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In my AU, there’s a phenomenon that’s been documented where a country who amasses too much power and control goes into a state of psychosis. It doesn’t have an official name, it has been called “colonizer madness”, “domination psychosis”, “absolute power disorder”, and “imperialist syndrome”.

Key symptoms of the disorder include paranoia, violent behavior, mood swings, hallucinations, delusions of grandeur, a god complex, mania, insomnia, and obsessive and disorderly thinking pertaining to their power and control over other countries.

The first real documented case of the disorder was from Spanish empire, according to eye witness accounts, she believed that her servants were plotting to overthrow her and take all her riches. She believed that Incan empire placed a curse on her when she killed him, she says she was haunted by his spirit and that Aztec empire’s spirit possesses her at night. She executed her servants and several Catholic priests thinking they were responsible for her mental state. She became obsessed over obtaining gold and slept in her vault. She stopped eating and sleeping and was last seen by the public being carted off to an asylum in chains screaming and clawing her face. So far Spanish empire has had the worst case of the disorder ever recorded.

It’s been speculated that Mongolian empire had the same condition at one point, but there’s been no concrete proof.

Britain and France both at one point displayed symptoms of the disorder, Britain more severe than France. He was given mercury to treat his condition but it made it worse. Britain believed he was god and invincible. He was able to recover from his disorder and thankfully it wasn’t as bad as Spanish Empire’s.

Portuguese Empire also had the condition. He lost his mind completely and was obsessed with outdoing Spanish Empire. All he could think about was her downfall. He killed servants and people he suspected were Spanish Empire’s spies. He believed that Brazil was a witch who was out to destroy him and often pointed to so called “puncture wounds” to prove that Brazil was cursing him and stealing his blood. The wounds were just pores and freckles.

America has scarily shown early symptoms of the disorder.

In my Wolfenstein AU, Third Reich has the disorder and believes that he is god. It’s been made worse by his drug addiction. He is obsessed with killing Poland again and holding onto his power. He has become violent and lashing out at everyone.

Russia: snores sound like a truck

America: has sleep apnea and sleeps with a cpap machine.

Canada: is freezing cold

Germany: talks in their sleep, plus wings.

Poland: sleeps with his eyes open plus two pairs of wings

France: sleeps with several different facial masks, is terrifying to look at.

Japan: insomniac, often gets up late at night to work on her phone.

South Korea: is a conjoined twin with North Korea, north punches south in his sleep and grinds his teeth.

Vatican City: will easily get crushed

Ukraine: glows in the dark and sets off Geiger counters.

Mexico: have to also share the bed with his six chihuahuas and Xolo.

Iceland: farts.

India: lets her giant 20 foot reticulated python sleep with her.

Hungary: smells like a horse barn.

Egypt: old lady, will get up ten times at night, plus cats.

Mongolia: restless sleeper, will do crocodile death rolls in her sleep.

United Kingdom: gets up twenty times at night.

I’m currently cat sitting my grandma’s cat for a few days. I love Abba cat and she is obsessed with me. We have to keep her restricted to the upstairs because of our bunny.

Last night I had trouble sleeping because Abba kept going in and out of my room and trying to get into my closet. If I keep her out of my bedroom, she will cry. She loves sleeping with me, I keep the door open so she can access her litter box.

She’s a very sweet cat, she’s very nosey. I am just not used to having a cat, I am used to bunnies.

-Gordon snores so loudly that someone in Tidmouth called the cops on him.

-in order to make a wish on proteus’s lamp, you have to catch him, which is hard since he’s a shapeshifter trickster. Once you catch him, you then have to beat him in a game of wits. Only three engines have been successful in outsmarting Proteus. Stephen wished that he can spend one more day with Robert Stephenson, Duke wished that he would be found, and Thomas…. Well, no one knows what he wished for.

-when an engine dies, they’ve simply “went to work for the magic railroad.” The magic railroad is an afterlife for all sentient engines where the engines that passed on work to transport the souls of the dead around the afterlife. It varies from culture to culture.

-Truck-o-gram was a popular way of delivering messages between engines. It’s basically a game of telephone where the trucks pass on the message to each other. It didn’t really take off in the states as the locomotives quickly found that the message gets scrambled up real quickly.

-Molly and Emily HATE each other.

-Ringo Starr came to visit Sodor once. Duncan turned into a huge fanboy and had Ringo autographed his face.

-Duncan wants facial piercings after seeing a few punks sporting them. Skarloey said absolutely not because “piercings look trashy on an engine.”

-everyone was shocked to learn that Whiff and Mallard are good friends. According to whiff, “they swapped pronouns with each other.” Mallard used to be male and whiff went by aerolite back then and was referred to as a female.

-Whiff actually hated his time in the museum. He also didn’t like pulling saloon coaches. He prefers trash because it doesn’t care how you look or handle them, trash doesn’t judge you. He still has an extensive knowledge of railway maintenance.

-Sir Handel’s eye never healed from the branch incident. It turned very swollen and disgusting no matter how they treated it. They even hired a human eye doctor to come and perform surgery on it, and drain the fluid from it. In the end it was too far injured and had to be removed. He now has a glass eye.

-the engines used to have radios in their cabs, but it got taken away because Percy woke the entire fleet up from radioing Edward about a noise he heard.

-on the first day of sir Topham Hatt V’s job as the controller, the trucks became communists and wanted to stage a revolution.

-Thomas review bombed Duck’s branchline. He wasn’t subtle about it either.

-Toby loves watching the drama unfold. If there’s an argument or fight, Toby is there watching it go down.

-Edward >!has successfully talked people out of suicide. He encountered a few people wanting to jump from the bridges or lying on the tracks, and each time he stops and quietly talks to them. It ends with them crying and hugging him. No one but him and his crew knew about this!<

-Toby was the one who came up with the idea for the 80th anniversary calendar to feature pictures of the various accidents from the TV show on it.

-(CRACK HEADCANON) Duck has beef with Jubilee from underground Ernie because Jubilee created an angry video game nerd clone channel called “slightly peeved railway fan”. Jubilee put out a less than flattering video about the GWR. Duck not understanding that it was satire of AVGN took it seriously and HATED IT.

-Duck has never seen AVGN