Inventory of religious characters

[valarltd]

I was thinking, as a result of a recent discussion on characters of faith in m/m romance and I decided to take an inventory of characters and their religion. I'm skipping most of the short stories and minor characters.

Jewish
David and Ariel benEzra (cyber'verse), moderately observant
Dr Rosenberg (Master Bear) Observant
James Ligatos (Nick'verse) observant

Catholic
Sean O'Neill (cyberverse)
Tara McLean (cyberverse)
Ian McLean (Master Bear)
Henry Tobin (Sky-Rat)
Valerio Benedetto (Nick'verse)
Robin, Marion, Tuck and everyone (Heart of a Forest), but with some pagan overtones
Anthony Bellini and family (Hearts'verse)

Protestant
Arthur, Mama, Daddy Frank (dieselpunk), generic believers, no church affiliation
Tanis Sparks (Nick'verse)
Sean Dempsey (Shell Shocked), non-practicing Methodist
Charles & Linda Hummingbird, Mother Vivian and her wife (Glad Hands), Episcopalian
Sarah Brown (Manicurists) Church of England
Nick Harper & Lisa (Alive on the Inside), fundamentalist Baptist
Tabitha and Elijah Grant (Alive on the Inside), generic traveling preachers
Josh Tucker and family (Hearts'verse) Episcopalian
Paul (Gay Werewolves), lapsed Methodist

Christian Variant
Zara Broine (cyberverse)--Church of Christ Programmer
Niall O'Neill (cyberverse)--NeoAugustinian
Jacob Plum (Alive on the Inside)--generic protestant with schizophrenia manifesting as religious ideation

Muslim
Samir (Privateer's Treasure), non-observant

Pagan
Mike Cipolla (Master Bear), unspecified
Jace (Chain-male), Asatru
Gabriel Herne (Shell-Shocked), Celtic Solitary
Chuck Hummingbird (Glad Hands), Cherokee practices
Charlie Doyle, (Manicurist) Egyptian pantheon after direct encounter
Danior (Gay Werewolves) moon worshipper

Other
Steven Sparks (Nick'verse)--Zen Buddhist
Cliff Cody, Jake Maggert and Frank Stett (Ranger'verse)--pantheists

Non-Believer
Nathaniel Collins (Privateer's Treasure), believes in the Devil, not God
Adlai (Privateer's Treasure), has the form of faith, not the belief
Thomas Harrison (Privateer's Treasure)
Nick Boyd (Nick'verse), goes to protestant church to stay out of legal trouble
David Inman (Nick'verse) hard atheist
Seven McCullough (Glad Hands), rejecting religion
Edward Kilsby and Nigel Drake (Manicurists), CofE, faith destroyed by war
Zaran Broine (cyberverse) 7 generations of atheist forebearers

Comments

[mariadkins.livejournal.com]

i like that you have a "moon worshipper". :)

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

Well, he IS a werewolf. And that's kind of central to it.

[mariadkins.livejournal.com]

lmao even better. :)

i've never written werewolves but i bet it'd be fun for a change.

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

It was great fun. Paul is an architect. Dan is an English professor (specializes in New England Transcendentalists). They meet on the internet and find all kinds of adventures.

[mariadkins.livejournal.com]

i found myself nodding as i read this. it sounds fun! :)

[thunderpigeon.livejournal.com]

I was once writing filler copy for an RPG (Bulldogs! from Galileo Games), and made the snake-people into sun worshipers, for similar reasons. Which gets interesting when they develop space travel and warp drive. All sorts of factions formed then.


I don't exactly write romance, but the inventory of this year's publications gets me one poem about ancient Sumerians and one story where all the characters are New Yorkers who practice ancient Egyptian religion.

The only romance I've read from cover to cover is about angels who kind of self-identify as pagan.

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

Would that be Sara Harvey's YEAR AND A DAY?

The vampire apocalypse I'm writing is an interesting mishmash. I have our hero, Oren and his kids who are pretty much nothing at all. I have Christian evangelical vampires. I have immortal vampire hunters that range from modern atheist to 17th century puritan to Jewish, in the "Marched in the Armies of King David" sense. And all of this plays a role.

[thunderpigeon.livejournal.com]

Yes, that would be A Year and a Day.

Is your vampire apocalypse the same one for which you wrote the past post about the mechanics of vampirism? I think I remember the immortal vampire hunters (something to do with what happens to the fetus when a pregnant woman gets turned, if I remember correctly).

It seems like in my stuff, religion tends to matter more to the peripheral characters than the major characters. So I have some theological discussions, but rarely center-stage.