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thedawningofthehour · 1 month ago

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In retrospect, I'm really sleeping on the morbid hilarity of Draxum's people leaving the Faroes for New York. Considering they left due to humans fucking up their shit and trying to drive them off their land, and considering the time and place these humans were likely a mixture of Norse settlers and people from the British Isles. So they travel across the fucking ocean to settle in a new land where the local humans are more accepting, more willing to work with them, and maybe they aren't all best friends but they leave each other alone and are willing to work/trade with each other if necessity demands it. For a few centuries, everything was relatively chill.

And then who fucking shows up?

#okay i know the british who settled in the faroes would have been gaels and picts who were not the british who colonized the americas #BUT the normans were descended from vikings and were doing viking bullshit #and by that point the normans were pretty wholly integrated into the anglo-saxons so there was a lot of norman influence in british culture #so i don't think the yokai would really make the distinction #“ugh those viking wannabes followed us across the goddamn ocean”#honestly this goes for most of the yokai from western europe #the spanish and the french both showed up in new york and the dutch colonized it initially #you move across the ocean to get away from europeans and who shoes up? europeans #look i'm norwegian i'm allowed to make fun of the norse #i don't have a reason why western europeans were more murdery towards the yokai probably for the same reasons they did colonization #rapid industrialization and newfound ability to kill and expand that people really didn't have access to before

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