this is going to be the Hiveswap Destroying My Alternia Headcanons masterpost. and I am so happy about that, by the way. smash my headcanons into the ground. I’m eating this stuff up.
1 – Rites of Maturation happen at 7. Is that why Dammek has a title, or has he just assigned himself one to sound grown-up enough to run a revolution? None of the alpha trolls have taken titles, so it’d have to be an Alternia exclusive thing.
2 – Drones just… kill you? They just kill you for, like, being a rustblood and existing…? You don’t gotta be a mutant or traitor or anything they will just straight up kill you if you’re outside, but if you hide in your hive they don’t know what a hive is and keep walking.
Is there… a….. a curfew? Is that is are we talking about being culled because you’re out past curfew? Because it’s about the time Xefros would usually go to bed apparently?
They’re….. assuming the nearest rustblood is responsible for the explosion??
I’m going with “it’s a curfew and I missed something” because I can’t imagine killing your citizens for stepping outside, but also building your economy around their ability to work for you and do things like pick up deliveries of butler supplies from their front porch, would be a very useful policy no matter how vicious you are.
3 – Not Hiveswap specific, but it’s occurring to me that (while brutal and wrong and ew) if Alternian technology is and always has been organic, based on living things like bugs (game grubs, the bug tablet thing, I should have had this thought long before playing the game tbh) the Helmsman as a concept was probably seen as the next natural step in the evolution of technology – it wouldn’t be weird to use a living thing as an engine, it’s just brutal that it’s a troll, and brutality has never been a problem for Alternia.
tl;dr the concept of the Helmsman is much less weird/novel on Alternia than it is to us, in terms of some particularly awful person thinking to invent the technology. More like making the leap from “I can have a horse pull my vehicle” to “I can have a person pull my vehicle.” I should have put this together before.
Ugh. I feel all gross whenever I talk about Alternian brutality. It’s so gross.
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