What Could Have Been
Author's Note: Just to warn you the characters will be out of character, but they are supposed to be out of character, I'll say why at the end, in the meantime enjoy!
The night before: the world meeting utterly failed and exploded into a international game of strip poker, being nations they could sacrifice anything they wanted, from territories to their GDP, and so they began to sacrifice their personalities. It started with America and soon large portions of Europe and Asia began sacrificing their personalities for the fun of it. Little did they know the havoc it would cause on a world basis.
Japan stretched awake, and he began to start the day, as any other day, when he heard the phone ring. He picked it up and looked at the coller ID, and answered the phone. "Hello Tibet, It's rare that you call." Japan said into the phone slightly surprised.
"Good morning Japan, I usually only call for emergencies, but there has been a disturbance." Tibet replied.
"A disturbance?" Japan asked.
"Yes, it would appear that our aniki and our self-proclaimed aniki have completely changed."
"Changed? How?"
"Come over to my house, you'll see." With that Tibet hung up.
Japan arrived at Tibet's house, a temple on top of a mountain. He was greeted by Hong Kong, Thailand, Vietnam, Mongolia, and of course Tibet.
"Hello Japan, today's a nice day isn't it?" Greeted Tibet.
"Indeed, but, where are China, Korea, and Taiwan?" Japan questioned.
"You'll see, follow me." Answered Tibet walking into his temple with the other Asian nations following him.
They entered the heart of the temple, a intricately decorated room, the walls covered in a complex swirling design. The ceiling had a large skylight, rimmed by red glass, giving the room a red hue. Candles surrounded the walls making it rather hot and stuffy in the room. On the other side of the room sat an alter, surrounded by exotic plants, China, Korea, and Taiwan were tied to the alter. "So what's wrong with them?"
"Japan is here, about time." China pouted very Austria-like.
"What's with China? He cut his hair and is wearing glasses as well." Japan looked shocked at China
"Oh it gets better." Vietnam snickered. "Just look at Korea."
Japan saw Korea tied next to China, or what he thought was Korea, but 'he' looked different... very different. The first detail Japan noticed were the boobs. Yes, Korea somehow grew boobs. Next Japan noticed that Korea's hair grew, a lot, and was in a neat braid.
"Hey Taiwan, look it's Japan! It's about time you came here, it seems like our family has gone nuts, just look, they tied us to this alter thing. Oh by the way I just wrote this totally wicked song, how about when they let us go I'll sing it to you." 'Korea' ranted.
"What?" Taiwan's voice feebly asked beside Korea. "Speak up I can't hear you!" then her voice changed, to a child's "Wow! Look, Look! It's Japan" her voice changed again to sound sexy "Why hello Japan how about you let me go and I'll give you a lovely present~"
"Uhhh no thank you." He turned to the other Asian nations "What the hell happened to them?"
Mongolia shrugged, but Hong Kong was the one to speak. "We do have a theory, but you might think it is a bit bizzarre."
"Anything, as long as we can somehow get them back to how they were." Japan remarked.
Thailand smiled then proceeded to explain, "Well remember yesterday's world meeting? Ana~?"
"Yes."
"As you know our 'calm' world meeting turned into strip poker. Well as you know America bet his personality, as did many other nations including these three... subjects. Ana~"
"... Very well, that makes enough sense. But, if that is true then how do we make them normal?" Japan asked worriedly.
"I guess we just have to find whomever won and force him or her to let their personalities go back to their original owners." Hong Kong rationalized.
"Awww I wanted to do a purification ritual on them." Tibet complained.
"Well you aren't" Hong Kong criticized.
"Well anyway let's set them free." Japan reasoned.
Everyone stared at him like a freak "Japan are you insane!" Mongolia exclaimed.
"Well it won't do us any good keeping them locked up, and they may go even more crazy if we keep them tied, well let's go." Japan responded.
"Go where?" Vietnam asked.
"To find the other nations who lost the bet, we should find them to make it easier to find who won the bet." Japan answered. "Now let's go to my helicopter."
Once they let the three altered nations go they all somehow packed into Japan's helicopter, as Korea complained "Japan you are so lucky! You came here in a nice helicopter, we had to hike up here!"
"Be quiet already." China, now wearing glasses, ordered Korea.
"Now, now, let boys be boys." Taiwan said in her old man's voice. "But I have to admit that he can be rather annoying." She was now speaking in a clam male's voice.
Japan figured that Korea obviously turned into a girl, and 'she' wants to become a pop star. China cut his hair, needs glasses, and became a lot like Austria, minus the love of music. Taiwan on the other hand developed several personalities and became more or less schizophrenic.
Once they came to Japan's house they decided to compose a list of altered and unaltered countries based on what they could remember from the previous night. The list of countries affected by the personality disorder were America, England, France, Italy, Germany, Russia, Hungary, Prussia, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Cuba, Greece, and of course China, Korea, and Taiwan. The countries not affected by it were Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Romano, Austria, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Canada, Sealand, Seychelles, Cameroon, Australia, New Zealand, Wy, Moldolva, Turkey, Egypt, Bulgaria, The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, and of course Japan, Kong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand, Mongolia, and Tibet. Now how would they begin their search for the personality stealer?
Author's Note: I know that it was short, but I don't really know where to go from here, and so I plead for you to review and comment on which countries you want to see next, it'll help me choose the order in which I will reveal their altered personalities. (Guess who won strip poker and you win a cookie XD)
Now I got this idea when my sister was looking up TV troupes online, one I found particularly interesting was 'What Could Have Been' and so in this I decided to alter the countries personalities, and sometimes bodies to match Himaruya's previous designs or personalities (according to that site). Well except for the Nordics, I guess what will happen to them will be a surprise for y'all.