Yaaaaay! Another crack fic for me! This time, however, I'm going to let this be OC-centric. No, I won't focus on Liara. It's the Philippines, set as twins! This is still being juggled in the air, so don't expect much out of this just yet.

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They sat quietly in the small house that they were in, not saying a single word and unable to start saying anything. It was a young man with long blond hair and a strange ahoge thing dangling from his head. He was fidgeting with his hoodie's collar, trying his best not to be scared of the girl staring right at him.

The girl's brown eyes complimented her lightly tanned skin and her light black hair. She had a red trenchcoat-like outfit on her, the sleeves folded up just past the elbows and covered with yellow pins [1]. Her long legs were swaying with red boots, her red skirt lightly swaying with the movement. One of her hands was holding her head, keeping her chin up on the table that they were sitting at, the other playing with the trims of the sun pin that was on the left side of her head.

Sitting just within viewing distance of the two of them was her brother. He had spiky jet black hair, covering most of the blue goggles on his head and the sun pin that was on the right of his face [2]. He had a high collar blue jacket that ended just above his stomach, kept together by a single pin with a coat of arms on it [3]. Underneath it was a simple white T-shirt, covering the buckle on his blue jeans and thick hiking boots. He couldn't help but observe that he had blue fingerless gloves on, playing with a simple red and blue yo-yo [4].

"Um…" The girl reached over to grab another BBQ stick. "Are you sure you're not America?"

"I-I'm not America, Charice [5]! When are you going to believe me…?"

"Come on, America! Admit it! You won't admit that you're you because you don't want to admit that you followed my advice and grew your hair out!" She stuck her finger out accusingly. "At least agree with me that you look better with your hair grown like that!"

"C-Charice…I'm not America…"

"Charice, he's telling the truth." The boy straightened himself from the chair, catching the yo-yo. "That isn't America."

"What makes you say that, Rizal [6]?" She pouted. "Look at him! He's clearly the United States! We've lived with him, Rizal! I thought you would know that!"

"Ate, ikalma mo sarili mo [7]. He is not America." He smiled, standing up. "The United States we know would not change his appearance based on observation alone. Besides, he thinks of himself as too much of a hero to change his looks."

She stared at the man in front of him and then back at her brother. This occurred for a few minutes (generating a few nervous looks from the blond man) before sighing and plopping down in her seat.

"Well, I still have my doubts…but my brother is almost never wrong." She looked at the blond man. "OK then…if you're not the United States of America, who are you and what do you represent? And why in the world do you look so much like the guy?"

"M-my human name is Matthew Williams…and I'm the Republic of Canada. Y-you see, me and Alfred are brothers, and-"

"Wait a minute…CANANADA EXISTS?" Charice flew back. "I thought that was a fantasy realm!"

"You can't believe all that Alfred tells you, ate." Rizal sighed. "He's not exactly the smartest one of the bunch…"

"But…he said that Cananada was a beautiful and peaceful realm filled with snow and light shows [8]!" Charice stated. "It sounded extremely convincing!"

Throughout her strange tirade, Matthew couldn't help but wipe a tear from his eye. He never thought that his brother would ever speak of himself to some of his former colonies [9], and he didn't even think that he would be spoken about in such a high light. Ah, brother…

"To think…a land such as Cananada exists!" She remarked. "I can't believe it…"

"Uh, ate?" Rizal blinked. "It's Canada."

"Yeah! Cananada!" She stated. "I said that."

"Charice…it's Ca – Na – Da." He voiced out. "Ca – Na – Da."

"Hmph…" She pouted. "Ca – NAna…da?"

She wasn't going to realize this until later, but saying the phrase "da?" is the universal indication that a certain silver-haired individual was in the room. That word caused Matthew to dart his head around in shock, and for Rizal to shake his head and rub his forehead.

"Nevermind…just call him Matthew." He sighed.

"But…that's informal." Charice looked confused. "We should be calling him by his formal title…"

"No…it's fine. You can call me Matthew." He smiled. "I actually prefer being called that…plus, no one remembers my other name."

"Well, duh. Cananada is extremely hard to pronounce!" Charice rubbed her lips. "No wonder no one knows about you…"

"Actually, Charice…I want to dispute that statement."

Rizal sat back down on the chair behind him with a grin on his face, confusing the other two figures in the room. He rubbed the cross rosary [10] around his neck and glanced at the both of them before he decided to continue on his statement.

"Charice, correct me if I'm wrong…but isn't music an important factor in a human life?"

"Of course, kuya [11]. Music is extremely important."

"Isn't American music popular all around the world, even in foreign countries such as Italy and China?"

"Not all of them, but yeah, that's true."

"W-what are you trying to say here, Rizal?"

"Just hear me out, Matthew. Tell me this: isn't there an award ceremony in America that rewards promising American singers yearly?"

"They call that the American Music Awards, Rizal…"

"The American Music Awards…what a nice title for that ceremony. Remind me this, but didn't Justin Bieber win this year's Artist of the Year Award?"

"Ugh…don't remind me, kuya…" She rubbed her forehead. "But yeah…he did."

"Isn't Justin Bieber Canadian?"

"…yes…?" She looked up.

"That would mean that Justin Bieber is the most popular artist all over the world, right?"

"Um…I don't know if the voting system reaches past American boarders, Rizal-"

"Wouldn't that mean that, in some way, Canada's taking over the world?"

Charice stared at Rizal with a strange look on her face. He was looking at her with the same oblivious mask, and it was a shock to think that he was SERIOUS about that statement. She was about to debate that statement when she heard a deep chuckle from the other side of the table. She turned her head and what did we see? Canada was chuckling softly to himself, his shoulders shaking and a really creepy look on his face.

Um…this isn't normal behavior… She shivered.

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These are some notes that were mentioned in the story. They probably won't pop up as much in other chapters, so deal with them for a minute.

[1] Charice's pins symbolize the fact that the Philippines contain exactly 7,107 separate islands.

[2] The sun pin looks like the sun on the Philippines flag. I made the designs of the twins so that if Charice was lying down on the ground and Rizal was lying on top of her, they would make a human representation of the Philippine flag.

[3] The pin has the official coat of arms of the Philippines and is supposed to symbolize Manila, the capital city.

[4] The Philippines was the origin of the yo-yo, and it was supposed to be used as a hunting weapon.

[5] Charice is the name of the girl. Her name is based off of Charice Pempengco, a Filipina singer who was found on YouTube and has recently began to start her career in America. She's probably best known as the foreign exchange student named Sunshine in Glee.

[6] Rizal is the name of the boy. His name is based off of José Protasio Rizal Mercado, a Filipino advocate whose novels Noli me Tangere and El filibusterismo sparked the flames for what would be the Philippine Revolution. He is considered to be the Philippines' greatest hero.

[7]FILIPINO:"Sister, calm yourself." (Edited by Barefoot Bliss. THANK YOU!)

[8] The snow is basically the fact that the northern part of Canada is extremely cold and thus there's a lot of snow up there. As for the light shows, she meant the aurora borealis. I'm aware that you can see it in Alaska, but I don't think Canada's high enough to view it…

[9] The United States had bought the Philippines from Spain for $20 million in the 1898 Treaty of Paris.

[10] The Philippines is one of the most religious places in the world, 80% Roman Catholic and the other percent another branch of Christianity. It was heavily influenced by the Spanish when they took the Philippines as a colony.

[11] FILIPINO: "Brother." (Courtesy of Google Translate)

Yeah…a lot of notes. But whatever. Here are the twins of the Philippines!