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Faith
~Faith McCullough
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She supposes that she never had much faith, at least in a religious sense. If any deity exists, then he or she is obviously not what the extremely faithful believe in.
Sure, she goes to church and listens to sermons, but Faith McCullough prefers to put more of her confidence in the humans currently walking the earth than people who may or may not have existed a few thousand years ago. If she can’t believe in the people around her, put her trust in the here and now, then what is there to live for?
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The odd little town she and her parents have moved to buzzes with life and ingenuity and purity. And all the citizens, she sees, blindly put their faith in some ninja who can’t really be much older than any of them, despite the legends on his age.
So, just to saw “screw you” to the status quo, she refuses to trust (or even like) this ninja until she meets him face to face, or sees him in action up close. She needs to judge his character for herself before she can make a decision on him.
Meanwhile, she makes friends and she goes through school and she trains, and she marvels at how many monsters and robots constantly attack this school.
And, yeah, she’s seen the mysterious ninja a few times, and she can admit he’s a good fighter – if not a little bit rough around the edges – but she still refuses to put her faith in him.
It’s only when they find themselves stuck in the basement, trapped with no plausible way out and a horde of mutated rats approaching, snarling, hungry for their blood, that she sighs and says “all right, I’ll trust you, if just for this once. Don’t make me regret it.”
And she doesn’t regret it, not once.
It’s when he puts his faith in her to get them out – and tells her this explicitly – that her spirit soars.
She’s never been blatantly told that someone is trusting in her, believing in her, counting on her, and it feels…incredible. And also terrifying.
She realizes how this ninja feels, and realizes that he really is just a kid underneath that mask.
And so she decides that maybe putting her faith in him isn’t such a bad thing after all.
~Faith McCullough
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She supposes that she never had much faith, at least in a religious sense. If any deity exists, then he or she is obviously not what the extremely faithful believe in.
Sure, she goes to church and listens to sermons, but Faith McCullough prefers to put more of her confidence in the humans currently walking the earth than people who may or may not have existed a few thousand years ago. If she can’t believe in the people around her, put her trust in the here and now, then what is there to live for?
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The odd little town she and her parents have moved to buzzes with life and ingenuity and purity. And all the citizens, she sees, blindly put their faith in some ninja who can’t really be much older than any of them, despite the legends on his age.
So, just to saw “screw you” to the status quo, she refuses to trust (or even like) this ninja until she meets him face to face, or sees him in action up close. She needs to judge his character for herself before she can make a decision on him.
Meanwhile, she makes friends and she goes through school and she trains, and she marvels at how many monsters and robots constantly attack this school.
And, yeah, she’s seen the mysterious ninja a few times, and she can admit he’s a good fighter – if not a little bit rough around the edges – but she still refuses to put her faith in him.
It’s only when they find themselves stuck in the basement, trapped with no plausible way out and a horde of mutated rats approaching, snarling, hungry for their blood, that she sighs and says “all right, I’ll trust you, if just for this once. Don’t make me regret it.”
And she doesn’t regret it, not once.
It’s when he puts his faith in her to get them out – and tells her this explicitly – that her spirit soars.
She’s never been blatantly told that someone is trusting in her, believing in her, counting on her, and it feels…incredible. And also terrifying.
She realizes how this ninja feels, and realizes that he really is just a kid underneath that mask.
And so she decides that maybe putting her faith in him isn’t such a bad thing after all.
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