N. Italy: At least the Fascists have parties too. Hey! That was a really nice joke, fratello!
S. Italy: It's really not a joke.
N. Italy: No, no. It's a joke because they're the Fascist party and they're having a parade. It's surreal.
S. Italy: Surrealism isn't a joke either.
Considering that webcomic and anime Axis Powers Hetalia requires Politically Correct History in order to keep the series as lighthearted and satirical as it is, the fandom's come up with some downrightdisturbing things in the way of Fan Fic.All He Ever Wanted takes the premise and conceit of Axis Powers Hetalia (namely, personifying the Nations of the world) and uses it to explore the events of an Alternate History where England kept its 50-year alliance to Japan and joined the Axis Powers (which is not that farfetched a historical possibility). All He Ever Wanted follows the Nations through a prolonged World War II and the often-painful choices that this time of conflict forces them to make. Where Hetalia itself would Hand Wave the darker parts of a Nation's history for the sake of the story that's being told, All He Ever Wanted approaches them head-on, and has the characters do the same. However, your mileage WILL vary in regards of how well-done it is or not. And this is all that should be said about it in the main page.The AHEWniverse project is ongoing, and as such this page contains only tropes that have already been exhibited in the stories. Please keep it spoiler-free!
Also, though the installments are written mostly in American English, the characters' voices follow anglicized grammatical structure of their own languages. Japan uses no contractions, Russia uses short sentences but long paragraphs, France always inflects upward, etc.
When Austria tells Messaien what he is, Messaien thinks he means to say that he is Austrian and says "Your French needs work." Austria clarifies: "No, I am the State".
Bittersweet Ending: Romano, aka. South Italy leaves his brother, with the implication that there will eventually be fragmentation and an Italian civil war. However, in doing so he "attains" Spain's respect and love.
Came Back Wrong: Word Of God says four characters will die. Three already have, and the authors have left tracks stating that they, being Nations, are not gone for good. Greece has already been reincarnated, and Switzerland is a poltergeist. But as for France, well...
Chickification: Pulled on Hungary, a fearless Action Girl in canon... whom Prussia easily captures, then brutally tortures and rapes to "teach a lesson" to her beloved ex-husband Austria, whom Prussia is holding hostage..
Color-Coded for Your Convenience: The Fascists wear greyscale, the communists and socialists wear blood and gold.It is implied that civilian Nations wear colors, mostly those not associated with either side; when Austria is let out of his glass box, he wears first a red, then a blue scarf.
Drink Order: Italy drinks all the colors of the world!
Driven to Suicide: At some point around the time England went mad, hundreds of citizens of the Empire and Commonwealth engaged in mass suicides, many hurling themselves off the White Cliffs of Dover. Those who couldn't get to the British Isles did the same thing in Calcutta. By 1949, several thousand have killed themselves.
For want of Japan, poor France was lost; For want of poor France, America was lost; For want of America, his mind was lost; For want of his mind, the Empire was lost; For want of the Empire, the war was won, Though not by the Nation who started it all.
In fact, this seems to be a running thing with the sexual relationships in AHEW. Prussia's among the worst of the lot and enjoys himself immensely, specially through rapingthe few AHEW-important women; England and Japan are happily malevolent together through the entire first half of the chronology, so much that France complains about how much time England spends having sex; and, well, the Drunken Fascist Orgy.
Grey and Gray Morality: Neither the Fascists nor the Communists are immune from atrocities, but neither is presented as completely monstrous. May be Black and Gray Morality if you give the Communists the benefit of the doubt.
Lyrical Dissonance: Fratelli d'Italia in "All The Rest Have Thirty One", Vesti la giubba in "Put on the Costume", "The Sun Whose Rays Are All Ablaze," and pretty much the entirety of "FULL STOP", or whenever England sings at all.
Mad Oracle: In the second half of the continuity England is either this or a Talkative Loon. The one thing that stands in the way of his being purely a Mad Oracle is that he can't see the future; he can see the story, because he can see all stories right now, and all of them are true.
"Excepting February" is written in homage to House of Leaves, with Switzerland's house getting walled in.
In England's arc in particular, there are excessive references to his literature and culture: "Lavender's Green" is a particularly long string of references. invoked
During "The Seventh Door", Prussia and Hungary only speak in the rhythm of Bela Bartok's Duke Bluebeard's Castle: "Judith, tell me, will you follow?" "I will follow, Kekzakallu." The title of the installment also comes from that opera.
"City of Light" follows and uses Dreyer's Joan of Arc as a focal reference.
Of all things, Japan unconsciously references Bugs Bunny in "It is my Very Humane Endeavor": "He believes he is hunting rabbits, so please be quiet." Australia attempts to point out what he just said, but Japan doesn't quite get it.
The title of "Yes, Virginia" is taken from a Dresden Dolls song, "Mrs. O.," and contains as many sections as the song has verses, much to the author's surprise.
The phrase/idiom "Yes, Virginia" was around long before the Dresden Dolls used it, just saying.
Count the references to Jewish culture in "Fly, Thought, on Wings of Gold", very few of which are made explicit. Also, the word Jew is almost never actually used.
The entire fic "Inherit the Earth" is a dark-mirror remix of the popular canonverse Hetalia fic "Kingdom of Heaven".
And then Prussia kills Hitler and stages said coup to bring back the Iron Cross. It's in one of the first fics in the timeline.
And is still more Nazi than Germany, which historically makes no sense. Do read up on Preußenschlag. A Preußenschlag, that in the fic, Prussia staged. That's anti-historical and just plain wrong. (Not to mention chock-full of Unfortunate Implications about German people as a whole.)
The Rashomon: So what happened during the German-Russian conflict on the (former) Polish border (or was it?) in September 1939? "The Left Hand Doesn't Know" and "What The Right Hand Is Doing" give us about four different accounts, and by the end of "What The Right Hand Is Doing," Russia still hasn't figured out what went on, or even what the Party line about what went on should be. Germany gives the situation as much resolution as it's going to get when he declares war on Russia, though.
Theme Naming: Not the characters, but the installments.
Every fic that has to do with the death of a Nation takes its title from the poem, Thirty Days Hath September.
The fics that deal with Central Europe, particularly the German nations, take their titles from famous opera excerpts.
If a fic is part of a companion set, their titles will be directly related, such has "The Left Hand Doesn't Know" followed by "What the Right Hand is Doing".
takes the premise and conceit of Axis Powers Hetalia (namely, personifying the Nations of the world) and uses it to explore the events of an Alternate History where England kept its 50-year alliance to Japan and joined the Axis Powers (which is not that farfetched a historical possibility). All He Ever Wanted follows the Nations through a prolonged World War II and the often-painful choices that this time of conflict forces them to make. Where Hetalia itself would Hand Wave the darker parts of a Nation's history for the sake of the story that's being told, All He Ever Wanted approaches them head-on, and has the characters do the same. However, your mileage WILL vary in regards of how well-done it is or not. And this is all that should be said about it in the main page.The AHEWniverse project is ongoing, and as such this page contains only tropes that have already been exhibited in the stories. Please keep it spoiler-free!
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