Guillotine Western Bible -- Original Guillotine Western Concept

In Uploaded Fairy, it eluded to a future where criminals can be randomly guillotine gunned and beheaded in the streets. Already this diverges from a future that many consider to be likely. Let's take a step back, and speculate about how such a future may come about.

I once saw a television broadcast mentioning that a little known fact was that the founding fathers voted about whether the preferred means of capital punishment, due to their new laws regarding prohibitions of cruel and unusual punishment, would best utilized through hanging by the neck or guillotine. In Europe, many countries still allowed for beheading. Germany still lopped peoples heads off by ax and block, and France had recently adopted the guillotine after the French Revolution as the means of capital punishment for the populace.

For whatever reason, according to Wild West Tech, America never took to beheading. The exception is when people are beheaded due to botched hangings.

Speculated Guillotine Western

Guillotine Western fiction speculates about an extremely subtle form of alternate history where history only varies insofar that the founding fathers decided the Guillotine was the means to ensure for quick and arguably painless capital punishment. The guillotine has specific advantages over hanging, but one also can stay alive for up to two minutes after decapitation, there face having something like a sleepy eyed expression and them mouthing words with no vocal cords.

Specific historical events would be largely the same. Except that Civil War traitors and petty thieves in the Wild West would be guillotined in the square instead of hung by the neck. Various social phrases would develop that alternate from historical facts such as “let's stretch their necks.” Something more like, “Let's harvest the chickens.”

Fashion In Guillotine Western

Largely speaking, fashion would be roughly the same as the history we have. However, like revolutionary France, people might craft guillotine earing styles. It is also an established fact that in countries at war in history, people wore wooden clogs when leather became shorter. But for whatever reason the west always wore boots. However if America had an extended Civil War that lasted until 2117, then leather would inevitably become a rare resource. You would have children in certain circle that were not rich wearing shoes people tend to associate with Italy, France, Belgium, Netherlands, and parts of Germany. The reason is livestock would be in short supply.

Parents would teach their kids have to chop for wood, and learn how to make their own pairs of wooden clogs so they can learn to make a pair of shoes tailored for their fit. Also if leather were a rare resource, then modern concepts of steel toes would manifest differently than if leather were far cheaper to make. Or society might make shoes out of something else, for example steel toes made out of plastic or rubber. But this is mainly a product of the 20^th century, and would manifest differently of there was a perpetual war that shook the nation until 2117.

Now this is assuming that wooden clogs are not part of an underground sub culture, where teens seek to become off grid and not reliant on industrial/corporate prices. You would have eighteen year olds in wooden clogs going to their doom to the guillotine.

Diet In Guillotine Western

For the most part, people in the wild west had simpler diets than we do today. People mostly consumed direct basic by-products from the animal. Cheese was actually cheese, not cheese food product. However with primitive automation allowed for simple food processing, the culture of splitting culinary tasks went by the way side.

Various ethnic backgrounds brought different food styles to the table during this era of technical innovation. Due to large populations coming from different parts of Asia, the US had influences between Chinese, Thai, and Japanese among other other groups. This combined with Irish/Italian culture already present, with British going by the wayside for dishes this includes corn beef and cabbage spaghetti that encompasses a wide range of all five flavors within each individual family variety.

Criminality And Characters

Characters are generally loosely based on characters (usually minors) from history who either have been acquitted or are sentenced to death. The basics of the case are researched, and the rest are left to empathy and similar life experience to the author in order to come up with the best judgment on forming life styles of characters.

Such characters are based on figures from 19^th century French pop culture and the American wild west, in collision that feels very strange to historical purists. The intent of the narrative is a kind of juxtaposition of eroticism and empathic emotional response that makes the reader uncomfortable.

Ex. Anna-Marie Boeglin

Superstition In Guillotine Western

Due to various social factors, and religion losing its influence with a wider range of cultural influences earlier in American history, beliefs became increasingly less deity focused, with more stories revolving around the dead and how they interact with the people. However due to no deities, religion took on a uniquely atheistic approach.

An example superstition would be knocking on an abandoned houses door twice, so that the spiritual residue there doesn't try to kill those who seek to visit the house and learn of its secrets.

Specific Folktales are included for completion.

1. The tale of the haunted door – In this story, a ghost investigator solves the mystery of a haunted door, and becomes one of the spirits of the house.
2. The tale of the animated guillotine and pillory – A guillotine and pillory engineer conspire to automate beheading and locking in the pillory utilizing a arcade style time expiration using coin slots.
3. The tap dancing ghost of a little girl – A young girl who died in her early teens ten years ago haunts an abandoned house. She is visited by adventurous children who go into the house as part of a dare.
4. The corned beef and cabbage that ate itself – In this story, a can of corn beef and cabbage seem to magically eat itself. It is filled with bugs that want more food. Ever sense companies use this folk tale as justification for extreme levels of preservatives.

Childhood In Guillotine Western

Children are still spanked in this largely atheist culture, however the reasonings/excuses focus more on not upsetting the dead. For example a mother may paddle her daughter because she walked into a graveyard at night, and performed blasphemous rituals to specifically Eastern concepts. instead of using biblical passages for reasons to spank their kids. Much like how Asia still paddles their kids, but their reasoning isn't associated with the Bible.

Gaming In Guillotine Western

Kids play on analog arcades after a certain point in an unhindered technical revolution. This eventually creates a more advanced virtual reality arcade system at an earlier point in time than would have otherwise taken place. Therefore it was natural for gaming to take on a dream-like quality after the turn of the 21^st century.

Therefore instead of utilizing wooden swords fighting monsters, children and teenagers switch to their adventurous mindset purely in the draw of games. It's feasible one could live their entire childhood in these analog arcades in certain social circles.

Executions In Guillotine Western

Because executions by guillotine were a relatively common occurrence in the Wild West, this sparked multiple innovations in design that made execution by beheading practically a non deterrence. You could be captured by sheriffs and bandits alike and they would have guillotine models with an all metallic design that had the insignia of specific gangs. Therefore people became apathetic, as beheading began to occur at earlier ages down to the age of thirteen in specifically dangerous locales. This created new danger zones outside of the enforcement of sheriffs.

Guillotine Zone In Guillotine Western

The guillotine zone is a wide expanse between the wild West and New York City where bandits had free reign to use beheading as this cultures form of lynching. Women who took to the horse, and got into the wrong side of the crowd tap dancing in their wooden clogs could easily find themselves locked in the guillotine and see their bodies float away as their heads fall into a basket.

War Of The Sexes In Guillotine Western

In these danger zones, criminality was the law. Very few people live past the age of thirty two. War of the sexes was an earlier and more extended affair. You were more likely to find all male or all female bandit group, with neither trusting each other. They would hold weekly holidays of women captured and beheaded in little all male town squares after being used in the pillory.

Pillory has replaced jail sentences for women, who men felt female criminals could be used as replacement horses on buggies in case they had to put one of their horses down. Therefore a culture of “horse women” was born. Women were more likely to be slaves than men, with Asian boys being highly prized for their beauty and an example of why men can be pretty too.

Guillotine Zones Not Without Honor

An Asian boy could have a white female slave. If you owned enough slaves you could have one of them beheaded instead of you, if your slave loves you well enough to protect your life. Special honorary rituals are placed in honor of said slaves. Sometimes this creates the necrophiliac complex, where Asian boys fall in love with their slaves, and they choose to haunt cemeteries being with their loved ones forever.