The grey area between a foetus and a jelly baby

You know jelly babies, right? Yeah, the little guys that pre-teens like to pull apart, or look really closely at to check whether they’ve got dicks. Anyway, not many people know that they were a British invention – they came out after the end of World War Two as a celebration of the new generation that was supposed to grow up in a peaceful world. At least, that was the reason the public heard.

In actual fact jelly babies were created by some cabal that has now vanished forever (probably) to re-populate the British Isles after the devastation of the War. The original recipe jelly babies were a very potent fertility charm. They worked well, too – they spread across the world, and the generation born between 1945 and 1955 turned out to be the largest in human history.

But then a strange thing happened – women started controlling their fertility much more effectively. The birth control pill and a slowly increasing level of access to abortion meant that conception and birth became rarer events. Thing is, people were still chomping down these sweet, chewy fertility charms, which meant that loads and loads of life-creating magickal energies had nowhere to go. The result was a sudden skyrocket in the number of Nonentities and Revenants coming into being.

Now, the fact is that someone got their shit together enough to ensure that none of the jelly babies you can buy these days are made using the original recipe. But there were still a ton of people wandering around without pasts, or even souls as such, and a whole lot more who’d died but hadn’t really gone away. The big secret I’m getting to here is that the waves of British émigrés who went to places like Australia, Canada, India and parts of Africa after the War were mostly these ‘people’, and that it’s entirely possible that they’re breeding true…