but now like the main character is his brother, who is totally done with everybody and everything and is basically a perpetually frustrated pencil pusher who just wants for crazy stuff to stop happening... or at least, in the beginning, he is
also, most of the worldbuilding i originally did doesn't actually make sense now i think harder about it. like, it really wouldnt make sense for colonialism to be so rampant and widespread in this alternate history? l mean, thinking about it, slavery almost certainly wouldnt exist, outside of the bondage of the working classes typical of the victorian era. and it wouldn't make sense for places like the americas to be colonised to anywhere the degree they were, either. actually, considering most of europe's history, there would be a lot more inter-european wars (and considering how peaceful the georgian era was.... ouch)
that being said, i'm pretty sure there'd be a lot more religious fanaticism and nationalism than I originally thought. i need to do a lot of rethinking and replanning, hah












