History DarthWiki / AltTalia

* ImageLinks/CosplayFanArt: In one chapter in 1946, Taiwan gets into Anime/SPYxFamily, relating to the characters' circumstances. This is followed by two drawings of Japan, Okinawa, and Taiwan cosplaying as Loid, Yor, and Anya respectively.

** There were also the one-off, sort of BlackComedy VideoGame/KanColle crossover skits which were used to discuss naval warfare and how various countries approached it (e.g. England being uncharacteristically doting, albeit clearly having favorites, while Germany and Prussia both expect too much of them and are comically deadbeat), albeit some stuff is already covered in the main series or even in other lighter stories. Though the author admits that she doesn't know much about the series, it usually isn't too notable due to the skits/strips being extremely short (though there are a few deliberate changes like the Bismarck being a masculine crossdresser and the uniforms looking slightly less "anime")... also certain members of [[ButtMonkey the Kriegsmarine]] and all of the Soviet ships get a GenderFlip due to how certain ships in German and all ships in Russian are male. MMD versions of these skits are actually some of the few Alt-talia related material translated into Japanese, and are available on Website/NicoNicoDouga.

** Also there’s a chapter dedicated to Film/GodzillaMinusOne, the author’s favorite movie which she has written several fanfics for before. It apparently becomes a cultural phenomenon, being created to put a spotlight on veterans’ mental health and doing exactly that. It even leads to the government creating a state-run mental health program for former and current {{Shell Shocked Veteran}}s. It’s apparently very controversial among Pacific War veterans, with those more disillusioned with the war adoring it, and the unrepentant ones despising it, but it apparently brought many into the former camp. There’s also the addition of Film/TheEternalZero, a previous work of director Takashi Yamazaki’s, among the movies Admiral Yamamoto is shown, though apparently this was written before the author’s viewing of Minus One, and was done purely to include more Japanese movies and that it was explosively popular and iconic (many western movies, like Film/BridgeOnTheRiverKwai, are removed).

** In “Our War Isn’t Over Yet”, taking place in 1947, a former soldier watches Godzilla Minus One, and realizes the pent-up feelings he had about the war, all the trauma, that he never let himself process. He starts a hashtag, “I Am Shikishima”, on Twitter, and it goes viral. The chapter drifts away from him later and becomes more wide-scale, though. I’m

* SociopathicSoldier: The gaggle of IJA soldiers coming home from China who happily tell Sankei journalists what they did in Nanking, thinking that they’d just be accepted by society like they would have been in their time. One even goes into really vivid detail while another laughs and tells him “You don’t have to brag that much!”. The journalists, who were expecting to hear the war crimes disproven, are of course horrified.

* HeelRealization: Japan does genuinely want better relations with his neighbors even initially, and have guilt about it. However, he’s somewhat in denial how bad he was. He and PM Shinzo Abe come to the gradual realization that yes, Japan was indeed that bad; a group of soldiers blabbering to Sankei Newspaper about the Rape of Nanking and Sankei publishing a headline about it is the final blow, and Asahi Newspaper publishing their story about Unit 731 days after is icing on the cake. Japan faces the facts, and becomes even more dedicated to repairing damaged bridges, even proposing a trial for the war criminals, which is unanimously approved.

* LowerDeckEpisode: There are a few chapters focusing on average humans, just like normal Alt-talia.

* HormoneAddledTeenager: Karafuto and Taiwan both, to both of their embarrassment. In the mini-arc concerning Japan’s ecchi mangas elaborated below in PornStash, it's revealed that Karafuto and Taiwan become huge markets for raunchy works, due to their half a decade or so of censorship. The censorship, combined with the two being teenagers, led to their hormones going absolutely wild after the Transition. In yet another follow-up fic taking place two years after the two fics described in PornStash, it’s revealed a substantial domestic smut industry in these territories has sprung up as well. The purchase of smut used to be barely regulated, but people are more alert now, and now the kids can’t buy them due to their physical ages; thus, this two-part fic involves, to the embarrassment of everyone involved, Japan and Okinawa buying smut for Karafuto and Taiwan respectively. The half with the men is purely comedic, while the half with the women is also comedic, but also has Okinawa making this a teachable moment, telling Taiwan that her having such urges isn’t shameful, as long as she keeps it private (though she does have to hide the shock she has at how much she wants).

