All He Ever Wanted: Difference between revisions

'''S. Italy''': Surrealism isn't a joke either. }}

 

 

''[http://community.livejournal.com/all_he_ever/profile All He Ever Wanted]'' takes the premise and conceit of ''Axis Powers Hetalia'' (namely, [[Anthropomorphic Personification|personifying the Nations of the world]]) and uses it to [[Butterfly of Doom|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. [[Internet Backdraft|And this is all that should be said about it in the main page]].

* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Isn't loaded!

* [[Chickification]]: Pulled on Hungary, a fearless [[Action Girl]] in canon... {{spoiler|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.

** Also, the Fascists wear gloves.

* [[Dark Fic]]

* [[Darker and Edgier]]: As usual, [[Writer On Board|considering the authors.]]

** "Heathen! Traitor! Loser! ...Are you my mommy?"

* [[Deconstruction]]: Of its source material.

* [[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.

* [[Hidden Elf Village]]: China.

** Churchill gets an [[Historical Villain Upgrade]], though this is [[Truth in Television]] given his personal politics.

* [[Historical In-Joke]]: Too many to list.

* [[Rape As Drama]]: Specially Hungary and Liechtenstein, [[Unfortunate Implications|the only two AHEW-important female nations.]]

* [[Scarpia Ultimatum]]: Prussia forcibly brings Hungary to the captured Austria's cell and violently rapes her saying that it's for [[Forced to Watch|Austria's]] "benefit".

** "Excepting February" is written in homage to [[House of Leaves]], with Switzerland's house getting {{color|red|wall}}ed in.

** In England's arc in particular, there are excessive references to his literature and culture: "Lavender's Green" is [[True Art Is Incomprehensible|a particularly long string of references]].