Fannish 5: Five Christmas Refusers
Dec. 23rd, 2011 10:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenak5 characters that don't (or wouldn't if it existed in their universe) celebrate Christmas.
1.) Mal Reynolds (Firefly). He has issues. Though he's fine with Kaylee decorating Serenity. He just gets drunk with Jayne every year during the time in question.
2.) Dr. Faiza Hussain aka Excalibur (Marvelverse). She's a practising Muslim. Her non-superhero colleagues, meaning her fellow doctors, are very grateful they can count on her to be on duty during the holidays.
3.) Captain Nemo (20.000 Miles under the Sea; various non Jules Verne appearances such as League of Extraordinary Gentlemen). May have originally been a Muslim, Hindu or Sikh; whether or not he's still practising as of meeting chatty French scientists, he definitely regards Christmas as yet another form of British Imperialism.
4.) Irina Derevko (Alias). Except when she was playing Laura Bristow, of course, but otherwise, well, firstly she and her sisters were raised as atheists, and secondly, as an adult Christmas is just not interesting to her except in how it shows up in Rambaldi's works.
5.) Servalan (Blake's 7). It comes with the "living in an officially atheistic universe and for a time ruling the Federation part of same" territory. As for the present giving and encouraging people to spend some money on jewelry and clothes for their Supreme Commander, that's why she was generous enough to make her birthday a public holiday, you know?
1.) Mal Reynolds (Firefly). He has issues. Though he's fine with Kaylee decorating Serenity. He just gets drunk with Jayne every year during the time in question.
2.) Dr. Faiza Hussain aka Excalibur (Marvelverse). She's a practising Muslim. Her non-superhero colleagues, meaning her fellow doctors, are very grateful they can count on her to be on duty during the holidays.
3.) Captain Nemo (20.000 Miles under the Sea; various non Jules Verne appearances such as League of Extraordinary Gentlemen). May have originally been a Muslim, Hindu or Sikh; whether or not he's still practising as of meeting chatty French scientists, he definitely regards Christmas as yet another form of British Imperialism.
4.) Irina Derevko (Alias). Except when she was playing Laura Bristow, of course, but otherwise, well, firstly she and her sisters were raised as atheists, and secondly, as an adult Christmas is just not interesting to her except in how it shows up in Rambaldi's works.
5.) Servalan (Blake's 7). It comes with the "living in an officially atheistic universe and for a time ruling the Federation part of same" territory. As for the present giving and encouraging people to spend some money on jewelry and clothes for their Supreme Commander, that's why she was generous enough to make her birthday a public holiday, you know?
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Date: 2011-12-23 11:48 am (UTC)Though there doesn't seem to be necessarily a conflict with that. The Iranian mosque around the corner from my father's place in previous years had a decorated Christmas tree in its garden with a helpful informational plaque that it's okay for Muslims to celebrate Jesus birth because he was a previous prophet too or something like that. The sign didn't explain how that translates into adopting the suspiciously pagan tree thing too, but I suppose most successful religions are flexible like that. So that mosque had Christmas decorations.
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