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Been thinking a lot about Northern Attitude by Noah Kahan (the hozier version) specifically the line.

“If I get to close

And I’m not how you hoped

Forgive my Northern Attitude

Oh I was raised out in the cold”

And it’s a simple line but it’s sung with so much apology that it immediately stood out to me, combined with having heard Hozier explain the thought behind To Someone from a Warmer Climate, how it’s about the way that the phyical climate of the places we grow up affect the way we showcase and experience love, it proceeded to consume my every waking moment

Cause, interestingly, these two pieces are clashing. As To Someone from a Warmer Climate focuses more on how the cold allows you to hold each other close for warmth and how that builds a relationship but that makes it that when you finally experience the heat you’re uncomfortable in it, you don’t know what to do with it. What is our relationship if we don’t need to keep each other warm?

While Northern Attitude is about how growing up cold has by extension made him cold, personality wise. Like I don’t know how to properly showcase affection because that’s not something you learn when you are just trying to survive the cold. You don’t get to explore the depth of what you mean to each other when the cold is the most pressing enemy and you’ll take any body as long as it’s got heat, doesn’t matter who it’s attached too as long as it can make the house a little warmer.

But both songs are essentially saying the same thing;

I was raised on little light, all my life has taken place in the dark. I don’t know how to love you in the warmth of daylight.

And As someone who grow up on the equator it really got me thinking about how growing up in extreme heat affects the way I showcase my love and how that manifests differently from someone that grew up in the cold.

Cause I don’t like to sleep to close to people because I can feel the heat radiating of them and that’s uncomfortable. I don’t like to sleep in long pants or sweaters because I can feel the warmth seeping into my skin. I don’t like to walk out in the sun cause the heat frustrates me. And now that I have winters I still run the air conditioning all the time because I’m scared of all the memories attached to the heat.

All this to say that as always all roads lead back to Mishanks because whether Mihawk grew up on a cold winter island as his personality suggests or on a burning hot Spanish inspired sun. He has only ever known extreme ways to love.

As compared to someone like Shanks who grew up on the ever changing ocean. Whose never stayed anywhere long enough to be wary of the cold or untrusting of the heat. Who’s never known anything but loving freely untempered by weather. He’s always just been everything.