* HumanityEnsues: India becomes a moral, due to India not becoming a united country. He lives the rest of his life as just a regular human.

* HormoneAddledTeenager: Karafuto and Taiwan both, to both of their embarrassment. In the mini-arc concerning Japan’s ecchi mangas elaborated below in PornStash, it's revealed that Karafuto and Taiwan become huge markets for raunchy works, due to their half a decade or so of censorship. The censorship, combined with the two being teenagers, led to their hormones going absolutely wild after the Transition. In yet another follow-up fic taking place two years after the two chapters described in PornStash, it’s revealed a substantial domestic smut industry in these territories has sprung up as well. The purchase of smut used to be barely regulated, but people are more alert now, and now the kids can’t buy them due to their physical ages; thus, this two-part fic involves, to the embarrassment of everyone involved, Japan and Okinawa buying smut (mainly comics) for Karafuto and Taiwan respectively. The half with the men is purely comedic, while the half with the women is also comedic, but also has Okinawa making this a teachable moment, telling Taiwan that her having such urges isn’t shameful, as long as she keeps it private.

* HormoneAddledTeenager: Karafuto and Taiwan both, to both of their embarrassment. In the mini-arc concerning Japan’s ecchi mangas elaborated below in PornStash, it's revealed that Karafuto and Taiwan become huge markets for raunchy works, due to their half a decade or so of censorship. The censorship, combined with the two being teenagers, led to their hormones going absolutely wild after the Transition. In yet another follow-up chapter taking place two years after the two chapters described in PornStash, it’s revealed a substantial domestic smut industry in these territories has sprung up as well. The chapter is Taiwan-centric this time; the purchase of smut used to be barely regulated, but people are more alert now, and now she can’t buy them due to her physical age. So she has to, to both their embarrassment, get Japan to buy her the hardcore yaoi/danmei she wants (Okinawa refused to do so). It’s also revealed that Japan had to buy smut for Karafuto not long before too, which was marginally less embarrassing. They’re awkwardly silent for the entire trip home, and she immediately goes to her room once they reach her residence, both because she’s so ashamed and [[IllBeInMyBunk for obvious reasons]].

* HormoneAddledTeenager: Karafuto and Taiwan both, to both of their embarrassment. In the mini-arc concerning Japan’s ecchi mangas elaborated below in PornStash, it's revealed that Karafuto and Taiwan become huge markets for raunchy works, due to their half a decade or so of censorship. The censorship, combined with the two being teenagers, led to their hormones going absolutely wild after the Transition. In yet another follow-up chapter taking place a year and an half after the two chapters described in PornStash, it’s revealed a substantial domestic smut industry in these territories has sprung up as well. The chapter is Taiwan-centric this time; the purchase of smut used to be barely regulated, but people are more alert now, and now she can’t buy them due to her physical age. So she has to, to both their embarrassment, get Japan to buy her the hardcore yaoi/danmei she wants (Okinawa refused to do so). It’s also revealed that Japan had to buy smut for Karafuto not long before too, which was marginally less embarrassing.

* HormoneAddledTeenager: Karafuto and Taiwan both, to both of their embarrassment. In the mini-arc concerning Japan’s ecchi mangas elaborated below in PornStash, it's revealed that Karafuto and Taiwan become huge markets for raunchy works, due to their half a decade or so of censorship. In yet another follow-up chapter taking place a year after the two chapters described in PornStash, it’s revealed a substantial domestic smut industry in these territories has sprung up as well. The chapter is Taiwan-centric this time; the purchase of smut used to be barely regulated, but people are more alert now, and now she can’t buy them due to her physical age. So she has to, to both their embarrassment, get Japan to buy her the hardcore yaoi she wants (Okinawa refused to do so). It’s also revealed that Japan had to buy smut for Karafuto not long before too.

* HormoneAddledTeenager: Karafuto and Taiwan both, to both of their embarrassment. In the mini-arc concerning Japan’s ecchi mangas elaborated below in PornStash, it's revealed that Karafuto and Taiwan become huge markets for raunchy works, due to their half a decade or so of censorship. In yet another follow-up chapter taking place a year after the two chapters described in PornStash, it’s revealed a substantial domestic smut industry in these territories has sprung up as well. The chapter is Taiwan-centric this time; the purchase of smut used to be unregulated, but that changed, and now she can’t buy them due to her physical age, so she has to, to both their embarrassment, get Japan to buy her her hardcore yaoi. It’s also revealed that Japan had to buy smut for Karafuto not long before too.

