Moral Orel/Nightmare Fuel: Difference between revisions

* In the episode "Grounded", as a result of having his friends do a bloodletting, Orel is banned from going to church for a month. Afraid of damnation because he is not going to church, Orel slowly begins to go insane. By the end of the first week, Orel to turn his room into a [[Room Full of Crazy]], drawing a church on the wall, along with numerous [[The Bible (Literature)|Bible]] verses. In week two, he constructs a cardboard church whilst muttering [[Madness Mantra|"Church church churchy church]], which is then taken away. On the second Sunday, Orel finally has a mental breakdown, wearing the remains of the cardboard church, and believing that he is a church. When his friend points out that there's no cross on the cardboard steeple, he finally steals a cross from a store sign on the roof, and is struck by a bolt of lightning (as it was very cloudy). After becoming convinced that God is trying to kill Orel because He misses him, Orel becomes suicidal, trying to electricute himself and having near death experiences. In his third NDE, Orel sees himself praying (which consists of the backmasked phrase "I am a church", before seeing a [[Mind Screw]] montage relating to himself and church. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtlqNfsxCbg as seen here]. It's also filled with some beautiful [[Rule of Symbolism|symbolism]] that ties in very neatly to Orel's gnostic revelation. The episode concludes by him promising to his dad that he'll never attempt suicide again, and then leads to the events of the horrific ''Nature'' two-part episode.