IN> the Heavenbound (was: Supererogatory)

[Daniel Childers]

>From: Chris Anthony <canthony at etherjammer.com>
>(For that matter, what if he was right?  His destiny unreached, his fate 
>fulfilled unknowingly as a youth...)
>

I remember the earlier discussions of the film "Constantine"...
In IN terms, a sorceror decides he doesn't want to go to Hell, so
he consciously runs around doing good deeds and smiting Hell's
enemies in the (in IN, mistaken) belief that he might be able to
earn his way into Heaven thusly.

An even more IN possibility: a sorceror who has somehow learned his
Fate and Destiny--and found to his chagrin that his Fate is sealed, and
his Destiny is now impossible due to long-ago choices. Most people
in that situation would probably go on a rampage (hey, if you're
going to hung for the kid, might as well be hung for the goat. A mistake
in IN--if your rampage could accomplish anything worse than what you'd
already done, the rampage would have been your Fate.) But
this one does what he can, even *knowing* that he must go
to Hell--for one thing, no matter what he does now, he has
already done the worst possible thing he could have done, and will
never be able to do the best possible thing he could have done.
The most he can do is make up for *some* of the damage he has
done. So that is what he does.

For added angst, one of the Saints trying to help him out had a Destiny
of the "Killed the Jews quickly and cleanly after the Gestapo was done
interrogating them rather than dragging out the torture just for fun"
variety. In the IN scheme, one person's Destiny may be far less good
than another person's non-Destiny mere good deed.