YOU SHALL NOT PASS

YAAAAAAAAAAY
IT'S MOUNTIE YUKON.
Well, sort of. If you said she was in an RCMP uniform you would be wrong. Before the RCMP was the North West Mounted Police, who were basically the same thing but they didn't care about gambling and prostitution.
Female RCMP weren't around until like 1975 (I know, right) so this is an ANACHRONISMMMMM but it's okay because
1. this is the personification of the Yukon Territory.
2. Yukon looks like a man

WHY IS THE BRITISH FLAG IN THE BACKGROUND?
It seems weird, but we didn't get our own flag until 1965. It was flag day yesterday! I totally didn't know that.

THIS picture takes place during the Klondike Gold Rush of the late 1890s, and according to the game this picture is lovingly dedicated to, the exact year is 1897. If you're playing well it's around November first.
SO REMEMBER THE OREGON TRAIL WHERE YOU'D ALWAYS DIE OF DYSENTERY AND ATE NOTHING BUT BANNOCK? Yeah, this is like that only cooler. My favourite childhood game (that is, before Zeus), the one and only Yukon Trail. I used music from there on my audition for the Yukon Territory, and I'm now the main voice of the Yukon. That's just how awesome it is. It helps you achieve your dreams.
This particular scene is like my favourite part of the game: when you cross the border into Canada and the mounties take all your money. X3 The background is loosely based on the background of the game which is loosely based on REAL LIFE WHOA.

IT'S 12:30 I SHOULD BE ASLEEP but first I will give you...
A HISTORY LESSON.

Also I may shed some light on why the Yukon hates Alaska which gets asked A LOT and I swear I'll do some proper in depth research and buy a million books on the subject.

So, in 1896 a bunch of people found gold in the Yukon. I won't say who did, since there's a lot of dispute, but a lot of people argue it was Kate Carmack (the others were the search party looking for her) hence why I think the Yukon's human name should be Kaaaaaaaate. BUT THAT DOESN'T MATTER.
As you can imagine everyone went ballistic and people came up from all over the world to strike it rich. The majority of them failed miserably.
THIS ISN'T IMPORTANT BUT MY HOMETOWN EDMONTON WAS A MAJOR PIT STOP ON THE WAY BECAUSE WE ARE FAR NORTH AND NO ONE LIKES US. TAKE THAT CALGARY.
Anyway, a lot of people would take a ship from Seattle up to either Skagway or Dyea in Alaska (I always go Dyea on the Yukon Trail for some reason, idk. In Skagway Soapy Smith always tries to take all my moneys.) and hike up to the Canada-US border. The mounties predicted the gold rush and they all ran up there in order to PROTECT CANADIAN SOVEREIGNTY since we have identity issues and at this time we were barely a country for thirty years. The border between the Yukon and Alaska was arbitrarily decided by America and Britain without any input from Canada (or the First Nations, of course. A lot of them found themselves randomly separated, but they tried to cash in by offering their services carrying packages ahead of stampeders and acting as guides.).
Anyway, the mounties were all about enforcing the law in Canada, which Alaska didn't seem too concerned about. To make sure there wasn't a famine, they required every stampeder entering Canada to have (literally) 'a ton of goods'. They also collected taxes from each person crossing.
Since the borders were so fuzzy, I hear the NWMP decided to establish customs at Skagway, but they failed. XD In Alaska, it was a total lawless wilderness as far as Canada was concerned. The Yukon was no less dangerous, but the Mounties made sure everyone waited until spring for the ice to break up when they were about to set out on the river. They also inspected every boat to make sure it was safe.
The NWMP were actually about to be dissolved, but because they acted in such an efficient and peaceful manner they continued on, becoming the beloved national icons they are today. Cool story, eh?

I FEEL LIKE EATING ME SOME SOURDOUGH BREAD REAL BAD NOW. I WONDER WHY.
I drank way too much coke I need to try and go to sleep ahhridjghirkl.

ENJOY.

One last thing.
It's THE Yukon. Not Yukon. Not Yukon Territory. THE YUKON.
I WILL PUSH THIS UNTIL YOU ALL ADOPT IT OR I DIE AND MY GHOST DOESN'T COME BACK TO HAUNT YOU BECAUSE IT'S BUSY BEING A GHOST.
If you say "I'm driving through British Columbia" it's okay, but if you say "I'm driving through Yukon" IT IS NOT.

I NEED TO STOP DRINKING CAFFEINE.
IS COKE EVEN CAFFEINATED IN CANADA
I DON'T KNOW ANYMORE :sob:

The Yukon's design is by the lovely ~ctcsherry

WAIT
I FORGOT TO MENTION I DID LIKE ALL OF THE LINE ART WITH THE PEN TOOL
I'M SO PROUD