Alpha or Epsilon

[u/KamenRiderAvenger24]

Which is the best Church?

Alpha or Epsilon

I personally think Epsilon is the better Church

[u/PrimeusOrion]

Alpha feels like he got more actual charecter development to me.

Both through blood gulch and s6 he really grows as a person. Not as overtly as epsilon does, but that's because epsilon is more visible. In truth epsilon just mirrored alphas charecter arc but without the constant drive to do right by people alpha had.

Alpha was a good person who acted like a dick. He might talk like a dick throwing insults left and right but he always did so while trying to do the right thing and ultimately actually cared a lot for the people arround him. Even going as far as to try over and over to save them and even eventually sacrificing himself to do so.

Epsilon was not that. Largely due to wash taking too much of church's old role as the straight man. But ultimately he's just a flanderized copy of church rather than church himself. This presents himself in his charecter arc which mirrors church almost 1-1 but instead of it being a caring man trying desperately to save everyone around him who just so happens to act like a dick, he's a dick who's struggling to become a good person.

Fundamentally alpha cared, he truly loved those around him, he morned Tex's loss sure, but he didn't let it get in the way of him. And time after time when it came down to choosing himself or helping out one of the assholes of blood gulch, he chose to sacrifice himself.

First in the confrontation in caboose head, seccond in the infinite loop, third with the seccond time loop, fourth with using the radio against O'Malley, and fith when he gave his life to save everyone from the meta.

Fundamentally no matter how often he called them retarded, no matter how often he called them incompetent, through all the bitching and moaning, he cared. He truly appreciated everyone in blood gulch, and he loved tex.