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A Long-Forgotten Savior (working title)
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I was raised Christian so I kind of have a thing about Christian symbolism (as in that I like to use it quite a bit), and my instant thought was that the Kingdom after the nuclear war was supposed to be symbolic of the kingdom that's supposed to occur after Jesus' second coming, but like the exact opposite of it. Was that intentional or not? The idea of like the Antichrist's form of that Kingdom after a nuclear war sounds absolutely fascinating to me, and more obvious Christian elements could then easily fall into place. I think you have a good idea in hand.
Thanks! However, this is no longer the version I'm writing--it's been revised a lot since December. Could someone please close or delete this topic?
It would be a Christian dystopian novel, but appealing to secular audiences as well. The Christian elements would mostly entail the main character finding an old Bible in a church and things like that. The main plot is that after a nuclear war, a monarchy/dictatorship called the Kingdom arises, but it's corrupt. The King has a son named Carson (who renounces his birth name and is referred to as Cove) who is prince in title only--his life is full of torture and neglect until he runs away and joins the Rebellion. He meets a girl, Delia, and falls in love with her, but she's evil and abusive, and betrays the Rebellion in the end, killing most characters in battle except Iris (more on her later) and Cove, who are both imprisoned.
Iris and Kate are our other main characters, sisters whose relationship fell apart after their sister Mercy was presumed dead. Kate dies in the end, in the final battle.
Delia, in her excitement over becoming part of the Kingdom, lets a detail slip about Mercy possibly being alive ("I may not have managed to kill Mercy, but at least one of the Sutherland sisters is dead"). Iris becomes obsessed with this idea, while Cove is tormented by feelings of guilt over trusting Delia. There's going to be a sequel, but I don't have many ideas for it.