Liberation

Greetings! It's- once again- Cas!
I'm here to share something with you, I'm not sure if I ever talked about it before. For those of you who don't know, I'm an author. I'm currently unpublished, but I've been trying to get my first finished novel published. Anyways, I talked to a friend, and she said I should try rewriting it, doing the whole thing from scratch, with possibly a new plot and other stuff, but keeping the original idea and spark.
Anyways, it was originally titled In the Inferno, but my "reboots" working title is Liberation.
Liberation draws its inspiration from Judeo-Christian mythology in that Heaven and Hell are main forces in the book, but the similarities just about end there. In fact, some of the ideas in my book are probably downright blasphemic.
For example, Heaven and Hell aren't warring forces. In fact, they're not only allies, but extremely friendly towards each other. Hell loves humanity. Like Heaven, Hell wants humans to be good little children. Heaven and Hell just have different ways of achieving these ends.
Think of it like the stereotypical parents. When you were a child and you misbehaved, was there a specific parent you feared more? For me, it was my dad. My mom and my dad had very different ways of inspiring good behavior. My mom tended to reward me for being good. My dad, on the other hand, threatened me with punishments for bad behavior.
That's the perfect metaphor for Heaven and Hell in my book. Hell punishes us for being bad, but that's because they want us to be good.
Right now, as I'm typing this, I'm thinking, "Wow, my readers must think I'm a complete cliche-hog. 'Stereotypical villain isn't villain.' What, you think this is Wicked?"
Well, that's not the entire thing. In fact, if it was, there wouldn't be a story, because there would be no conflict.
Well, let's imagine Heaven and Hell aren't the only forces in play here. What else could there be?
Let's imagine an anti-thesis to Heaven and Hell. Take this quote by Elie Wiesel, author of Night:

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of beauty is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference."

In this sense, even the traditional Hell isn't the opposite of Heaven. But that's even more true for my portrayal of Hell. So, according to this quote, the opposite of dual forces of love must be dual forces of indifference.
That's where this get interesting. My anti-thesis doesn't hate humanity. It doesn't actively want humanity dead. It just doesn't care whether humans live or die. This makes them all the more dangerous, because even hate is easy to understand. These forces walk among us, and they hold no regard for us. Hatred is caused by a reason. This indifference will allow them to torture and kill us for little to no reason.

So what are these forces?

Well, I'm not going to give their name yet. That will be found in the book. I know, crazy, right? I won't reveal such a tiny detail! Well, actually, the stuff I just said, that's still literally only 10% of the content in the book.

However, I will give you guys a sneak peek at my two PoV characters tomorrow! Be ready!

If you're interested in all of this, comment, please!

~Cas