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More ScotNor AU please 😍

Love your art style very much!

Thank you! 😍✨

I have another ScotNor AU from when I spent a month in Orkney researching herring fishing in Scotland during the 1800s 🙈

Scotland is a fisherman and one day Norway shows up, sailing across the sea with this old boat and starts selling his herring at the docks - always catching more than the other boats. Scotland does not like this new guy who is not even local, and they strike up this sort of rivalry (because Norway can be snarky when he wants to), sending a few remarks each other's way when they cross paths at the docks or on the sea. Norway has good knowledge of the ocean and knows good herring spots, and Scotland ends up following him there some days. Then, one day, there is a sudden storm and they are too far from land. They get tossed around by the waves, and Norway's boat ends up shattering, flinging him into the dark water. Scotland manages to save him, and together they get his boat under control.

and that's all I have so far 😅

#hetalia #aph norway #hws norway #hws scotland #aph scotland #scotnor #don't think this counts as historical hetalia?? but still - I did a lot of research on this topic #there became establish several fishing villages on Scotland's east coast - in relation to a “normal” town but always a bit way because of #all the fish smell - and there would live entire families there who all contributed to the fishing - women and children often slaying the #fish on land while the men were out fishing - and the children would then marry other fisher children and become fishers themselves #it was a huuuge industry in the 1800s with the top around the 1850-70s if I am not remembering wrong #herring fishing in Norway was also a big deal - I know at least after the 2. world war - and Norwegians are always fishers so not #unlikely that some Norwegian would have made the short journey over for better pay #anyway thanks for the ask!! 🥰🥰 scotnor asks are always my favourites 💖

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