#what south Australia does to a mf

[and-with-strange-aeons]

What type of Chris Chan shit is this

[arbitrarygreay]

A common trap in genre shows is the way the endgame Big Bad faction takes over all bad things, and to an extent MFS did succumb to that temptation. There were many witch culture details from S1 that were never followed up on, squashed under the conflict with the Camarilla. One such case was that Witchplague was not wholly invented by Hearst. Like the vocal cord boxes, Hearst innovated the Witchplague from the large body of work already developed by witches on weaponized plague. Examples: 1x1, Abigail mentions one of her grandmothers died "rotting in a tent crawling with plague rats." 1x3, General Amis says "Our embassy was taken out by a plague bomb that no one's used in 50 years.", referring to the Spree as the attackers, but note that this plague bomb was apparently used 50 years ago. That's basically the first decade of the Proxy War era, and could have included the Chinese Civil War. But it's obviously pre-Spree, at any rate. 1x7, Adil mentions plagues being a downstream effect of witch military weather work. At this stage, they thought that Khalida's plague was just another one like those, and not something unique, much less engineered. 1x8, a mild plague form is used as a booby trap consequence in Citydrop. Not only are plagues an expected vector of offense by enemy combatants, they are well studied enough to create low-impact versions for training. Anyways, this indicates that witches have a good understanding of disease, including combating it. The Fixing tradition evidently goes centuries back, to have developed the "Christo-Pagan" line of technique. Which obviously therefore has implications for the impact of disease on history, and especially so in the colonial era. How does the existence of magic interact with what became genocide-by-disease in our world? Evidently it was not enough for any indigenous peoples to prevent being conquered by European nations, but there is still plenty of room for power dynamics to be nonetheless at a very different balance. (But also, given the total lack of any plot concerning Central or South America or Australia, it could be that there are parts of the world that fought off European colonization!) Which brings us back to that question of MFS not really having a Latine presence. While I think that the implications of magic border wards is the main culprit, there is also the theory that "Latino" never developed as a coherent identity in the MFS timeline for various reasons. Although, as a counterpoint, apparently the concept of "Latin America" originated with France, so if the French colonial empire is stronger in the MFS timeline, then the idea of the Latino should still be relevant, unless we go back to the theory that a lot more parts of Central and/or South America avoided extensive colonization. But there's also the aspect where Anglo culture is still hegemonic in MFS (or at least within US witch culture), as we do have plenty of ambiguously brown characters going by colonial era type names (for extra-diegetic aesthetic reasons, but still). Which has some spicy implications about the US's approach to coercive cultural integration. Given the notable presence of Indian members of the US military not expressing any Indian culture whatsoever, mayhaps that's the subtextual background for General Sharma's grudge against the US.