Steps to Murder is a crossover between Hetalia: Axis Powers and Murder on the Orient Express written by Mercuriesandrandomness. In which Austria, Hungary, Lithuania, England, France, Estonia, Germany, Russia, America, Canada, and Latvia all get on a train.... and then someone dies.
This works contains examples of:
- Adaptational Villainy: The victim goes from a Jerk with a Heart of Gold to a child trafficker.
- Age Lift: Of the characters given ages, Austria and Hungary are 28, Lithuania, America, and Canada are 22, Estonia is 20, and Latvia is 18.
- Asshole Victim: The person who dies is an ex-child kidnapper and child trafficker who is responsible for screwing up the lives of most of the main cast.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Almost everyone has one. Most of them are directly caused by the victim.
- Gender Flip: France is a woman.
- Karma Houdini: The murder victim is seen as one by the killers, who are also never caught and get away with everything.
- My Greatest Failure: Germany's is failing to solve a string of child kidnapping cases fifteen years before the story, which is also when his brother died.
- Recursive Fanfiction: It's set ten years after this
. - Sympathetic P.O.V.: The only character who doesn't get a section from their POV is the victim.
