The Cult For Season 3
I have an idea for a cult, potentially or hopefully what we could see in Season 3?
So a reformed version of Christianity featuring rugged resourceful survivors who are trained to be skilled fighters, worship walkers. They believe that walkers are angels that are spoken about in apocalyptic texts such as Revelations, coming to bring the trumpets that are signs that the world is over. They believe that, similar to how Jesus rose from the dead and promised to have others be brought into heaven, the same is being done here. Walkers are biting others, and turning other people into what they believe are angels. As a result, the cult has convinced themselves that they can only feast upon the flesh of those who have been blessed (but not the actual angels themselves, the walkers), and so rather than submit to the walkers. They believe it is their jobs to be messengers and spread the walker disease so that they can "bless" others. The apocalyptic situation surrounding the walkers is thought to be the work of Satan who want to curse humanity into believing the angels are the enemy, and so they take a more pacifist route when it comes to walkers. At worst, what could happen, they get bitten?
Therefore, this group captures other non-believers in order to "convert" them, they allow a walker to bite them before taking the walker away (presumably they have a farm of sorts where they feed them), they then cut away from the bite (usually the bite is on the leg, so they'll cut the other leg) and feast on the flesh, believing it to be quite literally the "blood and body of Christ" (parallel to The Last Supper). After feasting on the flesh, they may take more (such as an arm of sorts, they have to make sure the body is fine however so as not to do too much damage to the "angel"). They then watch the non-believer be "converted" and send him out into the world or into their farm.
They usually wear different types of clothing but have some sort of religious symbol (such as a necklace of the crucifix). If someone betrays them or tries to harm them, they will crucifix that person inside their churches (yes they have multiple churches, though they are not too big of a group for obvious reasons), and use that as a way to consume their flesh and watch them turn.
They are the messengers of Christ, and as a result they prefer to call themselves The Messengers.
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I really hope there's a cult. God, I love cults.
Sounds brutal. I love it. Hopefully the antagonists this season are as good as yours.
Awesome theory, man. I have a feeling these new villains are gonna make The Whisperers look like a bunch of kindergartners.
Sort of like what is happening in Fear TWD, but in a more intense version?
Hopefully we get something like this for S3!
I really like this theory, thought we might have to include certain discovery—@sialark, I invoke you—that was recently made, that the symbol in Javier, the walker and the logo itself is the symbol for the zodiac sign, Capricorn.
Thread about it here.
Thank you!
I haven't watched Fear TWD
I dont know why it gives me the resident evil 4 los illuminados vibe about this thread.. :0
I hope so too!
I'd love to see something like this seen in S3. I've always thought introducing cults into the series made sense, as a lot of people always try to hold onto some religious and spiritual beliefs when they're worried about their lives, but I doubt I'd have been able to come up with such a good idea as this. Sounds great.
Silly of me for thinking you were talking about the band lol. But I digress, I think a cult would be a step in the right direction as far as antagonists go in the story.
Here comes the rain!
Oh man, I'd love to see a cult in the Walking Dead setting.