Not the previous anon, but I have a couple of non-Dep OCs. My fave/main right now is from when I rewatched an Outlast 2 LP and thought “boy, what if one of the young women from Temple’s Gate escaped and received (actually good) care for her trauma, and her caregiver decided moving away from Arizona would help her recovery. So they move far away to start a new life in Montana to escape all the bad religious cult memories but *sad trumpet noises*”. idk it’s dumb but I liked the thematic parallels.
*screeching* it’s not dumb at all, you came up with that idea, it’s your baby!
No, I legit love that idea! I am, honestly, a sucker for thematic parallels. I love it when someone gets out of a situation only to look around and go “welp, fuck, this is familiar.” And I really love the concept of someone who experienced a cult like Temple’s Gate going to Eden’s Gate because they’re similar in some ways but SO different?? Father Joseph is nothing like Papa Knoth in that Knoth wanted to kill the sinners and Joseph seems bound and goddamn determined to save them if he can?
“You have to love them, John.”
But at the end of the day, they both want to purge the world of sin. Knoth goes about it in a super fucked up way, but it’s the same sort of crazed message. And I love the idea of someone struggling to try and see those similarities and the differences and adjust while still knowing deep down this is bad, this is so bad.