@Rover3672
Hello! I've been working on a big overhaul for my characters and I started a rework for one of them and found her religious ideals to be a bit of a confusing process? I was hoping I could explain the Situation and get some other ideas or even just a place for me to start.
So for context, my character Zara was a young black girl in America from 1950s to late 1960s, and after going on a short trip with her parents she was bitten by a vampire-like creature while her parents were attacked and killed. She ran away and lived out a couple years not knowing what she had turned into but knowing she had to eat flesh and blood or she would strave and rot away. I've always thought as a human she would be Christian, but now that I'm doing a rework and doing more research on this I find two things stumping me:
What branch of Christianity would fit her demographic the most and how would her beliefs be challenged as she goes from a normal girl to needing to each flesh and surivive all alone? I can imagine its very hard for her, I know in the future she comes to terms with her state and is able to live a normal-ish life, but how would she get to that point? Is it more likey she stays religious or rejects her beliefs?
I'm not religious, so I find myself less informed then I thought I would be as well as it being a little bit of a hard concept to wrap my head around to write a character with these struggles…any ideas? If you need me to answer some questions I'm happy to!