ways_back_room | Tuesday DE: Faith

The only higher power Jim believes in is himself.

He actively rejects the notion of God in any form. He's very interested in theology and religion as power structures, and the philosophical and psychological effects of them on humanity over time. The whole thing is academically interesting, but he laughs at the stupidity of anyone who would actually believe in it.

Tess once believed in a God-like superpower. And then they became friends and she's not so worshipful anymore.

Kylo is complicated. I have a lot of headcanon about these kinds of things, but I'll have to wait for further Episodes to see if I'm right.

Sikozu believes in science.

Amascut is a godess that can't be worshipped. It is very strange. Anyhow religious zealotry (for other gods) is just another tool in her bag of tricks. But necromancy and keeping cats as pets are as close to heresy as you can get in her un-religion.

Fairy Fixit is actually antitheist and has been secretly providing material support to a violent antitheist group. So... your faith is likely her heresy, and she comes from a canon were gods actually interact in an obvious way with mortals. She's of the opinion that no one individual or group should hold as much power as the gods do, and that religion and the gods themselves are a detriment.

Ahsoka believes in the Force and the Jedi. She'll lose some faith in the Order but with stay true to what she thinks the Jedi should be.

Sabine believes in freedom and doing what you can to help people.

In the comics, Sam's father is a minister which I've head canonned as carrying over to the MCU. I don't know which faith though, protestant maybe? Their ministers can marry right?

Hank believes in science. Beyond that, I'd say he's maybe agnostic. He doesn't particularly believe or disbelieve in a higher power.

Touji, I would assume, practices Shintoism.

Izana is undecided but is still exploring Buddhism thanks to Seimei's influence.

Selina believes in herself and how uncaring the universe is.

I would have said Baptist for Sam, given his cultural background, and it seems to be confirmed? http://worldofblackheroes.com/2010/06/02/falcon-samuel-wilson/

Oh awesome, thank you! My google fu was weak earlier. I knew his dad was a minister but couldn't find much more.

My knowledge of the subtleties of the Christian faiths is just as weak.

Edited 2017-05-02 15:45 (UTC)

Chirrut, to absolutely no one's surprise, believes in the Force.. though it's kind of like believing in gravity. It's definitely a tangible thing to him. He doesn't always have the best read on it, and he can't use it to his own ends, but... yep.

He also believes in Baze.

Of the two, Baze has certainly hurt him less.

Baze used to believe in the Force, and has only started regaining his belief.

He absolutely believes in Chirrut, too.

Yamato is explicitly identified as an atheist, at least in the novels, which draw a contrast with his father, who is broadly-Shintoist-but-not-in-the-sense-that-he-actually-believes-in-gods.

As far as Gabumon goes, Digimon don't seem to have any inclination towards religion. There's a ruined temple to the Chosen on File Island, but nobody worships there, and it doesn't seem like anyone ever has. Instead, it just seems to have appeared one day, pre-ruined, above the Wall of Fire.

Hawke is Andrastian, and while he doesn't like the Chantry (and they don't like him, on principle at least), he does earnestly believe in the Maker.

Of my historical ones, Will and William both believe that there's a higher power but for their beliefs aren't tied to the church of their time. For Will, he's seen the harm the church can do and for William, the church was never a comfort to him during the War and after.

Quentin doesn't need to believe in the original three Fae; Titania, Maeve and Oberon because he's met Firstborn or their children.

Charles believes in science and the good in humanity.

Cassian knows that the Force is out there but he believes more in what happens when people gather together to fight the Empire. He believes that if he fights enough and takes the worst of the galaxy onto his hands, that there will be another and better world. Since coming into Milliways, he's acknowledging that the Force is more of a reality than he knew before. During his experiences of the Clone Wars and the majority of his life, he's interacted with few Force users, but Milliways has altered that.

Sameth doesn't need to believe in the Charter, he knows it.

Moist will leave offerings for any god or goddess that will help him out, but he believes more that Lady Luck and Fate will decide what happens to him.

Ivan doesn't seem terribly thoughtful either way about religion. He believes in Barrayar, that his mother will know whatever happens, that Gregor is an anchor and he feels peaceful when he leaves offerings at his father's grave.

Demeter is a goddess herself and she doesn't need to believe, she knows.

Tumnus believes with all his heart in Aslan.

Garnet, my newest character, believes in fusion. For those of you not familiar with Steven Universe, that's when two gems fuse together to form a different gem (which can be an analogy for a romantic relationship, or for any other close relationship, or can just be a practical move for combat or some other purpose). Garnet has personal reasons for thinking of fusion as something special bordering on sacred, only to be done freely and never forced or tricked. She thinks of it as sacrilege to tamper with.

More broadly, she is very big on people having self-determination and the right to form relationships of their choice. Fusion is the ultimate expression of that, for her.

Fantine is Catholic, in a 19th-century folk-religion kind of way. She had no formal education and was not a regular churchgoer. But she did spend the last days of her life with a couple of nuns and Jean Valjean (also a kind of nun tbh). So basically her religion is: God is kind and all-powerful, there are lots of saints who you can pray to for various things, lying is terrible (this is thanks to Sister Simplice), love and kindness and charity are all-important, but God will forgive you if you mess up while trying to do the right thing. She also strongly believes animals are deserving of consideration and cruelty to them is wrong.

