History DarthWiki / AltTalia

* LowerDeckEpisode: There are a few chapters focusing on average humans, just like normal Alt-talia, such as three chapters focusing on returning soldiers reuniting with their families, or meeting them for the first time.

* AwfulTruth: In a comic, the Korea twins ask Japan what kind of country they grew up into. Japan tells Yong that he grew up into a stubborn young man, a bit of a thorn in his side, and they of course had a tense relationship. But that he grew up into a strong, developed nation from basically nothing, and that he fully understands what his future version meant now. Hyun says “Oh, Yong got to be Korea next? I didn’t think that’d happen, but I’m proud of him! …What happened to me?” and Japan, sweating, wonders “Should I tell him???”

''My Stepbrother, My Enemy'': A sort of extended version but not exactly of a previous ''1984'' short story, "Airstrip One" (or more the "alternate ending" for the short story, based on the theory that Oceania encompasses only Great Britain, where NATO invades and rescues the Brits in the [=2000s=]), a crossover with ''Literature/AmericasStepbrotherAmericasEnemy'' starring America and an uncharacteristically idealistic tone more in-line with the author's other works. America gets ISOT’d (or “[[Main/{{Isekai}} Isekai’d]]” as the author describes it) to the world of ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''. The story details America, his states, and his increasing allies' fight against the superstates.

''[[DarthWiki/AsOneStarSetsAnotherRises Konnichiwa, From The Future!]]'': A crossover with ''As One Star Sets Another Rises''. Japan and Okinawa suddenly find themselves, with all their land and people on it at the time, in 1939, with no way home. Japan seeks to make the best of his situation, but quickly realizes that with his knowledge of the future he can SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong. This series also features a mostly idealistic tone, with Japan coming to the past ending up creating a better world for everyone.

''Literature/WorldWarZ'': Explores the nation side of the eponymous zombie apocalypse novel, through many perspectives.

''Worldwar: Paint It Scaly'': Name pending. A crossover with Fanfic/WorldwarWarOfEquals, a Literature/{{Worldwar}} fanfic on Alternatehistory.com, the title of course a reference to ''Hetalia: Paint It White''. An alien reptilian race attempts to invade Earth in 2011, but fortunately, unlike in the original Worldwar novel, humanily is properly armed and prepared, uniting to save humanity from invasion and exploitation. While darker than ''MSME'', it also features an uncharacteristically idealistic tone where almost all nations get to become heroes, with [[HotBlooded hot blood]], one-liners, heartwarming teamups and moments, and heroic badass moments of awesome galore, often all at once.

* AdaptationalJerkass: Well less Jerkass, but PM Shinzo Abe (and a good part of the conservative government) is, as he was IRL, skeptical of the veracity of war crimes, unlike the original story. Then Sankei Newspaper, a right-wing newspaper, publishes a story verifying it, and he changes his tune. The war crime trials happen much later here than they did in the original story, but they indeed still happen.

* AdaptationalJerkass: Well less Jerkass, but PM Shinzo Abe (and the conservative government is), as he was IRL, skeptical of the veracity of war crimes, unlike the original story. Then Sankei Newspaper, a right-wing newspaper, publishes a story verifying it, and he changes his tune. The war crime trials happen much later here than they did in the original story, but they indeed still happen.

* 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 (which is right-wing) 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.

* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: There’s of course Japan, who wants to repair his relationship with China and the Koreas before it truly goes south. Then he realized he can do this for everyone else as well. Some take time until they realize they’re going on the wrong path, but many wrongs are righted due to the knowledge of Japan and the foreigners who came with him.

* SociopathicSoldier: The gaggle of IJA soldiers coming home from China who happily tell the Sankei reporters what they did in Nanking. One even goes into really vivid detail while another laughs and tells him “You don’t have to brag that much!”. The Sankei reporters are of course horrified.

''[[DarthWiki/AsOneStarSetsAnotherRises Konnichiwa From The Future]]'': A crossover with ''As One Star Sets Another Rises''. Japan and Okinawa suddenly find themselves, with all their land and people on it at the time, in 1939, with no way home. Japan seeks to make the best of his situation, but quickly realizes that with his knowledge of the future he can SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong. This series also features a mostly idealistic tone, with Japan coming to the past ending up creating a better world for everyone.

