History VideoGame / RedFlood

* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Originally, the leader of France was Fernand Leger, a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker, who's party was called Mouvement Futuriste Français, with its beliefs including "populistic national syndicalism, hyper-modernization, anti-communism, and the aesthetics of his propaganda". Previously, France had been taken over by the Legions de patriots, a far-right paramilitary organisation made up of veterans. In 1934 Leger took over the government following the government's collapse. Now, Leger is only a minister, with his place as head of state being taken by Antonin Artaud, and with the current lore being that France had previously been ruled by the reactionary Action Francaise party, who had been overthrown following a failed restoration of the House of Orleans.
** Balbo was originally going to come to power in Italy by staging a coup and would abolish the monarchy, planning to unite the Mediterranean under Italy. There was also a Socialist path which would have Italy spread the revolution throughout Italy.
** France also previously lead a faction known as the Marseille Front, not the League Solar, and did not have Accelerationism as its ideology.
** Montenegro was either an Italian puppet kingdom or an accelerationist dictatorship under Radole Gajdić(AKA Radola Gajda, a Czech military commander, and politician). Montenegro could conquer the Balkans to form the National Balkan State, and could even eventually conquer Europe and restore the Roman Empire. This path is going to be removed (It is still in the game, but not for long) and Gajda is now one of the reunifiers for Russia.
** There were originally plans for the Straits Commission (one of the states occupying Turkey, and making up the Turkish Straits and the surrounding areas) to be able to form a "Tsargrad Empire".
** France was originally very memetic, with it being a futurist dictatorship with no good ending. The possible paths it could take included the Escadron, led by Charles Nungesser "an insane warrior cult who glorifies militarism as a cure for the world" and would eventually proclaim the Etat Ireel, making all of France an extension of Artaud, abolishing individuality, and proclaiming war on reality. There was also the Acephale, led by Georges Bataille, anarchy-capitalists who had an elite that would amass wealth and then blow it all on hedonistic whimsies, all while the common people suffered. Finally, there were the Druidistes, led by Marc Augier, who, depending on whether Augier was shot by an Escadron fanatic, would either become an "eco-fascist tribal democracy" if he wasn't shot or an insane anarchy-primitivist thing where everyone lived like an animal and which could somehow conquer Europe despite having no weapons or factories.
** Russia was previously a republic, with Alexander Kolchak ruling as PresidentForLife.
** The Anhui Clique originally could crown Yuan Keding, son of Yuan Shikai (who iota tried to crown himself emperor in 1915-1916, but failed) as Emperor of China.

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** France also previously lead the Marseille Front, and did not have Accelerationism as its ideology.

* EmperorScientist: Several examples such as Howard Scott in the United States and Albert Einstein in Israel.

* SociopathicSoldier: The Belgian army remnants in the Congo range between this, JustFollowingOrders and OmnicidalManiac.

** The United States can potentially collapse if President James Cox is assassinated and he is succeeded by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. President Flynn's attempts to implement her Anarchist vision alienates her from large chunks of American Society, who ultimately secede en masse and plunge the country into warlordism.

* EmperorScientist: Several Examples such as Howard Scott in the United States and Albert Einstein in Israel.
%%* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The first event of Avant-Garde France describe Artaud's celebration of 1936's new year's eve in Marseille: a very alcohol-fuelled masquerade ball accompanied by the destruction of several priceless Renaissance-era works of art (notably, Artaud ejaculating on Jan van Eyck's ''Annunciation'', then shooting it with a rifle loaded with incendiary rounds as a symbolic act for the destruction of the old order). It lasts for a week and ends causing heavy damage to the city. The only option to close the event is "Le Patron seemed to have fun", and it has a ''positive'' consequence in gameplay (+3% stability).[[note]]The event may also arguably count as an EstablishingCharacterMoment for the whole world, showing how screwed everyone became: it mentions a few foreign journalists gave a positive coverage of the events, while the rest of the world remained indifferent.[[/note]]

%% ExcrementStatement: The first event of France has Antonin Artaud ejaculate over ''The Annunciation'' of Rogier van der Weyden during the New Year's Celebration in Marseilles before shooting the painting with a rifle. Avant-Garde France has nothing but contempt for classical art.

** The Futurist Regime in France was established after the FNAG stormed the Élysée Palace (The official residence of the President of France) in 1934. OTL In 1934 an attempt was made by several far-right leagues to storm the Bourbon Palace (The seat of the French Legislature). In Red Flood, however the Futurist Coup was far better organized and succeeded in toppling the Republic.

