Semi-active on Tumblr these days, but this seriously brought me back to type up a frenzy since I don't think this was on anyone's 2025 bingo card...but after 15 years since the discontinuation of HetaOni, we actually got words from Kyokoon64, who said that on 2014, she spoke to the creator of HetaOni, Tomoyoshi, on what was planned for HetaOni Part 17-20, along with the rough plan of the "ending" for the series. The video is here on Twitch and the talk starts from 2:30:00 onwards.
Disclaimer: This is a rough summary of what I heard from the video. I'm going to listen to the talk about it one more time and polish the summary up when i have the chance.
Also, it seems Tomoyoshi was fine with whatever ending the fans made up and whether you accept her rough idea of her ending or not. All endings of HetaOni are valid.
Well then...shall we?
Just a heads up, Tomoyoshi just planned things as it came along, not really having an outline of what she planned, so...
What was supposed to happen after Part 17-1?
Italy is actually in a perfect dream with HRE, but Italy doesn't want to be part of a dream where everything is alright when everyone in the real world is suffering, so he wants to leave.
Russia and China are in the annexe, where China feels a draft in the wall (which leads to the deeper rundown part of the mansion from the original Ao Oni games) and he also hears Russia talking to someone on the phone. Still don't know what's up with that (revealed in ending plan).
When two head back to the safe room, China is extra quiet upon his return, just when Italy wakes up after rejecting the dream and tells everyone around him what happened
Meanwhile, in timeline 2, Romano calls Spain a dumbass for telling England everything, but things happen where that timeline's England runs into our!Italy, our!Germany and our!America in the piano room and the whole putting a shield on them and sending them back to their timeline happens, but he also sends Spamano back to their timeline too and also gives them some things to hold onto when they leave.
Something like a magically sealed item that holds most, if not all, of England's magic, but it would still be difficult to just regain all his magic and cure his blindness so easily.
And also there's a bloody envelope given to Romano a bloody envelope but don't open it yet (need to double check)
Turns out both America and Canada can do magic since they were once under England, and together with Japan, who can perform seals and use talismans, help to break the seal on the item with England's magic inside
Seal is broken and England regains a bit of his eyesight, but America celebrates anyway
Meeting happens and the nations talk about finding the key to do front door to escape. Romano is quiet
Romano talks to Italy and dramatic things happen because of the envelope
Romano read the stuff in the envelope it seems, and it's a letter from an England who also got blinded, but still able to see a tiny bit to write this out (double check). Emotional message to America, and the letter ends with England admitting that America was his hero and he's glad to have raised him.
Oh and uuuuuuuuuh...the envelope also has the key to go out, but they can't leave yet (like they have to break the clocks…and more insidious to uncover).
That's what I got from the talk. I'll try and polish this up! But the "ending" for series is clear, and this is what Tomo really wanted to happen...
So what's the ending?
First of all, it turns out Tomoyoshi made RomaHeta as well? Don't know if anyone remembers it, but basically another HetaGame where everyone's sucked into a game made by Japan but a virus trapped the nations inside it. It was popular because of Italy and Romano became badass priests for the boss fight.
Now brace yourselves, my dears. Because it turns out...
This timeline was meant to fail! ✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧
Also, it turned out Spain and Romano came to the mansion in previous timelines too, but hey this is the furthest they got (don't ask how Italy and Romano don't remember).
But the biggest plot twist of all is this!
HetaOni is actually a sequel to RomaHeta!
Everyone in HetaOni is just still trapped in the game and the previous timelines are just save files!
Also the Things are just amalgamations of various viruses, while HRE is an antivirus that is trying to save Italy (you know that explains why he just appeared in RomaHeta for that one second when Italy went berserk with magic...)
And Prussia getting the intrusive thoughts of CONGRATULATIONS in the game was because he's literally hearing the victory music cheer thing you get after you defeat a boss in an RPG.
Also, fun fact but not very clear? Not all of the nations are inside the game. The ones that are in the game in their place are actually AIs who are just repeating the original nation's speech patterns and actions based on the previous save files (not sure what Kyo meant by sometimes or other times it's the nations or AIs).
The phone calls Russia kept getting are actually from the mods.
Now the planned ending is that the nations got to the root of the program and after finding it, but they could get out. However, Italy realised something (?), and in the end just sets everyone free, but he got the Aqua from KH: BBS treatment and had his soul lost in the void while everyone else returned to the real world.
Thus this is the ending that was meant to make way for Part 3 of the series of the fangames. First RomaHeta, then HetaOni, then...whatever supposed to happen afterwards.
The end
And that's that! Just a reminder tho that Kyo said Tomoyoshi doesn't mind if no one accepts the ending. I just thought to share it by typing out the summary and ending from the stream. Heck, Tomoyoshi thinks no one will believe Kyo anyway. All endings everyone else made is just as valid, and sharing this is for those who cherished HetaOni from a long time ago and can now rest from learning what was meant to happen.
Watching RomaHeta rn. Are you telling me that the sequence of events that culminated in everyone else being killed and Italy ending up in time loop hell in HetaOni was kickstarted by Japan wanting to see Miku
There aren't many lists or wikis that clearly list the games' statuses. Most say "ongoing" even if they're discontinued, and I can't easily find the last update.
So I did some digging to try and figure out which games were complete, discontinued/abandoned, or ongoing (meaning the creator is active). I also tried to figure out which were unplayable.
However, I couldn't figure out all of them, so if I made a mistake or you have information on one that I don't, please let me know!
Absoluely, anon, I even cosplayed priest Feliciano back in the days. And if Hetaoni goes well enough one of my desires is to actually remake Romaheta as well. It was such an emotional game and my introduction to hetagames as a whole, I have a lot of nostalgic feelings about it.
