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''The Rules'' is an Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers {{fan fiction}} by Number One Fan of Journey on Fanfiction.net. It opens with an average world meeting, to which only twenty nations have come. After the usual period of bickering and falling asleep, the nations get ready to go back out the front door...

[[{{Portal Door}} Except outside is some sort of forest instead of the city it was when they entered.]]

The nations find a note entitled [[{{Title Drop}} "The Rules"]], which states:

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''The Rules'' is an Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers {{fan fiction}} a ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' {{fanfiction}} by Number One Fan of Journey on Fanfiction.net. It opens with an average world meeting, to which only twenty nations have come. After the usual period of bickering and falling asleep, the nations get ready to go back out the front door...

[[{{Portal Door}} [[PortalDoor Except outside is some sort of forest instead of the city it was when they entered.]]

The nations find a note entitled [[{{Title Drop}} [[TitleDrop "The Rules"]], which states:



[[{{Four is Death}} 4.]] [[{{Anyone Can Die}} Enjoy your immortality while it lasts.]]"

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[[{{Four is Death}} [[FourIsDeath 4.]] [[{{Anyone Can Die}} [[AnyoneCanDie Enjoy your immortality while it lasts.]]"



* AnyoneCanDie: And everyone does. The only question is who gets to [[{{Back from the Dead}} come back]].
* ApologeticAttacker: Japan.

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* AnyoneCanDie: And everyone does. The only question is who gets to [[{{Back from the Dead}} [[BackFromTheDead come back]].
* %%* ApologeticAttacker: Japan.



* BonusMaterial: The final chapter supplies a timeline, a list of who has killed who, explanations for the chapter titles and some information on the sequel.



* DarkFic
* DarkerAndEdgier

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* %%* DarkFic
* %%* DarkerAndEdgier



* DuelToTheDeath: Quite often.

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* %%* DuelToTheDeath: Quite often.



* GetItOverWith: [[spoiler: Estonia]] to Japan.

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* %%* GetItOverWith: [[spoiler: Estonia]] to Japan.



* ImmortalHero: The entire cast, at first.
* InTheBack: How [[spoiler:France]] kills [[spoiler: Spain]].
* InvoluntaryBattleToTheDeath: The entire premise.

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* ImmortalHero: The entire cast, cast is immortal, at first.
* %%* InTheBack: How [[spoiler:France]] kills [[spoiler: Spain]].
* %%* InvoluntaryBattleToTheDeath: The entire premise.



* KillEmAll

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* %%* KillEmAll



* MutualKill / TakingYouWithMe: Too many times to count.

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* %%* MutualKill / TakingYouWithMe: Too many times to count.



* SanitySlippage: Several nations, especially [[spoiler: Canada]].
* WhamEpisode: Quite a few chapters serve as this.

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* %%* SanitySlippage: Several nations, especially [[spoiler: Canada]].
* %%* WhamEpisode: Quite a few chapters serve as this.
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* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: Subverted – Spain, Romano and Italy celebrate with a puddle-drinking party not because [[spoiler: Austria's dead, but because his death allowed Hungary to get home safely.]]

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* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: Subverted – Spain, Romano and Italy celebrate with a puddle-drinking party not because [[spoiler: Austria's dead, but because his death allowed Hungary to get home safely.]]



** [[spoiler: Poland]] actually pulls this off twice – once for [[spoiler: Japan]] and once for [[spoiler: Lithuania]]. It helps that the characters were not certain they would actually die or not.

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** [[spoiler: Poland]] actually pulls this off twice – once for [[spoiler: Japan]] and once for [[spoiler: Lithuania]]. It helps that the characters were not certain they would actually die or not.



** Subverted with [[spoiler: Austria and Hungary]], who agree to kill each other at the same time, risking their lives for the other while still giving themselves a shot at survival. [[spoiler: Hungary ends up getting sent home from this – but Austria doesn't stay dead.]]

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** Subverted with [[spoiler: Austria and Hungary]], who agree to kill each other at the same time, risking their lives for the other while still giving themselves a shot at survival. [[spoiler: Hungary ends up getting sent home from this – but Austria doesn't stay dead.]]



** The nations begin to suspect this is the case after several instances of it get people sent home. It turns out [[spoiler: they're only half-right. Some characters – Germany, Lithuania, France, Hungary and America – have to kill loved ones – Japan, Poland, Spain, Austria and England respectively – but in other cases it's completely random]].

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** The nations begin to suspect this is the case after several instances of it get people sent home. It turns out [[spoiler: they're only half-right. Some characters – Germany, Lithuania, France, Hungary and America – have to kill loved ones – Japan, Poland, Spain, Austria and England respectively – but in other cases it's completely random]].



