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i’ve been sooo emotional over them recently 🥺

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how would you describe your friendship with norway? 🤍

[Arthur] He’s always a face I’m happy to see, even if we simply like to sit in silence most of the time. Most of my closest friends have that similarity, interestingly enough.

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☀️, 🎵, ツ if you're still answering these 👀

of course!! thanks for sending more!

☼ : Does your muse like daytime or nighttime more?

probably nighttime! he’s definitely more of a night owl, he’ll sleep in until the early afternoon now that he’s a little “past his prime.” as i mentioned before he absolutely loves the stars, but he mostly just loves the quiet of it all. he knows that no one will be calling, no one will come knocking, and he has no immediate responsibilities. i can see him going on little nightly walks in the countryside because he won’t get as warm, and he knows he won’t be bothered.

♬ : Does your muse sing well? Regardless of whether they sing well or not, do they enjoy singing?

i do think arthur sings well, he has a good lullaby voice. i’ve always heard him in my head with a deeper, softer voice that carries easily, so he’d be able to sing a baby to sleep in a minute. that being said, i don’t think he sung often for the majority of his life. he’s in a better place now so you might hear him singing sea shanties while he’s doing dishes, but he’s never liked an audience. it’s just something he tends to keep to himself.

ツ : Does your muse prefer lots of friends, or just a few close ones?

just a few close ones! he’s capable of getting along with most nations but he’s generally a pretty solitary guy. there aren’t a lot of nations he knows very personally, even some of his closest friends. i can count five “good friends” he has, one is his husband, two are past love interests, and another is a kid his son’s age. and the other is belgium. he likes to be by his lonesome!

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♨️- England!

thanks for the ask! 🎉

♨ : Does your muse have good table manners? How do they feel about bad table manners?

overall, i do think table manners are one of the things he is capable of retaining from his old gentleman days. nowadays i don’t feel like he puts too much stock in them, not any more than the average person at least, but if he had to attend a fancy dinner then he’d be able to revert back to being perfectly “polite” because he did it for so many years.

he has a lot of experience with bad table manners, raising his kids as well as his own self. he didn’t grow up with a lot of food, so for his kids, he always had the belief that messily fed is better than not fed at all—and he still catches himself eating a little too fast because his brain is still hardwired to eat as much as he can. so i think he’s capable of being forgiving. it had to have been difficult being a starving forest child suddenly thrown into feasts, but having all these rules to go along with it.

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⍤, ❤️, ⚯

If you’re up for them all!

thank you! 💕

⍤ : What does your muse’s voice sound like? Is it light? High pitched? Scratchy? Deep?

god okay try as i might to change it, arthur’s first dub va will always be the closest to my headcanon voice for him, though not exactly. his voice is deep, a little deeper than any of the voices he’s had. he’s got this baritone that travels very easily so he doesn’t have to push his voice to be heard. he sounds very put-together and steady, so when his voice cracks or breaks it’s super unnerving and heartbreaking.

❤ : What are your muse’s thoughts on love? If they are not in a relationship, do they believe that they will ever find a perfect someone for them?

oh this is going to be so cheesy but here goes: arthur absolutely loves love. he loves being in love, he loves reading about love, he loves marriage and weddings and the thought of spending the rest of his life with someone who’ll take care of him. his diaries were full of poetry inspired by the pretty boys he’d see on his walk to the store. he is in a relationship and he absolutely loves it, he loves belonging to someone and knowing that they’re perfect for each other. he loves waking up knowing someone will always be there. he’s a total cheeseball i’m sorry.

⚯ : Does your muse have good eyesight? If not, what is it like? Are they nearsighted or farsighted? Or both? Do they use glasses? Or do they prefer contacts?

arthur’s eyesight is actually still pretty good! and thank god for that, he’d say. he’s never needed glasses or contacts, and although he doesn’t have eagle eyes or anything close to it, he can still drive and read from a board that’s across the room with little issue.

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⚠️, ⌚️, ☃️ (england) ps do NOT MIND THE FIRST ONE I’VE SENT U😭

lol don’t worry about it!! i know it can be kinda confusing if you don’t know the deets 😭 and thank you for the questions!

⚠ : How does your muse react to possibly dangerous situations? Do they face them head-on, or do they plan out their actions first?

i suppose it really depends on what the danger is? if it’s something extreme (think, the blitz or a naval siege) he likes to be as prepared as possible. if the danger comes from someone heckling him or threatening to hurt him or his loved ones one-on-one, he definitely has the potential to lose control and he’ll likely take a swing out of fear. luckily this happens a lot less now!

