Talk:Being X/@comment-108.246.74.98-20200629045203/@comment-35434444-20200629095142

I think it would require some tweaking; the conceptions of god are not the same in all cases. What Tanya is implicitly oppoing is not god but convention. And it confronts her in the form of a patriarchal diety who asserts that she has a responsibility to others and exists to serve a "higher cause."

Despite being such a hard person across both her lives, she's really seeking security and comfort. That's what makes her like Mary Sue. Only she might actually have something to teach Tanya in the sense that she overcame her desire for security from her father and is, for all intents and purposes, a dead woman who has not undergone the formality of biological cessation.

Part of me hopes and wonders if Tanya won't realize that the front is exactly where she has always wanted to be and this stuggle with god was her complicated way of confronting pain, death, and the transience of being.

Perhaps a force even higher than god orchestrated Tanya's rebirth into the body of a frail orphan girl to make him understand how soft he really was all that time.

Having at last worked this all out, perhaps she will find some truth in the posturing of Being X; what it really means to serve a higher cause.

Only it will be on her terms.

To be free in the heat of battle. For the fatherland.