Seven Little Killers

""Guess who's next?""

""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.


 * Abusive Parents Boss: America’s boss..
 * Adaptational Badass:
 * All Nation Killers are Perverts: The killers almost constantly flirt with one another, or even a bit more.
 * Ambition Is Evil
 * Anyone Can Die: Holy god. NO KIDDING. Switzerland dies in the first chapter, and things get much, much worse. Fast.
 * Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other: Even though Japan clearly states his desire to kill  after he and the other killers had completely ruined his family,
 * Back from the Dead:
 * Baddie Flattery
 * The Big Bad: Black.
 * The Dragon: Blue,.
 * The Evil Genius: Yellow, most of his attacks are psychological, or strategically planned out and not just flat out gorey murder.
 * The Ninth Ranger:
 * Cool Mask: All the killers have custom-made masks that represent their given color.
 * Corrupt the Cutie:
 * Crazy Jealous Guy: Korea’s main source of bile is over China’s love and devotion for Russia, which he believes creates a large tear in their family.
 * Dreaming of Things to Come: England’s nightmare about
 * Dysfunctional Family: The East Asians and America and his states.Oh God, the states...
 * Empty Shell:  as of late.
 * Enfant Terrible: Little Nussia (New Republic Of Russia), originally a cute sickly boy, becomes this
 * Creepy Child
 * The End of the World as We Know It
 * Establishing Character Moment: ’s big damn villain moment in the cave.
 * Everyone Is a Suspect: Somewhat Averted. Characters like . Otherwise, it’s played totally straight and falls into Wild Mass Guessing.   WARNING: This spoiler is a MASSIVE tearjerker.
 * Family-Unfriendly Death: Every murder is written in disturbing detail.
 * 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, who was supposed to kill
 * 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 . 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:  allows   to kill him in order to save   from being killed.
 * Hoist by His Own Petard:
 * Horrible Judge of Character: Japan.
 * Humble Hero: Germany.
 * , too.
 * Hyper Awareness: Japan, Germany and even Italy get this while examination the crime scenes.
 * It Got Worse
 * It's All My Fault: Japan blames himself for a lot of injuries and deaths.
 * Jerkass: Yellow and Blue, although the latter could fall into Complete Monster territory.
 * Killed Mid-Sentence: Switzerland.
 * Killed Off for Real: Anyone Can Die.
 * Kill'Em All
 * Love Makes You Crazy:
 * Love Makes You Evil:Oh yeah.
 * Loves the Sound of Screaming: Blue.
 * Make It Look Like an Accident: White tries to make Switzerland and Spain’s deaths look like suicides, but it’s easy to see the truth.
 * Murder Is the Best Solution:
 * Black’s way of  is this trope played straight.
 * My Death Is Just the Beginning: Switzerland’s death triggers everything.
 * Never Got to Say Goodbye:  have a big fight and   storms out, leaving   all alone. Guess who White kills next?
 * Also,.
 * Not Quite Dead:  as of Chapter 42
 * 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.
 * Shoot the Dog the fanfiction.
 * 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 . This includes the punishment game,   and.
 * After, 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.
 * ’s “when you die, I’ll die” toward  counts, too.
 * Suspiciously Specific Denial: China; Russia and England both are quick to point this out.
 * Tear Jerker: A lot. It IS a murder fic, after all.
 * ’s death is pretty depressing, too, mosly because we get Italy and Spain's reactions to his death.
 * Russia's reaction to . You just want to hug him.
 * Theme Naming: Every chapter is named after a publicly known serial killer, respectively.
 * Each killer's codename is also a color.
 * These Hands Have Killed
 * Together in Death: Although it’s unknown if they’re still together in the afterlife,  were buried next to each other.
 * Ungrateful Bastard: Many examples, but the most noteworthy would be
 * 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.
 * What the Hell, Hero?: . Just….
 * Wild Mass Guessing: Lucky and Angel don't hesitate to fuck with their reader's minds.
 * You Have Failed Me...: Green, failing to kill Russia, loses Black’s respect.
 * You Meddling Kids: Germany, Italy and Japan’s team.
 * Your Days Are Numbered: Everyone, although  were targeted specifically.
 * Spot the Imposter: Japan unable to tell the difference between
 * Ungrateful Bastard: Many examples, but the most noteworthy would be
 * 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.
 * What the Hell, Hero?: . Just….
 * Wild Mass Guessing: Lucky and Angel don't hesitate to fuck with their reader's minds.
 * You Have Failed Me...: Green, failing to kill Russia, loses Black’s respect.
 * You Meddling Kids: Germany, Italy and Japan’s team.
 * Your Days Are Numbered: Everyone, although  were targeted specifically.
 * Spot the Imposter: Japan unable to tell the difference between
 * Your Days Are Numbered: Everyone, although  were targeted specifically.
 * Spot the Imposter: Japan unable to tell the difference between