This was vaguely inspired by that fic where they investigate the glow-cloud cult.
The team doesn't usually do cults, but Copley is strangely and bizarrely insistent that they investigate this one. He's also being weirdly cagey about how exactly he found it in the first place.
This particular cult (or, hell, maybe it's just a scam selling religious whatevers and very expensive spiritual courses, but Copley insists it's at high risk of Weird Bad Cult Shit) is very into pseudo-historical 'reconstruction' of pre-Christian religions (I was thinking the kind that insist any deities with similar names and or functions are The Same Entity, even if they're from very different cultures, etc., but pick your own brand of inaccuracy if you like) and Andy is all prepared to point and laugh and/or groan, and basically silently heckle them for getting it wrong, because she was THERE. But then they discover that the main deity, the one who the cult revolves around and reveres and keeps secret from all but the full members... is Andy.
Unfortunately, since there's very little actual documentation left from that culture/time period/section of society, they've filled in a lot of holes by just making shit up. Andy is PISSED. And also just, like. Flabbergasted.
[Copley definitely found out about the cult because they met on some forum while both researching The Historical Adventures of Andy, but he doesn't want to admit it, because, well... it's embarrassing. Also it would remind them of how he's a weird Google-stalker who sold them out to Merrick, and they're trying to get past that!]
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The Team, Cult is Based On Andy
Date: 2021-01-04 11:03 pm (UTC)The team doesn't usually do cults, but Copley is strangely and bizarrely insistent that they investigate this one. He's also being weirdly cagey about how exactly he found it in the first place.
This particular cult (or, hell, maybe it's just a scam selling religious whatevers and very expensive spiritual courses, but Copley insists it's at high risk of Weird Bad Cult Shit) is very into pseudo-historical 'reconstruction' of pre-Christian religions (I was thinking the kind that insist any deities with similar names and or functions are The Same Entity, even if they're from very different cultures, etc., but pick your own brand of inaccuracy if you like) and Andy is all prepared to point and laugh and/or groan, and basically silently heckle them for getting it wrong, because she was THERE. But then they discover that the main deity, the one who the cult revolves around and reveres and keeps secret from all but the full members... is Andy.
Unfortunately, since there's very little actual documentation left from that culture/time period/section of society, they've filled in a lot of holes by just making shit up. Andy is PISSED. And also just, like. Flabbergasted.
[Copley definitely found out about the cult because they met on some forum while both researching The Historical Adventures of Andy, but he doesn't want to admit it, because, well... it's embarrassing. Also it would remind them of how he's a weird Google-stalker who sold them out to Merrick, and they're trying to get past that!]