!!Konnichiwa From The Future

''[[DarthWiki/AsOneStarSetsAnotherRises Konichiwa From The Future]]'': A crossover with ''As One Star Sets Another Rises''. Japan suddenly finds himself in 1939, with no way home. He seeks to make the best of his situation, but quickly realizes that with his knowledge of the future he can SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong. This series also features a mostly idealistic tone, with Japan coming to the past ending up creating a better world for everyone.

''[[DarthWiki/AsOneStarSetsAnotherRuses Konichiwa From The Future]]'': A crossover with ''As One Star Sets Another Rises''. Japan suddenly finds himself in 1939, with no way home. With his knowledge of the future, he seeks to make the best of his situation, but quickly realizes he can SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong. This series also features a mostly idealistic tone, with Japan coming to the past ending up creating a better world for everyone.

''My Stepbrother, My Enemy'': A sort of extended version but not exactly of a previous ''1984'' short story, "Airstrip One" (or more the "alternate ending" for the short story, based on the theory that Oceania encompasses only Great Britain, where NATO invades and rescues the Brits in the [=2000s=]), a crossover with ''Literature/AmericasStepbrotherAmericasEnemy'' starring America and an uncharacteristically idealistic tone more in-line with the author's other works, detailing America, his states, and his increasing allies' fight against the superstates of ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''.

** Palau, one of the Pacific islands to get a bit more attention than others, [[HufflepuffHouse even if that still isn’t very often]], has also been well-received for her sweet, jolly personality, as well as her adorable admiration for Japan (which is officially platonic, but which has been interpreted as romantic by some fans) to an extent her relationship with America, and her loyalty to Taiwan, despite attempts to hurt her economy because of it from China, making her come across as very innocent and just plain nice. The latter, as well as three other Pacific nations, sticking with Taiwan has especially been perceived as a HeartwarmingMoment of kindness in a world of terrible people. Being a rare female character helps. Though many also find her relationship with Japan a bit tragic as she seemingly didn’t understand how he was merely using her as a stepping stone to enact destruction on others, including her friends and family, and intended to assimilate her eventually, still saying that their time together was “fun” and that Japan was “very nice.”

* TheGoodKing: Or rather, emperor. Kaiser Karl I of Austria, as per usual, is one of the few truly, undisputedly good characters in the mini-series, genuinely wanting peace in the empire. The only person he’s ever even somewhat mean to is [[KickTheSonOfABitch Hungary]]. In [[spoiler:Snapshots from the Second Weltkrieg, the "Danubian Federation" route is chosen, with Karl I showing even more of just how much of a ReasonableAuthorityFigure he is as the war rages on around them]].

* BaseBreakingCharacter: While many characters tend to be at least a bit divisive as to likability due to the fact that they tend to be horrible people, Hungary may be one of the few nation characters who is deemed too much of a {{Jerkass}} to have any redeeming quality by a significant amount of people, and for these fans while the humans being gunned down did attract sympathy, her being run over by a tank in the 1956 Hungarian Revolution was more a KickTheSonOfABitch moment than anything; common KickTheDog moments used against her are the fact that despite fighting for self-determination within the Hapsburg Empire she proceeded to be even more oppressive and overbearing than Austria, the fact she is ''still'' sour about Trianon for breaking up her empire and giving Slovakia and the minorities in her territory freedom from her, how she treats Slovakia in general despite the torment she put him through, her modern-day racism, and most of all her complacency and even joy in killing Jews in WWII. The author herself has admitted to it being difficult to make her likable considering what she does, and remember this is a series in which a disturbing amount of characters have engaged in war crimes in the past. There’s also the fact that in modern day at least she’s a complaining jerk. Especially not helping is her ''Legacy of the Weltkrieg'' counterpart, who completely drops all pretense of being likable and is probably the least likable character alongside [[spoiler:Romania, and maybe Serbia by extension]], so much so that some playthroughs of the game by readers of the fic have had them [[KickTheSonOfABitch dicking around with Hungary]] [[CatharsisFactor just to give her some kind of karmic justice]]. However, even then she has fans who like her friendship with [[EnsembleDarkhorse Poland]] or the other friendships she actually has, like her in Culture Clash in which her culture is shown without her ugly history, cite her pre-Compromise behavior, think that she can still redeem herself eventually, and point out how narcissism is a massive problem in much of her peers as well, not just her. Especially cited is the moment where she helps him and his military escape and shelters his refugees, despite being on the other side of the war and it potentially meaning dire consequences for her, with many of her fans saying that this shows she at least protects people she genuinely cares about, something that is debatable for mostly everyone else. But even with her well-received friendship with Poland, for some his association with her taints their view of him as well, expressing frustration at Poland for apparently being willingly oblivious to how terrible his best friend is, even going so far as to blame Poland’s modern less than pleasant behavior on her despite evidence to the contrary, and [[DracoInLeatherPants ignoring the genuinely reprehensible things Poland himself has done under the influence of extreme nationalism]]. ...However, what most will agree on is that her ''Legacy of the Weltkrieg'' counterpart is objectively a {{Jerkass}} who should suffer.

