#are dekker (christian) and salesa (kind to his workers)

[fearheld]

i’ve been rethinking my dekker-as-hunt-aligned theory if only because like. idk i don’t think it fits thematically? because it’s canon that all other religious figures in tma that couldn’t reconcile their faith with the concept of the entities ended up falling to the entities in question? (thinking along the lines of like. father burroughs & manuela dominguez) but it’s also canon that adelard is one of the few people in the series who actively reconciles with that and honestly i feel like that’s one of the reasons why he survives as long as he does & why his death in rotten core is good thematically? 

it’s canon that the easiest way to defeat the fears is through hope & love (as seen with the one guy i forget the name of who just walked out of the distortion’s halls bc he was gonna be late for dinner with his mom, and martin’s experiences w the lonely), and i honestly feel like adelard’s internal moral compass & general attempts to do the right thing (regardless of his own flawed moral code) are half the reason he’s still alive? because realistically this man has been a human, in this line of work, for somewhere close to at least a couple decades, and he’s exceedingly lucky, which is unheard of in regards to the entities as a whole? 

so like. i’m personally of the opinion that the thing that’s been keeping him alive this whole time is legitimately just his absolute fucking refusal to give up, and the fact that his system of faith allows for him to have hope even when factoring in a literal apocalypse?