Comments | beckyh2112: [G1 Fic] Holy Days

beckyh2112

[G1 Fic] Holy Days

Mar 08, 2011 13:40

Title: Holy Days
Characters: Constructicons, cameo by Auspex
Rating: PG
Word Count: 1300+
Summary: The Constructicons celebrate the holy days as befits their faiths.
Author's Notes: I decided to take the 'holiday' prompt for 25fluffyfics and break it down to the original meaning of the word. Which means stealing inventing Transformer religions! :D ( Read more... )

character: constructicons, table: 25fluffyfics, writing, series: g1 transformers, character: oc transformers

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dunmurderin March 10 2011, 01:12:08 UTC

Awesome, awesome, awesome! I love it! Excellent world building, very nice and fitting religions and the characterizations are beautiful!

beckyh2112 March 21 2011, 20:42:33 UTC

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it.

I hope I have a reason to use this world-building again, but I suspect I won't. Not a lot of fans seem to be into religions for a fan-world.

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beckyh2112 March 21 2011, 19:28:19 UTC

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it.

jedi_sheng July 11 2011, 23:32:31 UTC

Wow I really love this!!!
Transformers and religions they may have is something that is massivly overlooked in fanfiction and world building. Usually it's just 'everybody believes in Primus', 'everybody believes in Vector Sigma' or it's not mentioned at all.
Do you have the chats you had with Lunatron anywhere? I'd love to read more detail and depth for these religions and their facets.

beckyh2112 July 13 2011, 16:13:28 UTC

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it.

World-building and religions are some of my Things, so coming up with religions for Transformers was so much fun. If this were in the Great War or during the series, I'd also have various hero-cults around such figures as Megatron, Optimus Prime, Starscream, etc. (Not that the Constructicons would be involved in any of those hero-cults, though they might have a few ones for them.)

Let's see, here, we've got...

Long Haul follows the Thirteen, which is sort of a Primatist sect and sort of not, since it venerates and deifies the first thirteen Transformers. I think they're viewed as more approachable than Primus. The coin thing and the temple layout is something I borrowed from Sharon Shinn's Troubled WatersPrimus Paternus is a basic Christian-variation of Primus-worship, based on roleplaying with a lovely woman who played a Primus priestess as essentially a Christian priest. She was great fun, even if I did sometimes have to stop and go "but Primus is not canonically depicted like that". Of course ( ... )

jedi_sheng July 13 2011, 18:18:39 UTC

Okay I have got to say ( ... )

zakiyah_muse August 14 2011, 23:29:24 UTC

Hey! Wow, I still function. ;) Though admittedly disconnected... *offers scritches* I was looking for old logs, and found this. Thanks for kind words. :D ( ... )

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