* LoveMartyr: Lithuania is so head-over-heels in love with Belarus that he refuses to believe anything bad about her – even after [[spoiler: she kills him in cold blood]].

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* LoveMartyr: Lithuania is so head-over-heels in love with Belarus that he refuses to believe anything bad about her – even after [[spoiler: she kills him in cold blood]].
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* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: Subverted – Spain, Romano and Italy celebrate with a puddle-drinking party not because [[spoiler: Austria's dead, but because his death allowed Hungary to get home safely.]]

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* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: Subverted – Spain, Romano and Italy celebrate with a puddle-drinking party not because [[spoiler: Austria's dead, but because his death allowed Hungary to get home safely.]]



** [[spoiler: Poland]] actually pulls this off twice – once for [[spoiler: Japan]] and once for [[spoiler: Lithuania]]. It helps that the characters were not certain they would actually die or not.

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** [[spoiler: Poland]] actually pulls this off twice – once for [[spoiler: Japan]] and once for [[spoiler: Lithuania]]. It helps that the characters were not certain they would actually die or not.



** Subverted with [[spoiler: Austria and Hungary]], who agree to kill each other at the same time, risking their lives for the other while still giving themselves a shot at survival. [[spoiler: Hungary ends up getting sent home from this – but Austria doesn't stay dead.]]

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** Subverted with [[spoiler: Austria and Hungary]], who agree to kill each other at the same time, risking their lives for the other while still giving themselves a shot at survival. [[spoiler: Hungary ends up getting sent home from this – but Austria doesn't stay dead.]]



** The nations begin to suspect this is the case after several instances of it get people sent home. It turns out [[spoiler: they're only half-right. Some characters – Germany, Lithuania, France, Hungary and America – have to kill loved ones – Japan, Poland, Spain, Austria and England respectively – but in other cases it's completely random]].

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** The nations begin to suspect this is the case after several instances of it get people sent home. It turns out [[spoiler: they're only half-right. Some characters – Germany, Lithuania, France, Hungary and America – have to kill loved ones – Japan, Poland, Spain, Austria and England respectively – but in other cases it's completely random]].



* LoveMartyr: Lithuania is so head-over-heels in love with Belarus that he refuses to believe anything bad about her – even after [[spoiler: she kills him in cold blood]].

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* LoveMartyr: Lithuania is so head-over-heels in love with Belarus that he refuses to believe anything bad about her – even after [[spoiler: she kills him in cold blood]].



* RussianGuySuffersMost: Surprisingly averted for a Hetalia story. Russia doesn't die nearly as often as some of the other nations, and [[spoiler: gets to go home with little suffering on his part]]. Although, he is the first nation to [[spoiler: feel the effects of the bombs at the end…]]

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* RussianGuySuffersMost: Surprisingly averted for a Hetalia story. Russia doesn't die nearly as often as some of the other nations, and [[spoiler: gets to go home with little suffering on his part]]. Although, he is the first nation to [[spoiler: feel the effects of the bombs at the end…]]end...]]
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''The Rules'' is an Manga/AxisPowersHetalia {{fan fiction}} by Number One Fan of Journey on Fanfiction.net. It opens with an average world meeting, to which only twenty nations have come. After the usual period of bickering and falling asleep, the nations get ready to go back out the front door...

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''The Rules'' is an Manga/AxisPowersHetalia Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers {{fan fiction}} by Number One Fan of Journey on Fanfiction.net. It opens with an average world meeting, to which only twenty nations have come. After the usual period of bickering and falling asleep, the nations get ready to go back out the front door...
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* ActionFilmQuietDramaScene: As usual in Journey's work, there are quite a few, and they usually coincide with Crowning Moments of Heartwarming:

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* ActionFilmQuietDramaScene: As usual in Journey's work, there are quite a few, and they usually coincide with Crowning Moments of Heartwarming:Multiple:



* AlmostDeadGuy: Too often to mention. Probably the most memorable example is [[spoiler: Romano]], hanging on long enough to deliver a [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming heartwarming]] speech to [[spoiler: [[VitriolicBestBuds Spain]].]]

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* AlmostDeadGuy: Too often to mention. Probably the most memorable example is [[spoiler: Romano]], hanging on long enough to deliver a [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming heartwarming]] speech to [[spoiler: [[VitriolicBestBuds Spain]].]]
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* CutShort: The series ends with the nations [[spoiler: finding the island again,]] but discovering that their stranded companions [[spoiler: cannot get back through the barrier until they have made their kills.]] See Ambiguous Ending above.

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