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TheInkgirl — UK family: a long time ago

Published: 2011-06-18 23:32:09 +0000 UTC; Views: 1498; Favourites: 43; Downloads: 11
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Description Working on a colored version, but it's taking a really long time; so I decided to post the sketch while I still liked the piece. (Side-note: When I'm tired, I always draw people sleeping/napping. Go figure).

Top to bottom: Dafydd (Wales), Connla (Northern Ireland), Donal (Scotland), Moraq (Ireland), Dane (Dublin), Artos (England). I cannot make their ages consistent; but age-consistency is...highly debatable in Hetaliaverse...so Imma just apologize and leave it at that. I'm seeing this as early-mid middle-ages. As for putting Connla in there, "Northern Ireland" as such, didn't exist during the middle ages; the Ulster-Scots who make up the North-Irish identity didn't live there until the Scottish-diaspora (17th/18th centuries). But they (the Ulster Scots) were the "lowland Scots" long before that. And Belfast (which Connla has a strong connection to) existed long before the Ulster Scots claimed it. So both parts of his identity existed... I guess that was my reasoning. Plus, we see other "countries" existing in a state of infancy/young childhood before becoming countries (America, Italy, etc.).

Or I just put him in there because I wanted the whole UK/Celtic family. Oh! And I was calling Arthur "Artos," because, as it's the Celtic version of his name--and the one that King Arthur would have actually been named, it would have been the original version of his name. And this picture is more "Celt"-identity than "UK"-identity.

I'm going to stop talking nao.

Hetalia (c) Himaruya
Image (c) TheInkgirl

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Comments: 5

EyelyEmily [2011-09-08 18:28:05 +0000 UTC]

I like how N.Ireland is called Connla. Very appropriate (:

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TheBadlyNamedUser [2011-06-19 16:14:20 +0000 UTC]

Nice picture! But... why is Dublin there? Just seems odd that you would put in a character for one country's capital but none of the others... But that's a curiosity, not a complaint!

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TheInkgirl In reply to TheBadlyNamedUser [2011-06-19 19:40:54 +0000 UTC]

Haha, yeah that looks, no *is* pretty random.

When I was creating Moraq (Ireland), I initially made her female because a lot of Ireland's foreign-relations over the ages seemed pretty feminine (like her sneaking around with France and Germany behind England's back). And I've always thought Dublin was interesting/cool; because it has gone from viking settlement (foreign invader, basically) to the capital of Ireland (basically as Irish as it gets). So one of Moraq's previous unfortunate relationships was during the early middle ages with "bad boy" viking Denmark. And Dublin was their child. So, I always see Moraq's kids Connla (Northern Ireland) and Dane (Dublin) trailing around behind her (at least, in the past; Connla is more independent these days) as part of the family. So I guess when I set down to sketch "the whole family" I wanted to put Dublin in there. (There was a period, in my headcannon, where Connla identified as "Belfast"--like, before he was his own thing, as well...)

Anyway, you're right; it...doesn't make a lot of sense.

But thanks for viewing and have a good one!

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TheBadlyNamedUser In reply to TheInkgirl [2011-06-20 18:06:29 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for explaining that so well I wasn't expecting such a long reply. I was happy enough just thinking that you felt like it, but it's cool to see there's a lot of reason behind it.

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TheInkgirl In reply to TheBadlyNamedUser [2011-06-22 21:16:06 +0000 UTC]

No problem!

(Thanks for bothering to read through the Meg-ramblings.)

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