Tuesday DE

[inlovewithwords]

Early, but hey, it's Tuesday where I am, so whatever.

How does your character and/or their culture feel about repentance?

Comments

[just_cant_lose]

Jim's feelings on repentance can be summed up as LOL.

He chose to be the way he is; he's sure as hell not going to ask forgiveness for it. He doesn't feel he needs to. As far as he's concerned, it's the world who's failed him and it deserves what it gets.

Also, nothing anyone does matters anyway, so who cares if he's sorry or not? (And he is not.)

[camwyn]

Ellen was trained up as her Vault's chaplain in a Vault-Tec approved mishmosh of several mainstream American Protestant denominations (using Bibles that had been strategically edited, but not with regards to repentance doctrines). Between that and her dad she wound up with the attitude that repentance could cover a multitude of issues provided that it was coupled with genuine determination to not do whatever it was again and genuine attempts to avoid doing whatever it was again. General Vault 101 culture, on the other hand, was inclined towards the idea that repentance required restitution wherever possible due to the severe lack of incoming resources. You were supposed to demonstrate your commitment to repentance by fixing whatever the hell it was you did.

Santo is Catholic and believes that repentance coupled with the determination to do better and be better next time is good. Evildoers should be punished, but those who genuinely want to be better only need to be punished enough to discourage others; those who refuse to even try don't get let off the hook.

Varric is Andrastian. The Chantry's view is that the Maker got mad at His creation and went off to sulk for a few Ages until he heard Andraste singing her prayers to whoever would listen, and then He fell in love with her and then He got SO INCREDIBLY PISSED OFF when Tevinter burned her at the stake that he just said 'oh fuck you all' and went to pout again. He'll start intervening again when that world's scriptures are sung in every corner of the world, demonstrating that everybody in the world wants him back. (The Maker as presented is an incredibly self-absorbed asshole if it comes right down to it.) Technically there does not actually seem to be a repentance requirement in there; it's implied but not outright stated. Long story short, Varric isn't really sure that repentance does you any good on a religious level but it smooths things over with people who're angry at you for whatever it was you did or failed to do, so yeah, go with it.

Stacker's parents were some form of missionary-derived Christians but I'm not sure he himself went with their denomination; he's more or less C of E by default despite having a Primitive Baptist name. His general feeling on such subjects is that it is up to people to set their own lives and their own world right. Repentance is best shown by action, not by profession or declaration. (Remember that this is a man who talks about canceling the Apocalypse in main canon and who, in the comics, has spoken of humans killing the Beast when it rises from the Pit on Judgment Day.)

Shephard figures repentance for shit you did that pissed off God is between you and God, and repentance for shit you did that pissed off people doesn't mean shit unless you put right whatever the fuck you did, or at least make a damn good effort.

Fawkes believes that repentance is primarily important on an inward level, and that changing one's own thoughts and inclinations on a subject is the most important part. When you are at peace with the fact that you have done or said something that you no longer wish to have done or said, the right thing to do or say instead comes more naturally.

Peter Maximoff does not really think about the subject much and is only just starting to get properly mature enough to have the idea that there are things in his life that he feels sorry for having done/not done, and should maybe try to do something about.

[bjornwilde]

Repentance is a big part of the Star Wars narrative, but looking at the cultural aspects...hmm.

Ahsoka comes from the Jedi culture of the Republic. Repentance seems like it's part of the teachings of the Order and yet they turn their backs on any one who's turned to the Dark Side. (Looking at modern canon and not legends for this.) I think if you aren't a jedi who has fallen, they will encourage the chance for repentance. I think season 01 Ahsoka isn't so much for it, though none of the stories in season 01 feature a repentance arc. She just seems so gungho about everything, I could see her not bothering to recognize an attempt at repentance or mistrusting it as a ploy. As she ages, she gives people (*cough* Lux *cough*) multiple chances, though perhaps too many.

Repentance is a huge part of Sabine's narrative. It doesn't seem to be a big part of Mandalorian culture, but the Ghost crew gave her a second chance and she took it to heart, even carrying the gesture forward when a face from her past shows up.

I think Danny would offer the chance at repentance if he believed the other person was honest in the gesture. He proves this in the second half of his show. He also has a repentance arc which spills over past the final of the show and into Defenders.

[iprotectyou]

Repentance had better be a thing for Baze to attain. He turned his back on his order and hurt Chirrut for decades, and regrets that. The only problem is that Baze doesn't know how to start making amends.

He still can't wrap his head around the fact that Chirrut has already forgiven him.

[last_kallig]

So, so late.

Ibani and repentance is interesting! She wants, at least subconsciously, to 'make up' for the bad things she's done, but I don't know that she'd hope for or expect forgiveness. She did what she felt was necessary and she'd do it again if she had to. Her situation is/has been one of making the least terrible choice most of the time.

[ceitfianna]

Cassian believes in the idea of repentance but also thinks that he doesn't deserve it. Other people do and he's always happy when he can get someone to a point where they get right with themselves and the galaxy, that's just not possible for him.

Lucy gave Tumnus the hope to believe that he could atone for what he almost did.

Quentin believes in debts and prices to be paid more than repentance, whatever you do, no matter how good the reason is, if someone is hurt, it will end up coming around to you someday. And saying sorry is only so helpful, you'll probably have to do something to make it right. That's how his world works.

I can't easily think of anything for my others at the moment.