** …Then, about a year and a half later, Japan finds that one of his ''Monster Musume'' volumes is gone. Not just any volume, volume 14, one of the most explicit ones. Japan has a sneaking suspicion, and opens Karafuto’s door, to see [[HormoneAddledTeenager Karafuto reading it, along with three other suspicious-looking publications that Japan hasn’t seen before, and a tissue box, on his bed]]. Karafuto looks like he wants to disappear. Japan tries not to laugh. This apparently represents the sure fire huge market that dirty content would find in the sexually repressed regions Japan inherited from Imperial Japan, and the three unknown publications were locally produced content from Karafuto. He becomes a lot less prudish after this.

* AscendedExtra: Karafuto. In main Alt-talia, despite being Japan’s son, he barely had any scenes, with his most notable scene being when he was killed by Soviet troops in a last stand. Japan does mourn him, but not much. Here he’s part of the main cast, is expanded on a lot, and is one of the most complex characters in the mini-series.

* CorporalPunishment: Discussed. To Karafuto, this is just how parents should punish their children, and he is no exception. So when Karafuto yells at Japan that he isn’t his father anymore, he stops, fear briefly flashes across his face, he faces down, and says that Japan can beat him now. After a conversation, Karafuto tells Japan that the fact Japan doesn’t beat him shows he’s gone soft.

* WellDoneDadGuy: One of Japan’s main missions is to get the respect of Taiwan and to an extent Karafuto. He tells Taiwan that she doesn’t have to call him “Father” if she doesn’t want to, and that she shouldn’t be afraid of her father. It takes 6 years for Taiwan to fully bond with Japan, and Karafuto and Japan do sometimes clash, but he does earn both of their unconditional love. Though Karafuto never doesn’t love Japan, he’s just sometimes frustrated with their difference in values and previously was looked down upon.

* WellDoneDadGuy: One of Japan’s main missions is to get the respect of Taiwan and to an extent Karafuto. He tells Taiwan that she doesn’t have to call him “Father” if she doesn’t want to, and that she shouldn’t be afraid of her father. It takes 6 years for Taiwan to fully bond with Japan, and Karafuto and Japan continue to clash for a while, but he does earn both of their unconditional love. Though Karafuto never doesn’t love Japan, he’s just frustrated with their difference in values often.

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Japan and Okinawa, being from 2015, obviously clash with everyone else. They sometimes don’t appreciate the new values Japan brought with him, and Japan, who was conservative by 2015 standards, is shocked to be reminded of just how bad the bigotry in 1939 was. This is also his main conflict with Karafuto, who still has 1939 Japanese values.

** [[spoiler:Japan is going to a world meeting in New York City. His family sends him off to go sightseeing, with Karafuto specifically being noted to have medium-length hair. Japan sits in the world meeting, waiting for it to start; Vietnam lights up when she sees him, Thailand walks in with his wife, Laos, and smile and wave, Mexico asks him if they can have a Dragon Ball Z watch party later. Others also wish to sit near him, and try to strike up conversations about anime and such. America gives him a pat on the shoulder, and even China waves upon seeing him. Then Korea sits beside him, and the two reminisce]].

* MistakenForRomance: Sort of with Japan and Okinawa, who are mistaken for a married couple, though that isn’t the focus of the scene. In a short chapter set in 1945, Japan, Okinawa, Taiwan, and Karafuto are at Universal Studios Japan. A staff member, after giving them their tickets, tells them “Have a nice family trip!”. Japan wonders if he should correct her, Okinawa blushes, but Taiwan says “Okay, thanks!”, and Karafuto doesn’t say anything. In the chapters after, Taiwan starts calling Japan “father”.

** …Then, about a year and a half later, Japan finds that one of his ''Monster Musume'' volumes is gone. Not just any volume, volume 14, one of the most explicit ones. Japan has a sneaking suspicion, and opens Karafuto’s door, to see [[HormoneAddledTeenager Karafuto reading it, along with three other suspicious-looking publications that Japan hasn’t seen before, and a tissue box, on his bed]]. Karafuto looks like he wants to disappear. Japan tries not to laugh. This apparently represents the sure fire huge market that dirty content would find in the sexually repressed regions Japan inherited from Imperial Japan, and the three unknown publications were locally produced content from Karafuto.

* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Taiwan lacks an identity at this point, and part of her doesn’t mind if she just becomes completely Japanese, though part of her doesn’t want that. Karafuto goes in on this, and tells her that things would be much easier and better for her if she just did so. Japan tries to tell her that what Karafuto said isn’t true, and that Abe made her a separate state for a reason, but when she says “wouldn’t you prefer it if I just became completely Japanese? It would be easier for you too.”, which Japan also denies, but she isn’t convinced. Japan just tells her to follow her heart, and what feels best for her. Later, Okinawa visits her on her island. Taiwan tells her the above concerns, and Okinawa tells her that she still speaks a different language from them, and that itself proves that she’s unique, and she should embrace that. Taiwan asks if that means she shouldn’t be Japanese, and Okinawa tells her about her struggle with identity, and how she came to terms with being both Japanese and Okinawan. How she has a history and culture she’s proud of, but that doesn’t mean she isn’t Japanese, and she loves Japan, despite all his faults. In the end, she also tells her that what she sees herself as is her own decision, and that she should follow her heart. By 1965, after much self-searching and even reaching out to her aboriginal tribes, she embraces her Chinese (Hokkien), aboriginal, and Japanese identities, and she decides that she’s just Taiwan, the Chinese, Hokkien speaking and cultured, and to an extent aboriginal, Japanese region.

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Japan and Okinawa, being from 2015, obviously clash with everyone else. They sometimes don’t appreciate the new values Japan brought with him. This is also his main conflict with Karafuto, who still has 1939 Japanese values.
* EarnYourHappyEnding:Much chaos and violence happened after Japan was transported to the past, but ultimately, the world is much better off by the new timeline’s 2015. The series ends on one of two very happy notes in 2015 (there are two endings, which the reader can choose):

* PornStash: Well not exactly. In an earlier chapter, Karafuto finds a stash of Japan’s ecchi mangas (specifically Manga/MonsterMusume) and angrily storms up to Japan. Karafuto shoves a manga in his face and asks “What is this?”. Japan instinctively apologizes, and Karafuto explodes at him that he doesn’t want an apology, he wants answers, and asks how many copies this manga has sold. When Japan answers, embarrassed, that he just likes this sort of thing, and that it sold over a million copies, Karafuto gets even angrier and yells about how can’t believe his father would let himself stoop this low and that he isn’t his father anymore. Karafuto then stops himself, bows his head down, and tells Japan he can beat him for saying something so out of line. Japan refuses, and says he just wants to talk. Karafuto says that he didn’t really mean to disown him, that he will always be his father, but he’s so frustrated at his father’s “depravity”, and that he doesn’t recognize him anymore.
** …Then, about a year and a half later, Japan finds that one of his Monster Musume volumes is gone. Not just any volume, volume 14, one of the most explicit ones. Japan has a sneaking suspicion, and opens Karafuto’s door, to see [[HormoneAddledTeenager Karafuto reading it, along with three other suspicious-looking publications that Japan hasn’t seen before, and a tissue box, on his bed]]. Karafuto looks like he wants to disappear. Japan tries not to laugh. This apparently represents the sure fire huge market that dirty content would find in the sexually repressed regions Japan inherited from Imperial Japan, and the three unknown publications were locally produced content from Karafuto.

** Of course, [[VodkaDrunkenski Russia]] is a pretty massive alcoholic; he basically grew up an addict since childhood, so much so that his Czars started taxing booze. In at least one AllThereInTheManual prompt, he describes it as a family problem, though his sisters only really started sharing their brother's habit after Russia annexed them, and even then by virtue of being women they weren't as bad. While many do try to remedy this, it always hardly worked in the long term, usually only earning them his resentment for their efforts. In the desperate times of the 90s, he actually resorts to aftershave and rubbing alcohol as serious withdrawal symptoms compound his anemia and other health issues. Oh yeah, and he's basically a [[JustForPun Russian Roulette]] of drunkenness, as at times he can be a really sentimental drunk, a happy drunk who acts more like his canon counterpart if your're lucky (very rare)... or become ''[[OhCrap terrifyingly violent]]''. And he can go from the former to the latter in a heartbeat. And Poland, David, Lithuania, Estonia, and even Belarus are shown to get the brunt of these rages directed at them in brutal fashion. ...However, in the most modern day stories, it's shown that he's finally starting to kick the habit, as indeed alcoholism rates steeply declined in the 2010s thanks to legislation.

