you know where am?!..”

They, or- he froze in place for a moment.. staring before he walked towards you and spoke in Vietnamese. Was this the countryhuman Vietnam?. The same outfit from the videogame and everything, the skin color, the logo on his face. What is this tomfoolery going on?! He seemed incredibly perplexed and anxious right now also.. — — —