"This story will not have a happy ending, love. I just can't see it on the horizon, and anything that I can't see isn't there."
-Summary for Yellow's Arc
Seven Little Killers is a Axis Powers Hetalia fanfiction written by Lucky-Angel135 (a collaboration between luckystars135 and AngelWhoIsNotASerialKiller) that plays as a dark murder mystery romance. So much Better Than It Sounds.A short summarization: In a somewhat altered universe, all seems peaceful until a nation-killer rises, shocking all the countries of the world into a paranoid hysteria. Italy, Germany and Japan team up to solve the case, while America hides some shady secrets about his home life with his boss and brother, China is forced to face a destructive force beyond his denial, and England and Japan attempt to keep their fellow countries sane despite their own inner demons. Nevertheless, as the world begins to crumble around them, it may prove difficult for the nations to keep both their lives and reason as faceless villain Black and his devoted seven followers start the process of the world’s end.Despite the bucket-loads of Nightmare Fuel here due to extreme amounts of gore and violence, it's truely a work of art, and is now all but exhalted in the Hetalia fandom as a brilliantly written mystery that keeps its readers on their toes.WARNING: Since the story does revolve around murder and mystery, spoilers run rampid here.This fanfiction provides examples of:
AbusiveParentsBoss: America’s boss. At least, that's what we're supposed to think originally. In retrospect, he was the only one who could control America. In retrospect retrospect, I still can't believe that America let him get away with it for Canada. (Not mindfucking enough for you? It could be worse. No, seriously. America and Canada swap places at least 5 times already, still counting. Without reading Blue's eye-opener arc, go back and try to figure out which one was which one. It's IMPOSSIBLE.).
Anyone Can Die: Holy god. NO KIDDING. Switzerland dies in the first chapter, and things get much, much worse. Fast.
Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Even though Japan clearly states his desire to kill America after he and the other killers had completely ruined his family, they get back together after America reveals the truth behind who Blue really is and chooses to save Japan over his own brother. Even while America claims that he was the true killer and Canada was merely his puppet, Japan keeps loving him and sees him as the victim.
Enfant Terrible: Little Nussia (New Republic Of Russia), originally a cutesickly boy, becomes this after China’s forced to kill him and he comes Back from the Dead. Huh. I always thought that was just China hallucinating...
Everyone Is A Suspect: Somewhat Averted. Characters like China, England, Russia, Japan, Italy, Iceland, and all the killed nations are most-definitely not part of the killers. Otherwise, it’s played totally straight and falls into Wild Mass Guessing. Well, from chapter 42, Germany can't be one. Also, as of Chapter 43, we get England confirmed as one of the killers WARNING: This spoiler is a MASSIVE tearjerker.
Fingore: Japan has to break his fingers to free the hostages - one finger per hostage.
Friendly Target: Since all the nations seem friendly with one another for the most part, it naturally falls under this.
When Blue was revealed to be America (and Canada), who was supposed to kill America’s love-interest, Japan.
Yellow commands China to kill Nussia, whom is basically the younger brother of his husband/lover.
Genre Savvy: Russia, surprisingly, figures out much of the story’s mystery shortly before falling into a coma, making it so that everything he knew is now unreachable information.
Heroic Albino: Prussia, after capturing America/Canada. In heels, no less.
Heroic Dog: Kitty, a small dog China adopted, leads Korea to where Russia and China are during the gas leak Green set up.
Heroic Sacrifice: Norway allows Denmark to kill him in order to save Iceland from being killed.
Germany at the start of 43, but he dies by the end of the chapter
Please Wake Up: China to Russia early on. He’s not dead, but it’s still pretty heartbreaking.
Prime Suspect: In-story example, Poland gets blamed early on for the attack on Russia, while Hungary and Austria are pretty obvious suspects for Switzerland’s murder.
Shout Out / Sincerest Form of Flattery: While the authoresses didn't explicitly state that they took inspiration from Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, they have said that they have watched it in some author's notes (or the profile; forgot which one). It even has started into an odds border that they have not included kills from Umineko yet. Some kills and/or events taken directly from Higurashi (as of now) are:
The entire Blue's arc is a Homage to Watanagashi-hen/Meakashi-hen. This includes the punishment game, although in this one poor Japan has to bear Fingore even more Gorn than the real one and Mind ScrewyTwin Switch.
After Japan killed America's Boss, Finland delivered the same speech to the killer just like how Takano Miyo delivered to Keiichi in Tatarigoroshi-Hen.
Suicide Pact: The killers under Black, who know that they, too, will die by his hands.
America’s “when you die, I’ll die” toward Canada counts, too.
Denmark being forced to kill Norway to save Iceland’s life.
Romano’s death is pretty depressing, too, mosly because we get Italy and Spain's reactions to his death.
Russia's reaction to China's unresposiveness. You just want to hug him.
Su-san's speech to Finland when he finds the latters dead body. Made even worse by the severe and abrupt Genre Shift, where Iceland and himself fly a plane (although neither of them can actually fly) and, of course, England's journal, to Italy and England trying to hide Finland's body from Sweden when he asks where Finland is. He then questions what Italy is hiding. Japan's broken "He's hiding Finland's body, Sweden", does not help matters in the least.
Theme Naming: Every chapter is named after a publicly known serial killer, respectively.
Ungrateful Bastard: Many examples, but the most noteworthy would be Canada to America, who chose Japan over him.
Unwanted Spouse: China’s rather reluctant merge with Russia starts as this, as he only agrees for the sake of the betterment of his people. It’s only until Russia tries to kill China for standing up for Lithuania that they actually start getting along, and eventually fall in love.
is a Axis Powers Hetalia fanfiction written by Lucky-Angel135
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