* PornStash: Well not exactly. In an earlier chapter, Karafuto finds a stash of Japan’s ecchi mangas and angrily storms up to Japan. Karafuto shoves an manga in his face and asks “What is this?”. Japan instinctively apologizes, and Karafuto explodes at him that he doesn’t want an apology, he wants answers. When Japan answers, embarrassed, that he just likes this sort of thing, Karafuto gets even angrier and yells about how can’t believe his father would let himself stoop this low and that he isn’t his father anymore. Karafuto then stops himself, bows his head down, and tells Japan he can beat him for saying something so out of line. Japan refuses, and says he just wants to talk. Karafuto says that he didn’t really mean to disown him, that he will always be his father, but he’s so frustrated at his father’s “depravity”, and that he doesn’t recognize him anymore.

* PornStash: Well not exactly. In an earlier chapter, Karafuto finds a stash of Japan’s ecchi mangas and angrily storms up to Japan. Japan asks what Karafuto was doing in his room, but Karafuto explodes at him that he can’t believe his father would let himself stoop this low and that he isn’t his father anymore. Karafuto then stops himself, bows his head down, and tells Japan he can beat him for saying something so out of line. Japan refuses, and says he just wants to talk. Karafuto says that he didn’t really mean to disown him, that he will always be his father, but he’s so frustrated at his father’s “depravity”, and that he doesn’t recognize him anymore.

** In the fic written later though, it’s revealed that Japan decides to tell Hyun the truth too. He tells Hyun that he and Yong were actually torn apart by a war. A war where they hurt each other, in an attempt to unite their family again, a war that wasn’t ever over. And Hyun became a dictatorship ruled by an iron fist. A dictatorship with militaristic rhetoric much like himself in the past, who threatens the world with nukes, with few friends, constantly living in fear, angry at the world. Hyun is saddened that they were torn apart, and at what he became, but Japan assured him that that future won’t come anymore.
* BroadStrokes: Some elements are changed, but reach the same conclusion, as the original story wasn't always compliant with reality; notably, there’s how Taiwan thinks of Japan, and PM Shinzo Abe’s stance on war crimes. Taiwan is afraid of Japan somewhat at first, which is one of the things which makes Japan realize that he indeed screwed up (because he really likes Taiwan, this especially breaks his heart), instead of being completely happy with the annexation like the original story implied. The pacific islands, meanwhile, are released, to keep things simple. Also Shinzo Abe, as mentioned above, is a lot more skeptical of war crimes.
* CorporalPunishment: Discussed. To Karafuto, this is just how parents should punish their children, and he is no exception. So when Karafuto yells at Japan that he isn’t his father anymore, he stops, fear briefly flashes across his face, faces down, and says that Japan can beat him now. After a conversation, Karafuto tells Japan that the fact Japan doesn’t beat him shows he’s gone soft.

* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Taiwan lacks an identity at this point, and part of her doesn’t mind if she just becomes completely Japanese. Karafuto goes in on this, and tells her that things would be much easier and better for her if she just did so. Japan tries to tell her that what Karafuto said isn’t true, and that Abe made her a separate state for a reason, but when she asks him “wouldn’t you prefer it if I just became completely Japanese? It would be easier for you too.”, which Japan also denies, but she isn’t convinced. Japan just tells her to follow her heart, and what feels best for her. Later, Okinawa visits her on her island. Taiwan tells her the above concerns, and Okinawa tells her that she still speaks a different language from them, and that itself proves that she’s unique, and she should embrace that. Taiwan asks if that means she shouldn’t be Japanese, and Okinawa tells her about her struggle with identity, and how she came to terms with being both Japanese and Okinawan. How she has a history and culture she’s proud of, but that doesn’t mean she isn’t Japanese, and she loves Japan, despite all his faults. In the end, she also tells her that what she sees herself as is her own decision, and that she should follow her heart. By the end, she embraces her Chinese (Hokkien) and Japanese identities, and she decides that she’s just Taiwan, the Chinese, Hokkien speaking and cultured Japanese region.