#the AU can be summarised as phillip continuously upset by joseph doing exactly as he instructs but cranked up to 11

[the-silver-chronicles]

Far Cry The Reverend's Rule AU Post #2

Phillip is continuously frustrated with Joseph.

He had initially chosen Joseph as a prophet because, in his mind, anyone had to be automatically better than Adam Omar.

And while horrified by the infanticide of Joseph's daughter, Phillip gave the benefit of the doubt (it did, after all, prove Joseph was devoted and willing to do something, unlike Adam's inaction and lack of care), and it was a fault on his part (Phillip was pretty vague on what he meant by "sacrifice", and this was an improvement from Adam Omar creating pairs of children just to murder them later for various unjustified reasons that Phillip had no influence over), so he took what he could get.

Almost two decades later, Phillip has witnessed Joseph blindly do as he says, following every exact instruction word for word, going to the extreme whenever he wasn't specific enough, only going by Phillip's exact plan without question, and watching as Joseph inspired others to do things that Phillip was appalled were even being connected to his former name/title (but he can't backtrack his words... he's already disrespected and seen as weak by the other divine).

By this point Phillip had stopped trying to reason Joseph's actions. While initially finding it noble that Joseph took an active role in the fulfilment of the prophecy, contrasting Adam Omar's largely inactive role and delusional aspirations, Phillip no longer sees this as the case and finds Joseph's activity to be just as bad as Adam's inactivity, as both take it to the terrible extreme.

And while he does want to find someone else to replace Joseph's position as a prophet and rid of his extremism, Phillip hasn't found a capable replacement. So he's stuck. And feels trapped, really.

And then the prophecy comes around, and the Hell that follows Whitehorse is none other than a familiar face to Phillip.

What a relief it must have been for Phillip to reunite with his best friend who though he was nothing more than an imaginary friend rather than an all-powerful divine being who was credited for others' achievements.

What an opportunity to find that Sylvester is a far more capable and trustworthy suitor to the position of a divine's prophet than either Joseph or Adam.