I'm suddenly wondering if anyone's done a sort of Weekend-at-Bernie's thing in a story about God turning up unexpectedly dead, prompting a bunch of angels and demons (I imagine both sides would have their reasons) into desperate improvisations, pushing God's corpse around or making some poor sap be the kagemusha or standin, keeping up the illusion that God was still in fine shape. (Have I just described the Ronald Reagan presidency?) The idea seems like such a natural that I assume there's heaps of indie short stories or comic books with a plot like this. I never have any original ideas. ~Chara
Lucifer and Michael ran things behind the scenes for ages afterwards kinda the way you described, although they were mainly trying to keep other pantheons from finding out because a lot of them were understandably pissed about the last 2000 years. Eventually Lucifer quit to go to find out what happened to god and thought it would be funny the next random asshole to die and get damnation to the title of King of Hell, and and that dudes arc was the central plot, but it would be fun to go back and write the weekend at Bernie’s part of that story.
Ah! sounds like a great story. And yeah it does kinda make sense that the conspirators would worry about keeping other gods happy, and not so much about human beings.
(I suppose there's another option—God's actually been dead since the Crucifixion and so the Weekend-at-Bernie's act has actually been the entire history of Christianity ~Chara)
(I suppose there's another option—God's actually been dead since the Crucifixion and so the Weekend-at-Bernie's act has actually been the entire history of Christianity ~Chara)
sorry, that's the actual history of christianity. this is no longer fiction.
