ways_back_room | DE: We're not worthy

"Dude, no, I've told you, prophet is just a job title!"

...so it's not quite the same, but Hotspur is widely regarded as the best warrior/knight in England? And it kinds of... means that he can get away with anything he wants, because when you're wealthy and powerful, your behavior doesn't get checked like it should? Which winds up terrible for pretty much everybody.

So I can only imagine what a religion based on supreme confidence in your own skills and awesomeness and not having patience for anything you don't like would mean for society. See also: why this dude should never be king.

We used to have a Church of Stantz tag from the time when cartoon!Ray was so flustered by something that'd happened that he told Foxtrot X-Ray it was okay if he wanted to treat him as god of geeks for some reason. Standard!Ray was kind of "....ohgodwhy" when he found out about it.

Yeah, about that...

(There was a piece of cut content that never made it into HL 2 that depicted Gordon in the HEV suit, holding the crowbar, in an icon-style stained glass window. I millicanoned it as being one of the windows in Father Grigori's church in Ravenholm. Gordon's reaction was here.)

I have no idea what a religion worshiping any of my pups would look like.

And, universally, they'd think the worshipers are being idiots, as they lack any power to do anything.

Of course, later in canon Bean does earn a reputation as the best military commander the world has ever seen, and I will quote one of his peers, talking about a recent military action.
"Bean really is a good commander. I've seen him. Commanding his Rwandans in our campaign in Peru. It's true that the Peruvian army wasn't well led or well trained, but those Rwandans - they worshiped Bean. They would have marched off a cliff if he asked them to. When he twitched, they sprang into action."

So, I guess to an extent, this does happen to Bean, though it's not a true religion, it's far closer to a cult of personality (or rather, cult of ability) as it is entirely dependent upon his ability as a commander, and won't propagate once Bean is past his best.

Haha :D

Well, I don't know how much of an AU that would be for Amascut; she does kind of have worshippers, somehow. She's all about doing impossible things lately. It just isn't that big of a following, or a very sane following. She would take notice of an extra follower and celebrate a bit internally at the ~~extra noms~~ extra attention. If she became popular again she would be delighted, I am sure, but I am afraid that the shenanigans that happened last time she was popular would happen again in short order. Beside training armies of slayers -- well, collapsing temples while her followers are still inside.

Evil Chicken, I think, is a bit distrustful of worship.

And Fixit: "I am just doing my job. Stop that. I thought people were more annoyed by my presence than thankful. No, seriously, stop it."

I feel that I should expand on Fairy Fixit's answer, given how interesting recent canon has been theologically. Fixit, being a fairy, is most likely Guthixian. Or maybe I should say ex-Guthixian. If I bring her in up to date with most recent canon, being ~~ex-~~Guthixian means that she is very misotheistic/maltheistic. Guthix, it was revealed, was a very misotheistic god. (sounds like the most contradictory thing ever, but Guthix has his reasons) Guthix was also revealed to be male. But publicly, he hasn't done much to promote misotheism. At first Guthix worked to spread atheism, then started treating gods, godhood, and religion as a necessary evils. Worshipers are gonna worship. But it is only recently that ~~ex-~~Guthixians turned full on misotheist themselves.

So, yeah, worshiping Fixit is very not cool and might be an invitation for physical violence.

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Thor: Gosh, no idea!!

River: How she feels: kind of weirded out! Willing to roll with it if it's useful or at least neutral to her life and seems to be a good thing for theirs, and doesn't involve using her example to back up stuff she's opposed to, but kind of weirded out.

Regan: A higher weirded-out quotient than River -- River's life has involved a lot more epic bizarreness than her mother's. Regan would probably try to talk them out of it.

Clare: Confused. But she's confused by a lot of what humans do, so she's not going to fret too much about it. But still, really confused. She'd stare at them, try to politely explain that she's not a god or angel or anything like that, and if they seemed really set on it she'd just kind of shrug and wander off. (She is named after a goddess of her world, as is Teresa -- Teresa and Clare are sister goddesses -- so I could see that getting used.)

Trowa: says "...What."

Janet has such an urge to give Thor a friendly shoulder punch at the news. He can, in turn, ease her through the news of her own cult, should such a thing happen. ('They couldn't just stop with a fan club? Really?')

River and Regan have entirely sensible reactions!

Clare is um, well, more than human on some scales and certainly non-human. That's enough for some people. Sorry.

People are strange Trowa. People are strange.

Heee! Thor will HAPPILY provide friendly been-there-done-that advice to anyone facing such a situation. Whether his perspective will be all that useful to someone with a different personality and mortality level than his is a different question, but hey. He will at least buy them a drink in amused camaraderie.

We really ought to toss Janet and Thor at each other sometime. I need to throw him at more AU-from-him Avengers in general! (I need to have more free time and RP energy for playing him. But.)

Janet votes that we all get more vacation.

And that we charge our trips to Tony, but there may be some issues in getting the credit cards honored on our end of things.

Alas.

Booo, fourth wall logistics. I'm all for the plan, anyway!

Also, heh, I forgot that Thor has actually talked about the being worshipped thing in-bar at least once. Amiable shrug, says Thor to the entire concept!

Felix would get annoyed, but wouldn't try to stop them as long as they weren't hurting anyone. Or getting insistent about following him around and getting underfoot, I suppose. Probably they'd extol his courage and tenacity in giving up friends and home in order to save the world.

Fluttershy would plead - very politely and very quietly - for them to stop. I have no idea what they'd teach or do, except that their meetings would probably be in fields or forests.

