Fucked-up Jesus

[shichahn]

... I wish I could just leave that title there and leave the body of this post blank because I think it's a very silly statement to just make with no explanation (and an excellent band name, as well) but I think instead I'll say this:

I realized today that both of my main RP characters are of the Fucked-up Jesus type. Which is like a more specific version of TVTropes' "Messianic Archetype" I suppose. Now, I know Burnie has said he didn't intend the Christian symbolism that sort of wrote itself into Church's story, holy trinity and all. I suspect the writers of Sonic 06 deliberately played up Shadow's Fucked-up Jesus role by crucifying him, however. That one's kind of blatant. Anyway, unless someone really wants me to go in-depth and elaborate here, I'll just leave you with that. Because when I realized I played two Fucked-up Jesuses today, I had a bit of a laugh.

(And yes, I know at one point I was going to write up a post on the Taoist and Christian symbology that surrounds Shadow's games/roles in games, which yes, is just as ridiculously pretentious, not to mention way nerdy overboard, as it sounds, which is largely why I didn't actually write it.)

... If I thought I could play Ten, I would, just to have three Fucked-up Jesus characters.

Edit: Also, Jesus was a Jew! +1 points to Church being the Jewish one. ;D

Comments

[hyper-amychao.livejournal.com]

Oh 06... I'm almost done with that game finally. XD

[shichahn.livejournal.com]

Good work. XD I must say I enjoyed playing it like a maniac for the three or so days I had it as a rental. Well... okay, no, I enjoyed playing the parts that weren't glitchy/poorly designed/just generally screwed up. But you know.

[hyper-amychao.livejournal.com]

Yeah, same here. I've actually enjoyed it, save for the glitching and loads and loads of loading. Me and my sister just started co-op 2 weeks ago. It's a lot of fun.