Your description of how Wales came to accept being part of England. A lot of people make all the British Isles alike in how they view England as an oppressor and their countries as victims. Your headcanon accepts that there were bad feelings but doesn't make it all Wales thinks of when he thinks of England. It seems more realistic to actual history, with occasional Welsh rulers over England and Wales beating back an invasion by the French Black Legion when the French expected the Welsh to welcome them as liberators, for instance.
A lot of people make all the British Isles alike in how they view England as an oppressor and their countries as victims.
I think if people know anything about the history of the British Isles they know about Ireland/England "LET ME GO I'LL BURN THIS HOUSE DOWN AND KILL US BOTH"/"DO AS I SAY OR I'LL BEAT YOU HARDER", and since England is technically in charge of the rest of the UK now they assume something similar went on with Scotland and Wales. I'm from Ireland and I only found out six months ago that Scotland was a separate kingdom from England until 1707, which is a lot later than I'd assumed. I did suspect Wales went a bit more quietly than Ireland but I checked to make sure. It helps that Henry Tudor bigged up his Welsh ancestry so much - the Welsh nobles really liked that and I imagine Wales himself found it rather flattering.
I'm really glad you like it so far. The history of the British Isles is really interesting and would make for a much more complicated family dynamic than "Us against England" and I'd love it if more people took that into account.
Yes, to everything, ha! I recently decided to try and write Scotland's history of colonisation and how it led to the Acts of Union, and was surprised at how funny King James was by Hetalia standards. Because he wanted so badly for England and Scotland to become ONE, he asked to be titled 'king of Great Britain' but the English Parliament said it wasn't "legal".
..I'm also a pervert so I like to imagine him making the two have sex.
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Re: Good Boy (3b/?)
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(Anonymous) 2013-06-09 12:44 pm (UTC)(link)I think if people know anything about the history of the British Isles they know about Ireland/England "LET ME GO I'LL BURN THIS HOUSE DOWN AND KILL US BOTH"/"DO AS I SAY OR I'LL BEAT YOU HARDER", and since England is technically in charge of the rest of the UK now they assume something similar went on with Scotland and Wales. I'm from Ireland and I only found out six months ago that Scotland was a separate kingdom from England until 1707, which is a lot later than I'd assumed. I did suspect Wales went a bit more quietly than Ireland but I checked to make sure. It helps that Henry Tudor bigged up his Welsh ancestry so much - the Welsh nobles really liked that and I imagine Wales himself found it rather flattering.
I'm really glad you like it so far. The history of the British Isles is really interesting and would make for a much more complicated family dynamic than "Us against England" and I'd love it if more people took that into account.
Re: Authornon
(Anonymous) 2013-06-10 05:39 am (UTC)(link)..I'm also a pervert so I like to imagine him making the two have sex.