Eagles (Prussia & Austria)

"Hey, Specs!", Prussia shouted deafeningly in Austria's right ear.

Austria almost jumped. He had been too focused on the music he was writing to pay much attention to his surroundings. "Don't call me 'Specs'", he replied indignantly.

"All right, Roddy, but look at that image Finland sent me!", Prussia said, still talking way too loud for the Austrian's taste. He shoved his laptop onto the closed font lid of Austria's piano and pointed at the screen.

"That's the lesser coat of arms of the Austrian lands from 1915 by Hugo Gerard Ströhl", Austria said like a shot. "All right, minus the sceptre and the crowns, and the imperial orb looks different, too, but in essence, it is Ströhl's coat of arms."

"O— okay, if you say so…" Prussia seemed stunned, even though he knew Austria had always had a knack for heraldry.

"Though I don't remember I ever had a coat of arms referring to me as the 'Austrian Metal Empire'", Austria added in that dismissive nasal upper-class accent of his that never failed to drive Prussia mad.

"Actually, I wanted to annoy you with that logo", Prussia said sulkily.

"I thought as much", Austria replied, still using the same accent. "Did it ever cross your mind that your awesome self isn't the first person who ever had the idea to show this to me during the past years?"

"Erm … Switzerland?"

"Among others, yes."

Into the silence that followed, Austria said: "But if you're so keen on talking about eagles, why don't we talk about the third arm the eagle grows on the coat of arms of West Prussia?"

"That's Poland's fault, because it used to be the coat of arms of his province Royal Prussia", Prussia snapped.

"Then what about the eagle on the coat of arms of the Free State of Prussia which looks like it's doing a drunken dance?"

"That eagle takes to flight, looking back at what it has already achieved!"

"If you say so. It still looks like it's drunk."

"Austriaaa…"

"Before you take to spreading my precious music paper on the ground: May I remind you that it was your idea to mock other people with their coats of arms in the first place?"

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Notes:

This fanfic alludes to
- the coat of arms of the Austrian independent record label Napalm Records from Eisenerz (Styria, Austria), founded in 1992 (I know it because some of my favourite metal bands are signed to it, e.g. Atrocity, Delain, Edenbridge, Kamelot, Leaves' Eyes, Midnattsol, Nemesea, Sirenia, Tristania, Van Canto, and Xandria),
- the lesser coat of arms of the Austrian lands from 1915 by Hugo Gerard Ströhl (1851-1919),
- the flag of Royal Prussia (1466-1772, a Polish province) / West Prussia (1772/93-1919/45), and
- the coat of arms of the Free State of Prussia (1918-1933).

Yes. And Finland is the Metal Republic, of course, being the native country of bands such as Amorphis, Apocalyptica, the Children of Bodom, Ensiferum, HIM, Korpiklaani, Nightwish, Sonata Arctica, and Stratovarius, to name but a few.