Brienne is, uh, basically faux-Catholic. She believes in the Seven who are One (her universe's version of the Christian God). She prays, sometimes, when there's something she really cares about. She thinks the Seven guided her to Milliways. But her main belief system is the knight's code of chivalry (which she believes is ordained by the Seven), and which involves loyalty to the person she loves, loyalty to whoever she's sworn to serve, and protecting anyone who needs it.

Combeferre believes in humanity's ability to improve itself and make progress through science and education, and in creating a political system that lets humanity do that. Since he lived in 19th century France, this belief got him killed.

Jehan Prouvaire believes in art, love, and an increasing array of gods from ancient times (hi, Djehuty). He also believes in creating a political system which lets people pursue art, love, and whatever religion they see fit, with the same result as Combeferre.

Garnet FTW! I'm looking forward to seeing her in the Bar!

:D Yay, I'm excited about playing her!

Without further comment

YT alternates between not believing in God and thinking that God is an asshole with a nasty sense of humor.

Abe no Seimei is a self-described Mahayana Buddhist. Beyond that, it's complicated, as one might expect for a wizard and minor deity who has visited several different afterlives. Explaining his personal philosophy and belief system would take an entire thread, or possibly multiple threads, and it would probably get weird.

Molly believes, very firmly, that you can never have too much glitter.

Steven believes that everyone can be friends. He's in a canon where this belief is generally rewarded. He doesn't have much in the way of metaphysical questions yet;all that's a great big question mark for his universe in general.

Joly believes in Science!!!, which is to say he believes that there's an order and a cause for everything. He also generally believes things are heading along in the service of some vast Ideal, and the source of that ideal is the same source that gives everything order and cause. Because of his background, his words for these things tend to be from Christian theology, but he considers pretty much any religion about equally likely to have a glimpse of that greater truth. It doesn't matter, as long as it allows for intellectual curiosity and scientific investigation to find more of that truth.

Bahorel is generally something of an animist, in a folk-tradition kind of way, but he doesn't go around believing in that, or gods or saints or whatever; that's just how things are. A person doesn't go changing his life about it. He does believe in Revolution and Art and Liberty and Love and Friendship and Feeling Very Intensely About Everything As Much As Possible, and yes Of Course It's All Capitalized If Not Italicized-- which is to say he's a devout Romantic, as squishy as that term is. He's really more of a Romantic than a republican (of his era); he'd take something besides a republic if he believed it offered more liberty, but that's not really an option on the table. (Some people, who are cowards and who probably passed the Bar, might consider that since having a Republic was a goal that got him killed, it wasn't really an option on the table either, but they are dull and boring people and he believes very strongly in ignoring that kind of thinking.)

Gringoire believes in keeping an eye on your escape routes.

Enjolras believes very deeply in the equality of all humankind (which here at Milliways he's willing to extend to all sentient people), their fundamental rights to liberty, the sacred principle of fraternity, and you know what let's just link The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen and call it good. All of that. But fundamentally, it comes down to equality and liberty.

Unfortunately he lived in an oppressive hierarchical state which was working hard to preserve old systems of inequality and figure out new ways to enforce them, so he is now dead at Milliways because of one of many instances of violent fighting in the streets about that. Anyway, he would gladly die again for the same principles, and he will even more gladly have a prolonged discussion with anyone ever about any of this.

Cosette believes in God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, Mother Mary, any number of saints, and generally in mainstream Catholic theology as of the early 19th century in France. Her theological framework for this is less folk-religion and more orthodox than her mother's, because she was raised in a convent school. She also believes deeply in love. Beyond that, there are definitely things she would regard as heresy, but Cosette wants very much to think the best of people, so she'll generally try hard to interpret it that really they mean something good and are just saying it very poorly or have peculiar foreign customs or something.

Kazul believes that Dragons are the best, except when they're annoying individuals. Uh. I'm gonna have to ponder this more for her, to be honest. But she runs fairly True Neutral, or perhaps Big Scaly Sentient Cat.

Thor believes in honor. And generosity and protecting those weaker than yourself and courtesy and so forth, but all of that falls under honor for him, really. Oh, and the hierarchy of Asgard's court and his place in that world. (And, on a subconscious level, that Asgard is the coolest and most badass and bestest ever.)

Religiously, as I've headcanoned movieverse!Asgard, there is a religion, but it's more about philosophical principles than about deities as such. Thor's a believer, in a vague and not deeply considered way, but honor and all it entails is really much more central to his real beliefs.

Doctor Dinosaur believes that mammals are gross and inferior, that he's a velociraptor who time-traveled from the Cretaceous, that he's a super-genius, and that ANY DAY NOW he's going to successfully blow up the timestream and destroy the last geological era to catapult the world back to a new Age of the Dinosaurs. (All of these are factually incorrect.)

Tuesday DE: Faith

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