Talking about are Fanfics

[Keilah H.]

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Faith-based fanfics are something I need to see more of!!

I will warn you though, that kinda thing is gonna be hard to insert. Especially in Marvel, where there’s aliens, creatures who call themselves gods whether they have a claim to it or not, and a multiverse (which means Jesus would’ve had to come and die in every single universe, no exceptions)

The funny thing about the multiverse issue is you can’t just say it’s an alternate timeline where the multiverse doesn’t happen because that’s completely contradicting yourself. LOL.

Please don’t take this as me telling you to remove that element of the story. It’s so much more interesting that way.

 

I kinda had to do the same for my Team Fortress fic, the one I told you about. Throughout the official canon, it’s mentioned several times that characters believe God exists, heaven and hell exist, etc., and it sometimes ties into the sideplots. One of the main characters even claims to see heaven in a near-death experience and actually interacts with his recently deceased parents, who tell him he still has work to do down there–shortly after which he wakes up. The medic who revived him claims said character was just hallucinating cause of the stuff he got injected into his brain to keep him alive, but the character denies it vehemently.

This is all fine and good if these were remotely normal people, but….literally all of the main charries are deadly assassins who may be interesting, but one thing they’re definitely not is model Christians in any sense of the word. Oof, if my mom heard some of the language they’ve flung at each other coming out of my mouth, I’d probably get my device privileges revoked for a solid month. Hence why I bowdlerize it in my own writing.

So I had to split them into several groups:

• pulling the “well many believe you can’t lose your salvation” card for some of them (doesn’t matter whether you or your church/denomination/whatever believes that or not, that has no bearing to the discussion) and say these guys were genuinely saved at one point and lost their way and took up an unappealing line of work. At the end of the canon narrative, they all quit the killing business anyway, so who’s to say newly rediscovered moral convictions didn’t help with that?
• A couple of them seem more like atheists (bad for them but you can’t exactly save everyone, plus it only needs to be at the time if you really really wanna save ’em)
• It could easily be that some were never true Christians in the first place and just kinda have picked up the belief because it’s what everyone around them believes (while probably the most realistic option, it feels like a bit of a copout if I do it to all of them, y’know? and sometimes that view doesn’t make sense character-development-wise)
• and then there’s the two who’s just off their rockers insane, so the only real ethical question with them is “why are they not in an asylum or getting therapy or something helpful and not blowing each other up with flamethrowers or rocket launchers.”

All this and I don’t even touch on it in the actual fanfic lol, which is why I don’t consider it a “faith-based fanfic” at all and more of a normal fanfic that just happened to mention that the charries believe in God because I had to explain the original writers’ wonky plot devices that I couldn’t find a better replacement for.

 

is this unrelated? I feel like it’s gone off on a weird trail and just became completely unrelated and I feel really bad about that but I also don’t wanna remove it. welcome to my autistic brain.

 

 

 

all that weird rant to say, putting Christian themes in a fanfic is SUPER HARD but the end result is worth it if you know what you’re doing.

and don’t listen to me talking about my fanfics, despite the fact that that’s exactly what this forum is for. LOL.

"When in doubt, eat cheese crackers."-me to my charries who don't even know about cheese crackers

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