What about if the war was between here and the "somewhere else" (ie faerie or the like)? The Stahlbaums are all in support of the industrial revolution, want to teach the boys sports, the girls domesticity, and want to cut magic completely out of their lives. The Sugar Plums and the Snow Flakes are faeries of some sort that mostly want to cut humanity completely out of their society, possibly just being tired of fighting mortals.
The rats in the walls are not only in the walls between rooms but also in the walls between worlds.
Ooh, if the Nutcracker is the heir to the old king, say the old king's death was what allowed for the Industrial Revolution to happen at all. The Snow Flake and Sugar Plum kingdoms are just as happy to leave the mortal lands behind. Drosselmeyer has either saved or held the prince captive or something else of moral ambiguity until he set up a match that will thoroughly tie the fae and mortal lands together.
And we're still not sure which side is the good side and which side is the bad side, but they're both very sneaky and rife with intrigue, because, hey, intrigue.
no subject
The rats in the walls are not only in the walls between rooms but also in the walls between worlds.
Ooh, if the Nutcracker is the heir to the old king, say the old king's death was what allowed for the Industrial Revolution to happen at all. The Snow Flake and Sugar Plum kingdoms are just as happy to leave the mortal lands behind. Drosselmeyer has either saved or held the prince captive or something else of moral ambiguity until he set up a match that will thoroughly tie the fae and mortal lands together.
And we're still not sure which side is the good side and which side is the bad side, but they're both very sneaky and rife with intrigue, because, hey, intrigue.