* HandsomeLech: How flirty China is highly fluctuates depending on the era; in modern times for example he’s basically asexual. But during eras like the Tang he is very flirty and almost a LovableSexManiac; most don’t seem to mind, but Vietnam definitely sees him as this.

* LovableSexManiac: China used to be this, as unbelievable as it would be from his modern self, at least up until the Tang Dynasty. This is mostly shown in his interactions with the Korea family; he flirted with Gojoseon constantly and upon meeting her for the first time tried to seduce her (note, he was [[KidANova physically a child at this point]]; the author describes China during the Han as basically a HormoneAddledTeenager[=/=]young adult), he offers to sleep with Silla after meeting her for the first time and offers again the first thing after allying with her (after which there’s an explanation that the Tang were also really sexually open, as China is shown taking a woman to his quarters), and he is disappointed to see Goryeo is a boy upon meeting him because he wouldn’t become a “beautiful maiden” when he was older. Allegedly, how horny he is depends on how stressed he is and how stable things are, and he grows more horny in times of peace. He also really prided himself in how well he could pleasure a woman. Vietnam and Japan bring all this up to the other nations in the aptly named comic “China Was Horny?!”, to China’s massive embarrassment. He grows more prudish during the Song Dynasty, but sometimes still flirts with his tributaries and others as [[ChickMagnet he knows very well how alluring he is]]. There’s also the comic where he proclaims he’d make the girls wear “Tiny xiachangs!” if he could dictate that, though the author says this wouldn’t make much sense because Ming China was more a CovertPervert.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Or rather, straight-up rewriting would be more accurate. At least half of the cast that is a holdover from canon is altered in some major way, many of them straight-up inverted due to initial inaccuracy. [[TheDitz Italy]] is a [[DeadpanSnarker sharp-tongued]], argumentative loudmouth, [[StepfordSmiler Russia]] rarely smiles, [[{{Tsundere}} England]] is the epitome of StiffUpperLip, [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling South Korea]] is a troubled, stressed, [[ThePerfectionist incredibly perfectionistic]] young man, and so on. There's so many of these changes to characters that another page is probably needed to list them all. Even those that do remain similar to their canon counterparts on the surface like America have changes, especially due to the shift in tone. The author also likes going out of her way to highlight these changes. This results in scenes like Italy laying thick TrashTalk on Germany during a football game, Poland making RatedMForManly statements like "A REAL man _!" and calling Italy gay for fussing over his messy appearance, Russia being freaked out over others smiling at each other, Finland and Lithuania lashing out at Sweden and Poland respectively, Sweden calling Finland a redneck, a RunningGag of Switzerland mistaking Liechtenstein as one of his cantons instead of remembering she's a country, or Prussia telling Austria that his smile is annoying and Austria proceeding to annoy him further, that are often initially extremely surreal to read for Hetalia fans going in blind (or even those with prior knowledge for that matter).

** Turkey and South Korea. The former is a jolly, burly-looking, RatedMForManly man who looks to be in his early [=30s=] and is chronologically almost a millennia old, and the latter is an anxious, metrosexual, youthful-looking young nation who is literally across the continent from the former, but the former is still probably the closest friend South Korea has besides America and possibly Australia and Taiwan. As featured in a prompt on the author’s profile (the second drabble for “Candy”, about Turkey giving a scared South Korea a turkish delight), these two meet during the Korean War, and Turkey apparently felt especially sympathetic towards the poor, confused kid. In Evillious Chronicles x Hetalia the author states outright that in the Lust arc (which stars Elif, Turkey’s Nyotalia counterpart) Yong-Soo or his female counterpart definitely plays a major role in the story, even if he doesn’t show up in the fic itself. Similarly goes with Turkey and Japan as well, though that one is stronger from Turkey’s side than it is from Japan’s.

