i've expressed this sentiment elsewhere, but if you're a fantasy author, please don't let any poster in the world convince you that "evil church" is an "overdone trope" lol. water wet trope - ThreadSky

ggdg.bsky.social • 117 days ago

i've expressed this sentiment elsewhere, but if you're a fantasy author, please don't let any poster in the world convince you that "evil church" is an "overdone trope" lol. water wet trope

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robocopgameboy.bsky.social•117 days ago

My favorite is when you get people mistaking the sentiment of "the church is fucked up and evil" as being "god is bad" thinking about FFXVI and how it totally misunderstands what FFT was actually about lmao

daktangle.bsky.social•117 days ago

FFXIV on the other hand nailed it. Evil pope and his evil round table, wanting to continue the evil theocratic rule.

laguzmage.bsky.social•117 days ago

That one always makes me lol because it's like. Yeah and very frequently the evil church is based on catholic or catholic adjacent aesthetics, surely if you rub the ol' neurons together you can figure out why that might be

windienine.bsky.social•117 days ago

like, oh yeah! silly me! the prosthelytizing religious organization granted sizable or absolute power by the government in this setting is totally on the up-and-up in terms of humanitarian ethocs

w3ss3l.bsky.social•117 days ago

EVERY TROPE is overdone who CARES. if i wanna make an evil church i'll make my damn evil church

goatplanet.bsky.social•117 days ago

makes me think of the historians insisting that the inquisitor guy who shows up in The Name of The Rose wasn't actually that bad (?)

angel0n.bsky.social•117 days ago

I really like the exploration of a militarized Church as a political entity such as in FF Tactics, FF XIV and FE:3H. It's less "the Church is evil" and more like "the clergy are robed *politicians* and one thing leads to another".