I Cant Find It But There Was This Fic I Read A Few Months Ago Where Gale And Tav Were Together But Gale

I can’t find it but there was this fic I read a few months ago where gale and tav were together but gale leaves without telling tav to try to get the crown to become a god and is then super pissed off to find that astarion was the one to comfort tav and that tav and astarion are now together. If you know that this fic is please let me know

Ok question for the witch/pagan side of tumblr. So you know how god-spouses are a thing some people believe in. Is there a parent/child version of that? Like is there such thing as a type of practice where the devotee sees their god as their parent/ god sees the devotee as a child? Like surely that a thing that at least someone does. I just had the thought the other day and couldn’t find anything through googling it and wondered is any more experienced witches/pagans who have heard of something like that.

So I think I know why Eve isn’t seen or mentions as being in heaven, even though Adam is there. And also why Adam is the way he is. So in the most common telling of the ‘fruit of knowledge’ story Adam and Eve BOTH eat the apple, damning both of them to hell for disobeying god and damning all humans to hell unless they repent. Now in Hazbin, when Charlie is telling the story of her parents falling to hell she only mentions Eve eating the apple. Which implies Adam didn’t eat the apple, he didn’t disobey god so he still got to go to heaven. Because we know from the theme of the show that there is heavy theme of calling out that a lot of religion is about blindly obeying and that that it’s frowned upon by the angels to disobey or speak out of turn, we see it with the way Sera threatens Emily when she tries to speak out. So it would make sense that Adam not eating the apple may be the ONLY reason he got into heaven. It’s also implies that is Adam didn’t eat the apple that may explain why he sees killing souls as ok and ‘entertainment’, because he didn’t eat the fruit of knowledge of good and evil, meaning he might Literally not know why or how what he’s doing during extermination is bad. It might be why he has such little regard for those around him, because he literally never learned the difference between good and evil. And you can see that I lines like ‘don’t tell me your saying they don’t deserve death’ and ‘what the big deal’ when Emily finds out about the extermination that he doesn’t even remotely realise that what he’s doing is wrong. And I think that it would be really interesting in new seasons to delve into the idea that this is a god who doesn’t care about being good but rather only cares about having absolute power over all he creates. Much like the way that Christians often teach that god is like. Because from my experience that is the lesson I learned, that god want control, that he gives his love and blessing to those who blindly obey.

So I was raised Christian and heavily involved in the church, and as such it has given me the unique ability to rant about shows like Hazbin hotel through the lense of religion. I’m no longer Christian but the information has stayed. So here are some of my rambles for Hazbin Hotel.

Lilith may not be widely known as part of the creation story but she was indead in many original biblical texts as Adam’s first wife. And the reason she leaves him in the show is also very similar to why she isn’t in most modern bibles, she was too headstrong and independent and most modern churches don’t like to give women independent and headstrong female characters

Tav: “good cat/bad cat of the tenday” where they rate how morally corrupt each companion has acted over each tenday of their journey. Good cat is almost always given to Wyll and Karlach. Astarion has at least one ‘bad cat: he bit me real hard’ and Gale, Shadowheart, Astarion and Lae’zel all have a ‘bad cat: they tried to ascend to godhood’

Redeemed Durge: “what I think my friends bodies would taste like and why I choose NOT to eat them” has the quote from the owl bear about not eating them cause they’re friends with a drawing of the owl bear with a little arrow that says ‘me’. Each slide is a companion and all the reasons durge likes them. Is actually kinda sweet if you ignore the ‘my urge tells me to eat you all’ bit.

Evil durge: “why cannibalism is actually really cool and I should be allowed at least one killing of innocents a day.” It’s just unhinged rambling about eating people and killing. Some stickfigure art of dead bodies with crossed out eyes with lots of blood and guts and a smiling stickfigure durge.

Anyway, here are my thoughts about what each of the companions would present on if they had to give the rest of the party a PowerPoint presentation:

Gale: A completely accurate and detailed lecture regarding the theories of teleportation magic, how it works, and the differences between it and plane shift. There are multiple charts and graphs.

Wyll: “Choosing your hero name: an adventurer’s guide” He does have suggestions for the entire party.

Karlach: “Ranking bars in the gate based on how much they remind me of Avernus.” She has provided illustrations that she made herself. Anything in the Upper City is ranked “like Avernus” because “occupied entirely by pricks.”

Shadowheart: “So I was wrong about Shar: a reluctant apology.” It’s mostly a debunk of Shar’s lies but the entire time it does look like she is pulling teeth. However, she cheers up considerably when she presents on some of the church’s secrets, including the weird ass code names for things that she always thought were a little silly.

Lae’zel: a very educational and complete history of her people’s war against the mind flayers. It’s all rather academic until the last slide which says “AND THIS IS WHY WE DON’T EAT THE WORMS” in all caps.

Astarion: “Ranking you by whose blood I’d want to drink most.” In order, it is as follows Gale (rancid), Karlach (spicy), Minthara (probably is poisonous after all the poison she’s been exposed to), Jaheria (that story about what she did to one of the spawn was memorable), Shadowheart (does cleric blood taste radiant?), Lae’zel (curious how Gith taste, doesn’t want to die), Minsc (large and has extra blood to spare), Halsin (can turn into a bear, think of all that real estate), Wyll (canon verified snack)

Halsin: “Foraging: what’s edible and what isn’t” Gale takes very dutiful notes given someone gave him a mushroom two ten days ago that gave the entire camp food poisoning. Astarion, the only one who did not get food poisoning, who has completely forgotten what he foraged was the culprit, takes 0 notes.

Minthara: Battle orders and tactics. All of these fools need to get whipped into shape.

Jaheria: “Get it Fucking Together: Stop Doing this Shit.” What follows is a callout of everyone’s worst habits and decisions. One slide just says “stop snitching.”

Minsc: it’s just pictures of Boo.

The line that Charlie sings after Sir P dies uses the words ‘the ultimate sacrifice’ and to me feels foreshadowing of the fact that he will be ‘reborn’ in heaven. Because ‘ultimate sacrifice’ is often the language used in the bible to refer to Jesus dying on the cross to save people from their sins. So that specific wordage being used to describe how he died to me is telling us that he’ll go to heaven because it implying to us that his actions were like that of Jesus. Also those words coming from Charlie is also very important because in most ways Charlie acts very Christlike and seems to me to feel like Hazbin’s stand in for Jesus. She wants to help redeem people, she doesn’t look down on people who have done bad things, she fights against those who use their religion, in those case heaven, to harm others and calls out the hypocrisy that members of the church often exhibit which are all thing that are major parts of Jesus’ story. 

So I was raised Christian and heavily involved in the church, and as such it has given me the unique ability to rant about shows like Hazbin hotel through the lense of religion. I’m no longer Christian but the information has stayed. So here are some of my rambles for Hazbin Hotel.

Lilith may not be widely known as part of the creation story but she was indead in many original biblical texts as Adam’s first wife. And the reason she leaves him in the show is also very similar to why she isn’t in most modern bibles, she was too headstrong and independent and most modern churches don’t like to give women independent and headstrong female characters