This is a collab fic (fine, series of connected oneshots) that I'm writing with yoru-no-anokoku [Who prompted 'Something Fishy' and finally got a fanfiction account. 8D]. I've got even-numbered chapters (YES I KNOW ZERO IS NOT AN EVEN NUMBER, I AM THAT KIND OF NERD.), she has odds.
The first two chapters (as in one and two, not zero) will be a sort of introduction after the introduction, to show you what's happening NOW. And then we will begin just throwing prompts at each other randomly back and forth. This has no end we've planned. A greater plot may or may not happen, depending on timing. We're probably going to do something accidentally that will screw with the cannon we've created. It shall be glorious.
PAIRINGS HAVE ALREADY BEEN DECIDED. Sorry, but we went through and figured out a lot of the character dynamics beforehand. However, we'd love it if you dropped a request or something. The pairings we've chosen will stay, but that doesn't mean we're just going to write them all out. Leave a pairing and request/prompt – we may use it for its intended pairing, and we might just steal the prompt if the pairing isn't one we've established with each other. I'm kinda afraid that didn't make sense.
Well, neither does the rest of this. Enjoy.
Disclaimer: We don't own Hetalia, and are doing this purely for our own amusement. 8D
***#Everyday Phenomena - Chapter 0#***
The Association Promoting Harmony Worldwide (often called APH World or simply APH for short) is, or possibly was, a very prestigious organization. Acceptance is limited to one person per country (generally), and no one is quite sure how this happens in the first place.
The whole thing was governed quite vaguely and never really got much done, which is probably why no one outside the Association was particularly aware that it existed. Members were kept secret, and most took care to be subtle about arriving to meetings. During the conferences, they tended to go by code-names - using their nationality to hide their identities. No one was really sure why this was, but no one was really sure who started the whole business in the first place either, so it generally went unquestioned.
It is interesting, however, to note that APH World meetings are best described to the causal observer as either 'Pure bloody chaos,' 'Hell,' or - if you are a special snowflake - 'Explosions,' and in fact rarely get much done in the way of Promoting Harmony in any one place, much less Worldwide. So no one was really sure what exactly they were supposed to be doing at such meetings, either.
But somehow, a year ago, a little-known news station managed to figure out some things about APH and even gathered footage of some of the members. Though their true identities are still a mystery, many of the members have been identified by country and are now known globally.
Somehow, the concept gathered immense amounts of attention, and made the Association an overnight phenomenon. Now, members are assumed to have mostly given up their true 'civilian' identities and simply concentrate on remaining out of the spotlight and keep their meetings as secret as possible.
Around the world, governments met and discussed, and six months after the news was first proclaimed, all the APH World members seemed to disappear. They were spotted occasionally, and supposed pictures very quickly circulated around the Internet, along with copious conspiracy theories and - for some inexplicable reason - a large following of fans.
Commonly referred to as simply 'nations,' they are some of the most famous people in the world.
They're also some of the most crazy.
(And maybe just a little lonely.)
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