Talk:Rage/@comment-7706473-20130915101400

Holy Rome, dead? Nah, he just metamorphosized into Doitsu, we all know that! ;) Besides -

Ah, well. Moving right along! I actually didn't play Hetaoni or watch the episode/s of it, myself, but this was a pretty interesting take on a fan theory (I don't subscribe to myself, but nevertheless). It's a bit short for my taste, but the idea of a sort of Gifts of the Magi-style roulette of cruelty, where miscommunication and betrayal ends up leading to a bad end is always good for a scare.

The problem, to my mind, is that - as nice and useful as the author's note is, even to someone who is rather familiar with the Hetalia canon - any story where the explanation is almost as long as the story is, probably isn't going to be easily digestable enough to cause lasting horror. Without outright telling people that Holy Rome is seething with anger towards Prussia and all his chicks, you could file the names off and simply spend time describing how young everyone is - make the beginning sickly syrupy sweet, and then build up to the fact that something is wrong with the amnesic, viciously angry young Holy Rome...

Elsewhere, you asked about horror. As someone who drifted into it from romance, myself, I still find the former helps the latter. People do the most evil, irredeemable things for love and charity. Work with that, and I'm sure you can tell a bonechilling tale, indeed!