Kain would studiously ignore them, at least until they started jumping off things and getting themselves killed in his name.

Yrael would take advantage of that situation entirely too much. Endless scritches and free milk and fish, and naps in the sunlight with someone gently fanning him with a palm frond. He'd reason that the worshipper is doing all this of their own free will, so there's no reason he shouldn't make use of them. Even if it's stupid.

Sunshine would be very uncomfortable with the situation, and would take every opportunity to try and snap the worshipper out of it.

Zelgadiss wouldn't care. He'd ignore anyone worshipping him, for the most part.

Will, William and Jane will go, no, you mean someone else. Jane might be cutting about it while Will and William will be confused.

Charles will thank you for the compliment but go into a long explanation of how as a mutant he is not superior and they will probably be sick of hearing about evolution soon. Though he might end up inspiring them more, which will make him sigh but he'll keep trying to persuade them that really he's not.

For Moist, it depends on the situation and how he can use it to his advantage, either way he'll create stories around himself that separate the story from the person.

Demeter is a goddess, that's normal for her. She prefers her offerings to be fruits of the harvest and enjoying life.

Tumnus would get very shy and keep talking about how they must mean someone else.

The Pirate King would enjoy it, god isn't too far from a king.

I keep forgetting pups, Sameth would be worried and wonder what spell that person's under. He doesn't want anyone looking at him like that, being prince and Wallmaker is more than enough responsibility for him.

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Joshua would just look at you for a while and back away slowly. Although, he does realize that quite a lot of people, whether they realize it or not almost worship scientists. He doesn't see himself as that awesome of a scientist, though.

Orion... would just wonder what potion you had, and why it was affecting you so.

Aang calls them the Air Acolytes, and tries to impress upon them the notion that everyone is important. They listen because he's the Avatar. At least...in the beginning, anyway.

Bumi calls them his crew. He certainly doesn't discourage people from inflating his reputation, and has been known to bestow blessings every now and again. Usually in the form of letting them sleep late, and haggling for more shore leave.

Mike would laugh, until he realized they weren't joking...and then he'd be horrified. As for what any sort of cult that worships Mike would look like? They'd be the cleanest stoner hippies you've ever seen.

Raph would be an angry god, and his religion would have a whole lot of punching.

Ida will grant leniency to those who welcome her as their robotic overlord.

"IT'S ABOUT GODDAMN TIME."

Merlin... well, Wizarding World :D.

Bilbo, as he so often is, would be politely baffled. And then annoyed. (You know, for all that they have gods in Middle Earth, they don't really seem to have religion the way we know it. Hm.)

Lydia would accept it as her due. The High Church of Math and Fashion, maybe.

Steve would say "There's only one God, and I'm not Him," a lot.

Andrea thinks this is a very bad idea. On her world worship is almost like brainwashing as the personality that is being worshiped will start having thoughts and ideas that fall inline with the majority of the worshipers. 50-100 years from her present time I can almost see a saint like view of her developing among boudas, with the focus on discipline and personal accountability.

Hank would be very embarrassed and try what he could to disuade the worshipers from continuing. I am not sure what form the worship would take.

Thalia refuses to be worshiped. I don't know if she would actively work against said cult or would just ignore them.

Jessica is seriously weirded out by the idea. Myself, I am seeing a sort of death/assassin cult. Why am I being weird and twisted like that?

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"You, wait, what? No no no no no."

Worship should honor quiet competence and promote the building of useful skills.
It, um, probably involves something entirely different and a great deal of time distorting stories of her and her classmates. I am currently picturing holy shipping wars where different cults argue over who ended up with the main character.

Jim would probably be venerated as some sort of god of debauchery. He'd be cool with it.

Borgel would think it was just some amusing misunderstanding that arose sometime during his travels. He'd shrug and let them continue to believe whatever they liked.

Leela would be furious. She wouldn't rest until she beat the superstition out of their heads.

Kane already has his own religion. It's worked out great for him.

Tuco would exploit his position for wealth and for sex.

Caius would be mortified, and direct the worshipers to the nearest Imperial Cult temple. Can't have blasphemy against the Nine, after all.

Garyn is kind of uncomfortable with the idea of being a living reincarnated saint. I'm pretty sure most people would be. Especially when people have all these expectations of you, and start manipulating you based on these expectations. Of course, he'll eventually learn that he can use this reputation to further his own ends. (Wholly good, unsefish ends, of course).

A fireman/hero worship thing already exists, it's just not an organized religion. More like a secret cult of obsession and infatuation?

In canon, Tommy had a fan, a volunteer firefighter. He cut out all the newspaper articles about Tommy's heroic saves and put them up on his wall. There were candles and everything. When he visited Tommy's apartment, he asked for Tommy's autograph, felt up his jeans, and stole his sunglasses and TV remote control so he could have something that Tommy touched. Oh, and he was also dating Tommy's ex-girlfriend.

Yeah, that's what it looks like: fucking creepy.

OH GOD(DESSES)

Clem: would consider this getting her just desserts. Please enjoy a religion consisting entirely of toking up, sex, and make-up. It would be like living under Frank N Furter.

Dixie: Would be reaaaally uncomfortable with this. Secular worship is cool, but if people get too personal she grows sarcastic. Still, it's no different from having a lot of fans, and she's good at treating people well. Worship services would involve plenty of singing and black lace, anyway.

Juliet: Would be weirded out, then probably enjoy it too much. Enforced hiking would likely be inevitable.

Pinkie: Would probably buckle under the pressure of all of that responsibility, but it would involve the mass consumption of sweets.

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