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mister13eyond · 1 year ago

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the fun thing about making a comic where i've vaguely appropriated the aesthetics of christianity but entirely eschewing the actual religion is that i get to come up with headcanons for my universe like "hell isn't eternal punishment at all, it's literally just a big meat grinder where people's souls are sent to get converted to demon food. which isn't really all that different than the default option, where a soul is simply released back into the universe and becomes part of the big ocean of mana out there"

#meanwhile heaven is like.... essentially just a walled garden thats nearly also exactly the same #its just that instead of becoming part of Everything you join this specific Curated Collection of mana #i love writing comics about angels and demons and going #'actually what happens after death isnt really that meaningful and ultimately all the options are essentially subtle nuances of the same en #call it optimistic nihilism i suppose #life is energy and energy returns to the universe and nothing is created or destroyed #idk it makes it far more fun writing about vaugely christian aesthetics when #i entirely deny that there is any actual benefit to heaven or punishment to hell #we simply become part of everything else one way or another #also worth noting that heaven and hell are opt-in systems #you have to believe in them to be eligible for the process of being tried after death #it's more of a system of allocating resources donated by human believers #than a morality based afterlife #also hence why heaven is essentially a government system and hell is a business #theyre just two different approaches to deciding where resources get allocated #but those resources exist outside of them #and will continue to exist on their own #oc lore #worldbuilding #its always fun to call 'coming up with insane variations on theological concepts' worldbuilding but uh #thats the fun of writing a vaguely christian-shaped story as an atheist #i get to go 'my city now'

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