as long as we're going down

O HAY GAIZ, REMEMBER THIS?  OTL.

Title:  The Edelweiss Arc: A Soundtrack
Fandom:  Hetalia
Characters:  Austria.  (Some implied AustriaxHungary.)
Rating:  PG-13
Summary:  Soundtrack to the titular fic arc.
Notes:  Total run time: 1:03:04.  All tracks in .mp3 format.

EDIT:  No longer available for download.  However, if particularly interested, let me know, and I'll fix that for you.




( I AM SO SORRY THIS TOOK SO LONG. )

Title: And Then Start Down
Fandom: Hetalia
Genre: Drama, general, friendship.
Characters: Austria, Spain.
Rating: PG
Word count: 3,100 (excluding notes)
Summary: Cold War-era Austria needs a vacation from himself. Spain is oblivious. Except when he isn't.
Period: September/autumn-ish, 1961.

Part of the Edelweiss Arc.

( Spain looks as if he just woke up from a nap not five minutes prior—which, if Spain is anything like he used to be, is probably what actually happened. )

Title: Mood Indigo
Fandom: Hetalia
Genre: Drama, angst, general.
Characters: Austria, Prussia, Germany.
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 2,000 (excluding notes)
Summary: Anschluss, anti-Semitism, and impending war. Sometimes classical music just doesn't cut it.
Period: 1938.

Part of the Edelweiss Arc.

( In November, when he wakes up gasping and coughing because of glass and smoke, Austria stumbles to the parlor and plays Ellington. )

Title: Miles To Go
Fandom: Hetalia
Genre: Drama, general.
Characters: Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein.
Rating: PG
Word count: 1,300 (excluding notes)
Summary: Austria has changed greatly from the war-mongering empire he once was. Switzerland on the other hand…hasn't changed a hair.
Period: Late 1955.

Part of the Edelweiss Arc.

( Switzerland answers the door in the exact way Austria expects him to—suspiciously, loaded gun in hand. )

Title: Diamonds and Rust
Fandom: Hetalia
Genre: Drama, friendship, humor.
Characters: Hungary, Poland. (Implied AustriaxHungary.)
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 2,200 (excluding notes)
Summary: Someone makes good on a personal promise. Poland has no idea who, but since it landed him with a Chanel dress, he isn’t about to complain. In fact, he needs to celebrate. And who better to celebrate with than your BFF?
Period: Early 1957.

Part of the Edelweiss Arc.

( Hungary tries to picture her aristocratic ex-husband holding a needle and thread in one hand, a blazing gun in the other, grinning around a cigar. The needle and thread she can manage, just barely. She fails on the other two accounts. )

An arc about Austria's personal growth in the ex-empire period, with a heavy AustriaxHungary element (the pairing is more often implied than shown outright, but it is a major overall theme).  History is often used as a backdrop, but the fics are rarely about historical events, themselves.  And, while they can all be read as stand-alone pieces, they're truly meant to fit together as a whole.

In regards to the pairing, I feel I should point out that my AustriaxHungary head-canon is far more love/hate, as opposed to just love.  So...yeah.  Just something to keep in mind.  This is not a happy, fluffy relationship because historically, it was not a happy, fluffy relationship.

Tentatively complete.  (Meaning all the fics I originally had planned for it are now finished, but I'm being careful about any more wily, stray plot-bunnies.)

Soundtrack now (finally!) available.

Chinese translations are available here!

Lastly, Forward and Reverse can be considered something of a prequel to the arc, in that it follows the same timeline.



( Edelweiss Arc )

Title: This Is the Way the World Ends
Fandom: Hetalia
Genre: Drama, angst.
Characters: Austria, Prussia, bits of the Allies. Implied AustriaxHungary.
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 1,500, excluding notes
Summary: The Great War draws to a close. Austria learns that there are some things he simply cannot take in stride.
Period: 1918, 1919.

Part of the Edelweiss Arc.

( For four hundred years, he has shared his house with her. )