More Tol Concepts

 

• The TOL induction ceremony includes the inductee burning themself painfully to symbolize their willingness to go to hell for their beliefs
• It’s somewhat common for members to change their names to something non-Biblical, although a lot of people also consider this to be A Bit Much when it’s held up as part of the TOL deal. 
  • Picking a name associated with the “opposite gender” is a common way for TOL members to come out as trans
• Most of the fics I’ve read have the solution be that The Other Lights get a big rocket and leave the planet. There’d be a big show of when the final battle happens all the Other Lights get teleported into the rocket so it looks like they’ve been Raptured without leaving their clothes as a final “fuck you”. 
• This ending isn’t actually uncomplicatedely happy. Being a member of TOL is absolutely brutal, and there would be people who’d have to be talked down from going back and getting sent to hell because of how messed up they were. There’d be a general feeling that leaving Earth means abandoning all their friends and comrades who’d died and were being tortured for eternity. 
•  Two people on the rocket are hugging and crying and then someone runs in who's going full Cordo and it's super awkward