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This illustration of Rammstein's song "Klavier" is very important to me and I'm gonna explain you why. It's long but it's worth reading, trust me.
This song gives me chills. The singer has a way to make you feel threatened and fascinated by the dark beauty of his voice.
It's a poem, of a man telling the story of how he killed the woman he wanted.
It's very complex and I can't talk about it before quoting and translating it.
I lack space for the german lyrics but I'll give you a link of the concert: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaWnnZ…

There by the piano
I was listening to her
And when her performance began
I held my breath

She told me
'I will stay forever by your side'
I had the illusion
That she was playing just for me
I spilled her blood
In the fire of my rage

There by the piano
She listened to me
And when my performance began
She held her breath

So this is the story of an unhealthy fascination and desire that turns into a passionate murder, that, we can all agree on that, doesn't make sense. It does though, because it perfectly describes an obsessive behaviour. The killer feels an overwhelming desire for the piano player, he wants to own her, but in the same time he feels threatened by her, she litteraly makes him stop breathing. That line is not a metaphor: he's too fascinated to breathe. The piano player probably never said anything to him, but he wants to interpret her performance as a love confession. At some point he realizes he doesn't own her, which is unbearable so he kills her. It's a kind of revenge: "you made me stop breathing, I thought you were mine, now it's your time to stop breathing cause you belong to me."

Also... This song always reminded me of the movie "The Pianist" by Roman Polanski, a must-see movie telling the story of a pianist during nazi occupation. There is a scene in this movie that terrified me deeply, when the pianist meets a SS. (If you saw the movie, you KNOW what scene I'm refering to, if not, telling you more details would ruin it when you see the movie)

So I took the two influences: Klavier, and The pianist, and I wrapped it in a hetalia AU. Austria is the jewish pianist, hiding, obeying and hoping he will survive another day, Prussia is the sick SS who's fascinated by him and his talent, obsessed and afraid, crazy with desire for this man, and he's gonna kill Austria before the love and anger consume him entirely. Both of them are in pain and they're terrified. The prey and the predator.
Which makes the whole story even more frightening and heart-breaking.

Description
This illustration of Rammstein's song "Klavier" is very important to me and I'm gonna explain you why. It's long but it's worth reading, trust me.
This song gives me chills. The singer has a way to make you feel threatened and fascinated by the dark beauty of his voice.
It's a poem, of a man telling the story of how he killed the woman he wanted.
It's very complex and I can't talk about it before quoting and translating it.
I lack space for the german lyrics but I'll give you a link of the concert: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaWnnZ…

There by the piano
I was listening to her
And when her performance began
I held my breath

She told me
'I will stay forever by your side'
I had the illusion
That she was playing just for me
I spilled her blood
In the fire of my rage

There by the piano
She listened to me
And when my performance began
She held her breath

So this is the story of an unhealthy fascination and desire that turns into a passionate murder, that, we can all agree on that, doesn't make sense. It does though, because it perfectly describes an obsessive behaviour. The killer feels an overwhelming desire for the piano player, he wants to own her, but in the same time he feels threatened by her, she litteraly makes him stop breathing. That line is not a metaphor: he's too fascinated to breathe. The piano player probably never said anything to him, but he wants to interpret her performance as a love confession. At some point he realizes he doesn't own her, which is unbearable so he kills her. It's a kind of revenge: "you made me stop breathing, I thought you were mine, now it's your time to stop breathing cause you belong to me."

Also... This song always reminded me of the movie "The Pianist" by Roman Polanski, a must-see movie telling the story of a pianist during nazi occupation. There is a scene in this movie that terrified me deeply, when the pianist meets a SS. (If you saw the movie, you KNOW what scene I'm refering to, if not, telling you more details would ruin it when you see the movie)

So I took the two influences: Klavier, and The pianist, and I wrapped it in a hetalia AU. Austria is the jewish pianist, hiding, obeying and hoping he will survive another day, Prussia is the sick SS who's fascinated by him and his talent, obsessed and afraid, crazy with desire for this man, and he's gonna kill Austria before the love and anger consume him entirely. Both of them are in pain and they're terrified. The prey and the predator.
Which makes the whole story even more frightening and heart-breaking.