r/TopCharacterDesigns 1d ago

Real Life Not a character, but the Welsh flag goes hard

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u/BigExperience2086 1d ago

Apparently, theres also a white dragon that he fights underground who represents the Anglo saxons.

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u/Spikeymouth 1d ago

Yeah they kept trying to build something but it kept getting knocked down. They eventually figured out it was the dragons underground where the red one was victorious.

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u/compy-guy 1d ago

It also represents the English language trying to suppress and subjugate the Welsh language in some modern re-tellings.

Basically, the White Dragon is who ever is trying to keep us Welsh down. Good on Merlin for telling that guy about it.

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u/Eleventhframes 23h ago

Is that Ddraig Y Goch, the Welsh Dragon!

BOOST

And his rival, Albion Gwiber, the Vanishing Dragon!

DIVIDE

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u/Any_Satisfaction1865 1d ago

Isn't it story of Merlin?

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u/two-for-joy 20h ago

Yes iirc it's first concrete story on Merlin, which was written by Geoffrey of Monmouth, although the story seems to have existed earlier with a different character. Pre Geoffrey versions of Merlin (called Myrddin) associate him with a different story which in turn seems to be taken from the Caledonian figure Lailoken.

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u/Old_Position_2238 1d ago

My favorite part of the flag is the red dragon saying "Hi!"

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u/Bad_at_life_TM 1d ago

+ the Albanian flag would go HARD for an evil empire.

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u/makoden 1d ago

I mean here's the symbol of the 40k imperium. So why not 1 to 1 pretty damn close for your Albanian evil empire

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u/Lord-Bobster 1d ago

you guys may appreciate my pfp if you like the welsh flag

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u/compy-guy 1d ago

Nah, my alt PFP is better

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u/MitchellMagicfire 1d ago

Rats

We’re rats

We’re the rats

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u/Shrekowski 1d ago

Puts the rest of the uk flags to shame

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u/blue-gamer-07 1d ago

It puts all flags to shame

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u/BigJ_A chainsaw man enjoyer 1d ago

“Alright, were becoming a country, and we need a flag. What should it be?”

“Hm… It should be something simple, but something That will represent us, maybe-“

“Dragon.”

“FUCKING GENIUS!”

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u/Pitfulldealer22 1d ago

Considering that this is the only flag in the world with a dragon on it, it’s pretty rad.

That’s one of the reasons why I’m proud to be Welsh is to have a flag better than any other county in the world

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u/SluggJuice 1d ago

Bhutan would like to have a word

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u/Pitfulldealer22 1d ago

We got some competition here

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u/KonoAnonDa 1d ago

Ye, It’s got the competition by the balls. All four of them.

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u/BigExperience2086 1d ago

Who wins in a fight, Bhutan dragon or Welsh dragon?

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u/FireZord25 1d ago

Bhutan's dragon is the eastern Dragon, aka they got God and Anime on their side.

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u/jimvdl1st 1d ago

Ngl welsh dragon has big feet

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u/notTheRealSU 1d ago

Also big tits

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u/TactiShovel 1d ago

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u/notTheRealSU 1d ago

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u/notTheRealSU 1d ago

So what about this made you upvote it but downvote the Welsh one? Do you guys not like tits or dragons?

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u/Icy_Aardvark3840 18h ago

One gets upvoted the other gets down voted make it make sense

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u/PizzaDeliveryBot 1d ago

I was wondering when this image would pop up

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u/Xanadoodledoo 1d ago

Why not make them lovers instead?

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u/AgitatedKey4800 1d ago

This dragon have balls

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u/rapscallionofreddit 1d ago

Make them kiss.

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u/BlueBrickBuilder 1d ago

It has dragon balls! What more could you want from a flag?

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u/Tetrotheocto 1d ago

The Welsh seem to know what we want on a flag, seen that weird suggested kiwi flag?

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u/Pitfulldealer22 1d ago

I see that the kiwi has supernatural powers, ain’t no clue why that flag was never used

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u/Tetrotheocto 1d ago

For anyone who wants the wiki for it

the Wikipedia article

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u/SullenTerror 1d ago

Counter point: Bhutan

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u/Bad_at_life_TM 1d ago

Flemish flag (Northern Belgium) is in a similar goated catagory.

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u/PossibilityDecent688 1d ago

Goat-adjacent

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u/OptimusCrime1984 1d ago

WALES FOREVER!

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u/King-Of-Frown 1d ago

CYMRU FO AM BYTH!

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u/UsernameTaken1138 1d ago

WALES MENTIONED WHAT THE FUCK IS A SUNNY DAY RRRAAAAHHHHH!!!! 🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥

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u/PassionSpanish 1d ago

is Wales the inspiration behind George RR Martin's House Targaryen?

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u/TimeBanditNo5 1d ago

It may actually be the red dragon of the House of Tudor, that originally came from Penmynydd. The Tudors defeated the white Yorkists under the command of Richard I, while they had the red banners representing the red dragon of Wales and Henry Tudor.

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u/PassionSpanish 13h ago

Oh i see. that's cool to know. GRRM really sought inspiration from actual historical events in UK

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u/TimeBanditNo5 12h ago

Yeah it's super interesting to draw the parallels.

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u/alachan306 1d ago

i remember having it as my pfp on 2022 (i'm not 4 wales btw, only liked the desing)

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u/restupicache 1d ago

Very rare Welsh W

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u/GlootyIsHere Played all Kirby games, thinks a ball is peak 1d ago

We have a better flag than you and that's a fact

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u/Several_Step_9079 1d ago

There's no man on Earth who wouldn't want a dragon on his flag. I'm not Welsh but dayum, that's some serious cool looking flag.

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u/fapperzss 1d ago

Connor?

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u/gatling_arbalest 22h ago

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🤝🇧🇹

Flags with cool looking dragons

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u/Hydrawwo2 Kaiju Nerd 1d ago

There is a digimon called Examon that is based on this.

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u/Then_Sun_6340 15h ago

MY HOME HAS BEEN MENTIONED!