* EnemyMine: Marcus Garvey's attempt to move oppressed African-Americans to Liberia is more successful than in our timeline thanks to cooperation with the KKK and similar groups willing to help in raise money just to get rid of blacks. Can go into GoKartingWithBowser territory when the Liberians outright emulate the Klan when dealing with native tribes.

* {{Irony}}: In ''Kaiserreich'', Kerensky is the leader of the Russian Republic and Kolchak is ruling a competing government in Transamur (Russian Far East). Here, however, their roles are reversed.

* EvilColonialist: Quite a few including Firestone Company trying to turn Liberia from country to corporate land, general Gulidov who can establish what basically amounts to Russian version of Rhodesia in the Kazakh Steppes and Winston Churchill hellbent on uniting India under British rule no matter the cost.

** Germany and Japan are most likely to become allies... albeit as communist countries.
** According to an event, not only was''Literature/TheHobbit'' still written in this timeline, but it was also published on the same day.

* MonumentalDamage: A large part of Paris' monuments were destroyed or heavily damaged; first by far-right and left militias fighting, and then intentionally by the Futurist regime.

** According to an event, not only ''Literature/TheHobbit'' was still written in this timeline, but it also was published the same day.

** Belgium no longer exists. Its successor state is an independent Wallonia (which can be annexed by France through a focus); Flanders is part of the Netherlands.

->''"We are no longer men and women, we are no longer French, we are no longer even human. We are only the future, the avatar, the spark of creation..."''
-->--'''"Collective Dream" focus description'''

->''"...we are Le Patron"''
-->--'''"État Irréel" focus description'''

** America has a Hippo War, like the Australian Emu War.

** Two Germanies, one in the west, one in the east. Only this time, it's ''West Germany'' that's communist. Although the Eastern German state only consists of East Prussia while the former GDR is in the Communist West.

** For capitalists and most accelerationists (even left-leaning ones), councilist Germany takes the place of the real Soviet Union as a homeland of all things communist - liberals hate Germany because council communism is not compatible with free market capitalism, accelerationists view Germany as a nation as reactionary as those whom Germany calls "reactionary" due to German communists' crackdown on any kind of non-realist art.

* CivilWar: Along the ongoing Indian conflict between warlords, Spain, Brazil, Japan, and even the United States are also likely to have civil wars.

* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: The French Escadron d'Le Futur, the elite militia forces of the Accelerationists, wear custom leather jackets and maroon scarves.

* {{Irony}}:
** In ''Kaiserreich'', Kerensky is the leader of the Russian Republic and Kolchak is ruling a competing government in Transamur (Russian Far East). Here, however, their roles are reversed.

* NotSoDifferentRemark: Many of the native peoples of Liberia see Garvey, a black man, as no different to prior Western colonists and imperialists.

* PuttingOnTheReich: The United Baltic Duchy, being lead by Rosenberg, enjoy this aesthetic quite a lot.

* WorldGoneMad: '''Oh yes'''. For instance, the governing ideology of France declares that the concept of ''reality'' doesn't (and ''shouldn't'') exist.

** Cult of Kali and the Thelema cult in India.

** The governing ideology of Avant-Garde France, for instance, can be best described as a bizarre syncretic mixture of laissez-faire capitalism, Maoist Cultural Revolution theory, and the philosophy of Max Stirner.

* UndignifiedDeath: Huey Long, a prominent politician in Louisiana and one of the main US characters in ''Kaiserreich'', is killed by a hippo. No, ''really.''

** Stuck in Austria and threatened by communists and futurists alike, '''Adolf Hitler''' of all people serves as a moderate conservative interested mostly in keeping Austria away from insanity.

* MachineWorship: Many futurists outright worship machinery, with one Escadron Focus being called "Techno-Catharism", hinting at a mixture of the [[UsefulNotes/HeresiesAndHeretics Cathar heresy]] with this trope.

->''"[[WorldGoneMad Have mercy on us, God Almighty.]]"''
-->-- Translation of the opening lines of the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0sQmjYyaZs menu theme]].

* ANaziByAnyOtherName: Red Flood has all kinds of flavor of extremists and demagogues.
** Downplayed by Balbo's Italy, which is basically UsefulNotes/FascistItaly with a different leader.

* PuttingOnTheReich: The United Baltic Duchy, being lead by Rosenberh, enjoy this aesthetic quite a lot.

* EnemyMine: Marcus Garvey's attempt to move oppressed African-Americans to Liberia is more successful than in our timeline thanks to cooperation with the KKK and similar groups willing to help in raise money just to get rid of blacks. Can go into GoKartingWithBowser and NotSoDifferent territory when the Liberians outright emulate the Klan when dealing with native tribes.