⌚ : Is your muse good with keeping on schedule for meetings, appointments, or events, or are they always late? Or, are they always a bit early?

he’s generally pretty good with staying on time, and takes it upon himself to walk in at the exact time specified even if he arrives a little early. it’s a holdover from his gentleman days…show up at the time you’re told, no earlier, no later. he’s never struggled with keeping time.

☃  : What is your muse’s favorite season? What about their least favorite season, if they have one?

his favorite is winter, and his least favorite is summer. he loves the rain, he loves the snow, he loves the cold. he loves being able to have a fire going, some whiskey, a bowl of soup, and keeping the hubby warm…god he just loves it.

he hates summer because he just doesn’t like wearing short sleeves or shorts, he doesn’t have central air, and he overheats easily. the only time he thinks summer is tolerable is when he gets to go fishing on the lake or the sea, but he can do that in spring and fall.

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✝,📱, ☆, 📐 for iggy if u need specifying, I'm just super curious, sorry if this is to much

BTW I luvvv ur blog ‼️

yessss please don’t be sorry! and thank you so much!! 💕 i answered the first two in my last post, which is here if your timeline is somehow messed up lol.

☆ : Of the sun, stars, and the moon, which is your muse’s favorite?

the stars, for sure! he has a deep-rooted respect for the night sky, since they were how he got around for a long time, especially at sea. but even on land they felt like friends to him, something that would be constant each night, even if everything else changed. i genuinely believe he passed down this love to alfred, who of course is an astronomer. he got his start because his sailor father taught him the constellations!

📐 : Is your muse good at math? Do they like it, or do they hate it?

he’s not good at math and he doesn’t like it. he’s good at a lot of math-adjacent stuff, things that might need math: decryption, navigation, and so on, but division and multiplication, oh my god he feels like an idiot. ask him what these old flag signals mean and he’ll rattle them off one by one, but ask him what 67x45 is and he’s like, do i look like a fucking genius to you 😐 sometimes he hangs out with alfred and he’s like where did you get so good at math because it CERTAINLY wasn’t from me lol

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✍️, ✝️, 📱for England !! :)

thank you!! ✨

✍ : What is your muse’s handwriting like? Is it neat? Sloppy? Fancy?

he has dad handwriting. messy, kind of chicken-scratchy, small letters, but still generally readable. he never really got the hang of calligraphy the way a lot of the other european nations did, but it actually worked out a bit in his favor because it’s pretty average in the modern day.

✝ : Is your muse religious?

he’s agnostic, so not really. he went a lot of his early life thinking of god’s (or gods’) existence as a given, but when the enlightenment era came along he found himself becoming more skeptical. he holds the belief of “i guess i’ll find out when i die” and isn’t going to think about it further than that. he’s got a bit of disdain for organized religion, being a queer immortal nation person who was born pagan, he always feels a little unsafe and out of place in church. but he knows that religion holds a huge place in a lot of his fellow nations’ identities, especially francis’s, so he holds his tongue and has a lot of respect for the cultural aspects of it.

📱: Does your muse prefer calling or texting?

as a whole he doesn’t care, but he has a slight preference for calling. he just likes to hear the person’s voice, and he never feels like he’s getting the full story when he texts them. sometimes texting is the better option because of his hearing loss—like if he’s in public, he has to have his left hand free to hold the phone close to his good ear, so he just texts.

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☘, ☺- for England, if you need me to specify <3

thank you!

☘ : Does your muse believe in luck? How about fate?

he does probably believe in things like luck and fate but they’re…not really those things? he thinks that you’re coaxed into certain situations by the people around you and the life you were born into. not to say you can’t change your life around if you try hard enough, but he’s one of those cynical people who believes that very few folks are actually going to defy what they know. that in itself seems like fate to him. though in a traditional sense, probably not, but he’s still pretty subconsciously superstitious!

☺ : What is your muse’s smile like? Do they smile often?

ahh okay i know i draw him with a toothy smile a lot, but honestly i think he usually just has this very slight, lopsided grin. there are only a few people who can make him smile so much he shows his teeth, most of the time he just has a soft smirk.

nowadays he does smile a lot! he used to not smile much at all, like up until the 70s he had a hard time showing genuine happiness at all. again though, he has people who love him and want to see him laugh, so you can see that weight lifted off him during those times. also, he’s got a lot more time to spend on his hobbies so you’re far more likely to catch him in a good or okay mood than a bad one nowadays.

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Random Headcanon Meme!

⍤ : What does your muse’s voice sound like? Is it light? High pitched? Scratchy? Deep?

✍ : What is your muse’s handwriting like? Is it neat? Sloppy? Fancy?

☕ : Does your muse prefer coffee or tea?

⌚ : Is your muse good with keeping on schedule for meetings, appointments, or events, or are they always late? Or, are they always a bit early?