** Poland. In spades. His new RatedMForManly, LargeHam, BoisterousBruiser personality in the Commonwealth era (and not being racist), as well as his at times awesome, at times unwarranted ego, his sheer [[{{Determinator}} will of iron even by nation standards]], and coming across as a comedic ButtMonkey in modern day has also made the author really like him a lot, and as such he appears disproportionately in official art and other material.

* TalkingToHimself: Indirectly. Prussia's voice in the UTAU covers is simply a pitched-up version of Germany's voice, which just happens to sound a lot like Prussia's canon voice without the delinquent-ish inflections, leaving a voice that sounds like canon Prussia but harsh, disciplined, and whip-like. The Korea twins are also played by the same UTAU, North Korea just has a voice that is an octave lower.

* BadassBaritone: Russia has a much lower voice in this canon (a lowered version of his canon voice), mainly to avoid VocalDissonance with his new brooding personality and to fit the HuskyRusskie stereotype a bit more, if not completely.
** Other voices also also occasionally lowered to fit the characters, as canonical voices tend to be a bit cutesy, though it’s avoided when possible (e.g. Latvia, Finland, to a minor extent Poland and Lithuania).
** Sweden is also a baritone now, but only because his voice was actually made higher, unlike other changes, whereas before he was very much in BassoProfundo range.

* EloquentInMyNativeTongue: When communicating in a language they aren’t native to, depending on the fluency of the overall population, they may speak in anything ranging from YouNoTakeCandle to SurprisinglyGoodEnglish, but when speaking their native language they speak very fluently, possibly with accents for parts of countries like states or to convey personality.

* {{Ukefication}}: (basically assuming this is an original work for the most part at this point. OR even an officially licensed spinoff. Somehow.) While not too common due to the more mature audience, it happens. However, they tend to be especially controversial due to the nations being much more clearly nation, resulting in UnfortunateImplications:

** David/Israel can get this. Especially when depicted before he became Israel. It probably doesn’t help that he spent the plurality of his time around the now very masculine Poland (as such it can be rather common even in platonic [=JewPol=]), and that he couldn’t fight much as well. At worst it can be forgotten that David has always been a bit of a snarky Jerkass, didn’t show too much emotion, and wasn’t constantly stuck to Poland. But even as [[JerkassWithAHeartOfGold Israel]] this can occasionally happen due to his traumatic past even by series standards. However, it is also a heated issue due to UnfortunateImplications.

** Listening to the Firefly AU cover playlist. It starts with “Xinji Exodus”, a very cute, lighthearted love song, a parody of the upbeat (though originally poignant) song “Comet Honeymoon”, about China and America being a couple. The next song in the playlist? “Project Miranda”, a song about that same couple experimenting on a girl/planet they consider one of their children, it going horribly wrong, and their subsequent grief, to the melody of the downbeat but somewhat intense “[[Music/EvilliousChronicles Project ‘Ma’]]”. Then there’s yet more whiplash when the next song comes up, “Sepia Coats”, a rather bloodthirsty Independent POV anthem set to the intense, extremely passionate “[[Anime/AttackOnTitan Gurenn No Yumiya]]”. The author says it reflects the varying tones of the AU well; “Ship fluff, depressing, and angry”.

** Listening to the Firefly AU cover playlist. It starts with “Xinji Exodus”, a very cute, lighthearted love song, a parody of the upbeat (though originally poignant) song “Comet Honeymoon”, about China and America being a couple. The next song in the playlist? “Project Miranda”, a song about that same couple experimenting on a girl/planet they consider one of their children, it going horribly wrong, and their subsequent grief, to the melody of the downbeat but somewhat intense “[[Music/EvilliousChronicles Project ‘Ma’]]”. Then there’s yet more whiplash when the next song comes up, “Sepia Coats”, a rather bloodthirsty Independent POV song set to the intense, extremely passionate “[[Anime/AttackOnTitan Gurenn No Yumiya]]”. The author says it reflects the varying tones of the AU well; “Ship fluff, depressing, and violence”.