♿ : Has your muse had any injuries in the past?

☺ : What is your muse’s smile like? Do they smile often?

⚡ : How does your muse feel about storms? Are they afraid of them, or do they calm them?

⚠ : How does your muse react to possibly dangerous situations? Do they face them head-on, or do they plan out their actions first?

☃  : What is your muse’s favorite season? What about their least favorite season, if they have one?

☂  : Does your muse like rain?

☼ : Does your muse like daytime or nighttime more?

🏨  : How well does your muse sleep?

❤ : What are your muse’s thoughts on love? If they are not in a relationship, do they believe that they will ever find a perfect someone for them?

☘ : Does your muse believe in luck? How about fate?

⚯ : Does your muse have good eyesight? If not, what is it like? Are they nearsighted or farsighted? Or both? Do they use glasses? Or do they prefer contacts?

👓 : If your muse wears glasses, what are their glasses frames like?

♨ : Does your muse have good table manners? How do they feel about bad table manners?

❀ : What is your muse’s opinion about flower crowns?

��� : Does your muse sing well? Regardless of whether they sing well or not, do they enjoy singing?

📐 : Is your muse good at math? Do they like it, or do they hate it?

♞ : What is your muse’s favorite animal?

εїз : How does your muse feel about bugs and insects?

📱 : Does your muse prefer calling or texting?

☆ : Of the sun, stars, and the moon, which is your muse’s favorite?

ツ : Does your muse prefer lots of friends, or just a few close ones?

✝ : Is your muse religious?

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I absolutely love your art <3

wahhh thank you so much!! 🥺🥺 i’m glad!! ❤️❤️

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So, Arthur. I hear from unnamed sources that you've always had a strong connection with foxes.

Are you friends with the London foxes?

[Arthur] They kept me a lot of company as a lad, so I suppose I enjoy seeing them in the countryside more…but they’re opportunistic creatures, you can’t really keep them from where they want to be.

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Scrolling through the fruk tag and seeing your art made me go *leonardo dicaprio pointing meme*

Arthur's eyebrows are truly *chef's kiss*

-Ender again

😭 thank you so much! and yes whenever i draw his eyebrows i feel like a stylist 💕 i like to think he takes pretty good care of them now LMAO

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hey y’all if you’d like to follow my non-ask related artwork (basically just what i post on my instagram) you can follow me here! i most likely won’t be very active but i’ll be crossposting stuff from the last year or so here for a bit.

going to try to post my art here again, i did this portrait type thing a few months ago and i still really like it <3 they have my whole heart

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I just wanted to know how you hc Arthur's relationship with some Asian nations like Japan, India, Hong Kong??? I know some people really adore his friendship with Kiku, do you have the same hc? :D

to be completely honest i haven't thought much about his relationship with india, simply because i don't feel i'm educated enough to have a definitive say on what their opinions on each other might be. i don't really portray them as close, but i also don't think of them as being particularly nasty towards one another. at this point in time i feel like they're probably acquaintances at best.

the same more or less goes for hong kong, i have thoughts but they aren't very developed. arthur definitely has a soft spot for him, especially since he was so small when they first met, so i wouldn't be surprised if he treated him the same as the rest of his little brood...i can definitely see them as having that old man/hip teenager dynamic and i think that's super fun.

i do share the headcanon (i'd even say it's not much of a headcanon at all) that he and kiku are very good friends! i even see arthur as forming an unrequited crush on him for a year or two. they do understand each other on a base level of loving small animals, their gardens, tea of course, literature, and quiet. arthur would have the time of his life as a tourist in modern day japan, i just know it.

don't let my rather vague answers deter you from asking about any of these guys though! that's kinda part of why i started this blog, to flesh out things i haven't given a lot of thought before. and thanks for the ask! <3

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You're back!! I was so sad when you vanished :c

It's nice to see you again. I hope you're more comfortable with this blog than the old one. I've always been so happy to see an update from you <33

Farewell, and of course send my greetings to Arthur & co.

-Ender

thanks a ton! i really hope i can keep making things here that you'll be just as happy to see!! and thanks for sticking around all this time <3

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I want to say that your art is such a treat! love it. and thank you for not making france look all buffed, really, I don't get why people do that XD he's elegant ;)

going to try to answer some asks that aren't for arthur tonight!

thank you so much, i'm glad you like my art! i've never really seen francis as particularly muscular, tbh i've always viewed him as being quite scrawny, especially as he gets older. of course he'd be a little stronger in his youth but i've always seen arthur as the heavier-set and more buff one between the two of them. it's important to me lol, i like to see arthur getting into scraps to defend francis when they were younger <3